Best Video Game 1988-1994 Round 2

[ilya]

1, How could Final Fantasy VI possibly have lost against anything except Tetris?

2, Monkey Island vs. Tie Fighter is the closest matchup this time around, I think.

3, I can't believe doom is losing. do you guys remember how incredible this game seemed when it first came out?!\

4, i am shocked that MK is actually giving Tetris a run for its money...i mean...come on....Tetris is indisputably the greatest game EVER made....MK is a reasonably fun fighting game...

good titles

-tAg

[MarkL444]

mega man 2 losing is a [censored] joke

[Sadat X]

Just about everyone in this forum would LOVE Monkey Island (esp. the original) if they played it. Very dissapointed with this decision, as well as the aforementioned Star Control 2 situation.

Tecmo Super Bowl is probably my favorite game on the list, but at least it's losing to worthy competition.

[gonores]

OK, my thoughts.

Tecmo Super Bowl vs Contra

Agreeing with others, this is a finals match...final 4 at worst. Contra was great, but I don't think you will ever find a game that so many people have "perfected" as Tecmo. I spent consequential amounts of time in close to a dozen dorms in my college career (either living in or visiting), and I think Tecmo was played in each one, and each dorm had its Tecmo champ, and the spectacle of two masters of the game getting together, setting their playbooks, and pitting it out against one another was a (sober) video game spectacle yet to be matched in my eyes...Mario Kart + alcohol will give sober Tecmo a run for it's money though.

SC2K vs XCOM

People who can't figure this one out are a little dense. Everyone and their mom played SC2K. XCOM was not widely circulated. I only played SC2K. Sorry XCOM fans....I'm sure XCOM is great, but SC2k is just good enough to beat out a random game I never played....and I am certain I match the sentiments of other SC2K voters.

Tetris vs Mortal Kombat

This is a simple experiment in OOT demographics. Tetris touters don't seem to realize that Mortal Kombat was the GTA series of the 90s. Take a trip down memory lane with me, boys. Remember Sunday night when Mom turned on 60 Minutes? Remember when Ed Bradley came on to condemn Mortal Combat? Remember all the bad press Mortal Kombat got? If you were 12-15 at the time MK came out, there was nothing cooler than sneaking over to your friend's place to play MK because his parents were the only ones cool enough to buy their kid that game. The blood? The violence? The fatalities? If this means less to you than trying to piece together a bunch of stupid shapes that won't bleed no matter how hard you smash them into the ground, then I am guessing you weren't born into MK's wheelhouse. You're either too old to appreciate the cheap thrill of blood or you're too young and you find MK tame compared to later games.

[Koss]

Bo Jackson's biggest legacy to date is his domination of Tecmo Bowl. Seriously, In an interview a couple years ago he said he gets asked about it whereever he goes. Line backers just bounced off of him as he zig/zagged down the field. Barry Sanders was a close 2nd in this game actually, but couldn't match Bo's dominance.

Actually, I forgot the Konami code, but will always remember ABACABB on the Genesis.

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SC2k is just good enough to beat out a random game I never played....

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This is an endorsement?? Is it possible to skip questions on the poll, 'cause that would appear to be a better solution.

Or to put it another way, if SC2K was left out of the competition entirely, would you even have noticed?

[gonores]

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This is an endorsement?? Is it possible to skip questions on the poll, 'cause that would appear to be a better solution.

Or to put it another way, if SC2K was left out of the competition entirely, would you even have noticed?

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I agree with everything in your post. I'm not really an OOT regular, so I didn't realize I could abstain.

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This is an endorsement?? Is it possible to skip questions on the poll, 'cause that would appear to be a better solution.

Or to put it another way, if SC2K was left out of the competition entirely, would you even have noticed?

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I agree with everything in your post. I'm not really an OOT regular, so I didn't realize I could abstain.

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I don't really know if abstaining is possible either. If it isn't, people should be adding a "No Vote" option to all these.

As for MK vs. Tetris, I was in college 3 years ago and the same NES systems that were kept around to play Tecmo Super Bowl were also used for insane Tetris high score competitions. MK was nowhere to be found. But then again the place was populated by engineering dorks. I guess I have no point.

[gonores]

MK was also introduced on SEGA/SNES, not NES. The console had no staying power...not MKs fault.