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Mummelmann on 22 February 2015
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S.Peelman said:
Soundwave said:
1990-1998 is the height of Nintendo's power.

They've never had a stretch since where they've been that good

Super Mario Bros.3, Mario World, Earthbound, Super Metroid, Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Mario 64, GoldenEye, Donkey Kong Country, Star Fox, F-Zero, culminating with Zelda: OoT in November 1998.

That was the greatest time to be a Nintendo fan. If you missed out, I feel bad for you, but that was the Golden Age.

Agreed.

I'd even take it further and say that was the Golden Age of gaming in general. For PC, for SEGA, even for PlayStation. It's no coincidence most of the games in my list in Smeags's Top 50 thread hail from that era.


The 90's were indeed the golden era for gaming. Sometimes I am saddened by the state of the gaming industry today; both by the developers and publishers and the audience themselves and what they put up with. I don't think I'll ever love games and gaming as much as did during the 90's.

For me, it is also about the fact that gaming was something elusive and difficult at the time, in practical terms, I had no money and every gaming experience was almost sacred. Today; I have a backlog of several hundred games and can get a dozen greatest hits for ten euros and basically buy all the games I want; it's just not the same.