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There were also a tremendous number of absolute trash games that we don't remember because we don't remember them.
I remember giving my NES games away. I had like 200 of them.
The person receiving it went, "Bet you have a good memory out of every game." And I just kinda answered, "Not really. Most of them sucked."
Same with any media, really. Lots of people idolize old music in a “they don’t make it like they used to” way, purely because the bad music didn’t get replayed often enough to enter the zeitgeist.
I'm surprised to see Xenogears sitting smack in the middle of all that. Don't get me wrong, I loved the game, but I've never met another person offline who had heard of it. I have tried many, many times to beat many different turn based RPGs. I just simply can't, I get bored. They're just menu simulators to me. But Xenogears was the sole exception to that rule in my life thanks to it making you perform combos for your moves. I ripped its music and used it on HTML webpages as a kid. I still have and frequently use my OG beta gmail account, which includes the first name of the main character, Fei.
Gameboy Camera is my favourite 1998 game
I had so much fun with that thing, one time I combined a picture of the family dog with my stepdad and showed it to my mom and proudly told her this is what it would look like if they had kids. Another time I tried to make an action film with my brother, but it was mostly just footage of him doing what he considered crazy stunts (jumping on the hotel bed).
How did your mom react?
She started laughing and asked me to print it out and she then stuck it on the fridge.
How did my dart do guys?
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Edit: Is GameBoy camera really a game?
So, I just watched the F1 movie with Brad Pitt, and the mention f2 and f3.
I only just realized, that f zero is likely meant to be the next one after 1, as in the new elite race rank.
That game was so fucking good.
I've always been surprised that Nintendo never saw any litigation over pretty much calling their racing game Formula 0
Iirc it's 0 gravity as well.
Actually, I hit my friend in the thigh. Turns out it's really hard to throw stuff blindfolded. You probably shouldn't do it.
When they said in The Matrix that the late 90s was peak human civilization they weren't lying
Imagine missing a game so massive it has had a billion sequels, an MMO, and a 700 million dollar television series made because of it.
Damn 1998 had hands
I hear, in tomb raider 3 there is a secret code that will show her boobs.
It was a lie!!
I got my son the game boy camera and the printer for Xmas this year
You can make one of these for just about every year.
2023 was one of the most recent years, with games like: Baldur’s Gate 3, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Alan Wake 2, Final Fantasy 16, Diablo 4, Street Fighter 6, Lies of P, Octopath Traveller 2, Dave the Diver, and Hi-Fi Rush.
throws dart
hits Tomb Raider 3
throws again
This album/song came a year later in '99, but I think it still fits here, it was recorded in '98 lol.
I cannot overstate the impact the mid-nineties had on GPAs across the board.
This picture doesn't even show the full depth and breadth of the PC market at the time. Arcades had some strong offerings at this time, too.
1998 was great but 2004 was the greatest.
I invite you to create a post, am very curious about the winners 🙂
I've been saying that same thing since 2005 lol. 2004 is peak gaming. It was great living through that era.
Ah yes, the smash hit Roll Away, which I have definitely heard of.
And that's Mario Party, the first one, not Mario Party 3. The cover design is confusing.
I get that you can't include all the bangers but banjo kazooie and turok 2
Well yeah… it’s about that time that games were only a decade of advancement since computer gaming was created. Prior to that it was speak and spell and pong.
Gave it a go, generating a random coord via random.org - 580 x 1087:
Whoops!
In reality, I'd be much more likely to miss by being too to the right, since I'd be aiming for Abe's Exoddus.
I mean some of the games were just good for their time. But then there are games like Spyro the Dragon, Ocarina of Time, Half Life, Banjo Kazooie and GameBoy Camera that hold up still as some of the best games in their genre ever. Sonic Adventure has basically never been topped by a game in its franchise since. (At least as far as 3D action games in the sonic series are concerned)
Now I just feel old. Really old.
God I can feel that Charizard Pokémon Red cover in my soul.
The year “pixels actually started to look like something I don’t have to imagine”.
A nice thing about gaming today is that it's gotten so much easier to play all the great games, back then my family had a PC and an N64 and could only sample Playstation games at friend's houses.
spyro and crash were my jam back in the day