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1991 was the year of a few peculiar games.SimEarth was an unusual new addition to the Sim brand (thank you Maxis). I loved SimCity and SimAnts but I could never get into SimEarth.King's Quest V was the last chapter of the popular King's Quest series. I have to admit that I never played a King's Quest game... shame ...

Top down RPG is one of the most beloved genres by old gamers like myself. I think I added to Abandonware DOS the vast majority of top down RPGs ever published for DOS. If I'm mistaken, tell me and I'll fix it. You, dear readers, rated every single one of them: this is the list of the highest rated top ...

The Game Critics Awards are annual awards held after the very popular E3 video game conference since 1998. As you can see, 1998 saw the birth of great classics for every kind of gamer: Half-Life for shooter lovers, Homeworld for RTS gamers, Grim Fandango for adventure addicts and Alpha Centauri for the ones who can't wait for the next Sid Meier game.1998...

1990 was a seminal year in videogames. The last decade of the millennium saw the birth of two genres: city building simulations and god games.The first was represented by the first chapter in a long series of sims: SimCity. There are not many well known city building games around to this day, but the genre is well known by ...

In 1989 Tetris was the single most awarded game. The fact that it was a puzzle game based on a very simple concept and made by a nice russian man has contributed to the Tetris myth. Thank you Alexey Pajitnov.1989 was a very important year in world history. Just think at the fall of the Berlin wall, the eastern Europe revolutions ...

In 1988 I was a proud owner of a Commodore 64. A couple of years later I bought an Amiga, but 1988 I was still playing Ultima 5 on 5 1/4 disks. I didn't know a thing about PCs, even less about PC gaming. Older people I knew at the time used PCs to work on spreadsheets or word processors (WordStar!) and not one of them ...

In 1987 was a grim year remembered for awful facts: Unabomber in Salt Lake City, the Black Monday crash, a typhoon in the Philippines. Thankfully, it was a great year for videogames. Here are the CODiE Awards for 1987. From the official site: "The SIIA CODiE Awards were established in 1986 so that pioneers of the then-nascent software industry could evaluate and honor ...

The SIIA CODiE Awards are one of the oldest still around. The first games were awarded in 1986. Cold war was a reality, USSR was a superpower and most of you weren't even born.Here's a description from the official site: "The SIIA CODiE Awards were established in 1986 so that pioneers of the then-nascent software industry could evaluate and honor each ...

What happened in 1992? Quite a lot! Bosnia Herzegovina declares independence, starting the war we all know about. The Maastricht treaty is signed and the European Union is officially born. Microsoft releases Windows 3.1: the DOS era is slowly coming to an end. 1992 also gave us some video game classics such as Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (one of the ...

The Spotlight Awards was a video game awards event hosted in the 1990s at the now popular GDC (Games Developers Conference). The Spotlight awards took a lot of gaming platforms into consideration, but 1999 awarded many PC games.The best video games for 1999 according to the Spotlight awards were:1999Baldur's Gate Best Adventure Game/RPGGran Turismo Best Simulation GameHalf-Life Best Action ...

Electronic Games was a computer magazine focused entirely on early video games. Every year, the Electronic Games Arcade Awards crowned a few Games of the Year. This is a list of the best games published in 1984, the year that Ghostbusters came out. 1984Agent USA Electronic Educational Game of the YearApple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64Buck Rogers Best Action VideogameAtari 2600/5200, ColecoVision, ...

Electronic Games was a computer magazine focused entirely on early video games. Every year, the Electronic Games Arcade Awards crowned a few Games of the Year. This is a list of the best games published in 1983.19833-D Sky Attack Mini-Arcade Game of the YearTomytronic 3DAdvanced Dungeons & Dragons Best Adventure GameIntellivisionArchon: The Light and the Dark Most Innovative Computer GameAtari 8...

The Spotlight Awards was a video game awards event hosted in the 1990s at the GDC (Games Developers Conference) that covered a lot of gaming platforms.The best video games for 1998 according to the Spotlight awards were:Age of Empires Annual Achievement Award for Game Design and DevelopmentBlade Runner Best Music or SoundtrackFinal Fantasy VII Best Adventure Game/RPGPaRappa the ...

Electronic Games was one of the first computer magazines entirely focused on video games. Every year, Electronic Games held a Game of the Year "Arcade Awards". This is a list of the best games published in 1982.1982Bosconian Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Coin-Op GameChopper Command Best Action VideogameAtari VCSDavid's Midnight Magic Computer Game of the YearApple IIDeadline Best Computer AdventureApple ...

The Spotlight Awards was a video game awards event hosted in the 1990s at the GDC (Games Developers Conference) that covered a lot of gaming platforms.The best video games for 1997 according to the Spotlight awards were:1997Civilization II Best PC/Mac GameCommand and Conquer: Red Alert Best Strategy/War GameDuke Nukem 3D Best Action GameI Have No Mouth, and ...

Electronic Games was a magazine published between the 1980s and the 1990s. Electronic Games was one of the first computer magazines entirely focused on video games.  This is a list of the best games published in 1981.1981Asteroids Videogame of the YearAtari VCSAuto Racing Best Sports GameIntellivision)Computer Baseball Best Computer Sports GameApple IIJawbreaker Best Computer Action GameAtari 800, Apple ...

Electronic Games was a magazine (yes, on paper) published in the 1980s and then, after a hiatus, in the 1990s. Electronic Games was one of the first computer magazines entirely focused on video games. Every year, E.C. held a Game of the Year "Arcade Awards".This is a list of the best games published in 1980, according to Electronig Games.1980...

Electronic Games was a magazine published in the 1980s and the 1990s, entirely focused on video games. Every year, the magazine held the Game of the Year "Arcade Awards".These are the best games of 1979 according to Electronig Games.1979Air-Sea Battle Best Target GameAtari VCSBally Best Audio and Visual EffectsArcade/BallyBasketball Most Innovative GameAtari VCSCosmic Conflict Best S.F. GameOdysseyFootball ...

The very popular magazine TIME compiled a comprehensive list of the 100 best video games of all time, for every platform that ever existed. Take a look and judge for yourself. There's even a poll that no user ever voted...

Mobygames is perhaps the biggest video game database on the Internet (we're not talking about abandonware), as many of you already know. What you might not know is that Mobygames has a Games Of The Year award... well... sort of. The "best games" are automatically chosen among the ones with the highest review scores. That's why the GOTY chart can ...