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And this concludes the #1995InVideoGames series. It will be continued next year with #1996InVideoGames, though it's going to be a couple of weeks before the first major game's 30th release date.

Hopefully with all games being posted on time in the correct order, now that I am much better prepared.

Heroes of Might and Magic was released 30 years ago in September 1995.

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Cover image of the game Heroes of Might and Magic.

The big surprises for me where Ceasar II and The Dig with both at 10/4, MechWarrior 2 with 12/3, and WipEout with 11/7.

But the uncontested winner of popular support was Worms with 39 favorites and 22 boost! 🎇 😮

But it really was, and still is, a really great game. 😄

The lineup for 1996 is the same length as it was for 1995, but as someone who started playing in 97/98, I think there's a lot more big famous classics reaching 30 next year.

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One thing I noticed doing the #1995InVideoGames series is that people here on Mastodon seem to have been much more PC players 25-30 years ago than console players.
Always much more favorites and boosts for PC games than for console games.

And fighting games in particular got almost no responses at all. Street Fighter Alpha got 4 favorites and 1 boost, Tekken and Killer Instinct both got 1 favorite each, and Mortal Kombat 3 got nothing at all.

Killer Instinct was released 30 years ago in August 1995.

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Street Fighter Alpha was released 30 years ago on 22nd December 1995, bringing the Street Fighter series to PlayStation.

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RE: https://mastodon.online/@zeratul2099/115797620498325018

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Tales of Phantasia was released 30 years ago on 15th December 1995.

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Cover image of the game Tales of Phantasia.

Yoshi's Island was released 30 years ago on 5th August 1995.

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Air Combat, the first game in the much more interestingly named Ace Combat series, was released 30 years ago on 30th June 1995.

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Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within was released 30 years ago in June 1995.

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Cover image of the game Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within.

X-COM: Terror from the Deep was released 30 years ago, at some point in the first half of 1995.

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Cover of the game X-COM: Terror of the Deep

Terminator: Future Shock was released 30 years ago in December 1995.

A game that has been pretty much forgotten for a long time, and I've never seen anybody talk about. But it's noteworthy for having been developed by Bethesda. This is what they were doing between Arena and Daggerfall. And apparently, and surprisingly for a movie licensed game, it was considered to be really quite good.

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Cover of the game Terminator: Future Shock

Albion was released 30 years ago around the 16th December 1995.

To me, this is one of the most amazing and important games ever released, though I wouldn't say it's a particularly good one. I only actually played it very late, and still only got possibly halfway through it at most, but I've known about since when I first encountered any PC games at all. This is a kind of pulp space fantasy that nobody does anymore.

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Suikoden was released 30 years ago on 15th December 1995.

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Full Throttle came out 30 years ago on 19th May 1995.

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Terminal Velocity was released 30 years ago in May 1995. A Windows version was released later in September as Fury3, which was the first game to run natively in Windows 95.

Playing this coming from X-Wing and TIE Fighter, this game was different and much simpler. But it plays a lot like Quake in a fighter plane, which was a real blast.

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