Best Video Game from these 1989 Video Games

This has to be Madden. I grew up a huge Bengals fan and this was the year (Boomer/Ickey/etc.) they were unstoppable (almost). Great game.

I picked Baseball Stars. If I'm being honest it's Mega Man 2. Historicity-wise it's Tetris.

Is that the arcade version of Strider? I loooooooooved that game.

The1989 arcade version of Strider has been ported to a variety of computer and console platforms following its original release. In 1989, Strider was released for various computer platforms in Europe. Versions for Commodore Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum were published by U.S. Gold and developed by Tiertex. Capcom separately produced a version for the X68000 computer in 1991, releasing it exclusively in Japan. While the Tiertex versions are very poor, the Capcom version for the X68000 is a near perfect replica of the original game.
Sega produced their home version of Strider for the Mega Drive/Genesis, which was released in Japan on September 29, 1990, with subsequent releases in North America and the PAL region. It was advertised as one of the first 8-Megabit cartridges for the system. Sega also released a Master System version of Strider in North America and Europe in 1992, which was separately developed by Tiertex and was in fact a conversion of their previous Amiga version).
NEC Avenue produced a PC Engine version of Strider Hiryu, which was released exclusively in Japan on September 22, 1994. The PC Engine version was released as a CD-ROM² title which requires the Arcade Card expansion. The PC Engine port features an all-new stage that was not in the arcade version, as well as a newly recorded cut-scenes, music and dialogue, with Japanese voice actor Kaneto Shiozawa as the voice of Hiryu and Kōji Totani as the Grand Master. The PC Engine version is notable for its long development process, having been planned in various formats, including the ill-fated SuperGrafx at one point.
A PlayStation version of Strider was produced by Capcom, which was first released in 2000 as a second disc which came packaged with the PlayStation version of Strider 2. This version was reissued separately in Japan on October 24, 2006 as part of the Capcom Game Books series, which included a strategy guide for the game.
The original arcade version was also rereleased in 2006 as a title included in the video game compilations Capcom Classics Collection: Remixed for the PlayStation Portable and Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
A Japanese mobile phone version was released in 2010.

I'm seriously torn between ducktales, dragon warrior, gameboy tetris, willow, shadowgate, TMNT arcade and sim city
i think honestly i gotta go dragon warrior. i would pick Shadowgate. Historic, you gotta say tetris.

Went with Prince Of Persia, but could have been Strider or TMNT.

Xps It's true, the arcade Strider is so mathematical. I don't mean that in the adventure time way, I mean that it feels good to perform precisely in a game that rewards it, that feels especially mechanical and overcomes its lack of fluidity by showing the player how good it feels to be an android. I love rolling thunder for this reason too (and for it's disco bassline).

this, to me, is real halcyon days: right when the Turbographix, genesis and the gameboy hit and the nes was at peak and arcades were still really where the serious gamers went.

I was going to complain that NARC wasn't on here - but I see that's 1988 now - I'm going w/ Zero Wing

Hello.

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

yup

RISE FROM YOUR GRAVES!!! AGAIN!!

Populous easy but this was the golden age of the Amiga/ST plus the last hurrah of the ZX Spectrum so RIP Xenon II, Rick Dangerous, Twinworld, Fantasy World Dizzy, Blood Money, and a bunch of other stuff Americans don't care about

(much <3 anyway tho, enjoying the polls nonetheless)

Seriously though I think I've revisited Populous more than any other game, every few years I dig it out again thinking I'll beat it this time and I never do. Some of those level names are pretty much tattooed on my brain by now, I'll be in a meeting or on the bus and suddenly think "Burwilcon... Shadpejob... Baduspert" out of nowhere

Sim City

where's alf you son of a bitch

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/AlfBoxShotSegaMasterSystem.jpg

i'm protesting the exclusion of River City Ransom

tmnt, super marioland, strider, tetris, madden.

Played tetris or sml more than any others, but prob got more kicks out of tmnt

pleayed minesweeper more than all the rest of these but fucked if i'm voting for it

Xps It's true, the arcade Strider is so mathematical. I don't mean that in the adventure time way, I mean that it feels good to perform precisely in a game that rewards it, that feels especially mechanical and overcomes its lack of fluidity by showing the player how good it feels to be an android. I love rolling thunder for this reason too (and for it's disco bassline).

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OTM. about strider AND rolling thunder, totally.

and man, this is hard. strider vs. mega man 2 for me. lots of love for TMNT: arcade, duck tales, dragon warrior, and ys 1 and 2 but they're not quite in the same (godhead) league as those two.

baseball stars is great too! spent much time maxing out my team playing the lovely ladies. tho it's kinda fucked that the all-girl team sucked so bad!

one of the saddest screens in all of gaming:

http://dugger1981.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/baseball-stars-fired.jpg

sim city rules too. MAN.

jeez, didn't even notice TETRIS. the one I've played more than anything one here, def.

I am not japanese so RCR is a 1990 game for me

forx we have a system

stop fucking w/ the system

Its what i do
Also: u made whiney sad

Tetris (Game Boy)

Also: u made whiney sad

well im glad were changing things up to spare the feelings of someone who has never posted to this subboard!!!

man, 1989 was crazy! so many good options, and i only had a NES at the time. i may have spent more time with Dragon Warrior than any other game, ever, so i'm tempted to go with that.

feel like dragon war and ys 1 & 2, while fun, have easily been bettered. by games in their respective series even. they're more than a little creaky today and have problems that are straight-up design flaws. simple things like item management, saving, fetch quests.

but sidescrolling 2d action games really don't get much better than mega man 2 and strider. no fluff, total blast to play.

kind of hard not to vote tetris tho. it's basically perfect.

I'd vote Tetris NES if it were the Nintendo version, but I never played Tengen's. So TMNT arcade it is!

actually, did mega man and strider 2 each have a bosh rush stage where you fight every boss you've already fought? can't remember but I hate that.

Voting Baseball Stars since it's my favorite game of all time. But I kinda want to vote for the arcade version of TMNT. It looked so awesome when I was a kid! And it was four players and you could pick which turtle you wanted to be!

Tetris for the Game Boy plays soooo much better than Tengen Tetris. The Tengen version didn't have very good control for moving your blocks around. But the regular Nintendo NES version is better than either of them.

Dragon Warrior sucks and is boring.

Phantasy Star II was a disappointment since I played it after playing PS3, and it would've been an even bigger disappointment for me if I was familiar with the original Phantasy Star (which is a complete masterpiece and one of the best games ever and will just make your jaw drop that they could make graphics look so good in 1988 or whenever).

games I played that year: Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur, DuckTales, Friday the 13th, Golden Axe, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Leisure Suit Larry III: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals, LPMud, MechWarrior, Minesweeper, Populous, Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero, Romance of the Three Kingdoms II, SimCity, Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon, Super Mario Land, TMNT, Tetris, The Uncanny X-Men

LSL3 was definitely the best of the whole series. LPMud not technically a game (or yes a game, but I never played like the ORIGINAL LPMud but certainly played many games using its code -- and tons of its original rooms). Most overlooked in this poll probably LSL, Golden Axe (surely I'm not the only person here who played many hours of this?), and Quest for Glory (I spent the first years playing this game by sticking lockpicks in the thieve's nose to kill him and drinking the dragon's breath booze in the inn and dying -- a few years later I actually decided to beat the game). SimCity not as good as later editions, so it's down to the millions of hours I wasted playing Tetris in the car and the millions I wasted playing minesweeper on the computer.

I played from* that year -- I was only 5 in 1989 so I doubt I played any of these during that year.

was between megaman 2 and sim city.

Went with the latter, only because i never actually played mm until recently

LSL3 was definitely the best of the whole series.

For me LSL2 is the underrated gem of the series. But then it may be the least rude, which I realise for many people misses the point.

(Disclaimer: I was quite young when I played it and have not dared revisit it, and I haven't played anything past 3, which I never finished, so really I'm just picking my favourite out of the first 2.5 games and pretending it is some kind of definitive overview)

SimCity not as good as later editions

Yeah, I liked SimCity but I couldn't vote for it here because it isn't SC2000

SC2000 alltime great

Mordy, you might be the only other person I know who plays the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series... Are you white?

i played R3K series obsessively in high school and college and should've included R3K2 as it would likely have gotten my vote

i kept detailed yearly notebooks about rice production and political upheaval

and you're white, ive seen pics!

amazing.

have you read the books? i just can't see the appeal of it unless you're familiar with the history of it

they're really great classic games! i haven't read the books, tho.

the last one i played was iv btw, so i don't know the backend of the series at all

i kept detailed yearly notebooks about rice production and political upheaval

haha my man!

ive played one of (the?) snes versions of the game but was never really into it

I tried to read the books in college but they were hella old copies and the translation was HORRIBLE. Its an outstanding goal of mine to go back and try again

I wonder if GOOD translations of it actually exist. I got a boxset in Beijing in 2003 -- pretty shoddy translation work, but still got the gist of the story. Lotsa killin'

I'd like to do a 1981 poll next.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

playing TNMT at Chi-Chi's was always a good time

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Mega Man II (US) 3

this is an outrage.

Any poll that a Tetris wins is an outrage.

Keith Courage in Alpha Zones 1

^^^ok who's the joker that voted for that one?