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A pretty decent year actually, contrary to movies, my year of birth 1988. At least if you lived in Japan, here in Europe everything was always years late back then. New games in Japan were games like;

- Altered Beast (Arcade and MegaDrive in JP)
- Final Fantasy II
- Ninja Gaiden

The two biggest and most well known games, which also happened to be awesome, however are without a doubt;

- Mega Man 2
- Super Mario Bros. 3

In hindsight though, the most important game maybe wasn't even the Mario platformer, but the forerunner of Mario Kart;

- Famicom Grand Prix

Here in Europe, the belated games we got in 1988 were among others were games like;

- Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
- Metal Gear
- Castlevania
- Metroid

A pretty good year actually .