1991 VIDEO GAMES POLL

years left unpolled btw are 1993, 1995, and 1998

several good titles in there but SF II, c'mon

greatest of all Zeldas > least of all SF2s

sure, if you ignore the outside world

lemmings, says a non-arcade non-nintendo fanboy.

i voted zelda, but i would like to see monkey island 2 get a fair crack at this whip

streets of rage. this is purely a nostalgia vote of no aesthetic consequence whatsoever.

monkey island for me. that game blew my 11 yr old mind, it's the least i can do

street fighter II should get this, then Zelda.

but i still voted for streets of rage.

jamescobo otm

super turbo against zelda and we have a fight but zelda walks this partic poll

It's a tough one, with Civilization and Zelda in there, as I spent a *lot* of time playing Civ (I'm sure I mentioned in the Coint and Plick poll that I still like to play the original Civ from time to time). Zelda is great, but I came to that after Ocarina (my first Zelda), as I never had a SNES.

In the end I voted Monkey Island 2. I still occasionally get these wierd musical flashbacks where suddenly the Largo LaGrande tune, the theme from the opening credits, the dancing skeleton dream after you fall out the tree, or any number of other bits will suddenly pop into my head. I actually got a less than legal copy of this game sent from Saudi Arabia (my dad was there for the tail end of the Gulf war), and the 'manual' that came with the game turned out to be a typed up walkthrough, with screenshots and everything. That came in pretty damned handy. Just played through it again using ScummVM on the DS about 3 months ago too; just such a great game.

shit, clicked on streets of rage before seeing zelda!

yeah, sure, that's what all the BNP voters said....

Dudes, Super Mario World? Or does that count as 1990?
Also, Out Of This World/Another World?!
Also, is there a series of links to the other polls somewhere? I'd like to see them all side-by-side... I imagine 1995 will be an absolute cracker once it's done!

And given the options, I can't look past Battletoads.

the only reason i wouldn't vote SFII is because it's not SF II Hyper Fighting. link to the past is great but i didn't play it until it was on GBA. i have fond childhood memories of lemmings, but even fonder childhood memories of watching my friend play through final fantasy iv (didn't get it myself until after graduating college, i think).

I probably played more Tecmo Super Bowl and Battletoads in 1991 than any other game. Good lord, Battletoads was hard.

Has to be Monkey Island 2. So clever and funny and (for 11 year old me at least) really spooky in places too. The level of detail that went into it (thinking of the library books and poster listing Guybrush's crimes for instance)was amazing.

If it was Lemmings 2 in the poll it might be a closer contest.

Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
Lemmings

Oh mygosh the PAIN of CHOICE...:O

Link to the Past I still bust about once every two years and it's ALWAYS a blast, especially once you get the duck that swoops you around.

Battletoads was hard.

yah 4 real. battletoads required the intense concentration that only a seven year old with nothing to do could bring. i remember renting it w/ my friend and playing all wknd and just getting sonned and sonned and sonned by every race lvl

i have played less than half of these btw

Battletoads was the de facto father of a generation of kids in 1991. So much sonnage, it was ridiculous.

i watched a complete battletoads run on youtube a few weeks ago, basically in awe

final fantasyiv/sf ii/monkey island ii/lemmings/zelda link to the past are all top twenty all time

I don't really get the love for MI2. It always seemed like the odd one out in the original trilogy (MI1 being super genius, obviously, and MI3 being the really cool modern looking one). But I wonder if I played it now if I'd appreciate the surrealism more than I did when it first came out.

Link to the Past was completely ruined for me because I stupidly bought the strategy guide the same day I bought the game, so I'm voting Tecmo Super Bowl. Its Super NES incarnation (from 1993) is my favorite football video game of all time. Yes, I've been playing all those newfangled Maddens for years, and I still think Tecmo's miles better. I bought my ten-year-old cousin a Tecmo cart and a Super NES on Ebay and he has been OBSESSED with it. His team is the Bills, and he does that Thurman Thomas run and even when I pick his play he still manages to gain yards. He doesn't even bother with Madden 2008 anymore.

Link to the Past was completely ruined for me because I stupidly bought the strategy guide the same day I bought the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQezK_yMHF0

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Zelda wins, thats the default.

Seeing SFII I'm reminded of when somebody had bought it on import for about a million pounds and was scared they were going to get robbed on the way home, brought it round to a friends house and we were all mad excited about it/couldnt believe that it existed/that they'd manage to put the arcade on the console etc etc Seems like a long time ago that arcade perfect was like the holy grail in games.

Monkey Island 2 also gave a mild pang because it's wonderful and enduring, but it's gotta be Zelda everytime. I'm almost ashamed of how much I love Zelda, except I'm not.

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NERDS

battletoads? gtfo.

lol @ PQIII getting the # of votes it deserves.

surprise at Civ getting 0.

No one really cared about Civ until II iirc

(At least I didn't.)

i did

i cared

ME TOO. When I worked @ a camp they had a junky old computer and basically the only thing it could do was run Civ 1. Which was so fun! Even though it was like 2000!

Also, I was so in love with my gf last night when she was like "you know, I think I fucking hate Zelda games. i mean, like... what's the point?"

and FY, that was me voting for Battletoads-- the only game up there was wasn't bettered by one of it's (pre|se)quels.

(fuk u if u disagree is basically what i am saying)

yeah I played Civ1 throughout my school summer holiday. constantly.

I cared too. In fact, I expressed my care not half a thread ago. But with just one vote to cast it had to be MI2.

i missed this one but i would've voted for commander keen

that was my dude

I played the hell out of Civilization myself. For years! It's weird, in my mind I completely separate those experiences of playing Civ vs. SF2, but I guess they did come out around the same time...

oh I played the hell out of some Commander Keen back in the day (I remember staying home sick from school one day and playing Paddle Wars for like four straight hours) but I mean c'mon, SNES ZELDA FFS.

Tecmo Super Bowl 2

^^^^ true bros

i d/l the commander keen games last year some time - still pretty good if a little cheesy. cant remember who i used to rule @ those games playing w/ a keyboard on my dad's computer man little kids have some for real manual dexterity