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The categories was a hoot, with some racing game being placed in the "Action / Adventure" category and more fun stuff. I wonder if we'll look back on today's vi

The categories was a hoot, with some racing game being placed in the "Action / Adventure" category and more fun stuff. I wonder if we'll look back on today's video game genres and how we put some games into some of them in the same way. For posterity, here was the categories and their winners, interesting enough (and maybe because it was related to the academy), they had best actress/actor categories (where the winner seems to have been a almost softcore "game"): Best Action/ Adventure: Doom; Best CD-ROM: The 7th Guest; Best Portable Game: Aladdin; Best Art or Graphics: Myst; Best Musical: Xplora 1: Peter Gabriel’s Secret World; Best Sports: Caesars World of Boxing; Best Actress: Grace Zabriskie, Voyeur; Best Actor: Robert Culp, Voyeur; Best Overall Game (determined by a call-in vote): Mortal Kombat.

jandrese 5y ago
In 1994 there were scant few games that even had an actor or an actress. I'm guessing Wing Commander III was released too late in the year to be in contention? Most of the games with live action scenes in this era were horrible Macromedia Shockwave things with terrible hunt and click or puzzle gameplay too, mostly banking on the shock value of filling up an entire CD with short tiny Quicktime clips superimposed over static backgrounds.
arminiusreturns 5y ago
The 7th guest was my first "cd-rom game" and to this day I remember some of its cool mechanics. Especially the cool video technique they used which added to the creepiness. Still loving horror games all these years later.
dfxm12 5y ago
I think taking this as a reliable source of info is a mistake, as it was probably all designed around how much TV time they had and worked backwards from there. There's no transparency around how finalists were picked. Hopefully, anyone really interested in the history of videogame classification will take this TV show with a grain of salt and weigh it less compared to something like EGM, Game Informer or even how the publishers describe it. Although, this is free on youtube and it might take some legwork to track down the more reliable primary sources, so I dunno... No matter what the subject, distinguishing the reliability of sources is one thing that separates blogspam from real research though.

jandrese 5y ago

In 1994 there were scant few games that even had an actor or an actress. I'm guessing Wing Commander III was released too late in the year to be in contention? Most of the games with live action scenes in this era were horrible Macromedia Shockwave things with terrible hunt and click or puzzle gameplay too, mostly banking on the shock value of filling up an entire CD with short tiny Quicktime clips superimposed over static backgrounds.

arminiusreturns 5y ago

The 7th guest was my first "cd-rom game" and to this day I remember some of its cool mechanics. Especially the cool video technique they used which added to the creepiness. Still loving horror games all these years later.

dfxm12 5y ago

I think taking this as a reliable source of info is a mistake, as it was probably all designed around how much TV time they had and worked backwards from there. There's no transparency around how finalists were picked. Hopefully, anyone really interested in the history of videogame classification will take this TV show with a grain of salt and weigh it less compared to something like EGM, Game Informer or even how the publishers describe it. Although, this is free on youtube and it might take some legwork to track down the more reliable primary sources, so I dunno... No matter what the subject, distinguishing the reliability of sources is one thing that separates blogspam from real research though.