1993 VIDEO GAMES

doom is the only one i actually played a bunch. i always hit virtua fighter in the arcade though, i liked it way better than tekken.

Games I Liked: Day of the Tentacle, Doom, Return to Zork, SimCity 2000, Secret of Mana, Link's Awakening, Star Fox, Kirby's Adventure

I should've voted Return to Zork, but voted Day of the Tentacle instead.

1993 video game I have spent probably the most time since then thinking about and am sad never to see in 1993 video game lists: Ultima Underworld II. 3D before Doom, and more convincingly so (areas on top of other areas, for one).

but "other" is for suckers and I have pretty fond memories of Day of the Tentacle too, so that
hello I am just a casual gamer (though more of a gamer in '93 than now) and I am shitting up yr proper game purist poll by voting for the girly point'n'clicks

(if games companies had spent the 5 years after 1993 releasing ever more tedious rehashings of UW2 instead of Doom maybe I wouldn't have got out of the habit)

I think the only one I played and remember is Zelda which is <3 but I love most Zeldas.

ok i thought 'surely doom beats all' but then there's x-com. plus various square/enix/nerd options

also i have played through link's awakening like three times

My big game of this year was Street Fighter II Turbo for the Super NES.

What is Championship Manager 93? There's barely even a GameFAQs page for it.

went w/ Samurai Showdown since it ruled and deserves a vote. also I really need to get off my ass and play Links Awakening someday; I wish Nintendo would start putting GB games on DSiware (and Four Swords Adventure) (and Pac-Man Vs.)

My big game of this year was Street Fighter II Turbo for the Super NES

this was released in 1994 fyi

love Mega Man X, the best reimagining of mega man so far.

dott and gabriel knight 1 also great

played the holy shit out of Battletoads & Double Dragon and Doom, but I hate them both so bad in hindsight

What is Championship Manager 93? There's barely even a GameFAQs page for it.

you gotta be kidding

voted for Doom, but didn't notice Day of the Tentacle until after voting. Doom is probably the right option anyway, spent so much time playing this.

I think Doom is a game that made a lot of console players switch to PC gaming.

I found the SimCity 2000 strategy guide at a thrift store the other day & it makes for such soothing & nostalgic pre-sleep reading.

lol what was in that strategy guide? hint: this game is much easier if u use cheats

man, i played the shit out of the shareware version of doom and always wondered what the rest was like. when i finally got it, i think i played it maybe once and went back to the comforting levels i knew inside & out.

Madden '94 is the best Madden ever imo.

That's not just nostalgia - it's a beautiful culmination of the '92, '93 improvements, then for '95 they tried to blow it up and start again and it's slow and unplayable.

I was playing Doom earlier today, its still fun, and comfortuing, somehow, to blast through then fasmiliar levels.

dude, there's lots of good stuff on here. I'd vote day of the tentacle if Doom wasn't so obviously the winner.

Madden '94 is the best Madden ever imo.

It was the one I played the most, for sure.

One time back in 93/94 I was playing Doom in the dark, and I turned a corner and there was a monster there and I screamed in complete terror and my mom thought something happened to me.

I voted Star Fox over Doom and Madden 94; I wish I'd known about the RPGs at the time.

voted for Doom, but didn't notice Day of the Tentacle until after voting. Doom is probably the right option anyway, spent so much time playing this.

I think Doom is a game that made a lot of console players switch to PC gaming.

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what bland user name said.

voted x-com. doom was great obv but x-com i was into

http://www.cslab.ntua.gr/~phib/images/doom/anim/fatt1.gif

http://www.warphammer.net/imagenes/xcom_ufo_03.jpg

mia:

Cannon Fodder. From the sensi soccer guys, never played it myself but it was raved about at the time.
Chaos Engine. Bitmap Brothers. Ditto.
Lemmings 2: The Tribes. Also Christmas Lemmings!
Star Wars: X-Wing.

Cannon Fodder. From the sensi soccer guys, never played it myself but it was raved about at the time.
Chaos Engine. Bitmap Brothers. Ditto.

I spent many hours on both of those, good times.

also mia (if I've got my years right):
Syndicate - glaring omission imo and might have taken my vote from Doom if it had been in the list (or I'd thought of it under 'other' at the time)

Would have voted Lemmings 2 def! Love it as a model of how to do a sequel - loads more of everything, every daft idea made into its own puzzle set.

DOOM no question, but I logged a LOT of hours in SimCity 2000, X-Com, and (ugh) Return to Zork, which I think has justly gotten lambasted on one of the adventure games threads, so I'll spare it for now. WANT SOME RYE?!

Course you do!

Mega Man X is sweet too though, and Aladdin on Genesis was a good rental.

My dad referenced "want some rye?!" maybe two nights ago at family board game night, can't recall the context. Anyway, it's permanently in the lexicon.

Well you're not as bad you smell! Well you're not as dumb as you look!

(loved that game.)

i never realised so many of these things came out at the same time

i think the only thing i actually would have seen year-of-release here would be 'aladdin', which i borrowed from a friend, and sim city 2000, which i think i recall seeing someone's father play

oh, and a cousin had 'doom', which scared the shit out of me, just on e1m1 - i was too afraid to actually run up to the imp and shoot it

ha, remember when the graphics on doom and wolfenstein were TERRIFYING and REAL?

lemmings 2 tribes is great too yeah

did the player in doom really go to hell for the game after the demo? i never played the full game either.

IDSPISPOPD

IDKFA

IDDQD

ha, remember when the graphics on doom and wolfenstein were TERRIFYING and REAL?

Knew someone at university back in '93 who had his PC set up in his walk-in closet. He'd get stoned and then play X Wing in complete darkness, claiming that it made the game "more realistic".

did the player in doom really go to hell for the game after the demo? i never played the full game either.

― abanana, Wednesday, December 30, 2009 12:27 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yes! IIRC the first episode is on Phobos, you take a portal or something to Deimos for ep2, and then you drop down an evil hole in the ground / warp in spacetime and find yourself in Hell for ep3. Or something...? DOOM II features the demons coming to planet Earth but you fight your way back into/through Hell halfway through it.

i think anything other than doom is challops tbh

agreed

do we have a gaming challop thread?

yes

gracias

My dad referenced "want some rye?!" maybe two nights ago at family board game night, can't recall the context. Anyway, it's permanently in the lexicon.

Har, this also happened at our family christmas party last week! I'm going to give it a vote just cos it deserves at least one (if only for the fantastic "text adventure? NO, THIS IS A NEW ERA!" intro), and presumably nobody else will do it.

But mostly in 1993 I played Doom on our two PCs (a 386 and a 486) over serial link, with nomonsters=on, just playing hide and seek against my sisters. GREAT TIMES!

man, i remember five pc lan parties that started at 5.30pm on friday and ended sunday at midnight
there was a lot of desperation in the house, iirc

fightin over that last slice of meat lovers pizza, killing things

ha, you were there.
lots of mountain dew. lots of screaming fits. lots of keyboard breaking.

That sounds like me in 1993 but on SlothMUD rather than Doom.

i heart you guys, seriously.

Doom was probably the game in this list I played the most in 1993. I loved that and DOTT and SOM, but time has chosen X-Com as the victor.

Doom, of course, but I probably played Madden '94 as much if not more. Was NHL '94 realized in 1993? That was a great game.

Doom was the first (and one of the few) games I've purchased, and it came on (shock!) *four* floppy disks.

One time back in 93/94 I was playing Doom in the dark, and I turned a corner and there was a monster there and I screamed in complete terror and my mom thought something happened to me.

― real bears playing hockey (polyphonic),

The invisible pinkly demons freaked me the fuck out the first time i encountered one, like as in I was really properly scared by it.

Worse still, though it was from Doom 2, was the monster that brings dead monsters back to life - I shot this Imp, and the bad monster was on the other side of a door from it or something. I watched in horror as the imp rose from the dead, like "that's not supposed to happen", really, really freaked out by it.

Was NHL '94 realized in 1993? That was a great game.

yah it was. i try not to but the poll options def trends towards shit i cared abt/played/have heard of hence including madden but nhl. also bummed i forgot cannon fodder. lol @ voting for fukken lemmings tho

Secret of Mana, without hesitation.

Oh yeah X-Wing DEFINITELY shoulda been on there man. Lemmings 2, uh, i'm not so sure. If I still had the box I would stare at it with regret.

The thing with the best games here is that I played the shit out of all them at the time, and I'm pretty certain they'd still hold up now. DOOM might be a bit dull level-design-wise, but there are few things you can do in a videogame that are more satisfying than blowing away those zombie guys with the shotgun. It just FEELS right.

SimCity 2000 I think would basically be about as fun as it was at the time, which is to say, kinda frustrating and tedious a lot of the time but weirdly rewarding as well. Besides, once things really slip into blight and stagnation you can just call in some disasters and watch it all burn which is fun.

X-Com I played a bunch of maybe a year ago... the tactical gameplay remains rock-solid but the overall game is a drag - it's one of those games where it takes a while to play through a full campaign and lose horribly as the odds mount up against you, then you have to go through it all again trying to make slight improvements to your strategy, then AGAIN, and AGAIN, and I just lose interest playing the early game over and over.

i'm gonna say again that 93 was a banner game year

Doctor Casino, were you playing it for the first time, or revisiting it? Whenever I go back and play it I basically have the same strategy every time now - the only thing that really stops me is when you get to the point where you have to kill alien ships every day and/or capture an alien commander to get to Cydonia, it gets to be somewhat of a chore. But I still have that urge to go back in every few years. Culling your own soldiers in the early game is a masochistic part of the appeal!

I discovered it in maybe 96 or 97, high school friend of mine put me onto it. But I never got good at it then or now - I actually kinda suck at games.

Some of my fav gaming memories of 93 involve playing ultima 7 pts 1 and 2 when I got home from school..

I stand by my #1 vote for Ultima 7 in the ILX games poll. Fucking amazing mega-game even with shite combat and some severe bugs lurking around the edges. Just the HUGENESS of it, and the general look and feel was perfect. And and! TURN OF THE 90S DIGITIZED SPEECH. Possibly the best single feature any game can possess.

AVATAR!

ts: the Guardian from Ultima 7 vs the Great Earth Serpent from Ultima 7 pt. 2

wd've voted cannon fodder (jools & jops RIP) but happy to vote champ man; the amount of hours I sunk into that game is unholy and only rivalled by champ man 96/97

I wonder if I can get CM2 running on my mac

2-3-5, Chris Bart-Williams in the middle. And you still couldn't win in Europe!

What is Championship Manager 93? There's barely even a GameFAQs page for it.

you gotta be kidding

― thomp, Wednesday, December 30, 2009 12:27 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

See for yourself: No FAQs, no reviews, and the message board doesn't have a single post on it.

And the GameFAQs page for the Amiga version is no better.

Madden and Champ Mang are always perfect/most playable. Breath of Fire is a personal fave. Aladdin's rep is solely based on it being good for an iteration of a shit genre.

Voted Championship Manager and fuck you if you repped for Myst you fucking nub.

My big game of this year was Street Fighter II Turbo for the Super NES

this was released in 1994 fyi

― reading this is making you dumber (Lamp), Tuesday, December 29, 2009 11:51 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

No, this was definitely 1993. I distinctly remember EGM picking it as the best Super NES game of the year, but not best fighting game of the year, which went to Samurai Shodown and there was this big article about how "What?? Street Fighter II Turbo didn't win the best fighting game of the year??"

Yes I am a huge dork.

another write-in vote: The 7th Guest

Myst was a piece of shit.

I concur with both of the last posts.

Wait, I have an even better write-in vote: God of Thunder for the PC!!!! An awesome viking RPG/puzzle game. Funny, too! And it's free.

Please note that if you get stuck in the first town, there's someone that you have to talk to twice!

SOLD

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Shoulda voted X-Com even tho it never stood a chance =(

Didn't even notice it in the poll - I kind of love Ogre Battle for its ambition, but i didn't hate myself quite enough to keep playing it. well, that was after a half-dozen tries to pass the third or fourth map over half a decade, so i definitely hate myself to a large extent

would have voted for x-wing, despite never having made it past the first mission where you blow up the freighters

I mean, were x-wing an available option

I loved (and voted for) Ogre Battle despite my incompetence. I think a great deal of the games I loved before I became a lazy old fart were frickin' brutal.

Man I loved Ogre Battle. Played it in Japanese on hard discs and don't know if I ever got past the fourth board.