Choose your game - 1996 ed. [Poll]

• I'm not asking what game is the best.  I'm asking what game would you play first, be it for the first time, or just to revisit some old (better?) times?

• Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall - The best in the series?
• Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal - STOP POKING MEEEEE!!!!!!
• Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire - Play the Hoth Level! You can't do it anywhere else, only in this game!
• Civilization II - Back when Turn-Based strategy wasn't frowned upon.
• Super Mario 64 - Confession - I never got Yoshi..
• Tomb Raider - Check out those bazookas....
• Wave Race 64 - 'Swimmy' controls.
• Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares - Only game in the series with a subtitle?
• Pilotwings 64 - 3D meant so much more 15 years ago.
• Duke Nukem 3D - Shake it baby.
• Resident Evil - The origin of the revolutionary Tank Controls.
• Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - I'm a sucker for tongue-in-mouth games, and this started'em all.
• Quake - Reflex test.
• Star Ocean - Enix released this. Just straight up Enix.
• Crash Bandicoot - Never would've thought peaches to be a requirement to allow awesomeness.
• Command and Conquer: Red Alert - Attack laser bears? Yes please.
• Marathon Infinity - You can see so much of Halo in these games.
• Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries - I've always loved piloting big robots. With guns.

It was a hard decision between Quake and Warcraft II, but I went with Quake, cause it still plays so great.
Still to this day.

Super Mario 64, for sure. Infact, I could chose to revisit it right now, because I still own a copy.

Where the shit is Fire Emblem 4? How can you have Star Ocean on there and not Fire Emblem 4? *sigh* Out of these, Star Ocean would be my choice, since it's one of those games I wish I could remember.

Super Mario RPG. 

Aww I'm in the minority here. :( 
  
"That was too close; you were almost a Jill sandvich" 

All games age. Except for id Games. You can still play Wolf3D or Doom or Quake (single player or MP) today and still have a blast. The gameplay is timeless.

Tough choice between Resident Evil and Quake. Went with RE though since I miss its old greatness and played enough Quake for several lives.

I gotta throw down MechWarrior 2. I didn't play it much when it first came out, but around 2003 or 4, I played a boatload of it and loved the hell out of it.

Super Mario RPG, hands down. In the words of Brad Shoemaker, "that's a good ASS game."

Resident Evil.

Almost went with Duke 3D but ended up choosing Resident Evil.

Crash bandicoot was the shit

Red Alert. So many great memories with that game.

Super Mario 64, still play it to this day.

Probably one of the hardest one of these I've seen. 1996 was a great year for gaming and I have many memories from those games. 
I went with Duke Nukem 3D though, seeing as it's a game that still makes me laugh.

Other: Diablo 1 - Why that's not an option I'll never know.

Super Mario RPG is the correct answer. 

Thankfully there were no bears in the original Red Alert.

Resident Evil.

This is a tough one. So many good memories from most of those games. 
 
I'd have to go with SW: Shadows of the Empire. It probably isn't the best game on the list but being a Star Wars nut I probably loved it more it more than I should of.

Super Mario RPG; it's a top 10 game of all time.

@Little_Socrates:   Right now, I'd be more worried about Shin Monshou no Nazo getting a release. After all, once that's out of the way, they can port Seisen no Keifu to the 3DS. Wait, that would be a bad idea. What the hell would Fire Emblem 4 get from it? More physical depth to the meteors that crush Sigurd and his army? A bird's eye view of each battle?

Tough choice between Duke and Crash Bandicoot, but I went with Crash Bandicoot.

I wanted to say Duke, but putting myself back in the '96 mindset, Quake was mindblowing, and '96 era me would probably load that up first. 

I have never played Super Mario RPG, and I would probably enjoy it more in 1996 than I would now.

Lots of great games, but for me, Red Alert hands down. One of the best games of all time.

Almost touched the button for Resident Evil, but I played Crash for sooo long and enjoyed it immensely, far more than any of the others on this list. I even played through it a couple of years ago and I think it still stands up as a great platformer!

Mario RPG.  Still my favorite JRPG ever, and given where the genre is going, that is most likely never going to change.

Super Mario 64.

Resident Evil

Lots of great games, but for me, Red Alert hands down. One of the best games of all time.

Mario 64 and Mario RPG came out the same year?  Never realized that.

Out of all those games, I'd rather replay Crash Bandicoot most.

Probably gotta go with Wave Race 64, mind you I didn't play it until 97 when it was released in PAL territories. Wave Race 64 provided a tonne of multiplayer fun at the time.

Can't remember games that came from 96 so maybe there's one that I would play over the one I chose, but from the list I chose Quake.

@Matthew: Not according to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_(video_game)

I went with Warcraft 2. I probably spent the most time playing that one anyways.

Warcraft 2 definitely. That was one of the first RTS games I ever played and I really enjoyed it.

Diablo easily.
 
Pretty sure that the Blizzard page is wrong. It's didn't release on New Year's Eve. It was released on the 30th of November in the US and January 2nd in Europe.

Super Mario 64 is the best game ever made as far as i am concerned so... yeah.

Man what the fuck? Warcraft 2 gets so little love? Really? Warcraft existed (and was good) long before World of Warcraft. Bah! 
 
But if I had to choose a game I would prefer to play today, it would probably also be Mario 64. I love Warcraft 2, but that locked resolution of 640x480 is killer and makes the game seem unplayable today with such a limited view range.