I might voice my opinion on their choices if I had even the slightest clue what other games came out in 1988
(though I can tell you right now that Double Dragon would not be game of the year)
Here are their awards for 1988.
Best Video Game of the Year - Double Dragon(NES)
Best Arcade-to-Home Translation - Rampage(SMS)
Best Original Game - Blaster Master(NES)
Best Graphics - Phantasy Star(SMS)
Best Action Game - Contra(NES)
Best Sports Game - Bases Loaded(NES)
Do you agree with the awards? I think either Super Mario Bros 2 or Phantasy Star should have got game of the year. And I would have given Shinobi some award but for the most part it's okay. They just don't have enough categories.
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I might voice my opinion on their choices if I had even the slightest clue what other games came out in 1988
(though I can tell you right now that Double Dragon would not be game of the year)
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Hmm...same here.
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Amazing what a little 20/20 hindsight will do to a list like this, eh?
I agree with you that SMB 2 (hah, finally an opportunity to use this acronym properly!) should have won Game of the Year, but you have to understand what a big deal Double Dragon was back then. I can remember people lining up to play that game in 1988, and the home port was equally earth-shattering.
Funny how that port doesn't even come close to holding up today.
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Well, honestly, I think it was the unique fashion sense the characters of DD had back in the 80's.
For sure, this helped in the choice for game of the year.
Just for fun here are some other reviews from this issue.
Super Mario Bros 2(NES) - Hit!
Life Force(NES) - Direct Hit!
Tecmo Bowl(NES) - Direct Hit!
Xenophobe(NES) - Hit!
Seicross(NES) - Hit!
Double Dragon(SMS) - Hit!
Rambo 3(SMS) - Hit!
Golvellius(SMS) - Hit!
R-Type(SMS) - Direct Hit!
Bomber Raid(SMS) - Direct Hit!
Cyborg Hunter(SMS) - Hit!
Tower Toppler(7800) - Direct Hit!
Crossbow(7800) - Hit!
Into the Eagle's Nest(XE) - Hit!
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Yeah, I thought Life Force came out that year. There's my retroactive choice for GOTY 1989 right there.
Ah, Tower Toppler...now there's a game worthy of its own thread.
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Those reviews have a mix of 1988 and 1989 releases.
Bomber Raid does not deserve a Direct Hit! at all.
And even though the NES version of Double Dragon won GOTY, Ed Semrad argues that the SMS version is better because it has two-player.
Personally, I like the NES version more because it plays a bit better and has the one-on-one mode but Sega's one does have better graphics and two-player in the regular game. That's why I bought both versions.
Either way, it was definitely not my GOTY.
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I personally thought that the graphics in the SMS-version were not that good. While the SMS could display more colors per pixels than the NES, bur for some reason everything in the SMS looks like it's made out of cotton candy.Originally posted by NeoZeedeater
Personally, I like the NES version more because it plays a bit better and has the one-on-one mode but Sega's one does have better graphics and two-player in the regular game. That's why I bought both versions.
Oddly enough, the Famicom version of Super Mario Bros. 3 came out in 1988, two years before the NES release. But in Famitsu's All Soft Catalog from 1989, it lost to Dragon Quest III for Game of the Year.
Are you talking about the SMS in general or just Double Dragon?
Super Mario Bros 3 did see a NES release in 1989 if you lived in Canada. That's probably the reason The Wizard didn't have as big an effect up here.
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