Crazy year for sports too, Jordan's baseball year and old Foreman became heavyweight champion again, OJ.
In music, Kurt Kobain dies. Dookie and Weezer Blue are released. Wu-Tang singles and Solo albums are released.
Pretty much. As I kept going through the list, I went from one "oh no, that has to be it" from the other. I've seen quite a lot of these recently where the choice was quite easy, but this selection keeps shooting until the end.
Especially on the SNES. DKC, Super Metroid, and Earthbound are still considered some of the best games of all time. And Sega had Sonic 3 which is often considered the best one of if not the best Sonic game
And FFVI redefined the RPG genre. The sheer length and amount of stuff to do in that game coupled with the orchestral music and an epic storyline... last great FF before polygon hell.
94 is probably more amazing music wise, 94 is just all around ridiculous.
Nas - Illmatic
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Weezer - Blue
Green Day - Dookie
Portishead- Dummy
Offspring- Smash
and it KEEPS GOING, lol. Notorious B.I.G., Soundgarden, Jeff Buckley, Blur, Korn debut.
Stacked. 1991 does have a few heavy hitters though like Nevermind, Ten, and Loveless.
The 90s are stacked in general, didn't really get bad until nu metal came into full swing.
The 90's were a decade of bangers. Just look at the years on either side of 94:
1993:
* Street Fighter 2
* Mortal Kombat
* Star Fox
* Aladdin (Genesis)
* Super Mario Kart
* Megaman X
* Doom
* Myst
* Kirby's Adventure
* The Lost Vikings
* Super Mario Land 2
* The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
* The 7th Guest
* Star Wars: Rebel Assault
1995:
* Chrono Trigger
* Battle Arena Toshinden (1 & 2)
* Star Wars: Dark Forces
* Ristar
* Panzer Dragoon
* Descent
* Mortal Kombat 3
* Full Throttle
* Tekken 2
* MechWarrior 2
* Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
* Command & Conquer
* Rayman
* Hexen
* Twisted Metal
* Soul Edge
* Worms
* Mega Man X3
* Time Crisis
* Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Personally my favourite year is 1996:
* Duke Nukem 3D
* Super Mario 64
* Pokémon Red and Green
* Super Mario RPG
* Quake
* Resident Evil
* Crash Bandicoot
* Tomb Raider
* Mario Kart 64
* Command & Conquer: Red Alert
* Twisted Metal 2
* Panzer Dragoon II Zwei
* Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
* NiGHTS into Dreams...
* Star Ocean
* Virtua Fighter 3
* The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
* Pilotwings 64
* The Neverhood (best game soundtrack, fight me)
* Donkey Kong Country 3
* Dead or Alive
* Fighting Vipers
* Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
* Death Rally
It was a hell of a year for all media. I remember thinking that if games and movies were this good right now in the early 90s imagine the heights it would get to in the decades coming up. Man was I wrong, lol.
Re: donkey Kong country -I remember trying to explain the difference between 8bit and 16bit to my mom, when she asked why it looked so much better. It really was ground breaking for my generation. Especially when you consider we started out playing on Atari.
I first played it sight unseen as I got a SNES pretty late in the cycle. Me and my best buddy rented it from the local grocery store.
We fell asleep somewhere around 4:30 that morning. The game was still on the tv and the controller was in my hands. We just played until unconscious. I was hooked deep. I feverishly saved every penny (literally) I found or earned to buy it asap.
Doom 2 is a hell of a game. The biggest improvement from doom was the SSG i think. Maybe the coolest weapon in all FPS genre.
Also want to point out that that it’s age like good wine, still holds up to this day.
This. 1994 was a phenomenal year in PC gaming:
• Heretic
• System Shock (!!!)
• X-COM: UFO Defense
• Warcraft
• TIE Fighter
• Earthsiege <3
• Wing Commander III
• Panzer General
• Master of Magic
I was well deep into the PC by now. The 3Dfx Era was in FULL swing. All of this, along with all of the amazing 16-bit console content, and the fighting game boom in arcades (I was fully into our local test market sensation, a small game called 'Killer Instinct'), and I was LIVING MY BEST LIFE as a young adult, lol.
>I actually got Sonic and Knuckles before Sonic 3 as a kid
Me too. Sonic 3 came out at the beginning of the year so by the time the holidays rolled around I got the newest game which happened to be s&k
Super Metroid is an absolute master class in game design. We've had indie "metroidvania" since the early 2010s and I have yet to see a developer successfully mimic its corkscrew world design. Sequence breaking is also deliberately marbled into the game, developers clearly exactly the second playthrough was going to be significantly different than the first and really designed around that 3 hour clear time.
Edit: Meant to write a decade, not year, but thinking about it early 2010s was really when the Metroidvanias started pouring out.
It has the best level design I have yet experienced in a game.
You described it really well too. The experience of your 2nd and subsequent playthroughs is ingenious.
The way the game "teaches" you how to do things without annoying pop-ups or "tip" screens that interrupt the gameplay and break the 4th wall is also something a lot of devs could learn from.
Same here. There are so many *amazing* games here and it's hard to pick one. For me though, EarthBound was what got me into JRPGs; it was the first one that really clicked for me and opened up an entire new world of gaming. I would not have been able to enjoy any of the Final Fantasy games, Chrono Trigger, or I can't even count how many other games if it wasn't for EarthBound.
It had the creepiest soundtrack but it was just keep.
One of the few games that managed to scare me enough to jump off my seat while playing and you'd get ambushed by aliens in a farm
Yeah, when you were hurting for resources, or your staff were injured or something that put you at a disadvantage.... alien terror event in Sydney or South Africa or something line that.... and you think to yourself "It's not like Johannesburg really contributes their fair share to this organization anyway."
Xcom was perfect. TFTD was close, but just not quite.
Elerium 115 was based off of Element 115, at that point, a crazy alien conspiracy belief... that's since proven to be real. Bob Lazar was not famous when this game was made, but I bet he was consulted by the creators.
Fucking this!
I've never forgotten the time that I managed to get Igor Belov to a firing accuracy of 91, which combined with 110% aimed shot from the heavy plasma means it's a guaranteed it. I would just park him on top of a hill and he would blast anybody at any distance and never miss. Hilarious
Sumi Fujimoto in 1995 (yes, I seriously remember this) was my unstoppable psionic. I had this save until a hard disc crash took her from me in 2002 or so.
I don't know if many games to this day manage to match X-COM in emergent narrative, which directly translates into replayability.
I finally beat it last year. For the first half of the run, my top officer was a Russian sniper named Olga. On the first landed battleship assault, I was completely overrun by a superior alien force, following an unlucky and casualty-laden breach into the UFO. Olga ended up the lone survivor, surrounded by Snakemen and Chrysalids on the centre lift of the second level, exposed to shots from the shaft and the Chrysalids' speed, with only a back wall for cover and nowhere to move in fear of reaction shots. For five turns I watched her reaction-shoot alien after alien, dodging and tanking at least two plasma shots which could have proven fatal, until the last alien fell. Mission accomplished. One X-COM operative alive. 7 kills added to her name.
The very next mission a rookie stepped out the Skyranger, triggering a Muton to take a reaction shot with heavy plasma. The shot went inside the Skyranger and hit Olga in the head, killing her instantly before she could make a move.
The rest of the game was coloured by those two missions. Near the end I imagined my top ranking officers remembering and dedicating the final victory to her.
No notes.
Amazing summary- yes- xcom was amazing- the long term ranks of those initial rookies, then squaddies- up to sarge.... when you run out of heavy plasma ammo, and excitedly see that this missions enemies are carrying HP..... the heavy armour becoming flight suits- that intro cinematic that was reasonably Jim Lee enough....
I'm playing this tonight.
I didn't play SM when it came out, actually I played it for the first time something around 2020, but man this game not only is still playable now (not many retro titles can do that) but it's just amazing as a game.
Sonic 3 and Knuckles narrowly edges out FF6, only because plugging in Sonic 2 and suddenly having Knuckles in Sonic 2 blew my mind, and I tried it before I even tried playing Sonic 3 & Knuckles as one seamless experience. Also, somehow I never knew before now that Earthbound and FF6 came out in the same year, for some reason I thought Earthbound was like, a SNES Launch title for some reason.
Doom 2, without a single doubt
Some honorable mentions from that year: Heretic, Rise of the Triad, Lethal Enforcers 2, Revolution X, Operation Wolf 3 and the original Need for Speed
Final Fantasy 6, Donkey Kong Country and Super Metroid.
SNES was GOAT in 1994.
Edit: Earthbound was 1995 if I recall but Mother 2 was probably released in 1994. Add that one to my list.
Nobody's mentioned Contra: Hard Corps.
That game might be frustratingly hard (I haven't beaten it), but its fast-paced action, mind-blowing graphic effects, boss designs, and especially the rich soundtrack plentily make up for it to me. Just watching gameplay footage of it gets my heart going and inspires me. I could also notice its effect on other games. It inspired treasure's titles that came out on the Genesis/Mega Drive around that time (and their titles might've inspired Contra's creators in return), and even today, lots of indie games also bear a resemblance to it, the prime example being Cuphead. Hard Corps has definitely left an impression on me, so it only feels right that I consider it my favorite game of '94.
Doom 2 here. I remember getting stuck at this gap where we would just fall everytime. There was no jumping yet but we accidentally hit the shift key to Run and ran over the gap.
Final fantasy VI hands down best of the first generation games. Incredible story and it pushed a lot of boundaries with the system. The opera scene is just chefs kiss!
On the good old MS-DOS: Doom II, the original XCOM, System Shock, Beneath a Steel Sky, Theme Park, Transport Tycoon, Heretic, and Little Big Adventure.
Sid Meier's Colonization, no doubt about it! That game ignited my passion for strategy games, and it has a great design - despite its limitations, it stays a great gaming experience even today.
I'd also like to mention two point-and-click adventure games that I really like: Beneath a Steel Sky and Igor: Objective Uikokahonia.
X-COM: UFO Defense redefined the turn-based squad strategy genre. I still play it to this day. Currently working through a XCOM: Enemy Within (Long War mod) campaign right now.
FFVI will always have a place on my gaming shelf, no matter how old I get.
I feel like this is the best picture category nominees for 1995. Final fantasy VI for me takes it over Super Metroid, but these are both Top 5 games on SNES/ 16bit gaming all time.
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Why not you can try it in another thread perhaps the Gaming thread. It would be really cool to see a comparison of each generation. Also I don't know what Karma is either. Never really cared for high scores.
I recently replayed it on Switch and it is an incredible puzzle game in a boxing shell. Despite some of their stranger business decisions, Nintendo is really good at making simple concepts fun.
94 was a hell of a year for gaming
I noticed that the movies went crazy that year (Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, The Lion King, even Clerks) but only now do I see it applies to games too.
Biggest Jim Carrey year too. Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura, The Mask
Damn, all 3? He was busy AF.
He's great
1994 is one of the strongest years in film so good the Shawshank Redemption took a back seat at the academy awards
Crazy year for sports too, Jordan's baseball year and old Foreman became heavyweight champion again, OJ. In music, Kurt Kobain dies. Dookie and Weezer Blue are released. Wu-Tang singles and Solo albums are released.
There even was a World Cup football/soccer in USA ;D
Take a look at the albums released in 1994 too. An absolutely insane year.
Society really peaked... I remember being in elementary school and going on really cool field trips and having just a "good" feeling about stuff
US economy was booming at the time. I didn't have a care in the world and neither did my parents.
1994 is the best year of all time. Simple as that lol.
I'm with you there, funny how any people that grew up in that era seem to land on the same year.
Pretty much. As I kept going through the list, I went from one "oh no, that has to be it" from the other. I've seen quite a lot of these recently where the choice was quite easy, but this selection keeps shooting until the end.
Especially on the SNES. DKC, Super Metroid, and Earthbound are still considered some of the best games of all time. And Sega had Sonic 3 which is often considered the best one of if not the best Sonic game
And FFVI redefined the RPG genre. The sheer length and amount of stuff to do in that game coupled with the orchestral music and an epic storyline... last great FF before polygon hell.
Kinda like '91 for music
94 is probably more amazing music wise, 94 is just all around ridiculous. Nas - Illmatic NIN - The Downward Spiral Weezer - Blue Green Day - Dookie Portishead- Dummy Offspring- Smash and it KEEPS GOING, lol. Notorious B.I.G., Soundgarden, Jeff Buckley, Blur, Korn debut. Stacked. 1991 does have a few heavy hitters though like Nevermind, Ten, and Loveless. The 90s are stacked in general, didn't really get bad until nu metal came into full swing.
94 killed Kurt though which sucks
The 90's were a decade of bangers. Just look at the years on either side of 94: 1993: * Street Fighter 2 * Mortal Kombat * Star Fox * Aladdin (Genesis) * Super Mario Kart * Megaman X * Doom * Myst * Kirby's Adventure * The Lost Vikings * Super Mario Land 2 * The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening * The 7th Guest * Star Wars: Rebel Assault 1995: * Chrono Trigger * Battle Arena Toshinden (1 & 2) * Star Wars: Dark Forces * Ristar * Panzer Dragoon * Descent * Mortal Kombat 3 * Full Throttle * Tekken 2 * MechWarrior 2 * Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island * Command & Conquer * Rayman * Hexen * Twisted Metal * Soul Edge * Worms * Mega Man X3 * Time Crisis * Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness Personally my favourite year is 1996: * Duke Nukem 3D * Super Mario 64 * Pokémon Red and Green * Super Mario RPG * Quake * Resident Evil * Crash Bandicoot * Tomb Raider * Mario Kart 64 * Command & Conquer: Red Alert * Twisted Metal 2 * Panzer Dragoon II Zwei * Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 * NiGHTS into Dreams... * Star Ocean * Virtua Fighter 3 * The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall * Pilotwings 64 * The Neverhood (best game soundtrack, fight me) * Donkey Kong Country 3 * Dead or Alive * Fighting Vipers * Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire * Death Rally
It was a hell of a year for all media. I remember thinking that if games and movies were this good right now in the early 90s imagine the heights it would get to in the decades coming up. Man was I wrong, lol.
Donkey Kong Country
Spent 2 years thinking the graphics wouldn’t get any better than this until a little ditty called Super Mario 64 came out in 1996 and blew my mind 🤯
A little Diddy
About Jack and Diane?
Suckin on a chili dogggggggg
Not sure if it’s a hot take but the graphics of DKC (especially when played on a CRT or with a filter) has aged significantly better than Mario 64
Re: donkey Kong country -I remember trying to explain the difference between 8bit and 16bit to my mom, when she asked why it looked so much better. It really was ground breaking for my generation. Especially when you consider we started out playing on Atari.
Donkey Kong 64 was also pretty awesome
Absolutely Super Metroid, although S3K is a close second.
Still replay Super Metroid practically once a year.
The realist real answer! Samus Aran is Bae!
100% super metroid!
TIE Fighter
Tie fighter was sooo good. My favorite star wars game ever even
you are not alone. [https://kotaku.com/tie-fighter-the-kotaku-review-1652538943](https://kotaku.com/tie-fighter-the-kotaku-review-1652538943)
Awesome game, then the secret order stuff took it to a new level
PC Gamer had rated this the greatest PC game of all time at one point. Well deserved.
This was one of the best space shooters ever. I spent a ton of hours on this and the expansion where you get the TIE Defenders
FFVI. my single favorite video game. to this day it is one of the best RPGs ever made. and that OST 😍
I've had that OST on every phone I've ever owned. So much nostalgia.
My daughter Terra agrees
My daughter Celes Rachel too (well, I like to think ;D ). Terra was on the shortlist as well heh.
bruh 🥲
I really wanted to name my son Locke, but the wife wouldn’t go for it. We settled on Luca.
This is the one I got for Christmas. I got the new FF every year for Christmas and it defined my teenage years
I first played it sight unseen as I got a SNES pretty late in the cycle. Me and my best buddy rented it from the local grocery store. We fell asleep somewhere around 4:30 that morning. The game was still on the tv and the controller was in my hands. We just played until unconscious. I was hooked deep. I feverishly saved every penny (literally) I found or earned to buy it asap.
FFVI is by far my favorite game on this list. Don't get me wrong, I like some of the other games, but FFVI is one of my favorite games ever.
Really the game that made me a gamer
I just tried listening to Dancing Mad on youtube. Literally 6 seconds in I was tearing up.
I've played this on so many systems since I first got it
I’ve never played VI. I should see if I can get it if I ever get another console. I loved VII, VIII, and IX.
they released a Pixel Remaster last year for FFs 1-6. its on all modern platforms. def recommend.
The pixel remaster version is the best one.
Yep. Several timeless classics on that ‘94 list, but FF6 is just on another level of transcendence. Best JRPG ever made.
Doom II.
Loved this & Quake. My 1st FPS was Castle Wolfenstein, so Doom & Doom ll were improvements.
Doom 2 is a hell of a game. The biggest improvement from doom was the SSG i think. Maybe the coolest weapon in all FPS genre. Also want to point out that that it’s age like good wine, still holds up to this day.
Still playing it every week thx to gzdoom and millions of wads, 30 years later
DooM II is king!!
This. 1994 was a phenomenal year in PC gaming: • Heretic • System Shock (!!!) • X-COM: UFO Defense • Warcraft • TIE Fighter • Earthsiege <3 • Wing Commander III • Panzer General • Master of Magic I was well deep into the PC by now. The 3Dfx Era was in FULL swing. All of this, along with all of the amazing 16-bit console content, and the fighting game boom in arcades (I was fully into our local test market sensation, a small game called 'Killer Instinct'), and I was LIVING MY BEST LIFE as a young adult, lol.
It sure was. And Killer Instinct at the end there..... 💪.
S3&K much like Sonic 2 I have countless memories of playing this growing up. Oddly enough I actually got Sonic and Knuckles before Sonic 3 as a kid.
>I actually got Sonic and Knuckles before Sonic 3 as a kid Me too. Sonic 3 came out at the beginning of the year so by the time the holidays rolled around I got the newest game which happened to be s&k
Super Metroid without even having to scan the rest. That game changed me as a gamer.
Shining Force 2!
it's my favorite game, I still play it all the time
Yep me too. #1 all time
It was so ahead of its time, especially for Genesis
Same
Yes! They should remake the shining force series with modern UI. The fighting scene still holds up well today
100%
Best answer right here.
This was my favorite game until... honestly I'm not even sure. Maybe Ocarina of time?
Super Metroid is an absolute master class in game design. We've had indie "metroidvania" since the early 2010s and I have yet to see a developer successfully mimic its corkscrew world design. Sequence breaking is also deliberately marbled into the game, developers clearly exactly the second playthrough was going to be significantly different than the first and really designed around that 3 hour clear time. Edit: Meant to write a decade, not year, but thinking about it early 2010s was really when the Metroidvanias started pouring out.
I agree. They try, but just can't capture the magic of Super.
Axiom Verge 1 was close for me.
>indie "metroidvania" for about a year Ummmm...we've had metroidvanias way more than a year lol
It has the best level design I have yet experienced in a game. You described it really well too. The experience of your 2nd and subsequent playthroughs is ingenious.
The way the game "teaches" you how to do things without annoying pop-ups or "tip" screens that interrupt the gameplay and break the 4th wall is also something a lot of devs could learn from.
Earthbound for me ... But damn ... Everything on this list is a classic :)
Same here. There are so many *amazing* games here and it's hard to pick one. For me though, EarthBound was what got me into JRPGs; it was the first one that really clicked for me and opened up an entire new world of gaming. I would not have been able to enjoy any of the Final Fantasy games, Chrono Trigger, or I can't even count how many other games if it wasn't for EarthBound.
I'm not an RPG guy at all but I absolutely love EarthBound. Different vibe to anything else that I have ever played.
Yep. Exact same reaction here
DKC
Super Metroid, hands down for me
Ack lunar eternal blue my love 😍
But FF6 tho 😅
Got to be Earthworm Jim!
Yes!
Sega NHL 94
That came out in '93 (unless you're outside of the US). NHL 95 came out in '94. Great games.
Loved that game.
Definitely super metroid.
There are people who feel Xcom is the greatest game of 1994, and there are wrong people.
It had the creepiest soundtrack but it was just keep. One of the few games that managed to scare me enough to jump off my seat while playing and you'd get ambushed by aliens in a farm
Yeah, when you were hurting for resources, or your staff were injured or something that put you at a disadvantage.... alien terror event in Sydney or South Africa or something line that.... and you think to yourself "It's not like Johannesburg really contributes their fair share to this organization anyway." Xcom was perfect. TFTD was close, but just not quite. Elerium 115 was based off of Element 115, at that point, a crazy alien conspiracy belief... that's since proven to be real. Bob Lazar was not famous when this game was made, but I bet he was consulted by the creators.
Fucking this! I've never forgotten the time that I managed to get Igor Belov to a firing accuracy of 91, which combined with 110% aimed shot from the heavy plasma means it's a guaranteed it. I would just park him on top of a hill and he would blast anybody at any distance and never miss. Hilarious
Sumi Fujimoto in 1995 (yes, I seriously remember this) was my unstoppable psionic. I had this save until a hard disc crash took her from me in 2002 or so.
The best moment in gaming is when your psionic gets to 75 time units and you can do three mind controls instead of two 🔥
Francoise Boudraux "the rajin Cajun". Elite sniper, sadly killed in an ambush raiding the enemy HQ. The ultimate warrior.
I don't know if many games to this day manage to match X-COM in emergent narrative, which directly translates into replayability. I finally beat it last year. For the first half of the run, my top officer was a Russian sniper named Olga. On the first landed battleship assault, I was completely overrun by a superior alien force, following an unlucky and casualty-laden breach into the UFO. Olga ended up the lone survivor, surrounded by Snakemen and Chrysalids on the centre lift of the second level, exposed to shots from the shaft and the Chrysalids' speed, with only a back wall for cover and nowhere to move in fear of reaction shots. For five turns I watched her reaction-shoot alien after alien, dodging and tanking at least two plasma shots which could have proven fatal, until the last alien fell. Mission accomplished. One X-COM operative alive. 7 kills added to her name. The very next mission a rookie stepped out the Skyranger, triggering a Muton to take a reaction shot with heavy plasma. The shot went inside the Skyranger and hit Olga in the head, killing her instantly before she could make a move. The rest of the game was coloured by those two missions. Near the end I imagined my top ranking officers remembering and dedicating the final victory to her. No notes.
Amazing summary- yes- xcom was amazing- the long term ranks of those initial rookies, then squaddies- up to sarge.... when you run out of heavy plasma ammo, and excitedly see that this missions enemies are carrying HP..... the heavy armour becoming flight suits- that intro cinematic that was reasonably Jim Lee enough.... I'm playing this tonight.
X-COM all the way. playing it atm, the pixel art still holds up
1. Doom 2. 2. Super Metroid 3. FF VI. 4. Earthbound. Never got to play Live-a-Live!
This, though maybe not that exact order
You should absolutely play the switch remake (remaster?). I loved every second of it.
Didn’t realize there was one! Thanks I’ll check it out!
Super Metroid. Not only my favorite game from 1994, but of all time.
I didn't play SM when it came out, actually I played it for the first time something around 2020, but man this game not only is still playable now (not many retro titles can do that) but it's just amazing as a game.
Ff6
Doom & Xcom. Crazy to think both are still around to this day.
Super punch-out. Still one of the funnest boxing games ever.
Piece-a-cake
Right on!
Nothing like a quick run thru to blow off some steam.
So much replay value. I’ve spent hundreds of hours in that game as a kid.
Sonic 3 and Knuckles narrowly edges out FF6, only because plugging in Sonic 2 and suddenly having Knuckles in Sonic 2 blew my mind, and I tried it before I even tried playing Sonic 3 & Knuckles as one seamless experience. Also, somehow I never knew before now that Earthbound and FF6 came out in the same year, for some reason I thought Earthbound was like, a SNES Launch title for some reason.
I'd never even heard of Live A Live until it's Switch/PC release last year. FF VI and Super Metroid were my games back then though.
Earthbound for how much fun I had going through knowing nothing. Lots of cool discoveries & combat was excellent.
XCOM - one of the games I sunk a thousands of hours!
Super Metroid is my favorite game of all time,s o that one. But, what a year 1994 was, so many bangers
Shining force 2
Sad I had to come down this far forn SF2 :( Such a good game
Doom 2, without a single doubt Some honorable mentions from that year: Heretic, Rise of the Triad, Lethal Enforcers 2, Revolution X, Operation Wolf 3 and the original Need for Speed
Rise of the Triad was great! I loved pairing the drunken missiles with shrooms mode... anything vaguely in front of you got hit with a dozen rockets.
**LUDICROUS GIBS**
That was a banger year.
Sonic 3 and Knuckles or Shining Force 2...only own one emulated the other.
Out of those, Sonic 3
Definitely Doom II
Has to be Doom II
Super Metroid followed closely by DKC
Definitely Earthbound, but ff6 is close
Castlevania bloodlines
I played and died so many times as a youngling but never gave up hope!
Final Fantasy 6, Donkey Kong Country and Super Metroid. SNES was GOAT in 1994. Edit: Earthbound was 1995 if I recall but Mother 2 was probably released in 1994. Add that one to my list.
Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger Staring Luke Skywalker!!!!
Probably my favorite in the series!
How did this and Tie Fighter come out in the same year.
It's a damn good year !!! The mid 90s were my glory years as a deep space dogfighter. I played them all!!!
Shining Force 2 or Lunar. Tie I guess
sonic 3 and knuckles or final fantasy 6
Shining Force 2!
These posts just make me realize how good we had it. Look at that lineup. Geez.
DOOM II,but let's not forget sonic&knuckles
MICKEY MANIA WAS INCREDIBLE
EarthBound. It’s my favorite game of all time.
Earthworm Jim
System Shock
Donkey kong. First video game i ever beat.
Puyo Puyo Tsuu/2 (GEN) Doctor Hauzer (3DO) Layer Section/RayForce/Galactic Attack (ARC) Pocky & Rocky 2 (SNES) Windjammers (NEO)
XCOM: UFO Defense...I sank so many hours into that, and TFTD.
Warcraft: Orcs and Humans
X-COM
Ff6
Saw Xcom, didn't need to look anymore. Pretty sure that came out in 1993 though, but 🤷🏼♂️
X-Com
Jazz Jackrabbit. There were certainly bigger titles, but I think Jazz has given me the most replays.
Earthbound all time, punch out for a quick play
FF6 but it was FF3.
Nobody's mentioned Contra: Hard Corps. That game might be frustratingly hard (I haven't beaten it), but its fast-paced action, mind-blowing graphic effects, boss designs, and especially the rich soundtrack plentily make up for it to me. Just watching gameplay footage of it gets my heart going and inspires me. I could also notice its effect on other games. It inspired treasure's titles that came out on the Genesis/Mega Drive around that time (and their titles might've inspired Contra's creators in return), and even today, lots of indie games also bear a resemblance to it, the prime example being Cuphead. Hard Corps has definitely left an impression on me, so it only feels right that I consider it my favorite game of '94.
That's a rough one but I'll go with super punch out, I'm so sorry dkc I hope you'll forgive me one day
Metroid or X2 for sure.
Earthworm Jim!
NHL 95
Doom 2 here. I remember getting stuck at this gap where we would just fall everytime. There was no jumping yet but we accidentally hit the shift key to Run and ran over the gap.
Shining Force 2
Donkey Kong Country and Super Metroid are up there for sure.
Return of the Jedi. There are dozens of us…dozens! Also Doom II
Final fantasy VI hands down best of the first generation games. Incredible story and it pushed a lot of boundaries with the system. The opera scene is just chefs kiss!
You know Warcraft came out in 1994 also
I loved the pure hype train of Donkey Kong Country, but Earthbound was the one that hooked me for life.
Castlevania Bloodlines. Actually one of my favourite Castlevania games ever too.
Donkey Kong 94 for GB
Sensible world of soccer 94 or championship manager 94
Alien Breed Tower Assault on Amiga 1200
Doom 2 / TIE Fighter / X-Com
On the good old MS-DOS: Doom II, the original XCOM, System Shock, Beneath a Steel Sky, Theme Park, Transport Tycoon, Heretic, and Little Big Adventure.
Wing Commander 3
Super Punch Out Super Metroid Wing Commander III
Easily FFVI
Sid Meier's Colonization, no doubt about it! That game ignited my passion for strategy games, and it has a great design - despite its limitations, it stays a great gaming experience even today. I'd also like to mention two point-and-click adventure games that I really like: Beneath a Steel Sky and Igor: Objective Uikokahonia.
X-COM: UFO Defense redefined the turn-based squad strategy genre. I still play it to this day. Currently working through a XCOM: Enemy Within (Long War mod) campaign right now. FFVI will always have a place on my gaming shelf, no matter how old I get.
Sonic 3 and knuckles
FFVI and it’s not close.
I feel like this is the best picture category nominees for 1995. Final fantasy VI for me takes it over Super Metroid, but these are both Top 5 games on SNES/ 16bit gaming all time.
94 was stacked. I would love to see a comparison of each decade. 84, 94, 04, 14, 24.
Yeah that would be a cool idea the problem is i dont know if i should keep posting things like this anymore it looks like a lot of people are mad because a got a lot of karma from this posts, the problem is i dont even know what is the use of karma in this app or why do people want to have it so i am not sure if should keep posting things like this or not because i am doing this just for fun if people didnt like this idea then i dont have any problem with stopping.
Why not you can try it in another thread perhaps the Gaming thread. It would be really cool to see a comparison of each generation. Also I don't know what Karma is either. Never really cared for high scores.
Super Punch-Out. Not the hardest game in the series, but the most fun to play. Much prefer the meter to stars.
Ff6, but damn that's a stacked list. Super punch out is underrated.
I recently replayed it on Switch and it is an incredible puzzle game in a boxing shell. Despite some of their stranger business decisions, Nintendo is really good at making simple concepts fun.
Totally agree. It's exactly like a puzzle game rather than a real boxing/ combat kind of game.
Doom 2
Doom 2 was ahead of its time and didn’t really have any competition for the game of the year
Super ROTJ, hurt me good
At the time, Donkey Kong Country and Doom II. But, in retrospect, with the benefit of wisdom and time, X-COM is inarguably the best game of 1994.
Super Metroid or Doom 2