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Sonic Conquers UK's Favorite Games Poll 37

Posted by simoniker from the knuckles-best-supporting-actor dept.
Thanks to GamerFeed for its report on UK videogame trade organization ELSPA's poll to find "the 30 most popular games of the past 30 years." In somewhat of a surprise, Sonic The Hedgehog was voted most popular title of all time, and the top 5 were rounded out by Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Pac-Man, Tomb Raider and Space Invaders. Interesting votes further down the list included Elite at No.7, Championship Manager at No.23, and Shenmue at No.26.
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  • Quite interesting... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by TitusC3v5 ( 608284 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @03:17AM (#7652498) Homepage
    That both GTA3's made the list, coming in at 10th and 15th, no less. One thing I did notice, is that the majority of the list is fairly recent. I'm quite disappointed that neither Thief or the original System Shock made the list, however...

  • hmm... (Score:1)

    by saqq ( 685613 )
    This seems like a rather peculiar list to me, do they not get a lot of the games the US gets?

    • Re:hmm... (Score:3, Interesting)

      by CptChipJew ( 301983 ) *
      Championship Manager I think is a game where you run a soccer team and trade players and such. You don't actually play soccer, but you watch your team play, I think.

      Now I don't know what it is, maybe it's because I'm not European, but I can't imagine anybody wanted to watch a virtual soccer game for 90 minutes and not interact with it.

      • Re:hmm... (Score:4, Informative)

        by Ianoo ( 711633 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @08:00AM (#7652914) Journal
        The games don't take 90 minutes to play, more like 10 minutes. Basically it's all a matter of strategy, you're the manager, not one of the players. You decide what players to put in different positions (attacker, midfielder, defender, goalkeeper), what substitutions to make, what style of play you want, and when not playing, you buy and sell players, train them, manage club finances etc.

        It's quite addictive, even for someone like me who isn't a massive football (soccer) fan.

    • Re:hmm... (Score:2, Informative)

      by easychord ( 671421 )
      Only a minority of people in the UK would be nostalgic for the Atari 2600 and 8bit Nintendo as they wern't as popular over here.

      We also had our own games for the Spectrum, BBC and C64. Later on we had our own games for the Atari ST and Amiga.

      These days we mostly get the same games as you. Games that are mostly targeted at the American markets...

    • Re:hmm... (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Haeleth ( 414428 )
      This seems like a rather peculiar list to me, do they not get a lot of the games the US gets?

      That, and our tastes differ. What were you expecting, Madden/NFL in the top ten? ;)

      At least this list, unlike the last few "greatest games of all time" to have shown up on Slashdot, includes Elite. 3D graphics on an 8-bit micro? Now that's impressive.
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      • Re:hmm... (Score:3, Informative)

        by May Kasahara ( 606310 )
        They also get certain games earlier than North Americans do. For instance, rhythm games seem to be more popular there (both Rez and Space Channel 5 Part 2 were released in the UK before the US). Also, wasn't the Dreamcast version of Shenmue 2 released over there?
    • That, and they get some games you don't get - and they get other games than you do.

  • Gran 'Tourismo'?!?!? (Score:3, Funny)

    by paulcammish ( 542971 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @06:42AM (#7652822)
    21 1988 Street Fighter
    22 2001 Gran Tourismo 3
    23 1992 Championship Manager

    Gran Tourismo? Gran Tourismo? Gran TOurismo?!?!

    Nice to know they can spell the titles of the damn games properly [granturismo-3.com]...

    Hmmm, maybe theyre on about this [ticalc.org]? Nah, maybe not.

    And dont even get me started about the first Street Fighter in '88, the way they got the wrong Final Fantasy, and Manic Miner being released in 1997!?!?!... Please mod the atricle up as '-1 : Full Of Typos'!

    • Re:Gran 'Tourismo'?!?!? (Score:1, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      What do you mean, "the way they got the wrong Final Fantasy"?

      If you mean you think one of the earlier ones was better than FFVII, maybe you should bear in mind that FFVII was the first Final Fantasy game to be released in the UK.
    • Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • No Surprise (Score:3, Insightful)

    by megalomaniacs4u ( 199468 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @06:56AM (#7652834)

    Sega always sold better in the UK than Nintendo until the Saturn debacle.

    As for Elite and Championship Manager. UK games players have never been console crazy until recently, during the 80s as Atari suicided the Home computer was doing very well in Europe.

    From Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, through Atari ST and Commodore Amiga the consoles didn't really get a look in until Sega & Sonic broke through with the 16 bit Megadrive (aka Genesis).

  • Sonic was my first console game to ever play back in the days of the Genesis, still love Sonic to this very day. Can't wait for Sonic Heroes on the GameCube next year :)

  • Championship Manager quite low? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by TwistedSquare ( 650445 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @11:07AM (#7653467) Homepage
    Championship Manager 3 and 4 and possibly other versions as well set new records in the UK for being the fastest selling PC games on their release (Diablo 2 set the record at one point but has now been toppled).

    Given that statistic and the tendency of these lists to produce mainly recent successes, I'm surprised that CM and is so low down the list! I guess it's because a lot of people who don't typically play computer games that much play CM, and don't get included in the poll..

    Sonic is no surprise at the top, though Tomb Raider seems higher than I would have expected

  • Sonic NOT "UK's Favourite" (Score:3, Interesting)

    by FortissimoWily ( 703397 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:03PM (#7654167)
    Keep in mind that this poll was conducted in association with ComputerAndVideoGames.com. The article describes ComputerAndVideoGames.com as "the UK's leading multi-format video games website", but it's really quite a biased magazine/site combo. I know plenty of people in the UK who prefer better games/characters than Sonic (such as Mario, Mega Man, Dizzy, Klonoa, and more), so the poll is only really representative of the readership of ComputerAndVideoGames.com...

    But then, what do I expect? It's an opinion poll just as meaningless as those 'Best Character' polls GameFAQs does every summer. ;P

  • Ah, memories... (Score:2, Interesting)

    by oberondarksoul ( 723118 )

    Elite, Lemmings, even Doom and Quake... all games one can find on the classic Acorn home computers. Elite started out on the BBC Micro and to this date is an excellent game, while the port of Lemmings from the Amiga to Archimedes was nothing less than stellar. (To this date I prefer the Acorn version)

    Shame the latter pair won't run on much less than a RISC PC, but I digress...

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