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Post by astropoug on Jul 12, 2021 17:57:10 GMT 10
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Post by jaydawg89 on Jul 12, 2021 19:34:31 GMT 10
 Honestly 1998 should be included in this. That year had a fair amount of Y2K games. ![]() The Dreamcast also debut in late 1998 which is a quintessential Y2K console. That began the transition from 5th to 6th generation gaming. Not really, 1998 was peak 5th gen gaming. 1999 kicked off the transition and even then, it wasn't until 2001 that we were mostly in the 6th generation and 2002 when we had entirely transitioned.
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Post by astropoug on Jul 12, 2021 19:51:28 GMT 10
Honestly 1998 should be included in this. That year had a fair amount of Y2K games. ![]() The Dreamcast also debut in late 1998 which is a quintessential Y2K console. That began the transition from 5th to 6th generation gaming. Not really, 1998 was peak 5th gen gaming. 1999 kicked off the transition and even then, it wasn't until 2001 that we were mostly in the 6th generation and 2002 when we had entirely transitioned. The 1998-1999 school year and Summer 1999 was peak 5th gen. I remember how big a deal Super Smash Bros was in Summer 99, I played it all the time. Y2K era did start in 1998-1999 as a whole (Britney Spears, The Matrix), but the quintessential years are 1999-2000 and 2000-2001, with Summer 2000 (the summer Space Channel 5 and Deus Ex came out) being the absolute peak in my opinion.
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Post by jaydawg89 on Jul 12, 2021 20:27:45 GMT 10
Not really, 1998 was peak 5th gen gaming. 1999 kicked off the transition and even then, it wasn't until 2001 that we were mostly in the 6th generation and 2002 when we had entirely transitioned. The 1998-1999 school year and Summer 1999 was peak 5th gen. I remember how big a deal Super Smash Bros was in Summer 99, I played it all the time. Y2K era did start in 1998-1999 as a whole (Britney Spears, The Matrix), but the quintessential years are 1999-2000 and 2000-2001, with Summer 2000 (the summer Space Channel 5 and Deus Ex came out) being the absolute peak in my opinion. As a whole, I think late 1998 - mid 2001 is considered the Y2K era by most (and it's very agreeable). Mid 1997 - Mid 1998 is what I would consider as just the late 90s (1997 is a very debatable year though and a lot of people would just consider 1998 - 2001 the Y2K era and 1997 as "core 90s"). IMHO, I think 1997 is late 90s because, 1995 did feel quite different to 97 (especially the latter half of that year).
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Post by jaydawg89 on Jul 12, 2021 20:30:40 GMT 10
Not really, 1998 was peak 5th gen gaming. 1999 kicked off the transition and even then, it wasn't until 2001 that we were mostly in the 6th generation and 2002 when we had entirely transitioned. The 1998-1999 school year and Summer 1999 was peak 5th gen. I remember how big a deal Super Smash Bros was in Summer 99, I played it all the time. Y2K era did start in 1998-1999 as a whole (Britney Spears, The Matrix), but the quintessential years are 1999-2000 and 2000-2001, with Summer 2000 (the summer Space Channel 5 and Deus Ex came out) being the absolute peak in my opinion. The more I think about it too, late 1998 did have some Y2K era games, such as Half-Life, Pokémon Red & Blue, Metal Gear Solid, Spyro the Dragon, StarCraft: Brood War... Overall, I think late 1996 - 2000 is just one big era for video games (dominated by the 5th generation of video gaming).
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Post by astropoug on Jul 12, 2021 22:08:49 GMT 10
The 1998-1999 school year and Summer 1999 was peak 5th gen. I remember how big a deal Super Smash Bros was in Summer 99, I played it all the time. Y2K era did start in 1998-1999 as a whole (Britney Spears, The Matrix), but the quintessential years are 1999-2000 and 2000-2001, with Summer 2000 (the summer Space Channel 5 and Deus Ex came out) being the absolute peak in my opinion. The more I think about it too, late 1998 did have some Y2K era games, such as Half-Life, Pokémon Red & Blue, Metal Gear Solid, Spyro the Dragon, StarCraft: Brood War... Overall, I think late 1996 - 2000 is just one big era for video games (dominated by the 5th generation of video gaming). I can definitely see it. Metal Gear Solid was the game that kicked the stealth game genre into the mainstream. These games hit their peak in popularity in the Y2K era, right as the spy film renaissance also did with Mission Impossible II. Half-Life IMO actually leans more 2000s than 90s, that’s how advanced it is. The only thing 90s about it are the graphics. Spyro’s peak was in the Y2K era. Year of the Dragon is often considered the best game, and that was the year 2000, so I can definitely see Spyro as a Y2K-era franchise. IMO you can extend the 5th Gen era into early 2001. This was the last hurrah of the N64 with the releases of Conker’s Bad Fur Day and Paper Mario. Mid-2001 is the transition. PS2s started to get big, and you started to see some real standout titles like Gran Turismo 3 and Twisted Metal: Black. I could be wrong but I think the PS2 shortages had ended by this point? At the same time, GTA 3, the game that would define PS2 gaming for better or for worse, hadn’t released yet. Neither did the Xbox or GameCube. If you were a Nintendo fan, you were waiting in the dark, and it felt very long in the tooth (as John Titor would describe it).
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Post by John Titor on Jul 12, 2021 23:52:53 GMT 10
Y2K era video games not mentioned          
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Post by 10slover on Jul 13, 2021 0:05:47 GMT 10
Damn, i was about to mention jet set radio... That game embodies y2k pretty well: funky freestyle music, breakdancing and a fixation with japanese culture.
It's just ironic that it came out in the early 2000s, around the time rollerskating became uncool
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Post by John Titor on Jul 13, 2021 0:12:13 GMT 10
Damn, i was about to mention jet set radio... That game embodies y2k pretty well: funky freestyle music, breakdancing and a fixation with japanese culture. It's just ironic that it came out in the early 2000s, around the time rollerskating became uncool I miss my Dreamcast, I got it the week it came out. Literally was playing ps2 level graphics in 1999 when it came out of the joint. In early 2001 this thing in the paper said " Sega getting out of the hardware market" I was like NOTTTTTTT AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and sold it. There is also a new Jet Set Radio type game coming out btw
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Post by 10slover on Jul 13, 2021 2:43:10 GMT 10
I thought the ps2 embodied y2k pretty well too, but i guess it's more of a mcbling thing, even though it came out in 2000
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Post by ItsMichael on Jul 13, 2021 5:31:12 GMT 10
The whole vibe of these video games to me feels very futuristic for some reason…
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Post by astropoug on Jul 13, 2021 10:32:14 GMT 10
The whole vibe of these video games to me feels very futuristic for some reason… A lot of these games also had cyberpunk themes, like Final Fantasy VII, Perfect Dark, Deus Ex, System Shock 2, and Metal Gear Solid 2. It was just the hottest thing at the time. Y2K era IMO was the absolute peak of cyberpunk. It was also this era that gave us The Matrix.
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Post by sman12 on Jul 14, 2021 22:05:05 GMT 10
Does the original Max Payne count? It was released two months before 9/11 and the main character uses "bullet time" (from The Matrix) as part of an attack technique.  
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Post by jaydawg89 on Jul 14, 2021 23:20:37 GMT 10
Does the original Max Payne count? It was released two months before 9/11 and the main character uses "bullet time" (from The Matrix) as part of an attack technique. Yeah I guess, I would consider it more transitional though. Honestly, a lot of movies/media throughout the entire 00s took influence from the Matrix.
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Post by astropoug on Jul 15, 2021 19:44:18 GMT 10
The 1998-1999 school year and Summer 1999 was peak 5th gen. I remember how big a deal Super Smash Bros was in Summer 99, I played it all the time. Y2K era did start in 1998-1999 as a whole (Britney Spears, The Matrix), but the quintessential years are 1999-2000 and 2000-2001, with Summer 2000 (the summer Space Channel 5 and Deus Ex came out) being the absolute peak in my opinion. As a whole, I think late 1998 - mid 2001 is considered the Y2K era by most (and it's very agreeable). Mid 1997 - Mid 1998 is what I would consider as just the late 90s (1997 is a very debatable year though and a lot of people would just consider 1998 - 2001 the Y2K era and 1997 as "core 90s"). IMHO, I think 1997 is late 90s because, 1995 did feel quite different to 97 (especially the latter half of that year). True, the N64 didn’t even exist in 1995, whilst the PS1 wasn’t popular yet. No Spice Girls either.
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