1992, Game of the Year (Runoff)

[JackHandy]

rapsuperstar31 said:

JackHandy said:

For consoles, the biggest game by far was Sonic 2. It utterly dominated the industry. For arcades, the same was true for Mortal Kombat. Can't speak for PC, since I wasn't a PC gamer.

Sonic 2 did dominate the industry and was a very important game, it didn't outsell Mario Kart.  Sonic 2 sold 6 million, Mario Kart 8.76 million, Mortal Kombat sold 3 million across all platforms.  Now going into the arcade and just watching people playing Mortal Kombat games and pulling off fatalities was quite the experience back in the day.  Actually playing it not so much, since you would get a match or two against the computer, and than someone would sneak up behind you put in a quarter and beat you near flawlessly to take your spot.

Those numbers are final numbers, not sales from 1992 alone. During that year, there was a poll that showed more kids recognized Sonic than Mario, or even the President of the United States. lol. It was like GTA for a time. Just utterly slayed. 

Mortal Kombat didn't launch on consoles until 1993, but by the time it did, holy... If anyone picks anything but MK in the '93 poll, they were either a PC gamer, or weren't alive back then. Because that game was the console industry.