PTE74: Greatest Year One Line Up - Grand Final

[Duncan James Waugh]

let me guess Tigers game.com it had duke nukem and sonic what more could you want

, would be DC actually. Just think having an Other option would give an indication of how strong the actual winner is overall, as opposed to being the best of a select bunch.

[112]

No brainer... Super Nintendo... And I have the memories to prove it

This has been a fun poll and a great look back at the 'golden ages' of gaming... Oh how spoilt we were for quality back in the day... As expensive as it was back when the snes came out, it felt so good to experience the magic...

112

[Asura]

Oh how spoilt we were for quality back in the day...

I'm concerned about the trend these days for free entertainment, if I'm honest, and what that'll do to the quality of things like video games.

I mean I subscribe to Netflix, but I freely admit that for the cost (about a fiver a month) I get a ludicrous amount of entertainment; but it clearly isn't paying much to the industry that created it.

Freemium games are the same, for me. Ditto for music streaming. In an era where everything is virtually free and people only pay small microtransactions, could a game like Street Fighter 2 flourish? Or Chrono Trigger? When you're largely guaranteed to make ?20-30 off each consumer, you can afford to make a game or whatever and only sell it to a few hundred thousand people. One of the reasons so many iOS games are bland and inoffensive is because they need literally a hundred million downloads to make a decent return.

[Neon Ignition]

Unless any more votes wash in it looks like we have a winner. The 16 bit era and the Super NES had the best launch year

[Lebowski]

whoever wins (Cough Supernes cough) its a Nintendo 3 way filthy

[Mr Ono]

Super Nintendo
-F Zero
-Gradius 3
-Super Mario World
-Pilotwings
-Sim City
-Super Tennis
-Super R Type
-Actraiser
-Super Ghouls n Ghosts
-Super Castlevania IV
-Pariodius
-Contra 3
-The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
-Super Star Wars
-The Legend of Mystical Ninja
-Street Fighter 2
-Super Mario Kart

Playstation
-Ace Combat
-Ridge Racer
-Destruction Derby
-Tekken
-Wipeout
-Resident Evil
-Tekken 2

Nintendo 64
-Pilotwings 64
-Super Mario 64
-Waverace 64
-Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire
-Mario Kart 64
-Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
-Star Fox 64
-Goldeneye 007
-International Superstar Soccer 64

Gamecube
-Pikmin
-Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2: Rogue Leader
-Super Monkey Ball
-Super Smash Bros Melee
-Animal Crossing
-Luigi's Mansion
-Wave Race: Blue Storm
-Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
-Metroid Prime
-Resident Evil Zero
-Starfox Adventures
-Super Mario Sunshine
-Super Monkey Ball 2

Xbox 360
-Project Gotham Racing 3
-Dead Rising
-Gears of War


Wii U
-New Super Mario Bros U
-New Super Luigi U
-The Wonderful 101


For me, the above are how I came to my decision on it being the SNES. These are the games I loved on those respective systems. (NES ignored - never had one).

[wakka]

Ditto for music streaming. In an era where everything is virtually free and people only pay small microtransactions, could a game like Street Fighter 2 flourish?

In many ways you could say that SF2's success was microtransaction driven. Putting a coin in an arcade machine is essentially a microtransaction.

[Asura]

In many ways you could say that SF2's success was microtransaction driven. Putting a coin in an arcade machine is essentially a microtransaction.[/COLOR]

I disagree. It may have been to arcade operators, but they bought the machine from Capcom at huge expense. From Capcom's perspective (apart from their few personally run arcades) it was still about selling a product up-front.

[wakka]

That's true. Still, without the popularity of those microtransactions, far fewer operators would have purchased machines.

To the end user the result was the same, they were asked to fork over small amounts for short nuggets of playtime, and that was enough to drive a huge global franchise.

[Neon Ignition]

Street Fighter 2 had microtransactions, remember that ?40-60 expansion pack that unlocked the 4 boss characters? Or that update that increased the games speed? Or the second expansion which added 4 characters and 4 backgrounds? Or the other one that then added the speed option back in plus Akuma? What about the redrawn sprites? For the sweet sweet tune of just up to ?316 you could have it all!

[wakka]

They didn't even do a discounted season pass.