The Ten Greatest Years in Gaming

Ground Glass writes "Next Generation has posted an abbreviated version of gaming's history by only chronicling the high points - the ten best years in the history of the medium. While it doesn't cover 1998 (and therefore forgets the birthdays of Half-Life, Starcraft, and Zelda: Ocarina of Time), most of the memorable moments are there. What was your best year for gaming?"

Comments

Link dead already

[Cinnamon Whirl]

Fast work guys. Nice!

Re:Link dead already

[Vo0k]

Nope, they just forgot to mention him. He'll be back in the new Zelda for Wii.

ironic domain name

[The Mighty Buzzard]

If the next generation of web hosts get slashdotted as quickly as this one, we're in trouble.

Re:ironic domain name

[Rob T Firefly]

Slashdotted off the Games section, no less. That's like being a super-villain with the Superfriends after you, and being busted by Marvin and Wendy instead of Superman and Batman.

West of House

[Atomm]

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.

It has been all downhill from there.....

Analog Wizardry

[Doc Ruby]

How could they leave off the early peak of 1969?

Judging

[OSS_ilation]

from the dead link, this is probably not going to be one of Next Generation's "Ten Best days" for bandwidth

Hello? Hello?

[MyOtherUIDis3digits]

I thought I read that "slashdotting" was no longer a concern to web sites. There's a smoking hunk of plastic and metal at next-gen.biz that would disagree.

Re:Best Year? A.D. 2101!

[Trigun]

In A.D. 2101, war was beginning.

        Captain: What happen ?
        Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
        Operator: We get signal.
        Captain: What !
        Operator: Main screen turn on.
        Captain: It's you !!
        CATS: How are you gentlemen !!
        CATS: All your base are belong to us.
        CATS: You are on the way to destruction.
        Captain: What you say !!
        CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
        CATS: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....
        Operator: Captain !!
        Captain: Take off every 'Zig' !!
        Captain: You know what you doing.
        Captain: Move 'Zig'.
        Captain: For great justice.

First thing I thought when I saw the title

[Tolkien]

"The time spent anticipating Duke Nukem Forever."

1999...a fateful day

[ScooterBill]

Everquest is released. I was having fun. Making friends, finding out that playing with others online brought a whole new dimension to gaming.
Sure the gameplay wasn't groundbreaking but there was a partylike atmosphere that just kind of sucked you in...

Fast forward to 2006: an entire generation of mindless clicking zombies are born. The infection rapidly spreads as lives are lost, families destroyed and new paradigm takes control. The overlords of the World of Warcraft smile contentedly as humanity is enslaved...

Re:FFVII was *NOT* "revolutionary"

[script_daddy]

I feel a great disturbance in the Slash-sphere. As if millions of geeks suddenly got a bulge in their pants, and were suddenly stained.