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Thinking about my most important #12Games and made this.
And accidentally turned this into a "tell me how old you are without telling me how old you are". 😄

#retrogames #90sGames #videogames

Z was released 30 years ago on 24th August 1996.

A game obviously created before online search engines.

The box cover is incredibly cool and memorable, though. Every time I saw it on shelves in stores, it was immediately drawing attention. Game reviews here in Germany were extremely positive, but I never knew anyone who had this game and it seems to have been very quickly forgotten.

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Street Fighter Alpha 2 was released 30 years ago on 9th August 1996 for the PlayStation in Japan.

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Harvest Moon was released 30 years ago on 9th August 1996 for the Super NES in Japan.

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I just started reading old German PC games magazines from 30 years ago to see what was going on in the world of videogames back in those days and freshen up on my memories what was new and exciting then.

And starting with PC Games issue 9/96, right after some funny ads and the table of content, the first thing I read is this.
Translation in the alt text.

History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.

#videogames #VideoGameHistory #90sGames #gamedev

I opened up the 9/96 of the German PC games magazin PC Games that came out 30 years ago, and right the first page after the cover is this wonderful ad for Quake. (Translation in the alt text.)

90s game ads were different. 😄

#90sGames #Quake #FPS

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gamrok/117025263645584056

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OverBlood was released 30 years ago on 2nd August 1996 for the PlayStation in Japan.

Claimed to be the first Survival Horror game with full 3D graphics.

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Time Commando was released 30 years ago on 31st July 1996.

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Kokumeikan / Devil's Deception / Tecmo's Deception: Invitation to Darkness was released 30 years ago on 26th July 1996 in Japan.

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I've finally put up my list of videogame release dates from 1990 to 2001 for anyone to read and look up.

https://yorasworld.neocities.org/retro/90sreleases

These are the dates that seem to be most plausible based on the many conflicting sources on the internet, and additional information about the releases I researched.

Everyone's invited to comment or message me about errors I made or games that should be added to the list.

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Star Ocean was released 30 years ago on 19th July 1996 in Japan.

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Super Mario 64 was released 30 years ago on 23rd June 1996 as the launch title for the N64.

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Quake was released 30 years ago on 22nd June 1996.

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King's Field III was released 30 years ago on 21st June 1996 for the PlayStation in Japan.

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Metal Slug was released 30 years ago on 24th May 1996 for the Neo Geo AES home console.

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The expansion Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal was released 30 years ago on 16th May 1996 for DOS.

I believe this was one of the very first official expansions for a PC game, which became quite common for many big games in the following years.

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Die Siedler II was released 30 years ago in Germany on 17th April 1996 for DOS.

Alongside X-Wing and Worms, this was one of the first games that I played for a considerable time and really understood how to play, other than having a turn at platformer or fighting games on a friend's console.

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Tekken 2 was released 30 years ago on 29th March 1996 in Japan.

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Panzer Dragoon II was released 30 years ago on 22nd March 1996 in Japan for the Saturn.

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Resident Evil was released 30 years ago on 22nd March 1996 in Japan for the PlayStation.

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Descent II was released 30 years ago on 13th March 1996 for DOS.

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Super Mario RPG was released 30 years ago on 9th March 1996 for the SNES.

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Civilization II was released 30 years ago in late February 1996 for Windows.

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Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom was released 30 years ago in early February 1996 for DOS in North America.

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While I was playing around with my non-representative list of 517 videogames from 1994 to 2001 that I consider to be classics and thinking about still having only one game for #1996InVideoGames yet, I calculated the percentages for the game releases in each month for the 8 years.

Not only is the Christmas Window very real, getting games pushed out before the end of the quarter and not when they are ready was also very real.

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RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@danielalbu/115978391197702312

Well, that saves me the work of making this post to start my #1996InVideoGames series this year. 😄

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Simon the Sorcerer II was released 30 years ago, probably around September or October 1995.

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Ridge Racer Revolution was released 30 years ago on 3rd December 1995.

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