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Sonic Conquers UK's Favorite Games Poll

Posted by simoniker on 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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  1. Re:Absurd by irc.goatse.cx+troll · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its a meaningless poll regardless, as are most. Its not like someones going to wake up one day and have their life turn around because a bunch of brits say sonic > *, its just a popular oppinion poll. If I think virtual valery is the best game ever, a bunch of people saying Defender Of The Crown is better won't make me change my mind. (For the record, DoC rocks. I heard they're making a new version.)

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  2. No Surprise by megalomaniacs4u · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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).

  3. Re:hmm... by Haeleth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

  4. Championship Manager quite low? by TwistedSquare · · Score: 3, Insightful
    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

  5. Re:Sonic NOT "UK's Favourite" by SuperMo0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ANY poll done on a website is biased. It's affected by the fact that the only people who respond are

    1) People with internet access
    2) People who know of the site
    3) People who care about the poll

    Which severely limits the sample space, and can severely skew the results.