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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. Quite interesting... by TitusC3v5 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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...

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  2. Re:hmm... by CptChipJew · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

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  3. Sonic NOT "UK's Favourite" by FortissimoWily · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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

  4. Ah, memories... by oberondarksoul · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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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