Die Siedler II was released 30 years ago in Germany on 17th April 1996 for DOS.
Alongside X-Wing and Worms, this was one of the first games that I played for a considerable time and really understood how to play, other than having a turn at platformer or fighting games on a friend's console.
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Tekken 2 was released 30 years ago on 29th March 1996 in Japan.
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Panzer Dragoon II was released 30 years ago on 22nd March 1996 in Japan for the Saturn.
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Resident Evil was released 30 years ago on 22nd March 1996 in Japan for the PlayStation.
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Descent II was released 30 years ago on 13th March 1996 for DOS.
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Super Mario RPG was released 30 years ago on 9th March 1996 for the SNES.
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Civilization II was released 30 years ago in late February 1996 for Windows.
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Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom was released 30 years ago in early February 1996 for DOS in North America.
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While I was playing around with my non-representative list of 517 videogames from 1994 to 2001 that I consider to be classics and thinking about still having only one game for #1996InVideoGames yet, I calculated the percentages for the game releases in each month for the 8 years.
Not only is the Christmas Window very real, getting games pushed out before the end of the quarter and not when they are ready was also very real.
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@danielalbu/115978391197702312
Well, that saves me the work of making this post to start my #1996InVideoGames series this year. ๐
Yora