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Sonic Conquers UK's Favorite Games Poll
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.
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.
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...
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.
What about Final Fantasy Anthology, which included FF6? Wasn't that released around 1999?
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?