Evolution of Game of the Year Winner 1980-2020
Evolution of Game of the Year Winner 1980-2020
1980 Pac-Man 0:00
1981 Donkey Kong 0:14
1982 Q*bert 0:26
1983 Mario Bros. 0:41
1984 Marble Madness 0:53
1985 Super Mario Bros. 1:07
1986 The Legend of Zelda 1:23
1987 Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! 1:42
1988 Super Mario Bros. 3 1:58
1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2:16
1990 Super Mario World 2:31
1991 Street Fighter II 2:48
1992 Wolfenstein 3D 3:09
1993 Doom 3:24
1994 Donkey Kong Country 3:42
1995 Chrono Trigger 4:01
1996 Super Mario 64 4:23
1997 GoldenEye 007 4:48
1998 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 5:05
1999 Soulcalibur 5:25
2000 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 5:44
2001 Halo: Combat Evolved 6:03
2002 Metroid Prime 6:21
2003 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 6:40
2004 Half-Life 2 7:01
2005 Resident Evil 4 7:24
2006 The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 7:46
2007 BioShock 8:05
2008 Grand Theft Auto IV 8:28
2009 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves 8:47
2010 Red Dead Redemption 9:07
2011 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 9:30
2012 The Walking Dead 9:46
2013 The Last of Us 10:03
2014 Dragon Age: Inquisition 10:22
2015 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 10:41
2016 Uncharted 4: A Thief's End 11:05
2017 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 11:30
2018 God of War 11:50
2019 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 12:23
2020 The Last of Us Part II 12:49
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Nixian Channel Description:
We’re lifelong video game enthusiasts with a passion for showing the world how our favorite hobby has grown with us, from individual series to industry-wide retrospectives.
We put significant time and creative effort into each one of our videos, including research, digging into archives, recording voiceovers, and editing. Every video takes as many as 10 hours to produce, because we strive to give our fans consistent, high-quality content.
Our popular “Evolution of...” series goes far beyond simply presenting gameplay footage. We take the time to show how a video game property — its gameplay, character designs, graphics, sound direction, etc. — have evolved over time. We include unique voiceover work on each video to enhance the viewing experience.
People have been playing video games for decades. In that time, we’ve gone from moving a white line up and down to block a moving pixel, to participating in full-fledged, painstakingly rendered real-time battles with people all over the world. We help older gamers look back on how these experiences have changed throughout their lives, and new gamers to understand the broader context of the series they’re playing for the first time today.
The video game medium never stops growing, and we’ll never stop chronicling its evolution.
Editing and voice-over were made by me.
