Welcome back to our Best Year in Gaming March Madness bracket competition! Yesterday we looked back at two matchups in the Northwest Conference, finally taking a look at 1998, our consensus 1-seed in the tournament. It won near-unanimously over 2022, though a few Elden Ring holdouts defiantly threw that game’s year some votes. On the other side things were much closer, with 2000 beating 2001 by only a single vote. It can thank the Dreamcast’s strongest year, I suppose.
Results: 1998 and 2000 win
Today we’re polishing off the Northwest Conference, looking at two new entrants in our pair of matchups.
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2007 finally makes an appearance and it’s easy to see why it was the 9-seed in our competition. 2007 is absolutely loaded with amazing games, representing the apex of that fifth console generation, when the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii were all operating at full capacity. 2007 gave us all-time classics like Halo 3, Team Fortress 2, BioShock, Mass Effect, Portal, and Super Mario Galaxy. Of course, 1993 is no slouch here, being the year of Magic: the Gathering, Star Fox, Secret of Mana, Virtua Fighter, Warhammer 40,000’s second edition, and Mortal Kombat. It’s a tough competition between two years, with 1993 having more foundational games and 2007 having a stronger slate of video games overall.
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Jumping to our other matchup, and it’s also a doozy. 2019 beat out 2005 to get here so it hardly had to go through tough competition, but it’s also got some real heaters. After all we’re talking about a year with Sekiro, Death Stranding, Untitled Goose Game, Baba is You, Super Mario Maker 2, and Disco Elysium. But today it’s going up against one of the strongest years in the 16-bit era. 1992 has some OK board games, but where it really makes its case is in games like Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Mario Kart, Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition, Dragon Quest V, Final Fantasy V, Tecmo Super Bowl, X-Men Arcade Game, and a little 3D first-person shooter named Wolfenstein 3D.
If you’re interested in voting on the outcome, head over to our Patreonand join our Discord server to vote. Otherwise, check back tomorrow for the winner and the next matchup in the Southeast Conference.
This article is part of a larger series on the best year in gaming. For more years, click this link. Have any questions or feedback? Drop us a note in the comments below or email us at contact@goonhammer.com.
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