We onto the next round in our line up and delving deeper into the second half of the alphabet. Let's continue to pass judgement over gaming past as we select our
Game of the Year 1993
Game of the Year 1993
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52Metal Marines0%0Metamorphic Force0%0Michael Jordan in Flight0%0Mickey Mouse: Magic Wands!0%0Microcosm0%0Might and Magic V: Darkside of Xeen0%0Mighty Final Fight0%1Miracle Girls0%0Monster Bash0%0Monster Maulers0%0Mortal Kombat II0%5Mr Nutz0%0Mutant League Football0%1Myst0%0Mystic Warriors0%0NBA Jam0%6NBA Showdown0%0NFL 94 Starring Joe Montana0%0NHL 940%1Night Slashers0%0Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective0%0Ninja Baseball Bat Man0%0Ninja Boy II0%0Nomad0%0Nostradamus0%0Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen0%0Operation Europe: Path to Victory0%0Oscar0%0Out to Lunch0%0Outrun 20190%1Pac-Attack0%0Panic!0%0Pathway into Darkness0%0The Peace Keepers0%0Phantasy Star IV0%1Pink Goes to Hollywood0%0Plok!0%1Police Quest: Open Season0%0Pop'n Twinbee0%4Power Instinct0%0Power Strike0%1Power Strike II0%1Prehistorik 20%0Premier Manager 20%0Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame0%0Princess Maker 20%2Prize Fighter0%0Protostar: War on the Frontier0%0Puggsy0%0The Punisher0%3Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon0%0Quantum Gate0%0Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness0%1R-Type III: The Third Lightning0%4Racing Aces0%0Raging Fighter0%0Raiden II0%4Ranger X0%2The Real Ghostbusters0%0Ridge Racer0%13 -
Three way tie for me; NBA Jam, Mortal Kombat II, and Ridge Racer. All excellent games, and also telling that if I had to drop one it'd have to be Ridge Racer given the huge impact the first two had on me. NBA Jam helped spark a lifelong love of basketball, and MKII felt like an all-consuming obsession for a good long time - copying down fatality inputs from magazines onto pocket-sized notes to take down the arcade being a particularly fond memory.
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Ridge Racer all the way … though NHL94 deserves a tickComment
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Power Strike II for the Master System is the clear winner from that list. Compile pushed the system hard and offered the greatest shmup on an 8 bit system (PCE pedantry aside) until GG Aleste 3 came along decades later.Comment
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The Punisher (As long as it's the arcade version?) is one of my all time favourite games, still play it very regular. Ridge Racer though was one of the most enormous wow moments in home gaming for me, I simply couldn't believe it was running on a console in my house but it thankfully was. Made the £700 or whatever the import PS bundle cost me from Japan 100% worthwhile.Last edited by Colin; 17-06-2022, 13:45.Comment
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Mutant League Football is such a good game, it took the John Madden formula of the time and just threw in silliness.Comment
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Probably the most embarrassing answer, but I really enjoyed Princess Maker 2. It was finished and ready for an official PC release, but got pulled due to some (exaggerated) controversy and then ended up leaked onto the Internet as abandonware way back when. I was playing it on my Windows 95 PC!
It's a weird little strategy series where you raise a girl by basically setting their diary for the month, along with some optional RPG elements and other stuff. It is hard to explain but it's more about looking at statistics and making tactical decisions than anything else. It isn't really that pervy or weird and has more in common with something like a football manager game than you'd expect. You can approach the game in many different ways as there's tons of different endings (some bad, some good). I believe it got an official release many years later on Steam or GOG or something more recently, so check it out. I still hum the main theme in my head.Comment
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Ridge Racer cleans up.Comment
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