Games Radar - A Look at the Best 10 Years of Gaming
July 27th 2006 23:37
I know this isn't strictly Nintendo-related, but this article is a wonderfully-nostalgic piece of work.
"Three weeks ago, our sibling site NextGen posted the article, "The Ten Greatest Years in Gaming." It was full of cool industry info, but the first thing we asked was, "So, the PlayStation was first designed as an add-on for the SNES. We get the irony, but what were we actually playing in 1993 that made it so great?"
We checked it out. We made a huge list of the best games of the past 34 years, taped it to the wall, and fought for days about stuff like whether one Zelda is worth more than two Dragon Warriors and a Mortal Kombat.
We considered each year as a whole, looking at how many great games came out, just how great each was, and even how they play today. And our final results shocked even us - many of our own favorite games aren't here, because the years in which they were released didn't make the cut."
It's a great article, but one of the only gripes I have with it is that it's largely based on the American market - so, as can be expected, Mario doesn't make as much of a showing as I would have liked (:
"Three weeks ago, our sibling site NextGen posted the article, "The Ten Greatest Years in Gaming." It was full of cool industry info, but the first thing we asked was, "So, the PlayStation was first designed as an add-on for the SNES. We get the irony, but what were we actually playing in 1993 that made it so great?"
We checked it out. We made a huge list of the best games of the past 34 years, taped it to the wall, and fought for days about stuff like whether one Zelda is worth more than two Dragon Warriors and a Mortal Kombat.
We considered each year as a whole, looking at how many great games came out, just how great each was, and even how they play today. And our final results shocked even us - many of our own favorite games aren't here, because the years in which they were released didn't make the cut."
It's a great article, but one of the only gripes I have with it is that it's largely based on the American market - so, as can be expected, Mario doesn't make as much of a showing as I would have liked (:
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