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| The Sims | Metropolis Street Racer | |||||||||
| Electronic Arts, PC, £24.99 The year's worldwide best-selling PC game lets you play God by creating your own community. |
Sega Dreamcast, PC, £34.99
For the Dreamcast console, Sega's urban racing game delivered the best London environment yet seen. |
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| Gran Turismo 2 | Time Splitters | |||||||||
| Sony, PSX, £16.99 Triumphant sequel that boasted more authentic cars than any other racing game - and the handling was excellent. |
Eidos, PS2, £42.99 Smooth first-person shooter played out over a 100-year period. Best of the third-party titles for the PlayStation2 console. |
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| Pokémon Pinball | Zelda - Majora's Mask | |||||||||
| Nintendo Game Boy
Colour, £24.99 An unlikely choice but on the Game Boy Color worthy of singling out because it suits the handheld format so well. |
Nintendo N64, £47.99
The latest offering from Nintendo's games inventor, Shigeru Miyamoto. His second Zelda title is unique because you play the game many times over, but during the same three-day period. |
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| SCi, PC (not Win ME),
£19.99 Another game to ignite massive affection. The madcap driving game boasts slicker graphics this time, but where it particularly piled up the action was in multiplayer games. |
Sony, PSX, £14.99 The industry's equivalent of Billy Elliott. A beautifully crafted and charming adventure game, with immense style and a very British sense of humour, the title walked away with a Bafta - as console game of the year. |
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| Bishi Bashi | Sega Dreamcast bundle | |||||||||
| Konami, PSX, £24.99 The wackiest game of the year - serving up a rapid succession of crass but highly comical mini-games. It looked cheap but delivered gameplay by the bucket load. Children and adults loved it in equal measure. |
Sega, £149.99
This Dreamcast bundle contains the Dreamcast Console plus games Sonic Adventure, Lara Croft in Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation and online puzzler Chu Chu Rocket. |
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Nick Wapshott's Christmas video game choice
