1993, Game of the Year

[SvennoJ]

Jumpin said:

I’m not saying Doom shouldn’t win this poll, as Doom was a major cult classic, but some people are drastically inflating its success. Calling it the biggest or most major game of 1993 is inaccurate. It wasn’t even the biggest PC game of the year. I’m guessing people are either misremembering or are misinformed.

The reason I’m posting this is because I’m seeing some people who don’t even like Doom voting on this misinformation.

On PC, both Myst and SimCity were significantly more successful games, selling 6.3 and 4.3 million respectively, the original Doom sold 1.1 million units by 2000, and all versions and ports (including Ultimate Doom) sold 3.5 million. Myst being considered the killer app driving the quick early adoption of CD-Rom, and the best selling PC game of the 1990s. By comparison, the best selling FPS game of the 1990s (and the first mainstream FPS) was 1997’s Goldeneye 007, which sold over 7 million copies on the N64 by 2000 eventually going on to sell over 8 million.

Myst and Golden Eye may have sold more, yet Doom is still selling

Myst is a good contender, it was everywhere, even sold in book stores. Riven was so much better though. I couldn't really get into Myst, I played for a couple hours and while interesting, I never went back to it. I wonder what the completion percentage is of Myst, it felt more a novelty at the time than an actual engaging game. Riven the opposite, bought it for the box art alone, loved it start to finish, same with the sequels after.

Tbh despite owning an N64 at the time, I never played GoldenEye. I had already switched to KB+mouse aiming with Quake and couldn't go back to turret aiming. It took me until much much later before I got around to using analog sticks to aim in FPS. I remember trying to play Halo on XBox, it was a disaster lol. Felt like my hands were tied behind my back.