Welcome back to our Best Year in Gaming March Madness bracket competition! We’ve completed round 2 and are now in the middle of the Sweet Sixteen of our competition, narrowing things down to a final four years for the competition.
Yesterday we looked at some tough matchups in the Southeast conference. And in an unforgivable lapse of judgment from our Patrons, 1997 beat 1994 to advance to the Elite Eight. On the other side of things, 2002 knocked 1996 out of the competition.
Results: 1997 and 2002 win
Today we’re returning to the Northwest Conference for our Sweet Sixteen matchups. Our first matchup here has 1998 taking on 2000 in what’s likely to be a little bit closer than the 2022 matchup, but only in the sense that people will wince a little bit more as they pass over 2000 for 1998.
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Let’s jump over to our other matchup, where we have another 90s powerhouse going up against a much more recent year.
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A lot of 1993’s value comes out of Magic: the Gathering, but it’s far from the only strong game released that year – Secret of Mana, Star Fox, Virtual Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and the second edition of Warhammer 40,000 all make the year stand out as a strong competitor here. Meanwhile 2019 just beat 1992 to get here, riding hard on the strength of AAA titles like Death Stranding, Sekiro, and Resident Evil 2 Remake, plus stellar indie titles like Untitled Goose Game, Blasphemous, Baba is You, and Disco Elysium. It’s also a year ready to throw down on the tabletop with Unmatched and Marvel Crisis Protocol.
