1991, Game of the Year

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HoloDust said:

As a Zelda fan I would really like to vote for A Link to the Past. But no matter how good it is, it is a more or less a refinement of established formula. On the other hand Civilization just stands out so much for doing something completely different in video games sphere (though heavily influenced by boardgames) and basically launching the 4X genre for video games, so honestly, without second thought, that's where my vote goes.

Honorable mention goes to Lemmings on Amiga, and Alien Breed as a great local co-op shooter.

I think in 90s we will see more and more divergence between mainly computer and mainly console gamers, but since this is quite console heavy site, I expect some of the titles that helped (re)define what video games are, that were PC games, not to come on top.

I agree that PC games are at a disadvantage on this site.  However, I also want to point out that up until this point console games were much, much more popular than computer games.  With Civilization we are just now starting to get to the computer/PC games that ended up being really popular.  Civilization, as a series, sold over 51 million (although some people may not vote for Civ 1 if they like another Civ game better).  Over the next few years we are going to start seeing PC games pop up that were extremely popular, and that may help balance out the bias against PC gaming.

On the other hand, I also think there are some forum users that just click on these Game of the Year threads, vote Mario or Zelda, and then move on to the next thread without commenting.