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.”
Even the good ones?
Out of that pile of 200 NES games, maybe like 10% were good.
Ah, sorry, I was setting up a Bashir/Garak “Especially the good ones, my dear doctor” thing.
10% isn’t bad, though. What was your favorite bad one?Don’t you get he’s not one of us, that what he’s trying to tell you
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.
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.
Actually, I hit my friend in the thigh. Turns out it’s really hard to throw stuff blindfolded. You probably shouldn’t do it.
I’ve found if you don’t put the blindfold around your arm it stays just as easy to throw things as before.
Turns out I hit an artery, blood started gushing everywhere and you won’t believe what game got hit by his blood!
All of them? Because it was an artery, those fuckers have no restraint.
Yes! 1998 really was an amazing year for gaming!
Oh hey that reminds me Blade came out in 1998 too, love that movie
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
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.
Iirc it’s 0 gravity as well.
I’ve always been surprised that Nintendo never saw any litigation over pretty much calling their racing game Formula 0
Decades from now when we have Speed Racer type tracks they’ll regret that.
1998 was great but 2004 was the greatest.
I’ve been saying that same thing since 2005 lol. 2004 is peak gaming. It was great living through that era.
I invite you to create a post, am very curious about the winners 🙂
When they said in The Matrix that the late 90s was peak human civilization they weren’t lying
I want to argue with you, but the 90s still had the best food festivals. Gyro wasn’t as popular but like my favorite Greek restaurant opened in 94.
You usually have to pay extra for greek
i’m so sleepy i can’t remember what you mean
GO TO BED
the problem is i’m sleepwalking
You should eat your hands then.
Wise af
throws dart
hits Tomb Raider 3
throws again
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.
Kula World in most of the world. Roll Away was just the US title.
Haven’t heard of it by that name, either, so the comment still works!
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.
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Now I just feel old. Really old.
I described pinball arcades once. Never again
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.
God I can feel that Charizard Pokémon Red cover in my soul.
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)
Sonic Adventure 2
Yeah, Adventure 2 Battle topped the original in most ways tbh. I wish it had more variety in the playable characters, (Adventure 1 had Big, Gamma, and Amy, for instance).) But I understand that they wanted to create a sort of mirror/parity between the light and dark storylines so they gave both sides the same three gameplay styles, instead of having six distinct playstyles.
