Best Year Ever?

[Leon Retro]

Which was it?

The year 2000 was definitely a good time to be a Dreamcast owner, but there's no doubt in my mind that the vintage year for videogaming was 1996. Consider the evidence:

Super Mario 64
Pilotwings 64
VF2
Metal Slug
Nights
Wipeout 2097
Panzer Dragoon Zwei
Resident Evil
Sega Rally

Add Waverace, Guardian Heroes, Tekken2, Soul Edge to that list and I have to agree; a great year. 8)

[tokyochojin]

.....and fifa 96/ 64 ^0^



2000, was definately the year.

Shenmue, Jet Set Radio, Code Veronica, Alpha 3, Crazy Taxi, Capcom Vs Snk, 3rd-Strike, Virtua Tennis, Tony Hawks 2, Zombie Revenge, Marvel Vs Capcom....etc etc

[Ratso]

91/94/96/98/2004 I agree were all brilliant, but I'd like to give a quick shout out to 2002, year of the PAL Cube and Box:

Halo: CE
Super Monkey Ball
Ico
Rez
Super Smash Bros Melee
Metal Gear Solid 2
Burnout 2: PoI
Frequency
Gitaroo Man
Pikmin
REmake
Ikaruga
Winning Eleven 6

Sorry if I'm slightly out with any of those release dates, but never-the-less, 2002 was a brilliant gaming year for me.

[TerryBogard]

1994 was the year of the big technological jump............................so clearly was the best year all round

[Concept]

Sorry if I'm slightly out with any of those release dates, but never-the-less, 2002 was a brilliant gaming year for me.

Yeah, most of those you mention were late 2001, but I also experienced many of them during 2002, before I'd picked up import units.

Great games.

[Zapp$ter]

Add Waverace, Guardian Heroes, Tekken2, Soul Edge to that list and I have to agree; a great year. 8)

Wasn't Yoshi's Island released in 1996? Or was it earlier?

[oracle]

every year is the greatest year, as new AAA+!@"??% games come out

and every year they are not like ET on the 2600

thus be thankful and stop comparing

[lordcookie]

1992

Super Mario Kart

There could have been some other good titles released that year too but it wouldn't matter. The hours I have put into the game make it by far the most important title I have played.

[Kubrick]

1995 for Yoshi's Island in all regions. I missed out on it at time of release as I no longer had a SNES then. Picked it up a few years later for ?4.99 brand-new though. Probably the best ?5 I've ever spent.

[JimmyShimmy]

1998-The year was full of inovation and key games.

Ocarina of Time
Metal Gear Solid
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Half-life
Gran Tourismo

Has there ever been a year when 5 game of that magnitude and innovation have been released apart from 98?

For me Ocarina, HL and GT were all revolutions in the industry.

[AllYourBase]

1992

Super Mario Kart

There could have been some other good titles released that year too but it wouldn't matter. The hours I have put into the game make it by far the most important title I have played.

seconded, best game ever for the amount of fun I had on it at the time. Only streetfighter 2 turbo came close!

[chojin]

seconded, best game ever for the amount of fun I had on it at the time. Only streetfighter 2 turbo came close!

i'll 3rd that!!...

SFII and Super Mario Kart where my life!!...

not forgetting Zelda A Link To The Past!..

[iangilroy]

even though my favourite game ever - ocarina of time was releases in 1998 im gonna have to say 1994......................

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5,seeing street fighter zero on the jap psone was utterly amazing(even though its technically not as good as the saturn version)

1994 was a great anticipatory year. When the PS1 finally got released in Japan it felt like the next gen had finally arrived. Then I just had to wait 10 months for it to come out in the UK...

One thing - SFZ came out on the Japanese PS1 in late December 1995. It came with a video of Biohazard and quite long loading times.

[TerryBogard]

One thing - SFZ came out on the Japanese PS1 in late December 1995. It came with a video of Biohazard and quite long loading times.

Yeah but in that same year, outside the "untouchable" neo geo aes there was nothing quite as beautiful on any console.

[jpred88]

Clearly 1998.

Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Gran Turismo and Half-Life all in one year amongst so many others. Arguably last generation's five defining games.

I agree, so many brilliant games that year. N64 and Playstation were at their peak and some of the best videogames ever were released.