Gameboy Camera is my favourite 1998 game
You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world
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BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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).
Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Actually, I hit my friend in the thigh. Turns out it’s really hard to throw stuff blindfolded. You probably shouldn’t do it.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve found if you don’t put the blindfold around your arm it stays just as easy to throw things as before.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Turns out I hit an artery, blood started gushing everywhere and you won’t believe what game got hit by his blood!
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
All of them? Because it was an artery, those fuckers have no restraint.
Doorknob@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh hey that reminds me Blade came out in 1998 too, love that movie
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
BenevolentOne@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Imagine missing a game so massive it has had a billion sequels, an MMO, and a 700 million dollar television series made because of it.
shittydwarf@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Damn 1998 had hands
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Iirc it’s 0 gravity as well.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve always been surprised that Nintendo never saw any litigation over pretty much calling their racing game Formula 0
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Decades from now when we have Speed Racer type tracks they’ll regret that.
Rokin@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
1998 was great but 2004 was the greatest.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve been saying that same thing since 2005 lol. 2004 is peak gaming. It was great living through that era.
rollerbang@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I invite you to create a post, am very curious about the winners 🙂
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When they said the late 90s was peak human civilization in The Matrix they weren’t lying
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I want to argue with you, but the 90s still had the best food festivals. Gyro wasn’t as popular but like my favorite Greek restaurant opened in 94.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You usually have to pay extra for greek
Doorknob@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
throws dart
hits Tomb Raider 3
throws again
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ah yes, the smash hit Roll Away, which I have definitely heard of.
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Kula World in most of the world. Roll Away was just the US title.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Haven’t heard of that one, either, so the comment still works!
Klear@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
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.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
youtried.jpg
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Zephorah@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Now I just feel old. Really old.
limer@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I described pinball arcades once. Never again
arsCynic@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
God I can feel that Charizard Pokémon Red cover in my soul.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
96-98 is the greatest three year run in the history of gaming.
moakley@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Depends what you mean by “greatest”. Most revolutionary? Biggest leaps forward? Possibly.
But most of those games don’t hold up today.
We’re also getting a strong cheerleader effect on this picture. Mario Party 3? Turok?
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Tirol was pretty shit tbh.
Many of the other games were great though.
Like. I get survivorship bias is a thing. But how many great games came out in 2025?
Fabio rebirth is the only thing I’ve enjoyed much honestly. Where’s the good stuff? Maybe I’m just not seeing it playing it but I just don’t see many games out there I’d call great.
Oh, expedition 33 is really dope. That’s something.
cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
This has the original mario party (the dice block isn’t intended to be part of the title)
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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)
Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sonic Adventure 2
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah, Adventure 2 Battle topped the original in most ways tbh. I wish it had more variety in the playable characters, (Adventure 1 had Big, E-102, and Amy, for instance).) But I understand that they wanted to create a sort of mirror/parity between the light and dark storylines so they gave both sides the same three gameplay styles, instead of having six distinct playstyles.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Where the Freeman is Half-Life?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Middle of second row.
fprawn@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
spyro and crash were my jam back in the day
Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
I played the hell out of the Nagano Winter Olympics game!
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I wore out the connector pins on Rogue Squadron.
xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You should not have switched games.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Hard to top 1998. Same thing with 2007-2009 but for franchises.
kaidenshi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
You can make one of these for just about every year.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well yeah… it’s about that time that games were only a decade of advancement since it was created.
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
The year “pixels actually started to look like something I don’t have to imagine”.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
That’s actually incredible! I remember getting a SNES, then a Dreamcast. Only years later did I get a PS2 which played PS1 games. I never owned a N64 and would play it at friends houses.
I don’t think anybody I knew owned every system
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No one I knew owned every system, but we would trade systems and games all the time. I was 16-17 in this era, so my friends and I had cars and jobs and shit, so we traded a lot of stuff around.
B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Kula World was suprisingly a lot of fun.
rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 3 weeks ago
Sonic Adventure came out in ’99 outside Japan.
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Well I guess you’ll be throwing that dart really far.
finley@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Our standards were much lower. We’ve been spoiled.
But, on the other hand, games have gotten kind of shit lately.
voltaa@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I mean, not strictly talking games this year but we’ve had Baldur’s Gate 3, Expedition 33, Hades 2, Fellowship, Little Kitty Big City, Dispatch, Split fiction, Silksong, Black ops 7 (lol jk), Nightreign, Lies of P and plenty more that I probably am not aware of recently. Games haven’t gotten shit lately, games have always been shit. Just like “all music from the 70s was good” is due to only the best standing the test of time, “games were better in the 90s” is because we forgot the absolute garbage that surrounded the gems that still hold up.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
There were also a tremendous number of absolute trash games that we don’t remember because we don’t remember them.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
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.”
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Even the good ones?
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
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mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
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.