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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.
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.
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.
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.
When they said in The Matrix that the late 90s was peak human civilization they weren't lying
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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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)
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
Hard to top 1998. Same thing with 2007-2009 but for franchises.
Where the Freeman is Half-Life?
Edit: 2nd row, my app was cutting off the top and bottom of the image oops
Before looking at the picture I knew Thief would be there. The game itself is great but the level editor and the fan missions really made that game shine. The fan mission "Hush, Hush, Sweet Harlot" was arguably better than the original game story.
The OG trilogy plus the mostly unrelated remake are in a bundle on GOG right now for under $8.
The year “pixels actually started to look like something I don’t have to imagine”.
Kula World was suprisingly a lot of fun.
It's wild to me that not only have I play most of those games, I played them when they came out. It was nice having friends and physical copies of shit.
Sonic Adventure came out in '99 outside Japan.
Well I guess you'll be throwing that dart really far.
