1980's, Game of the Decade

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The_Liquid_Laser said:

OneTime said:

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.

Nintendo did win the history because of how people think of these games, not the other way around. While there are other great games than just the ones Nintendo made, there really wasn't much serious competition. Granted, Nintendo did benefit from the -83 market crash in the USA, as Nintendo was never as popular anywhere in the world than it was in the US. I believe it was the NDS that finally "won" Japan for Nintendo.