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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?"

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  1. West of House by Atomm · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.....

  2. Re:ironic domain name by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Judging by OSS_ilation · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  4. Hello? Hello? by MyOtherUIDis3digits · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:Best Year? A.D. 2101! by Trigun · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:Link dead already by Vo0k · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  7. 1999...a fateful day by ScooterBill · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

  8. Re:FFVII was *NOT* "revolutionary" by script_daddy · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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