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Topic: If Star Control 2 wasn't GOTY in 1992... what was? (Read 3861 times)
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Shiver
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We are all of the same opinion that SC2 was the best game for its time of all time, and that it didn't sell nearly as well as it should have. Drop that for now. I want to know what was successful in 1992. What game was rated as the best by reviewers, or going by a better metric, what game sold the most copies? Please tell me it was at least one of those awesome Microprose games.
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Novus
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This depends a lot on where you are and on what platform. I'm using Wikipedia's List of best selling computer and video games and article on 1992 in video gaming and my own memory as a starting point, and taking a European perspective on 1992.
The 8-bit home computers were pretty much dying at the time; this was around the time I got a PC. Lemmings was big on several platforms (old news on the Amiga on which it originated, though); for example, CPC Attack! rated it the best Amstrad CPC game ever. The Amiga was starting to lose its position as the computer to have to the PC, thanks to games like Wolfenstein 3D that made use of the PC's raw CPU power to do what other systems could not. Similarly, the introduction of the CD-ROM allowed games that made heavy use of video; The 7th Guest and Night Trap were big at the time. Dune II introduced lots of new players to the RTS genre.
The NES had recently been supplanted by the SNES, with Super Mario World almost ubiquitous. Similarly, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on the Mega Drive.
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I found a few others that weren't mentioned: Ultima VII: The Black Gate and Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss. No MicroProse stuff this year, though.
<+robot> Meep-Eep: Unfortunately it didn't sell that well. We were drowned by Wing Commander almost immediately.
The earliest two Wing Commander games plus most of the various expansions and spin-offs came out before then. I don't doubt that the series flooded stores for years afterward.
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Veep Neep
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I was thinking MOO because I played that one at the same time as SC2, but was the year after.
...but still those two together are reason I missed 25 days of junior year and had to go to summer school.
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Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition and Dune 2 were also released that year. Both were huge games in their own right.
(I, of course, like SC2 better.  )
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'92 was a great year, lots of breakthroughs. Same for 93, wasn't Doom released then? Because I know that Blake Stone was released on 93 and it didn't sell well due to Doom.
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Yep, December 1993, both of them. Doom was released one week after Blake Stone, apparently.
BLAKE STONE: ALIENS OF GOLD. No wonder that got demolished by Doom. I played the demo of that and it was reasonably fun, actually.
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Dune II !
I remember wondering what 1990 would be like. '90' felt very futuristic compared to 87 or something. Decades has gone by, computers are faster than I had imagined, but the gameplay evolution has been sorely disappointing to the kid in me which had such high hopes.
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. I was more of a console boy when i was younger though, NES and SNES all the way. I actually still have a working NES and SNES in my cupboard, I pull them out when i get nostalgic.
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