1993, Game of the Year

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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.

Everything you are saying is 100% accurate.  However, people can vote for whichever game they feel is most appropriate.  Myst and SimCity 2000 both have their selling points, and they are worthy of voting for.  Here are some points that Doom has for it though:

1)  People might simply think Doom is the most fun game in the poll.
2)  More people played Doom than Myst, because the first part of Doom was free through shareware.
3)  Doom popularized the FPS genre, a genre which is gigantic today, one of gaming's biggest and most lucrative genres.  Where would Call of Duty be today without Doom?  On the other hand Adventure games like Myst are not really popular anymore.

So I want to reiterate that people can vote for whatever game they want.  However, there are good reasons why Doom is currently leading in the poll.