10 Best Games Of 1990

It's so damn good when people call the Mega Drive "Mega Drive" and Football "Football", not "Genesis" nor "Soccer"

I had that Motocross game, but never played it, because it sucked.

Boys girls and others? Lmao wtf is an "other"?

MUSHA may very well be the greatest Shmup of all time

i remembering sinking so many hours into Motocross Maniacs on the Game Boy, a true underrated gem!

This made me think of PGA gold 2 on the Mega Drive. My brother and I played tons of that.

Lol "people who were alive back then don't know how to use the internet.". Ty for making me feel old and laughing my butt off. <3 TripleJump

u r very british

I remember playing the hell out of Motocross Maniacs. It was like a better version of Excitebike.

Love❤❤❤

Quest for glory is great but what's with the gross VGA graphics? Svga, all the way!!!

Were is Mario 3 and Castlevania ?

"Wacky 90s review scores" aka when game reviewers werent bought off by companies and actually gave realistic reviews.

I would love to see the TripleJump team's take on games from earlier than 1990, even if it is not in the "Best/worst games of" format.

"Guy-are-us"

Musha looks amazing on the Genesis. It’s graphics and gameplay is way more fun than any other space shooters I’ve seen.

Wow! Mega Drive, PC and Game Boy were killing it in 1990! 👍

1990 wasn’t a long time ago! It was just ::CALCULATING:: Oh my stars, I’m so old.

I’m glad you’re not covering the 80s games. It’s clear you know nothing about pre ps1 era stuff and seeing you pretend to is basically embarrassing.

I was born in 89 and I feel attacked! Lol

Fun list, but didn't you kind of cheat here in making sure Mario didn't make it? Mario 3 DID release in 1990 in the US.

Good stuff. And not only was I alive in 1989, I was on the internet in 1989, and have known how to use it for decades. But I appreciate the flamebating trolling. Might even get a tweet out of me. 🙂

I clocked sooo many hours in Motocross Maniacs as a kid in the car on family road trips <3 loved that game, but yeah it was a slow year...

No Wing Commander, F-Zero, ActRaiser, Railroad Tycoon, Mega Man 3?? What an odd list.

...didn't Super Mario 3 come out in 1990?

... Millennials are born in the 80s! Lol

I also think that game scores of high 70s+ were considered really good back in the day. It's a 2000's and onwards thing where people started thinking that scores in the 70's meant the game was meh.

Old man shouting incoming: Frosted Tips were a late 90's and early 2000's thing. Not a 1990 thing.

Second Breakfast!!!!!

Wow, PGA Tour Golf, that brings me back. I'm definitely showing my age when I say I remember playing it for a good while after school in my elementary school days.

I think the Problem nowaday is, that many consider 70-80% bad, thats just stupid :D

YOOOOO Gargoyles Quest! I used to play this game so often back in 2008 / 2009-ish when my mom gave me her old gameboy. Never managed to beat it tho. It was too challenging for me. Somehow I did beat the first megaman tho. I guess that means Megaman is easier than Gargoyles Quest lol

TripleJump is the worst and laziest "game journalism" I've seen in a while. Not including Super Mario Bros. 3 among others is a joke. "According to our research" LOL! Just copy-paste some article about "the best scoring games" of a particular year, based on some totally incomplete GameRankings listing (a site that doesn't even exist anymore). And have zero effort to check if there might be any other relevant games that might have scored better. If the data is invalid, maybe not use it? "Honestly, we're just glad it's not something bloody Nintendo again", says it all. Yeah, Nintendo definitely didn't make one of the best video games of all time that year. No wait, it definitely did.

Oh wow! I forgot Motocross Maniacs existed. I remember enjoying that game back then.

I loved Monkey Island.

The list is a travesty. Where are games like Super Mario Bros. 3, Castlevania 3: Dracula's Curse, Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, Mega Man 3, Final Fantasy I, Dragon Quest II, ActRaiser, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Bonk's Adventure, Final Fight, John Madden Football (Genesis), Wing Commander, Railroad Tycoon, Ultima VI: The False Prophet, etc?

Yay! Ashton!

Great to see Quest for Glory get a mention - seems to be a mostly forgotten series

Is Triple jump a little bias towards mega drive ? Lol

No super Mario bros 3? Weird

People alive in 1989 don't know how to use the internet? That's funny...NOT!

Has it already been 33 years? Oh boy... I remember playing Monkey Island and Gargoyle's Quest when it came out. Loved (and still do) LucasArts Adventure Games. Also played some of the Sierra Adventures. Not as great...but still lots of fun. And I totally forgot about Motocross Maniacs! I loved that game. But until today it was wiped out of my memory.

Frosted tips... in 1990?

Ain’t nothing like the 90’s. Sad today’s kids will never know.

In todays money Monkey Island would have cost $110 (it was 49.99 at the time).

Musha looks a lot like strike gunner.

Never not gonna click a video with monkey island on the thumb...

The secret of monkey island cost 40 bucks in 1990 which is like 110 in today's money so ya PS5 games are cheaper

I’m surprised Wing Commander isn’t on this list. It was such a landmark game that launched a franchise. Actually it started an entire genre of games.

I had Monkey Island 1 and 2 on the Amiga. If was great if you didn't mind the disk swapping!