You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time.

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• RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨25⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

  I hear, in tomb raider 3 there is a secret code that will show her boob.

  It was a lie!!

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• RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ ago

  I got my son the game boy camera and the printer for Xmas this year

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• Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How did my dart do guys?

  Tap for spoiler

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I played the hell out of the Nagano Winter Olympics game!

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    • Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My condolences

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• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This album/song came a few years later in '02, but I think it still fits here.

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• caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There were also a tremendous number of absolute trash games that we don’t remember because we don’t remember them.

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.”

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    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Even the good ones?

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  • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can make one of these for just about every year.

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• BootLoop@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Gameboy Camera is my favourite 1998 game

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  • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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).

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    • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How did your mom react?

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• Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve found if you don’t put the blindfold around your arm it stays just as easy to throw things as before.

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  • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Turns out I hit an artery, blood started gushing everywhere and you won’t believe what game got hit by his blood!

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    • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      All of them? Because it was an artery, those fuckers have no restraint.

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    • Doorknob@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh hey that reminds me Blade came out in 1998 too, love that movie

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• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve always been surprised that Nintendo never saw any litigation over pretty much calling their racing game Formula 0

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    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Decades from now when we have Speed Racer type tracks they’ll regret that.

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  • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Iirc it’s 0 gravity as well.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When they said the late 90s was peak human civilization in The Matrix they weren’t lying

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You usually have to pay extra for greek

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• setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • BenevolentOne@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• shittydwarf@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Damn 1998 had hands

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• Doorknob@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  throws dart

  hits Tomb Raider 3

  throws again

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• Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well yeah… it’s about that time that games were only a decade of advancement since it was created.

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ah yes, the smash hit Roll Away, which I have definitely heard of.

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  • reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Kula World in most of the world. Roll Away was just the US title.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Haven’t heard of that one, either, so the comment still works!

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• Rokin@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  1998 was great but 2004 was the greatest.

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  • rollerbang@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I invite you to create a post, am very curious about the winners 🙂

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  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve been saying that same thing since 2005 lol. 2004 is peak gaming. It was great living through that era.

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• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  96-98 is the greatest three year run in the history of gaming.

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  • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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    • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This has the original mario party (the dice block isn’t intended to be part of the title)

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• Klear@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Gave it a go, generating a random coord via random.org - 580 x 1087:

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  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.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    youtried.jpg

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• Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Now I just feel old. Really old.

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  • limer@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I described pinball arcades once. Never again

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• MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The year “pixels actually started to look like something I don’t have to imagine”.

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• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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)

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  • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sonic Adventure 2

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Where the Freeman is Half-Life?

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Middle of second row.

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• arsCynic@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  God I can feel that Charizard Pokémon Red cover in my soul.

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• fprawn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I wore out the connector pins on Rogue Squadron.

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  • xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You should not have switched games.

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• Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  spyro and crash were my jam back in the day

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• VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hard to top 1998. Same thing with 2007-2009 but for franchises.

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• kaidenshi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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