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Of all 1988 releases, this is probably my most replayed and it felt like big step forward for home action platformers. You would travel a map of Japan learning new offensive and defensive skills along the way.

#Rastan arcade game for pc full#

Still highly overlooked to this day, this samurai horror classic was full of depth and atmosphere. Prior to Game Boy mania, Atari Games' coin op version of Tetris seemed to me like the one with the most exposure. Being able to pick up and throw so many objects and having a selection of characters was a great evolution of Nintendo's brand of platforming. Mario's epic return remains somewhat divisive among fans given its conversion from another game but I always thought it was fantastic and worthy of the franchise. It was the most advanced console game on the market and looked pretty close to a 16-bit computer or arcade game. JRPGs were new in the West (Sega released Miracle Warriors in English in 1988 as well) and Phantasy Star felt like such a fresh take on roleplaying with its stylish Japanese artwork, planetary travel, female lead character, and smooth 3d dungeons. This was the game that had the biggest impact on me that year. Here are some classics, not in any particular order: I listed 1988 games by North American release year unless noted otherwise. Talk about whatever region's 1988 games you want. Release dates varied a lot by region back then. While it was understandable that mostly very young gamers thought that at the time, I'm more disappointed that that the notion still exists on the internet today on message boards and in the media given all the information available. It was an amazing time for home and arcade gaming, and still one of my personal favourite years.ДЄt the time, it was a common attitude (in some regions anyway) that the NES was the only game in town.

16-bit computers were out of my price range so I had to catch up more with those later. I was lucky enough that year to be a multi-format 8-bit owner and to have a pretty big network of borrowing and trading games.

Whether you were there or not, talk about what games you have played from 1988. Let's discuss the world of video games 30 years ago.