Runoff!! 1987, Game of the Year

[HoloDust]

The_Liquid_Laser said:

HoloDust said:

Oh, this was such a good year, so it feels like somewhat of injustice whatever I vote for.
But...Sid Meier's Pirates! is the game I played the most and that I find to be best from that year, along with being quite influential. Open world game with open ended gameplay, leaving you to choose what will you do in your life as a pirate/buccaneer/trader, and what nation(s) will you join or plunder, all the while ingame clock is ticking to your eventual retirement. Really surprised not to see it in main poll.

There were a lot of good games this year, and it was hard to know which ones to put in the top 9.  If I had 2 more spots I would have lncluded Sid Meier's Pirates and The Last Ninja.

Well, obviously ;), I can see few titles that are less deserving than Pirates in main poll, especially since there are games like Punch Out that were already in one of previous polls.

I loved and played Last Ninja so much on both C64 and later on Amiga - not sure it is poll material though, very few people even heard of it, given it was and remained "home computers" exclusive.

Anyway, such a good year - there were lot of good adventure games, good RPGs and arcades had Operation Wolf, with that Uzi controller (I think it was) attached to cabinet for gameplay.