Twisted Metal
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psychic force
alien soldier
last gladiators
panzer dragoon
If we’re gonna pick worst years, we’ve gotta pick years within a decade, because just about any year in the 90’s is gonna beat any year in the 70’s in my book, even when counting the arcade.
95 actually might’ve been one of the first years in close to a decade that PC/Mac/Amiga (barely) games were broadly more accessible and interesting than console games
and then they all got ported to the playstation anyway
Jumping Flash and Strikers 1945 are my faves for this year so far.
Okay, I guess Chrono Trigger and Yoshi’s Island are probably better.
Never played Descent, but I kind of want to get that sphere controller and play it, even though that is probably a terrible way to play it.
I’m being told that E3 was first held in 1995 and maybe that actually does make it a bad year for video games?
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also for anyone who hasn’t played Skidmarks it’s one of the most fun and challenging isometric racing games out there & it was never popular outside of Europe & the megadrive version is fine and you can emulate it
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and none of them were released over here:
it really depends on your region whether it sucked, or was effin’ good…
Isometric racing sounds like a punishment they would have in a hell that is trying to trick you into thinking it’s heaven.
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Those were all non-US releases too! I know it’s hard to keep track as a European between the SNES stuff that wasn’t localized into English and the SNES stuff that wasn’t localized at all 
On the console front, this was the year of Saturn’s surprise American launch, which basically doomed the system in the US.
So.
It’s got that going for it.
This is the year that a 3-D Sonic game did not come out. It was a watershed moment in the history of Sonic fans being disappointed–it could be considered a turning point.
see, it is so easy for PALians:
assume by default it wasn’t released, and you are off to a VERY good start.
In the PS1 era:
Assume it is 1 or 2 years later : Ok!
PS2: lottery, but both above if it isn’t a shootman. ah, and let us try somethin NEW: We start with the second game, and… lets not mention the first, or hsve a cutscenes disc only. SUREFIRE HIT!!!
Afterwards:
amazon.
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also for the ps2 in palsland: hundreds of weird low budget japanese games
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i’ve said this before but i have way more nostalgia for zsnes than the actual hardware and the majority of snes games i like are japanese only fan-translated stuff so i’ve never really understood the american reverence for it
i loved super play magazine though, definitely a big influence on my taste & it did give me a checklist of things to try out when emulation became a thing
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i don’t think there’s such a thing as a bad year for vidcons sorry
or a good year for vidcons
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yeah descent.
overload, its spiritual successor, is leaving early access tomorrow by the way
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let’s not forget the other early 3D classics '95 brought to us, like William Shatner’s TekWar or Virtual Hydlide
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DonPachi. DonPachi. DonPachi.
Here are the games Sega released to arcades in 1995:
- Virtua Cop 2
- Manx TT Superbike
- Rail Chase 2
- Virtua Striker
- Fighting Vipers
- Indy 500
Konami released TwinBee Yahho! in Japanese arcades, as well as the 2-in-1 compilation Detana! TwinBee Yahho! for consoles (Saturn got Parodius Da! the same year, but it was a port of an older game [edit: it was actually Gokujyou Parodius Da! which had both the 1990 and 1994 Parodius games as pointed out by alfred]).
Sega Rally Championship 1995 was released for arcades in late '94, but did make it out for the Saturn in 1995 (in Japan, at least). I have no idea if you’re going to disqualify the Saturn version because the arcade version was released in '94, but you shouldn’t.
King’s Field II was released in Japan.
Namco’s Ridge Racer Revolution (JP, PSX) is '95. They also put Rave Racer, Time Crisis, Tekken 2, and Soul Blade out for arcades.
Rayman was originally released for the Jaguar this year.
Secret of Evermore.
I mean, idk. I could spend a week on this. 1995 would be a great year even if it only had King’s Field II and DonPachi.
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Your post is so meticulous with the facts that I feel the need to point out detana twinbee is an older game too 
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