1986, Game of the Year

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Darwinianevolution said:

It must have been amazing to see tech develop at the time, only four years between Pole Position and Outrun.

Also, the best game of the list is Metroid, but my favourite is Bubble Bobble.

It was.  In fact it kind of spoiled me.  Not only were the technological leaps amazing at the time, but the improvements in game design were massive.  We went from Pitfall to Super Mario Bros in 3 years.  Keep in mind that SMB has power ups, pipes, hidden vines, warp zones, swimming, etc... while Pitfall was really just running in a straight line in the jungle.  It wasn't just tech, the design behind SMB was massively ahead of Pitfall.  Fast forward today, and Super Mario Wonder still has the same base design as SMB 1, just with a few improvements here and there.  

Too me, gaming has been advancing at a snail's pace after the 80's, and that pace just gets slower with every decade.  I want more games that feel like going from Skyward Sword to Breath of the Wild, because in the 80's lots of games were doing this sort of thing and in a short period of time too.