The Secret of Monkey Island
Smash TV
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hose riding the crest of popularity, beware. You can go from industry goldenboy to ridiculous obscurity in no time. And it sticks. Just ask the Point-n-Click Adventure genre. The best game in this genre was released 23 years ago. And probably spawned Pirates of the Caribbean.
t had TWO joysticks! And NO buttons! That’s just crazy… Today, of course, we’re all too familiar with analogue sticks and the left-move-right-attack control scheme. But back in 1990, Smash TV created it. Maybe some other game got there first, but nobody remembers.
Red Baron
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F-Zero
D games were still a while away - Wolfenstein was only due in 2 years. Yet games like Red Baron managed to still create awesome, open spaces, filled with guys shooting at you. Eventually you’d crash or explode, then re-watch it in the groundbreaking replay theatre.
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n matters of which console lineage controls what genre, Sony squarely took the ‘high speed future grand prix’ one. But until WipeOut arrived, Nintendo invented it and held the crown with F-Zero. Another SNES launch title, it was a taste of what the 16-bit generation could do.
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