Video Game Tournament: Second Three Matchups Are Up!

[epilogue]

Round 7: Tecmo Bowl (NES). For a sports game to be fun to play years after release, it needs to be special. This is over 30 years old and still a blast. Oh, and Bo Jackson.

Round 8: Panzer Dragoon Saga (Saturn). On the very short list of greatest game ever made. Too bad it was released in very limited quantities during the last days of a console that thoroughly lost its console war versus PS1. I realize no on RM has played this. Spend a minute a Google it for me. The value pick of value picks.

Bo Jackson only played one sport. Baseball. For the Kansas City Royals. He was amazing.

[Simple Torture]

Round 8: Panzer Dragoon Saga (Saturn). On the very short list of greatest game ever made. Too bad it was released in very limited quantities during the last days of a console that thoroughly lost its console war versus PS1. I realize no on RM has played this. Spend a minute a Google it for me. The value pick of value picks.

I had never heard of / played this game before, but read a good article about it earlier this year: https://www.theringer.com/2018/1/29/169 ... asterpiece

[tragabigzanda]

1. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
2. Mario Kart (Wii)
3. Half-Life 2 (PC)
4. Twisted Metal 2 (PS1)
5. NHL 95 (Sega Genesis)
6. The Oregon Trail (graphical version, 1985, Apple II)
7. Metroid: Zero Mission (GBA)
8. Missile Command (Arcade)
9. Rocket League (PS4)
10. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father (PC)

[CopperTom]

Round 8: Panzer Dragoon Saga (Saturn). On the very short list of greatest game ever made. Too bad it was released in very limited quantities during the last days of a console that thoroughly lost its console war versus PS1. I realize no on RM has played this. Spend a minute a Google it for me. The value pick of value picks.

I had never heard of / played this game before, but read a good article about it earlier this year: https://www.theringer.com/2018/1/29/169 ... asterpiece

Zwei and Orta are also excellent entries in the series. One of the strongest franchises of all time. It's frustrating that the franchise was completely abandoned.

If Orta is available for download on PS4 or X1, I highly recommend it. The best on-rail-shooter ever.

[bada]

Didn't think anyone would take Tecmo Bowl. I was saving it.

[epilogue]

Didn't think anyone would take Tecmo Bowl. I was saving it.

I wasn't gonna take it. But then we expanded to 10 picks and I was going to take it next.

[bada]

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (PS3)

[Jorge]

Alright, I was planning on this being my controversial final pick, but then we expanded to 10.

Super Mario Maker (Wii U)

[Simple Torture]

Alright, I was planning on this being my controversial final pick, but then we expanded to 10.

Super Mario Maker (Wii U)

"Nice." -chud

[Norah]

That's the second best Wii U Mario game.

[CopperTom]

Alright, I was planning on this being my controversial final pick, but then we expanded to 10.

Super Mario Maker (Wii U)

I contemplated drafting it just to grab Chud's vote for a Chud of Fire and Ice.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Round 7: Tecmo Bowl (NES).

this hasn't aged well. It looks too blocky

[tree_]

Round 7: Tecmo Bowl (NES).

this hasn't aged well. It looks too blocky

I know you're making fun of me but it's so true. You're seriously going to tell me that Tecmo Bowl is better than any Madden, 2K, NFL Blitz, or QB Club game? Too much nostalgia going on.

[Monkey_Driven]

Round 7: Tecmo Bowl (NES).

this hasn't aged well. It looks too blocky

I know you're making fun of me but it's so true. You're seriously going to tell me that Tecmo Bowl is better than any Madden, 2K, NFL Blitz, or QB Club game? Too much nostalgia going on.

Simpler can be better.

[tree_]

Round 7: Tecmo Bowl (NES).

this hasn't aged well. It looks too blocky

I know you're making fun of me but it's so true. You're seriously going to tell me that Tecmo Bowl is better than any Madden, 2K, NFL Blitz, or QB Club game? Too much nostalgia going on.

Simpler can be better.

Yeah but not always. This is a purely nostalgic one. The game is crap.

[Monkey_Driven]

Round 7: Tecmo Bowl (NES).

this hasn't aged well. It looks too blocky

I know you're making fun of me but it's so true. You're seriously going to tell me that Tecmo Bowl is better than any Madden, 2K, NFL Blitz, or QB Club game? Too much nostalgia going on.

Simpler can be better.

Yeah but not always. This is a purely nostalgic one. The game is crap.

Nah

[run2death]

Tecmo Bowl was originally an arcade game.

[tree_]

Round 7: Tecmo Bowl (NES).

this hasn't aged well. It looks too blocky

I know you're making fun of me but it's so true. You're seriously going to tell me that Tecmo Bowl is better than any Madden, 2K, NFL Blitz, or QB Club game? Too much nostalgia going on.

Simpler can be better.

Yeah but not always. This is a purely nostalgic one. The game is crap.

Nah

When's the last time you played it? You ever have a desire to play it?

[tragabigzanda]

1. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
2. Mario Kart (Wii)
3. Half-Life 2 (PC)
4. Twisted Metal 2 (PS1)
5. NHL 95 (Sega Genesis)
6. The Oregon Trail (graphical version, 1985, Apple II)
7. Metroid: Zero Mission (GBA)
8. Missile Command (Arcade)
9. Rocket League (PS4)
10. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father (PC)

[Simple Torture]

Round 7: Tecmo Bowl (NES).

this hasn't aged well. It looks too blocky

I know you're making fun of me but it's so true. You're seriously going to tell me that Tecmo Bowl is better than any Madden, 2K, NFL Blitz, or QB Club game? Too much nostalgia going on.

Simpler can be better.

Yeah but not always. This is a purely nostalgic one. The game is crap.

I think you're maybe discounting that not everyone is going to be voting on "the best games." I know that I'm going to be looking at teams and thinking things through using a matrix that includes the fun I had playing a game (if I played it), nostalgia, the game's influence, and the way a game broke new ground. Whether or not a game is blocky doesn't really play into this.

On the other hand, if you want to vote primarily on graphics or look and feel, that's perfectly fine, I'm not mad at you.