1991, Game of the Year

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curl-6 said:

Sonic isn't even in the same league as Zelda IMHO.
He caught people's attention at the time thanks to having nice graphics/audio, a kid-friendly design, and the wow factor of "blast processing" which differentiated him from Mario, but even his best games are an 8/10 while most are straight up bad.
Most of his following is because people played his games as kids and now have rose tinted nostalgia goggles.

I agree for the most part, but Sonic was one of the better platformers. The memorable Sonic games were also published between 1991 and 1994 at the time there wasn't really competition from Nintendo - SMW 1990, DKC 1994 - nobody seems care about Sonic games released 1995 and onwards after we had Donkey Kong games and Yoshi's Island. So I don't think it's about nostalgia that much as it is about the first Sonic games being the best platformers that we had when they were realased.