1994, Game of the Year

[SvennoJ]

Jaicee said:

SvennoJ said:

Has the split between console and PC ever been this one sided before?
I see 84% went to console only games (at release) (not counting other) and it certainly wasn't a weak year for PC releases.
The SNES really hit top popularity in 1994, even though at that time I didn't even know a single person with a SNES. (Just wasn't popular where I lived in Europe)

That's still just stunning to read!  It makes perfect sense, since I know console gaming didn't really take off in Europe until the PlayStation came around, but it still just sounds so strange to me. No Super NES owners at all. Wow.

Nintendo games were very expensive where I lived (The Netherlands) while PC, C64, Amiga 500, MSX games were basically 'free' thanks to rampant piracy. Copy parties were shamelessly promoted everywhere. Whole events where everyone dragged their PC or Amiga to the event just to copy each other's games.

Playstation games were a lot more affordable thanks to CDs. Nintendo games also suffered from PAL conversion, or rather not converted, running slower (50hz) and with black bars (more lines in PAL 576 vs NTSC 480). You could buy imported Nintendo games as well, but those were 3x as expensive as Playstation games. The compomised PAL ones still 1.5x as expensive.

PC games also got all the shelf space with their extravagant boxes and were cheaper than console games in general. SNES was around, just expensive and compromised. Nintendo had no love for Europe :/