1994, Game of the Year

[SvennoJ]

S.Peelman said:

A bit less of a year compared to '93 if you ask me. Voted for Super Metroid. Good game of course, made my Top 50 for years, but not an absolute favourite of mine. Wasn't really into Donkey Kong Country and Final Fantasy wasn't a thing in Europe. Warcraft wouldn't get really good until the sequel, so Super Metroid it is.

Saw SvennoJ mention SimTower after I already voted, and I don't know how I forgot that one is '94, because I probably should've voted for it since that's one of the important games from my childhood.

Yeah Sim Tower feels like it belongs later since it ran in Windows and could fully scale up with whatever resolution you were running. I played it at 800x600, so much detail on screen for the time.

I voted Warcraft as I found that very addictive and first time using magic in an RTS


but Sim Tower was a lot more advanced technically


I see there was a sequel made by Sega, Yoot Tower which came out in '99. I missed it at the time (so much else to play and I started Everquest that year)

Oh it's on Abandonware and runs fine in Windows 10. (Says to put display into 256 color mode, but works fine)
It just starts without any tips or tutorials, old school! Not even tool tips and the text is microscopic in 1080p lol. But might be fun to try :)