Greatest Video Game Draft 2011 (5 Viewers)

[Andy Dufresne]

26.11 - Super Sprint (1986) - Racing/Arcade

A fairly simple racing game with nice clean graphics, up to three players could drive simultaneously on a circuit against each other or against cars controlled by the computer. The circuits are viewed from above and always fit on the screen, so the game never scrolls. After three laps the winner advances to the next circuit. There were 8 circuits in total, but the game only ends if gamers can get to race 85 where the bonus Super Speedway circuit is played. As the player goes to higher levels, more and more obstacles appeared on the track, like oil puddles and tiny moving tornadoes. If the car touched them, the player lost control over the car for a short time while it is sliding and spinning. Driving into a wall with high speed or falling from one of the bridges destroyed the car, but a helicopter quickly appeared to replace it. You could customize your car by collecting wrenches that lay on the track. The player could exchange three of them for improved traction, better acceleration or handling.

27.03


- Fighting/Apple II

 

[BlueDredSo]

26.01 - Borderlands - Xbox 360 - 7th Generation

 

[bmarks6161]

26 - MLB '09 The Show - PS3 - Sports (Move Golden Tee to arcade)

27 - Bioshock 2 - XBOX 360 - Flex

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Why do we have rules if we are not going to follow them. The atari 2600 Pac-Man is a port. It was horrible, but the original content was to be just like the arcade except the limitations of the hardware made it so it was not possible.

Can you explain why the map is different?I get that the hardware required the flashing ghosts, but the fact that you are navigating a different map in my mind makes it a different game, not a port. You wouldn't call Ms. Pac-Man a port of Pac-Man, would you?

 

[SlaX]

Why do we have rules if we are not going to follow them. The atari 2600 Pac-Man is a port. It was horrible, but the original content was to be just like the arcade except the limitations of the hardware made it so it was not possible. So they had to cut corners and make changes. This happens all the time with ports. Its just the Pac-Man one was the worst possibly ever attempted. This would open up hundreds of other ported games for everyone even though your not allowed to dfrat them.

It wasn't due to hardware limitations. Wikipedia may say that, but that's not why the game was bad. If it was, then why was Ms Pac-man light years better? Answer: They looked at what he had after 3 or so weeks and saw what he did "alpha build" and said "that's good enough, let's ship that" and did. With the name "Pac-Man" on the box, they thought they could do no wrong. Truth is that Tod gave them the alpha build and told them it wasn't ready and they turned around and sold that. It wasn't the final game. It had nothing to do with hardware limitations. That's just the PR BS that people bought into in the 80's and still drag into today. There are several books written by those who actually were in the business and they tell the real story. You should read them. The stuff that anyone can edit on Wikipedia isn't always the truth, ya know.

 

[BlueDredSo]

27.13 - Star Fox - Super Nintendo - Flex

 

[SlaX]

"My name is Ezio Auditore da Firenze, and like my father and grandfathers before me, I am an Assassin." Ezio Auditore da Firenze.

26.05 Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Main Character

Ezio Auditore is the main character* of both Assassin's Creed 2 and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. Adding very much other info would spoil the game, so I'll leave it at that, but I will leave you with the following videos below. I hope they will not spoil too much. I hope they help introduce you to Ezio, if you are not yet familiar.

*Spoiler

Desmond Miles is technically the main character of the Assassin's Creed games, however you play as Ezio Auditore for the majority of the time in game as you are in the animus. Most players of the game still don't relate or care about Desmond, therefore, I'm counting Ezio as the main character.

*** SPOILER ALERT! Click this link to display the potential spoiler text in this box. ***");document.close();Ezio Welcomes you -

 

[Andy Dufresne]

27.13 - Star Fox - Super Nintendo - Flex

Cool game for that platform.

 

[SlaX]

And for my final pick of the draft, and certainly the least...

27.09 Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, 3DO, Worst Thing To Be Released and Actually Called a Game

Ok, I know. This one is probably too obscure for most of you to have heard of, so bare with me. It's crap-tastic. And you know I'm gonna explain and show you why. First, let's look at the game box.

Game Box Art

"Plays like a game... feels like a MOVIE!!!"

The front of the box says that it features: A Plumber, which is good, since the name IS "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties". A Daddy's Girl. Chickens. Crazed Yuppies, can't have a game without those. Evil Bosses, there has to be a villain in the game, right. Shower Scenes, so that's gotta be fun. And Race Cars.

The back of the box says:

"Plumbers have everything: Greed, sex, spirituality, white-knuckled chases, shameful propositions, a nun, humor, true love, jaded love, taut action, comedy, a bad guy, a good guy, a hero, spine-tingling suspense, a hot babe, a damsel in distress, and a hollywood ending!"

Now. The game. Who better to give a demonstration of this pile of trash than the Angry Video Game Nerd, himself. Take it away, James.

AVGN Review of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties - http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-vi...rewattack/52921 (As always, AVGN is NSFW due to language) - Review starts around 3:30, he reviews the 3DO a bit first

And a BONUS treat. You can play this game now for yourself in its entirety for free! Yes Free! On YouTube! Here's the link to the start of the game:

(I should be a disclaimer here: This game is rated M for Mature. There's no nudity (sorry), but it's also probably NSFW.)

 

[wazoo11]

Flex Video Game(1) Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven (PC) Flex

"The game was well received by critics and gamers upon release as a more realistic and serious Grand Theft Auto-styled game. Such was the realism that unless a mission was timed, many found that actually obeying the road rules proved to be faster than speeding, as the latter would more likely result in accidents and injuries. Mafia contains a much bigger city to explore than most video games of the time, with multiple forms of available transport in addition to an expansive countryside. IGN gave the game a rating of 9.2/10 while GameSpot described the PC version as "one of the best games of the year". and rated it at 9.3/10.Game Informer compared it favorably to Grand Theft Auto III, and said, "From the living city in which you reside, to the incredibly realistic vehicles, this title has the heart and soul of a blockbuster".

Flex Video Game(2) Socom II: US Navy SEALs( PS2) Flex

 

[BlueDredSo]

27.13 - Star Fox - Super Nintendo - Flex

Cool game for that platform.

I couldn't believe no version of it was drafted whatsoever...Very happy with that as my last pick.

 

[biggamer3]

Dirt 2 360 Racing- very good racing game with great reviews

Syphon Filter- Playstation Flex. I absolutely loved playing this game 10 years ago, was a lot of fun

 

[biggamer3]

Mad props to Madshot and all the others who made this draft fun and all

Good stuff here, another reason why FBG is the bomb

 

[SlaX]

Final Draft Line-up:

SlaX

Arcade(1) NBA Jam TE (4.05) - write-up - video

Arcade(2) Daytona USA (14.05) - write-up -

We'll see how that squad fares. I'm happy with it either way. Other than Worst Game, I'd be happy to be stuck playing these games for the rest of my life.

 

[SlaX]

I would like to thank Madshot for an awesome draft. He did a super job of organizing, editting and still participating and keeping up to make his own picks. It really was the Greatest Video Game Draft!

 

[BlueDredSo]

Ditto. Madshot did an awesome job with this thing. I haven't participated in any of the other drafts in here, but it went really smoothly. Thumbs up to all the drafters as well for making that happen.

 

[madshot31]

26.04 Chrono Cross27.10 New Super Mario Bros. Wii

Is NSMB the same as the DS version?

 

[SlaX]

26.04 Chrono Cross27.10 New Super Mario Bros. Wii

Is NSMB the same as the DS version?

The Wii version has 4 player co-op. It's different. It's not the same game. Great party game.

 

[Worm]

And a BONUS treat. You can play this game now for yourself in its entirety for free! Yes Free! On YouTube! Here's the link to the start of the game:

I paused about 50 seconds into the clip and wondered why you didn't select this game in the "best game ever" category...

 

[SlaX]

And a BONUS treat. You can play this game now for yourself in its entirety for free! Yes Free! On YouTube! Here's the link to the start of the game:

lol. If only it was as good as the first clip.

 

[pollardsvision]

My last 2 picks

Wayne's World (NES) Worst Game

Phoenix, final boss in Phoenix (arcade) Villain

(First ever arcade game boss)

 

[pollardsvision]

This thread caused me to go out and pick up the Ultimate Genesis Collection for the PS3. $17 for 40 Genesis games, including 6 Sonic games, Phantasy Star 1-4, Streets of Rage 1-3, Golden Axe 1-3, and much more.

We'll see how it plays, but it seems like a steal. I wanted to get something the wife might want to play so she won't hate my PS3 so much (she loved old school platformers, but has no interest in any new games). I can check out a bunch of these games that I never played back in the day.

 

[SlaX]

Ok. So the missing picks are rikishiboy x3 and Yo Mama x2.

Is that all?

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Would it be okay to start discussing games that weren't picked yet? I know there's five picks to go, but does it really matter much?

 

[madshot31]

Ok. So the missing picks are rikishiboy x3 and Yo Mama x2.

Is that all?

Yes. Although I have 8 spots left on the category charts so I'm missing 3 selections somewhere. Check if your games are in each category people.

Would it be okay to start discussing games that weren't picked yet? I know there's five picks to go, but does it really matter much?

Go for it.

 

[larry_boy_44]

26.04 Chrono Cross27.10 New Super Mario Bros. Wii

Is NSMB the same as the DS version?

no, its just the same "idea"...NSMB Wii is 4-player simultaneous old-school Mario... think Super Mario World meets the original Mario Bros. game but with Wii-level graphics and 4 players instead of 2...

 

[rick6668]

Why do we have rules if we are not going to follow them. The atari 2600 Pac-Man is a port. It was horrible, but the original content was to be just like the arcade except the limitations of the hardware made it so it was not possible. So they had to cut corners and make changes. This happens all the time with ports. Its just the Pac-Man one was the worst possibly ever attempted. This would open up hundreds of other ported games for everyone even though your not allowed to dfrat them.

It wasn't due to hardware limitations. Wikipedia may say that, but that's not why the game was bad. If it was, then why was Ms Pac-man light years better? Answer: They looked at what he had after 3 or so weeks and saw what he did "alpha build" and said "that's good enough, let's ship that" and did. With the name "Pac-Man" on the box, they thought they could do no wrong. Truth is that Tod gave them the alpha build and told them it wasn't ready and they turned around and sold that. It wasn't the final game. It had nothing to do with hardware limitations. That's just the PR BS that people bought into in the 80's and still drag into today. There are several books written by those who actually were in the business and they tell the real story. You should read them. The stuff that anyone can edit on Wikipedia isn't always the truth, ya know.

One thing is that Atari didn't want to spend the extra money on an 8K cartridge which was now available, so they required a 4K cartridge to be used. The Ms. Pac Man cart used the 8K version. The main problem was that it was rushed to market.The Ms. Pacman atari 2600 version was a port and I don't think anyone would disagree with that even though the maze was different as well although closer to the original and the dots were wafers just like the 2600 Pacman.

I'm not in this draft nor am I a judge, but I think this is a port. A horrible port, but a port none the less. People bought this game expecting it to be a port, not some new different pacman game. There were some other horrible ports on the 2600 as well, but they're still ports. (I.E. Defender, and others I didn't want to spotlight)

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Games on my shortlist:

Wave Race 64

Anything Wing Commander. Wasn't this a hugely popular PC game series?

Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2/Republic Commando: All really fun & simple multi player games. And Commando isn't a too bad campaign either.

Some Apple games I liked:

Taipan!

Hardball!

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

Arcade Games

Time Pilot

Burgertime

Qix

Mach 3

 

[Yo Mama]

26.08 - Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (DS) - puzzle

27.06 - Total Annihilation (PC) - Multiplayer

Great draft everyone.

 

[Big 'N Tasty]

26.08 - Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (DS) - puzzle

27.06 - Total Annihilation (PC) - Multiplayer

Great draft everyone.

Loved Total Annihilation. Great game.

 

[AcerFC]

This thread caused me to go out and pick up the Ultimate Genesis Collection for the PS3. $17 for 40 Genesis games, including 6 Sonic games, Phantasy Star 1-4, Streets of Rage 1-3, Golden Axe 1-3, and much more.We'll see how it plays, but it seems like a steal. I wanted to get something the wife might want to play so she won't hate my PS3 so much (she loved old school platformers, but has no interest in any new games). I can check out a bunch of these games that I never played back in the day.

Was this a hard purchase or PSN store

 

[madshot31]

All right, figured out what was not entered in yet. Only thing left is rikishiboy's 3 picks. If you want a category moved now would be the time.

 

[SlaX]

Here is what's left on my list in the order I had them down in the categories they were in. If I left something on the list that was picked, oh well. I may have missed it, but I didn't pick it. Warning. It's long:

Arcade (2 picks)

My Picks: NBA Jam TE (1993), Daytona USA (1993)

Donkey Kong Jr (1982)

Kung-Fu Master

Track and Field (1983)

WWF Superstars (1989)

WWF Wrestlefest (1991)

Mat Mania (1985) [AKA Exciting Hour Wrestling]

After Burner (1987)

TMNT (1989)

Rampage (1986)

Ghosts n' Goblins (1985)

Zaxxon (1987)

Tron (1982)

Missile Command (1980)

Burgertime (1982)

Vanguard (1981)

Atari games

Yars Revenge

Adventure

Third Generation (1983-1990)

My Pick: Mega Man 2

Ninja Gaiden

Batman (NES)

Maniac Mansion (PC)

TMNT 2: The Arcade Game (NES)

Super Dodge Ball

Nintendo World Cup

Fourth Generation (1987-1995)

My Pick: Super Metroid

Super Castlevania IV

WWF Raw

WWF Royal Rumble

Super Punch-Out!!

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest

Contra 3

Day of the Tenticle (PC 1993)

Sensible World of Soccer (PC 1992)

SimCity (PC 1989)

Adventures of Batman & Robin

Super Star Wars (or sequels)

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Contra Hard Corps (Genesis)

Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Gameboy)

Metroid 2 (Gameboy)

Fifth Generation (1993-2001)

My Pick: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Star Wars: X-Wing (PC 1993)

Star Wars: X-Wing vs TIE Fighter (PC 1997)

Fallout (PC 1997)

WWF No Mercy (N64)

WWF Wrestlemania 2000 (N64)

Paper Mario (N64)

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (PC/N64 1996)

GTA / GTA 2 (PC)

Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Seasons (Gameboy Color)

Tempest 2000 (Jaguar)

Sixth Generation (1998-2009)

My Pick: Half-Life 2 (PC 2004)

Pikmin 2 / Pikmin

Super Mario Sunshine

Psychonauts

Kingdom Hearts 2

Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap

Metroid Fusion

Metroid Zero Mission

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GC)

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (PC)

Seventh Generation (2005-Present)

My Pick: Assassin's Creed II

Rock Band 3

Halo: Reach

Mass Effect

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

Battlefield: Bad Company 2

inFamous

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Shadow Complex

Castle Crashers

Geometry Wars Evolved

Super Meat Boy

Crysis

FIFA 10

Splinter Cell: Conviction

Dead Rising 2

Rachet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time

Metroid: Other M

Left 4 Dead (PC)

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow

Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

Professor Layton and the Curious Village

Plants vs Zombies

Shatter

Torchlight

Trine

NCAA® Basketball 10

FPS/3PS

My Pick: Counterstrike: Source

Battlefield 1942

Team Fortress (Classic)

Duke Nukem 3D

Doom II

Quake II

Crysis

GTA Vice City

Just Cause 2

Call of Duty 2

Tom Clancy's Rainbox Six (Vegas)

Uncharted

Rachet & Clank

Halo 2

Thief: The Dark Project / Thief 2

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (PC/N64 1996)

Armed & Dangerous

Sports

My Pick: NBA 2K11

WWF No Mercy

NCAA Basketball 10 / College Hoops 2K8

Track & Field

NFL Blitz

Mario Strikers Charged (Wii)

Sensible World of Soccer (Amiga/PC)

Virtua Tennis (Dreamcast)

Super Dodge Ball

Ice Hockey (NES)

Nintendo World Cup

Strategy/RTS

My Pick: SimCity 2000

SimCity

Age of Empires

Company of Heroes

Rome Total War

Warcraft III

Sins of a Solar Empire

Plants vs Zombies

Empire Earth 2

Worms Armageddon (PC 1999)

Racing

My Pick: Forza Motorsport 3 (X360)

NASCAR Racing 2003 Season (Papyrus, PC)

Project Gotham Racing (XBox)

Split/Second (X360)

F-Zero GX (GC)

Trackmania Forever (PC 2007)

Driver (PSX)

Wipeout XL (PSX)

Ridge Racer Type 4 (PSX)

Puzzle

My Pick: Peggle

Professor Layton and the Curious Village

World of Goo

Lemmings

Pikmin 2

Pipe Dream (Pipe Mania)

Hexic

Luxor 3

Zuma

Trine

Lumines

Puzzle Quest 2

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo

Columns

Qix

Bust-a-Move

Fighter

My Pick: Super Street Fighter 4

Action/Adventure

My Pick: 1.09 Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Shadow Complex

Splinter Cell Conviction

Tomb Raider

inFamous

Mirror's Edge

Metroid: Other M

Prototype

Platformer

My Pick: New Super Mario Bros

Metroid Fusion

Metroid Zero Mission

Metroid: Other M

Super Castlevania IV

Super Paper Mario

Rachet & Clank

Splosion Man

Shadow Complex

Commander Keen

Hack and Slash/Beat 'em Up

My Pick: Diablo 2

Double Dragon 2

Devil May Cry 3

Streets of Rage 2

Castle Crashers

Kung-Fu Master

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game

Bayonetta

Splatterhouse

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows

Viewtiful Joe

The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai

Spiderman: Shattered Dimensions

Final Fight

Batman Returns

Renegade

Role Playing

My Pick: Fallout 2

Fallout

Mass Effect

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

Ultima VII: The Black Gate

Super Paper Mario

The Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind - PC

Dragon Age Origins

Torchlight

Lufia and the Fortress of Doom

Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals

Suspense/Horror

My Pick: Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

American McGee's Alice

Doom 2 / Doom 3

Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly / Fatal Frame

FEAR

Alone In The Dark (original)

Left 4 Dead

The 7th Guest

Ripper (PC CDROM Game)

Phantasmagoria (PC CDROM Game)

Best Multiplayer

My Pick: Team Fortress 2

Battlefield 1942 / Bad Company 2

Team Fortress (Classic)

Left 4 Dead

Halo 2

Monster Hunter Tri (Wii)

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Tribes 2

Mario Party 2

Wii Sports Resort

Far Cry 2

Best Story

My Pick: Grim Fandango

Mass Effect

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Best Main Character (2 picks)

My Picks: Pac Man [Pac-Man], Ezio Auditore da Firenze [Assassin's Creed 2/Brotherhood]

Marcus Fenix [Gears of War]

Sam Fisher [Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell]

Ryu Hayabusa [Ninja Gaiden]

Kirby [Kirby's Adventure]

Alucard [Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse]

HK-47 [star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic]

Dirk the Daring [Dragon's Lair]

Manny Calavera [Grim Fandango]

Leon Kennedy [Resident Evil 2]

Liu Kang [Mortal Kombat]

Fox McCloud [star Fox]

Ms. Pac-Man [Ms Pac-Man]

Best Villain (2 picks)

My Picks: Dracula [Castlevania], Joker [batman Arkham Asylum]

Ridley [Metroid]

Shao Kahn [Mortal Kombat]

Sarah Louise Kerrigan [starCraft]

Darth Vader [super Star Wars, Force Unleashed, Force Unleashed II, Star Wars Empire at War, etc]

General RAAM [Gears of War]

Saren Arterius [Mass Effect]

Lavos [Chrono Trigger]

Liquid Snake [Metal Gear Solid]

Darth Malak [star Wars: KotOR]

The Master [Fallout]

Dr Breen [Half-Life 2]

Carmen Sandiego

Cesare Borgia [Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]

Rodrigo Borgia [Assassin's Creed 2]

Skorge [Gears of War 2]

Sweet Tooth [Twisted Metal]

Harbinger [Mass Effect 2]

Gruntilda [banjo-Kazooie]

Kane [Command & Conquer]

Worst Game

My Pick: Plumbers Don't Wear Ties (3DO)

Action 52 (NES)

Link: The Faces of Evil (CDi)

Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon (CDi)

Zelda's Adventure (CDi)

Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis (Gamecube,XBox)

Daikatana (PC)

Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City (SNES)

Slam City with Scottie Pippen (Sega CD)

Back to the Future (NES)

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (NES)

2 flex picks

My Picks: Battlefield 2 (PC), Pac-Man Championship Edition (XBLA)

 

[Buckna]

Games on my shortlist:

Wave Race 64

Anything Wing Commander. Wasn't this a hugely popular PC game series?

Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2/Republic Commando: All really fun & simple multi player games. And Commando isn't a too bad campaign either.

Some Apple games I liked:

Taipan!

Hardball!

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

Arcade Games

Time Pilot

Burgertime

Qix

Mach 3

Yep, Wing Commander was a hugely popular & successful game series. So much so it had a horrible movie made out of it.

 

[jwb]

Some notable games that weren't picked:

Arcade: Tron, Gorf, Lunar Lander. Missle Command. Tron in particular would have scored well. Missle command too.

RPG: Fallout, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Icewind Dale, Wizardry, Eye of the Beholder (a bunch of those old Gold Box games, really).

Strategy: Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (best of the Heroes games - top 3 strategy game if I were judge), Master of Magic, Age of Wonders 2 - Sahdow Magic, Master of Orion, Myth the Fallen Lords (and Myth 2)

Horror: Sanitarium, Phantasmagoria

It's probably depends on age, but the overall console slant in this draft was really evident (and surprising to me). At least some of the above are glaring omissions (imho). I agree these days, PC gaming is nothing to write home about, but man, the mid to late 90's were incredible.

Edit - surprised the Thief games didn't make it in somewhere.

 

[madshot31]

Some notable games that weren't picked:

Arcade: Tron, Gorf, Lunar Lander. Tron in particular would have scored well.

RPG: Fallout, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Icewind Dale, Wizardry, Eye of the Beholder (a bunch of those old Gold Box games, really).

Strategy: Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (best of the Heroes games - top 3 strategy game if I were judge), Master of Magic, Age of Wonders 2 - Sahdow Magic, Master of Orion

Horror: Sanitarium, Phantasmagoria

It's probably depends on age, but the overall console slant in this draft was really evident (and surprising to me). At least some of the above are glaring omissions (imho). I agree these days, PC gaming is nothing to write home about, but man, the mid to late 90's were incredible.

My RPG category I was deciding between Lost Odyssey, Morrowind, or Fallout. My last Arcade spot I went with Area 51 and had Tron as the backup pick.

 

[pollardsvision]

This thread caused me to go out and pick up the Ultimate Genesis Collection for the PS3. $17 for 40 Genesis games, including 6 Sonic games, Phantasy Star 1-4, Streets of Rage 1-3, Golden Axe 1-3, and much more.We'll see how it plays, but it seems like a steal. I wanted to get something the wife might want to play so she won't hate my PS3 so much (she loved old school platformers, but has no interest in any new games). I can check out a bunch of these games that I never played back in the day.

Was this a hard purchase or PSN store

It's a disc. Got it used at GameStop. I tried to find something similar in the PS Store, but all I saw was Sonic Adventure for $10

 

[SlaX]

Some notable games that weren't picked:

Arcade: Tron, Gorf, Lunar Lander. Tron in particular would have scored well.

RPG: Fallout, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Icewind Dale, Wizardry, Eye of the Beholder (a bunch of those old Gold Box games, really).

Strategy: Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (best of the Heroes games - top 3 strategy game if I were judge), Master of Magic, Age of Wonders 2 - Sahdow Magic, Master of Orion

Horror: Sanitarium, Phantasmagoria

It's probably depends on age, but the overall console slant in this draft was really evident (and surprising to me). At least some of the above are glaring omissions (imho). I agree these days, PC gaming is nothing to write home about, but man, the mid to late 90's were incredible.

I went back and forth on whether to pick Fallout 1 or 2, but eventually settled for 2. Both were excellent games. Ever since playing Fallout 3, I've been wanting to go back and play them again. But like all other games, it's a time thing.

 

[pollardsvision]

I really wanted to draft Super Dogdeball, but couldn't get around to it. Loved that game.

Did Pole Position not get drafted?

 

[SlaX]

I really wanted to draft Super Dogdeball, but couldn't get around to it. Loved that game.Did Pole Position not get drafted?

Pole Position got drafted. I may have mistakenly still had it on my list.

 

[pollardsvision]

I really wanted to draft Super Dogdeball, but couldn't get around to it. Loved that game.Did Pole Position not get drafted?

Pole Position got drafted. I may have mistakenly still had it on my list.

Oh, I just didn't remember it getting drafted.

 

[jwb]

Some notable games that weren't picked:

Arcade: Tron, Gorf, Lunar Lander. Tron in particular would have scored well.

RPG: Fallout, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Icewind Dale, Wizardry, Eye of the Beholder (a bunch of those old Gold Box games, really).

Strategy: Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (best of the Heroes games - top 3 strategy game if I were judge), Master of Magic, Age of Wonders 2 - Sahdow Magic, Master of Orion

Horror: Sanitarium, Phantasmagoria

It's probably depends on age, but the overall console slant in this draft was really evident (and surprising to me). At least some of the above are glaring omissions (imho). I agree these days, PC gaming is nothing to write home about, but man, the mid to late 90's were incredible.

I went back and forth on whether to pick Fallout 1 or 2, but eventually settled for 2. Both were excellent games. Ever since playing Fallout 3, I've been wanting to go back and play them again. But like all other games, it's a time thing.

2 neat stories about FO2:After Fallout came out, I was a regular on the interplay messageboards. A group of us banded together to get a spammer banned (at that time, messageboards didn't have the ability to ban people - you actually had to call the offending person's ISP, send proof, etc, and they "might" suspend him). We ended up forming a group / gaming community, and one of the developers rewarded the group with a special encounter in fallout 2 (Unwashed Villagers vs the spammer). 12 of us got our online alias in (I'm Night Owl in the encounter.)

They also solicted new perk ideas for Fallout 2. I came up w/ comprehension. Dave Hendee (one of the designers on FO and FO2) loved it, and put it in. It's still in the current games, which is kinda neat.

True stories both.

 

[AcerFC]

Games I wanted but had no space for

NFL Blitz

Shadowgate

Kung Fu

Burgertime

720

Skate or Die

 

[SlaX]

The games I wanted to take next were

Twilight Princess

WWF No Mercy

Super Castlevania IV

Metroid Fusion

Super Dodge Ball

Company of Heroes

American McGee's Alice (thought about taking for suspense/horror)

Wanted Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (1998 original) or Need For Speed: Most Wanted but it was taken off the board before I could take it.

 

[BroadwayG]

I can't believe noone took erotic photo hunt.

 

[SlaX]

I can't believe noone took erotic photo hunt.

That's your baby. We can't take that away from you.

 

[Big 'N Tasty]

Am I the only fan of Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball for SNES? My cousin and I played that game A TON.

I know the Sports category was deep, but was kind of surprised this wasn't taken.

 

[TheChairman]

#1 arcade snub: Zaxxon

 

[larry_boy_44]

Am I the only fan of Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball for SNES? My cousin and I played that game A TON. I know the Sports category was deep, but was kind of surprised this wasn't taken.

I liked it... I think I still have it, in fact...the problem is that there are too many sports games, really...

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Okami is another cool puzzle/adventure/Wii game.