Games of the Year

[Rated E]

Obligatory busting of nuts (ovaries?) comment here.

I don't know why I didn't catch that the first time I edited it, my excuse is that I was almost late for class.

[Cheebs]

I can barely remember what I ate for dinner 2 nights ago, let alone the release dates for some older games.

Count me in this category as well.

DDR won at least one year
Beatmania IIDX won another
I have to imagine Dragon Force and RE4 are each taking up a year...
Give another to Tecmo Superbowl
Racing Destruction wins a Pre-NES year. Ditto for Combat.


Damn if I know more than that.

[bbobb]

1999 - Planescape: Torment (PC)

This is the correct answer for '99. The rest of you are wrong, very very wrong.

[NeoZeedeater]

I wanted to do separate lists for console, arcade, computer, and portable but I guess that would be cheating (and be really long).

1979 - Asteroids (Arc)
1980 - Battlezone (Arc)
1981 - Donkey Kong (Arc)
1982 - Omega Race (VIC-20)
1983 - Archon: The Light and the Dark (C64/800)
1984 - Bruce Lee (C64) I can't find concrete proof of if this came out in stores in 1983 or 1984 so I'll put it here.
1985 - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Arc)
1986 - Super Mario Bros. (NES) 1985 was the release in the test markets. I'm listing it by its North America-wide date.
1987 - The Last Ninja (C64)
1988 - Shinobi (SMS)
1989 - Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap (SMS)
1990 - Bonk's Adventure (TG16)
1991 - Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen)
1992 - Street Fighter II (SNES)
1993 - Doom (PC)
1994 - System Shock (PC)
1995 - Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (SNES)
1996 - Resident Evil (PS1)
1997 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1)
1998 - Xenogears (PS1)
1999 - Unreal Tournament (PC)
2000 - Deus Ex (PC)
2001 - Grand Theft Auto III (PS2)
2002 - Shenmue II (DC) EB got my PAL version in January 2002 and the XB version was 2002 so I'll count it for this year.
2003 - Beyond Good & Evil (XB)
2004 - Half-Life 2 (PC)
2005 - Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)
2006 - Dark Messiah: Might & Magic (PC) Oblivion was my choice by far until I realized how duped I was by its scaling.
2007 - Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) probably

[bbobb]

Even Neo is wrong on 99... that makes me sad.

[NeoZeedeater]

I will give Planescape another try. I played so much UT and was so addicted to it that I couldn't choose anything else, even System Shock 2.

[Nash]

The rest of you are wrong, very very wrong.

Or we played it in a year other than 1999.

[bbobb]

Or we played it in a year other than 1999.

Then you were part of the problem.

[Nash]

Then you were part of the problem.

Watch it, or I'm taking down those new pics I put up.

[bbobb]

Watch it, or I'm taking down those new pics I put up.

Already saved to the hard drive.