Flashback: 1998
Legacies and letdowns, successes and failures. Every year brings their share of each. Video gaming is a medium that moves forward at such high velocity that each 12 months brings some-thing that affects the industry, for better or worse, however big or small. A look at our On Cloud Nine? feature shows that 2007 is one of the finest years in video game history. But what of the years that have shaped games as we see them today?
As we move into the busy fourth quarter of ’07 and look forward to 2008, D+PAD begins its Flashback series. Exploring the last decade of gaming, we look at the rise of Sony, the fall of Sega and the perennial Nintendo. We’ll take you back to the introduction of Microsoft and of course we will remember those games that have left their legacies, the games that were letdowns. The games that have blessed these companies with success, or cursed them with failure.
We begin with 1998, a year that would spawn some of the greatest games we have ever seen. Whose imprints are still left today, nearly ten years on…
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