1992, Game of the Year (Runoff)

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Dreamcaster999 said:

I voted for Sonic 2. Imo, it's the best non-RPG of the generation. Top to bottom quality and fun. Sonic 2 is a Sonic game which really understands how to design levels which allow you to build up speed and use your momentum to discover secrets and perform cool tricks while still providing a good level of challenge. Masterpiece.

Anyway, I have to say that the Nintendo bias is getting crazy now. If Wolfenstein 3D can get a run-off and win, I would accept Sonic 2's loss, but Mario Kart? Really?? It's not even a good game. The later Mario Karts are great fun (still not GotY material), but the original on SNES is not at the same level. It really does feel like too many people will just vote for whatever Nintendo game came out that year like some kind of hive mind.

The Genesis was extremely popular in the USA for like 3 or 4 years.  It went from I've never heard of the company to all of a sudden a few friends had one and there were a bunch of anti Nintendo commercials at the time.  If you owned a Sega Genesis in the 90's you probably vote Sonic 2, if you owned a SNES you are probably voting Mario Kart, if you were a pc gamer, you are probably voting for Wolfenstein.  There were some 30+ millions Genesis owners, I wonder why we don't have more of them here.  That one Segahearts dude would probably be all over these polls for the sega games if he was still here.