1997

[650lb Sumo]

21/11/1990 - Super Mario World
7/3/1991 - Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
21/6/1991 - Sonic the Hedgehog
14/2/1991 - Lemmings
5/5/1992 - Wolfenstein 3D

8/1992 - Mortal Kombat
10/12/1993 - Doom

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Half Life/MGS/Zelda all came out like in the same three week span.

That is a mind-blowing fact.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

1997 was a good year for FPS games.

Blood
Shadow Warrior
Doom 64
Quake 2
Goldeneye 64
Turok
Jedi Knight

 

[Natural Order]

Goldeneye
Castlevania SOTN
Final Fantasy 7
Colony Wars (probably the most underrated PS1 game)
Soul Blade
Fallout
Star Fox 64
Blast Corps
Diddy Kong Racing
Gameday 98 (when 3D 11 on 11 football wasn't thought possible on PS1)
Jedi Knight
Crash Bandicoot 2
Parappa
Oddworld
Quake 2
Mario Kart 64
Tomb Raider 2
Turok
Nuclear Strike
Ace Combat 2
Treasures of the Deep (another really underrated PS1 game)

Plus arcades were still king and gaming magazines were still relevant.

Nice nod to Blast Corps, gem of a game. Always wished for a well made remake of that game/concept.

 

[Kevster]

98 or 99 for me, 97 was great though.

 

[Mongoosemk12]

97/98 Were great years for both gaming and movies. That's probably the peak and it was mostly downhill from there.

 

[Zazen]

Feels like whenever these threads are made people refuse to acknowledge anything past the year 2000 and especially 2010 and onwards. I think I've said this before but 2017 is slept on so much.

Super Mario Odyssey
Zelda Breath of the Wild
Horizon Zero Dawn
Nioh
Nier Automata
Persona 5
Cuphead
Resident Evil 7
Sonic Mania
Divinity II
Hollow Knight
What Remains of Edith Finch
Yakuza 0

Might be a few more I'm missing but I think it was a really strong year. A lot of fan favorites from each franchise came out this year. So while it lacked some originality many of the games stand among the best in the franchise like Yakuza, Mario, Zelda, Nier, Resident Evil, Persona, Sonic, etc. Some memorable indies too.

 

[My Spot]

Went by AcclaimedVideoGames and assigned points for each game. It was frustrating because they have the wrong release year for a bunch of games so I had to fix that. @Madmick

1998	17303
2000	16898
1999	15262
2004	14696
2001	14342
2007	13948
2013	12854
2002	12549
2006	12119
1997	11913
2005	11824
2003	10065

 

[Madmick]

Went by AcclaimedVideoGames and assigned points for each game. It was frustrating because they have the wrong release year for a bunch of games so I had to fix that. @Madmick

1998	17303
2000	16898
1999	15262
2004	14696
2001	14342
2007	13948
2013	12854
2002	12549
2006	12119
1997	11913
2005	11824
2003	10065

This is dope. I hadn't caught that they used the wrong release date for so many games. What are some examples that are outstanding, currently? I'm willing to bet if you contacted the guy who made the list he would amend them with your corrections. Community-cooperative resources like this are so awesome. It kind of blows my mind how much stuff that is just built and maintained through hobbyist enthusiasm starting on Reddit or other social media is a million times better than stuff that gets put out by organizations that generate revenue by publishing articles and whatnot. They just can't compete.

I see you assigned the points inversely corresponding to the game's rank. So, also, if you already have the platforms assigned for every game in your spreadsheet, might you also create a SUM that will total the points for each respective platform? Then we could see which platform has the most total points even if this is arbitrarily only counting points for games across the Top 1000 (I suppose you could also create filters to figure which has the most "points" in the top 100, Top 250, wherever you want to set it, but I'm just curious what would score the most for the Top 1000).


*Edit*
Also, holy shit, the retarded toasters actually got something right.

So I went back to the retarded toasters. This time, instead of using one to accelerate a data-grinding task, I asked them to think, which is always a bad idea, and simply asked which years were most commonly mentioned when this question comes up.

ChatGPT: 1998 (Runners-Up: 2004, 2007, 2011, 2017, 2023) (Hon. Mentions: 2001, 2009, 2013)
Gemini: 1998 (Runners-Up: 2004, 2007, 2023) (Hon. Mentions: 1996, 2001, 2017)
Copilot: 1998 (Runners-Up: 1997, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2011)
Perplexity: 1998 (Runners-Up: 2001, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2017, 2023)
Komo: 1998 (Runners-Up: 1985, 2004, 2007, 2023)

Props to Perplexity for the 1985. That's a deep cut, and when you look at the games that came out, it's very much justifiable.

They're learning boys! Run for the hills! Skynet is nigh!!!

 

[My Spot]

This is dope. I hadn't caught that they used the wrong release date for so many games. What are some examples that are outstanding, currently? I'm willing to bet if you contacted the guy who made the list he would amend them with your corrections. Community-cooperative resources like this are so awesome. It kind of blows my mind how much stuff that is just built and maintained through hobbyist enthusiasm starting on Reddit or other social media is a million times better than stuff that gets put out by organizations that generate revenue by publishing articles and whatnot. They just can't compete.

I see you assigned the points inversely corresponding to the game's rank. So, also, if you already have the platforms assigned for every game in your spreadsheet, might you also create a SUM that will total the points for each respective platform? Then we could see which platform has the most total points even if this is arbitrarily only counting points for games across the Top 1000 (I suppose you could also create filters to figure which has the most "points" in the top 100, Top 250, wherever you want to set it, but I'm just curious what would score the most for the Top 1000).


*Edit*
Also, holy shit, the retarded toasters actually got something right.

They're learning boys! Run for the hills! Skynet is nigh!!!

I guess if a game came out first in Japan or Europe they use that release date?
Like they have SMW for 1990 but it came out here in 91. 1988 for SMB3. 1997 for Gran Turismo. 1996 for Pokemon Blue/Red.

 

[Madmick]

I guess if a game came out first in Japan or Europe they use that release date?
Like they have SMW for 1990 but it came out here in 91. 1988 for SMB3. 1997 for Gran Turismo. 1996 for Pokemon Blue/Red.

Yeah, I think they use the earliest release date, so it doesn't necessarily jive with the year of its widest popular release when all of us who actually lived through that gaming history would associate with the game in our own lives.

That's why AG has Tetris listed for way back in 1985 when I think it was only a program on a Russian research intranet at that point:

Tetris - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Nobody in the shithole Soviet Union even had a device to play that on. I remember my neighbor had it on Nintendo, but that was an outlier. For almost all of the rest of us, c'mon, let's be real, that game first truly became known to the public on the Gameboy in 1989. Every single kid I knew that had a Gameboy like me had Tetris. It was like Mario/Duck Hunt.

 

[My Spot]

Yeah I would definitely count 1989 for Tetris. Not just the Game Boy for but that's also when the legendary Tengen NES version came out.