HUCARD
Horizontal Shooter: R-Type, Air Zonk
Vertical Shooter: Soldier Blade
Platformer: Ninja Gaiden
Arcade Conversion: Street Fighter 2
Puzzle/Strategy: Bomberman 94
Adventure: Dragons Curse
RPG: Order of the Griffon
ARPG: Neutopia
Action Game (misc): Bloody Wolf
Sports: Hit the Ice
Driving: Outrun, Final Lap Twin
CD
Horizontal Shooter: Gate of Thunder, Cotton
Vertical Shooter: Super Raiden
Platformer: Dracula X
Arcade Conversion: Double Dragon 2
Puzzle/Strategy: Vasteel
Adventure: Prince of Persia
RPG: Ys 1+2
ARPG: Exile
Digital Comic: It Came from the Desert
Action Game (misc): Kabuki Ittouryoudan
Sports: Downtown Junior High
SUPERGRAFX: Ghouls n' Ghosts
A "Best Multi-Player Game" category might be a good idea.
I think the ARPG category should be removed. Adventure and ARPG games are pretty much the same thing and if you pick two hucard RPGs and two hucard ARPGs that pretty much covers every hucard RPG that came out in the US.
Faceball, of course, takes the "Best FPS" award every time!
I had to think long and hard to decide that I like GoT more than LoT. LoT has better graphics and more bad-ass appeal, but the play control on GoT is just so awesome because you can change speed, weapons and gun direction at the drop of a hat (and frequently need to do so!).
I haven't played Spriggan or too many other vertical CD shooters, but I think Super Raiden blows Sapphire and Sylphia away. Sapphire is awesome, but the screen gets kind of cluttered in a way Raiden doesn't and I can't stand Sapphire unless I play as the fastest character.
I think R-Type is the best hucard shooter of all time but Air Zonk was phenomenal when it first came out. The graphics are awesome, the music is catchy and it took the lame Bonk series in a whole new direction. I remember going into Toys R Us and racing my friend to the TG16 kiosk just to play Air Zonk.
Downtown Nekketsu Junior High may not be a typical "Sports" game, but it's close enough for me.
