1980's, Game of the Decade

[The_Liquid_Laser]

OneTime said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

FYI, I personally feel the 1980's were a little one sided.   There are 6 games in this poll that have the same original publisher.  All 6 of those games have a common game designer working on them.  And 4 of those 6 have the same protagonist.

Nintendo are the only company still around from those days, so possibly not surprising.  The other big companies were Atari, Sega and Commodore but none of those are around in the same way any more.

To be fair, SMB3 and Zelda1 are both great games.  "Game of the decade" is going to be a controversial choice no matter what wins...

They say that history is written by the victors, and you can see it in this poll.  Nintendo was the big winner from this era.  I put up many successful Atari games through these 80's "Game of the Year" threads and not one of them even made it into a runner up position.  Sega is still around, and they did get one game, Phantasy Star, as a winner.  But clearly the big winner from the 80's is Nintendo and that has shown up in the polls.