Rewind the clock 18 years to December 1997 and take a gander at what the top games were on the Saturn, Playstation and PC. Surprised? Well, you shouldn’t be. The Christmas games charts were always a great barometer of the types of games that we were going to see more of in the coming new year. Suffice to say, the iterative annual sports titles (your FIFAs and Maddens), including driving games (Formula 1), were always going to play their part in the charts.
Browsing through the list of top games from 18 years ago, it is great to see that there was a mix of gaming genres, from driving formula 1 cars and flying elite helicopters, to wiping out zombies, throwing a football and to the inevitable first-person shooters. What were you playing 18 years ago?
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1) Formula 1 ’97 (Psygnosis) |
| 2) Nuclear Strike (Electronic Arts) | |
| 3) Abe’s Odyssee: Oddworld (GT) | |
| 4) Track & Field Platinum (Konami) | |
| 5) Parappa The Rapper (Sony) |
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1) Sega Worldwide Soccer ’98 (Sega) |
| 2) Last Bronx (Sega) | |
| 3) Resident Evil (Capcom) | |
| 4) Wipeout 2097 (Psygnosis) | |
| 5) Madden NFL ’98 (Electronic Arts) |
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1) Command & Conquer: Red Alert – The Aftermath (Virgin Games) |
| 2) Quake: Replay (GT) | |
| 3) Total Annihilation (GT) | |
| 4) Flight Sim ’98 (Microprose) | |
| 5) Hexen 2 (Activision) |
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