1986, Game of the Year

[HoloDust]

SvennoJ said:

HoloDust said:

Another great year.
Voted Zelda, in retrospect though, but game I probably played the most from that year is Defender of the Crown, strategy game for Amiga.

Yep, same, except I played it on PC. It wasn't all that great yet I kept coming back to it.

You can play it in a browser nowadays
https://www.retrogames.cz/play_1554-DOS.php?language=EN
(Well not really "This page is slowing down Firefox..." not working)

Yeah, looking back, Defender of the Crown was thin in gameplay, but it was something new and different than usual games of the period (being also first Cinemaware game - they went on to make some really great games after it). Two years later, Jean of Arc: Siege and Sword released (not Cienmaware game), which I enjoyed also quite a bit, and always considered it spiritual successor to Defender of the Crown.