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This year gets a little tougher, 1999 is still an excellent year.

Here, my favourites from the OP posts are RollerCoaster Tycoon, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi, Age of Empires II, Quake III Arena, SimCity 3000, Pokémon Stadium and Star Wars Episode I: Racer. Besides those I also played Shenmue, Grand Theft Auto II, Unreal Tournament, Driver and Pokémon Snap. 1999 was also the year of the PlayStation game Asterix, released on PC as Asterix the Gallic Wars which is a strategy game a bit like the Total War franchise; Dynamite Cop, a beat-em-up on Dreamcast from the Arcade and SoulCalibur. SoulCalibur is one of my favourites and I was expecting it here in this year, but looking it up I see the Arcade version was released in 1998 which means it should've been mentioned last year (yet it wasn't).

This year is closer than last year, and 1997 and 1996, but still the winner for me is clear. RollerCoaster Tycoon was huge for me, though it got completely overshadowed and rendered obsolete by its successor, so SimCity 3000, the Asterix strategy game and SoulCalibur are my top-favourites of the year. Of these, SimCity 3000 (so vote for 'Other') wins out. That game was made for me.

Last edited by S.Peelman - on 16 October 2023