zeldaring said:
Soundwave said:
It's probably the 90s, though it's kind of cheating because the very early part of 1990/1991 is still the NES era and not only just the NES era, but probably the peak of Golden Age "Nintendo Mania", meaning a time where Nintendo was basically bordering on a monopoly of the entire industry and the peak of it was the release of Super Mario Bros. 3 in early 1990 in North America and then later in Europe (it had been released in Japan in '88 though so they were ahead of the curve).
Then you have the SNES era and the N64 era.
Every year in 1990-1999 Nintendo I think legitimately had the GOTY if not the runner up candidate
1990 - Super Mario Bros. 3
1991 - Super Mario World (arguably Sonic wins because it was a newer thing and totally changed Sega's fortunes)
1992 - Street Fighter 2 (SNES exclusive basically), Zelda: Link to the Past and Super Mario Kart would be runner ups
1993 - Star Fox (first big ticket home console release with 3D polygonal graphics), Mortal Kombat probably wins this though
1994 - Donkey Kong Country
1995 - Yoshi's Island or DKC2
1996 - Super Mario 64
1997 - GoldenEye 007 (in a dead heat with Final Fantasy VII)
1998 - Zelda: Ocarina of Time
1999 - Pokemon craze taking over the Western world
That's an unbelievable 10 year run.
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Thats really is insane list of games, and how are you missing a link to the past one of the best games ever. They were really ahead of their time in the 90s and it's not even debatable, the games really blew away the competition in the 90s.
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I have it there for 1992, but I have Street Fighter II as the GOTY in '92. SF2 was a monster, monster event in 1992, I remember people paying like $80, even $90 to get it because some retailers were jacking the price of the game through the roof.
91 (SF2 arcace)
92 (SF SNES)
Was alllll SF2 mania. Like I remember my convenience store by school had to have a line outside the store for people to wait and come in and play SF2 arcade because there too many kids gathering around the machine at one time and it was stopping regular customers from getting inside to get their coffee or bag of chips or whatever, lol.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 11 September 2023
