Most Monumental Year in Video Games

[ManciGames]

We need something to fill the pages where the price guide used to go in Issue #3 of Manci Games. We are planning an article that discusses the monumental years in the history of gaming.

I thought the denizens of the DP Forums would also be interested in the results, so rather than to request people to send their answers to MG, please vote here. I think it's a cool question, and one that many folks would be interested in seeing the response to.

Now, vote on what you think the most interesting year in classic gaming was. Then, if you feel like it, post your reasons why in your response. Simple as that.

Please note, Although many great gaming related things happened prior to 1977, we are starting with the release of the 2600 as our point of origin. Excuse the long list of possible answers, but there's a lot of years since the 2600!

[RCM]

We need something to fill the pages where the price guide used to go in Issue #3 of Manci Games.

Is Manci Magazine coming back? If it is good luck.

THE ONE, THE ONLY- RCM

[Lemmy Kilmister]

NES=1986. Nuff said.

[omnedon]

No NES without the 2600.

1977

[ManciGames]

We need something to fill the pages where the price guide used to go in Issue #3 of Manci Games.

Is Manci Magazine coming back? If it is good luck.

THE ONE, THE ONLY- RCM

In a way. There's another thread on DP that talks about it a little bit. Thanks for the well wishes!

By the way, do you guys consider 1985 or 1986 as the launch year for the NES? Wasn't it available in limited quantities in '85?

[Bronty-2]

No NES without the NES :P 1985

[Lemmy Kilmister]

No NES without the NES :P 1985

85 you say hun? My bad.

[NintendoMan]

No NES without the 2600.

1977

True, but no videogames as we know them TODAY without the NES - 1985.

[atomicthumbs]

NES=1985. Nuff said.

Yeah true, no NES without the 2600... But what would have happened after the crash if the NES/FC never existed?



The world may never know.

[RCM]

In a way. There's another thread on DP that talks about it a little bit. Thanks for the well wishes!

Have a link to that thread?

THE ONE, THE ONLY- RCM

[ManciGames]

In a way. There's another thread on DP that talks about it a little bit. Thanks for the well wishes!

Have a link to that thread?

THE ONE, THE ONLY- RCM

Sure thing, man. Here ya go:

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50788

[SoulBlazer]

I've always had a soft soft for 1990. You had the golden year of the NES, the Genesis starting to make a huge impact, a lot of great IBM PC and Commodore games, plus the TG-16 and other older systems.

1991 with the SNES was pretty good as well, as was 1987 and 1997.

Hell, I even thought last year was a good one for games.

[Dr. Morbis]

I was going to vote 1985, but if you think about it that was videogamings darkest hour. Sure the NES was technically "released" but only in select test markets. It's not like we all had NES's in '85. It didn't go nationwide till '86 and didn't really start to catch fire until the Christmas season of '87.

It's all about the games man. So I picked 1987 for the following reasons:

-Legend of Zelda
-Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!
-Castlevania
-Metroid
-Mega Man

That's one way to bring back an industry (I hear some italian plumber also may have helped).

[Ernster]

1987 the year when the NES was released in Australia as well as the greatest game of all time....... Super Mario Bros

[Sylentwulf]

No question. The nes it was for me. Zelda and and SMB1.

[Gapporin]

No NES without the NES :P 1985

85 you say hun? My bad.

Well, if you really want to be technical, the Famicom came out in 1983. So, yeah.

I'm going to hafta say 1980 on this. Things were just really starting to pick up. It was the golden age. New ideas for arcade games were shooting off left and right. Pac-Man had just been released. Atari could (and often did) do anything they wanted to. Ah, my kingdom for a time machine...

EDIT: And not just because of my avatar, either, ha ha. I didn't even notice that.

[imanerd0011]

I voted 1985. If it weren't for the NES and that year, we wouldn't be playing video games today.

[Ed Oscuro]

I voted 1989. GENESIS baby.

Duh, I don't know. I just saw waay to many 1985 votes ;D

Oh and folks, the year is 1983...or 1986. Remember?

[atomicthumbs]

Oh and folks, the year is 1983...or 1986. Remember?

Well, I knew 1983 for the Famly Computer. But I saw a few places list the NES debut in 1985 (like Achika's site and Nintendo's homepage). Though, I'd have to say that it made the biggest impact in 1986.

[Ed Oscuro]

1986 for Japan with the FDS and modern gaming as we know it today, or 1987 for the year we got all the FDS games shuffled onto cartridges :)