Game of the Year 1992: The Final

[Neon Ignition]

Would the result have been the same if you counted the votes from the previous threads (for those three games)?

If you merged the voting then Super Mario Kart would still have easily been the top vote. Streets of Rage 2 and Street Fighter II Turbo/CE might have swapped places narrowly but it's hard to pinpoint because there would be duplicate voting involved. The main takeaway is that Sonic 2 would potentially have made Top 3 but was robbed by the final.

[Nu-Eclipse]

SMK = Not even in the franchise Top 3

It definitely is in the top three.

It's considerably better than all of MK64, Double Dash, MKWii, MKDS and MK7.

Only Super Circuit and MK8 (again for commercial reasons) are possibly in the convo.

[nakamura]

Smk is the best pure racing game in the franchise. It has more variety in the 4 kart pairing than so many other games. Even Drive Club Cars all feel similar to drive!

[dataDave]

Nothing beats F-Zero and Mario Kart when it comes to variety. Even the worst MK games have that base covered.

[Hirst]

Funny how Mortal Kombat never got a single vote after it got this far - honestly I think it was a bit of a gimmick fighter. It's good, but I never thought it was great.

[Nu-Eclipse]

Funny how Mortal Kombat never got a single vote after it got this far - honestly I think it was a bit of a gimmick fighter. It's good, but I never thought it was great.

That's fair.

MK does deserve some respect on some level for being SF2's first serious challenger that had some level of originality instead of doing what SNK and others were doing in terms of outright aping, and I say that as a SF2 man through and through.

FWIW, I did enjoy playing MK and MK2 in the arcades and on the SNES. Fun but considerably cheap and broken (especially MK2). The novelty had definitely worn off by the time that MK3/Ultimate MK3 came around though.

[hudson]

I became a man when I played Fate of Atlantis on my beige 386. What a game

[Asura]

That's fair.

MK does deserve some respect on some level for being SF2's first serious challenger that had some level of originality instead of doing what SNK and others were doing in terms of outright aping, and I say that as a SF2 man through and through.

FWIW, I did enjoy playing MK and MK2 in the arcades and on the SNES. Fun but considerably cheap and broken (especially MK2). The novelty had definitely worn off by the time that MK3/Ultimate MK3 came around though.

My feelings on it are exactly as yours. I loved them at the time as a novelty, but just felt the joke had worn off by 3.

[dataDave]

I became a man when I played Fate of Atlantis on my beige 386. What a game

Jealous. I didn’t get a PC until the summer of 1997, but then I got one for free with a 33.6kbps modem and unlimited free internet. All the games I’d always wanted were dirt cheap by that point as well.

[phillv85]

Agreed, I think Nu-Eclipse has nailed it on MK. I played a bit of 3 on the MD, but the series peaked with the second game for me until #9 came out.