SUPER MARIO WORLD
NINTENDO EAD
■ With its meticulous level design and tight controls, Mario’s SNES debut became the poster child for 2D platforming. Three decades on, it’s still unbeatable.
KLAX
ATARI GAMES
■ Atari wasn’t wrong when it said, “It is the Nineties and there is time for Klax.” Its frantic, tile-stacking hit was converted to a huge number of home systems.
TURRICAN
RAINBOW ARTS
■ Manfred Trenz’s beautifully polished shooter proved there was still plenty of life in the C64 and that it could easily compete with its console contemporaries.
JOHN MADDEN FOOTBALL
PARK PLACE PRODUCTIONS
■ An easy-to-use interface, accessible controls and challenging AI transformed EA’s 1988 release into a global console mega hit, which is still going strong today.
THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND
LUCASFILM GAMES
■ Monkey Island’s delightfully quippy script and lovable characters cemented LucasFilm’s reputation for cleverly written adventures and shaped the very genre itself.
WING COMMANDER
ORIGIN SYSTEMS
■ Chris Roberts’ Star Wars-inspired epic ushered in a bold new era of space combat games that put as much effort into their frantic dogfights as they did storytelling.
F-ZERO
NINTENDO EAD
■ It might have lacked polygons, but F-Zero’s blistering speed and Mode 7 trickery proved that home systems could deliver exciting, arcade-like experiences.
PGA TOUR GOLF
STERLING SILVER SOFTWARE
■ Clever mechanics, excellent physics and slick TV-like presentation helped revolutionise digital golf in a way that just hadn’t been possible on earlier systems.
DEVIL CRASH
COMPILE
■ With a compelling graphical theme and features a real table could never provide, was a great pinball game that the PC
