gamingeek said:Need I go on or shall I introduce you to my little friend?
*Shut it Leo!*
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robio said:Seriously? You put Dirty Dancing in with those? Gay. And not the good kind of gay. I'm talking Sex In The City gay.
Wow.
That's totally gay.
gamingeek said:Wha.......what the ****?!
How about these classics?
I love Naked Gun. Of course I have seen Gremlins, everyone has seen Gremlins. I have seen enough of Dirty Dancing to know that I never want to see it. I have seen every Arnold movie. I have no clue what that Kurt Russel movie is. Sadly I have never seen Crocodile Dundee nor Police Academy.
gamingeek said:Or these:
Need I go on or shall I introduce you to my little friend?
*Shut it Leo!*
Yes I have seen all of those except Footloose, no thank you. I have seen almost all Jean Claude Van Damme movies. How dare you ask me about Spaceballs, hello its me. I was a fan of Spaceballs before I ever saw Star Wars. Scarface is required watching once you hit like 18.
4. 70's -
No.3. 80's - The first half of this decade sucked. There are some classics like Pac-Man, Galaga, Donkey Kong, stuff like that. But the majority of games were so bad that the industry crashed, then came the savior.
Thank you so much Miyamoto and Nintendo, thank you for saving the industry and changing it forever. I started gaming as a little kid and like nearly everyone my age Mario was the first game I ever got into. The NES is one of the all time greatest consoles, so many classic franchises still live on from that time. Genres were created and defined. It all starts here in this decade. Sega had their own console but they weren't significant until the 90s.
That is just scratching the surface, these games will always have a special place in my heart.
2. 00's - The graphics kept getting better and the games started to become more like movies. Huge budgets, heavy focus on stories, voice actors, mo-cap, and giant orchestral scores. The best part is that the games kept getting better as well. This decade saw the 3D game become perfected. Our consoles became more like computers, some of that is good, some very bad. The good is that we are connected online, we can play with almost anyone from around the world. The bad, well you know, too much to name. But again, as I said before the games got better.
The decade started with the old PS1 and N64 on their last years but with some amazing games. My favorite game Zelda: Majora's Mask hit in 2000. The Dreamcast was on fire with awesome games like RE: Code Veronica, Shenmue, and Phantasy Star Online. Then the best console of all time, in my opinion, the Playstation 2 hit. We had masterpieces like Metal Gear Solid 2, Gran Turismo 3, and probably the most important game of the decade Grand Theft Auto 3 hit within the first year.
You know the games of that era, the Halos, GTAs, Devil May Cry, Metroid Prime, Star Wars KOTOR, Final Fantasy, Shadow of the Colossus, Ratchets, Jaks, MGS3, Mario, Zelda, etc. You know the games I don't need to go over them. I do need to mention this one:
I love you RE4. So many of my favorite games of all time are from this decade. Our current generation has given us a bunch of gems like Zelda: TP, Mario Galaxy, MGS4, Little Big Planet, Uncharted 2, Mass Effect, and more. I didn't even mention PC games or handhelds, they all got better and better as well.
The only reason this isn't the best decade is cause it felt like all it did was build and build on what started in the late 90's. The industry has stabilized completely, we actually had two generations with the exact same console manufactures, that has NEVER happened before, always some new company would jump in or an old one will fall but now it seems like we are set in a safe but predictable pattern.
1. 90's - I already covered this decade in a blog so I am just going to repost what I wrote then, if you have read it before skip it:
Gaf created another hell of a nostalgia thread this one about the decade of
the 90's. One post in that thread blew my mind, it stated that many
started the decade on an NES and we ended with the Dreamcast. Holy
hell, let that sink in. The progress we made in that one decade is
insane.
We started like this:
Ended like this:
Think about this, we started in 1990
with the release of Super Mario Bros 3 in the US, the greatest NES game
of all time, one of the greatest games period. That same year we entered
the 16-bit era with the Genesis. After that SNES came out, we got Super
Mario World, Sega gave us Sonic the Hedgehog and the 16-bit era was off
and running. Think of the classics, think about how many of those games
are still masterpieces. Don't forget that around 1993 the PC gaming
scene exploded with Doom and FPSs were invented. PC gaming had
masterpiece adventure games, strategy games, FPSs, flight sims, even for
me who is not a big PC guy I marveled at what the PC was doing cause it
was so different. 
Still better than 95% of all FPSs.
Mid decade came the switch from 2D to 3D and gaming felt brand new
again. Controlling Mario in 3D space for the first time is still
something I will never forget and I wonder if gaming will have a moment
like that again. Storytelling started to evolve, voice acting, cinematic
presentation, games could be like movies now. Resident Evil, Final
Fantasy 7, Super Mario 64, Metal Gear Solid, Zelda: Ocarina of Time,
Half-Life, some of the games that have set standards. 
Remember the moment you first stepped out into
the world.
We ended the decade with a glimpse into the
future, the Dreamcast. A console that came in with a built in modem, a
system that was made for online gaming. State of the art 3D graphics
with games like Sonic Adventure, NFL 2k, Soul Calibur which was a
massive jump over PS1/64. The 2000's by comparison was a decade spent
refining the games and rules setout during the late 90's.
For
me the 90's were my prime childhood years, was I lucky to be able to
experience this decade like that, with the mind of a child. I have done
my very best to retain that sense of child jubilation, of innocence, to
not become cynical when it comes to gaming. It is why on message boards I
act super excited for the next big game, I want to hold on to that
aspect of my childhood. Reality is that I am older, gaming is not as
important as it once was, as much as I still do get excited for games it
will never match the intensity of my childhood self which is fine. It
makes me glad that I got to experience that era as a kid, cause honestly
this era with the online gaming, the "you suck NOOB" crap and stuff as a
kid would really suck.
To start the decade I had my NES, SMB3
hit which was about the most hyped game of all time at that point. In
91 I got a Genesis, I instantly switched to a Sega fanboy so I sadly
missed out on the SNES (but have since gone back to play those games).
Sonics, Eccos, Streets of Rage, Castle of Illusion, Quack Shot, X-Men,
Sports Talk Football, Aladdin, TMNT Hyperstone Heist, and many more.
Remember the fighting game scene SF2 changed everything and Mortal
Kombat changed the way violence was handled in gaming. Back then the
fighting genre was as big if not the biggest genre. I remember the hype
for Mortal Kombat 2 more than anything, it was unbelievable. DUring this
time my friend had a top of the line PC and introduced me to
Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Decent, Tie-Fighter, Duke Nukem 3D, Heretic, Sim
City 2000, Jedi Knight and more, what a revolutionary time for PC
gaming.
This
was legendary. On arcades, consoles, you name it this game was HUGE.
In 96 I got a Saturn and a Playstation, like everyone I entered
the world of 3D gaming. The Saturn didn't do much of 3D for a while,
Panzer Dragoon was a great game but it was still on rails. PS1 launch
games were not that impressive, my brother was the one that got the PS1
so I leeched off him at the start. It wasn't until Resident Evil that I
experienced what the future of gaming was going to be like. The second
half of the decade was all about exploring new types of games, new types
of controls, worlds that we never dreamed we could play in. I never
owned an N64 but a friend had one so I experienced a bunch of the games
through him, especially the joys of four player deathmatch in Goldeneye.
The decade ended with me getting a Dreamcast and being blown away at
the visuals. That jump from PS1 to DC is still to me the biggest jump we
have ever had graphically in the 3D era. 
Games were never the same after this.
I will argue that games are better now, look at what we get to play,
games with massive open worlds, incredible graphics, powerful stories,
perfected gameplay. Games are better but that magic the 90's had is
partly gone. We reached a point where all we are doing is refining the
same games over and over. The Wii at least threw a wrench into the
equation but to be honest outside of mini games there still hasn't been
that revolution payoff. When will we experience that feeling of
discovery like the first time we entered 3D gaming, I think about that
all the time.
And now I leave you with pics of games from the
90s (taken from gaf):
Dvader said:Time for games.
4. 70's -
Ravenprose said:
YES.
Ravenprose said:
as I figured.
robio said:
So when people look back at classic 60's films they usually end up listing a lot of foreign films by directors like Kurosawa and Antonioni. Plus there was a ton of stuff going on in England that was well received in America. Movies like Blow Up for instance. And probably most importantly the James Bond franchise.
Which is why it is indeed surprising. 
robio said:Seriously? You put Dirty Dancing in with those? Gay. And not the good kind of gay. I'm talking Sex In The City gay.
Not quite as gay as that, though.
Foolz said:This thread is pretty epic, now.
Not quite as gay as that, though.
That is the awesome kind of gay.
Dvader said:
gamingeek said:
I love Naked Gun. Of course I have seen Gremlins, everyone has seen Gremlins. I have seen enough of Dirty Dancing to know that I never want to see it. I have seen every Arnold movie. I have no clue what that Kurt Russel movie is. Sadly I have never seen Crocodile Dundee nor Police Academy.
Kurt Russel movie is The Thing. How can you not have seen Police Academy? They made like 8 of them. And Crocodile Dundee?
"That's not a knife. THIS is a knife" That line was adapted in so many ways in the playground. "That's not a sandwich, THIS is a sandwich."
robio said:
Seriously? You put Dirty Dancing in with those? Gay. And not the good kind of gay. I'm talking Sex In The City gay.
Sing it with me Robio!
Actually it was one of my best friends favourite movies, well his sister apparently bought it and it ended up in his DVD collection, which I mocked him for. It's not a movie I love, like Footloose, but they are 80s movies you have to watch at least once.
Let's not forget this masterpiece
Dvader said:Time for games.
4. 70's -
3. 80's - The first half of this decade sucked. There are some classics like Pac-Man, Galaga, Donkey Kong, stuff like that. But the majority of games were so bad that the industry crashed, then came the savior.
Thank you so much Miyamoto and Nintendo, thank you for saving the industry and changing it forever. I started gaming as a little kid and like nearly everyone my age Mario was the first game I ever got into.
Oh look how predictable - a person that declares the best time of gaming to be when they got sucked in as a kid and everything previous is crap. 
Foolz said:robio said:Seriously? You put Dirty Dancing in with those? Gay. And not the good kind of gay. I'm talking Sex In The City gay.
Not quite as gay as that, though.
Except that everything that came before Mario was kind of crappy. A one screen game with the only objective being a hi-score is no where in the same league as a Mario or Zelda.angrymonkey said:Dvader said:Time for games.
4. 70's -
3. 80's - The first half of this decade sucked. There are some classics like Pac-Man, Galaga, Donkey Kong, stuff like that. But the majority of games were so bad that the industry crashed, then came the savior.
Thank you so much Miyamoto and Nintendo, thank you for saving the industry and changing it forever. I started gaming as a little kid and like nearly everyone my age Mario was the first game I ever got into.Oh look how predictable - a person that declares the best time of gaming to be when they got sucked in as a kid and everything previous is crap.