Let's take a trip back to the Late 90's

Twas an interesting era in history. Some of the greatest movies ever made like Fight Club, The Matrix, Office Space & Saving Private Ryan were released, as well as some pretty good alternative rock. RHCP, Deftones, No Doubt, Failure, Mr. Bungle & The Mighty Mighty Bosstones were still around. While Nu-Metal wasn't too good, System of Down was, & there were still some stuff by Korn.  Video Games were also at their peak, with Pokemon Blue/Red & Ocarina of Time.  

The White Stripes were just reviving Garage Rock while Bob Dylan released Time Out of Mind, his most critically acclaimed album since Blood on the Tracks.

I hated the nineties at the time, but damn if the last ten years haven't been worse.

You have to tell us how old you are :o I'm guessing you were born late 80s/maybe early 90s.

The president was getting bj's to the sound of Mr President's Coco Jambo.

Video Games were also at their peak, with Pokemon Blue/Red & Ocarina of Time.

@MysteriousBob: I was gonna say something too.

I thought Drops of Jupiter came out later, so I looked it up.  And ya, it was 2001.  Despite this blunder, I being a 21 year old can attest to the late 90s being the greatest.

Being 31 years old, I can better attest to it.
 
... though those musical selections are not good. Good to see someone else remembers how bad Nu Metal needed to die in a fire, though.

I love the '90's.

@BubbleBobble said:

Video Games were also at their peak, with Pokemon Blue/Red & Ocarina of Time.

Not this shit again.

that fucking Train song was ridiculously big here in portugal that summer

Pokemon was amazing back then, still is now actually. I played way to much Pokemon red.

@Ragdrazi: He's wrong on all counts apart from The Matrix.

@MysteriousBob said:

@BubbleBobble said:

Video Games were also at their peak, with Pokemon Blue/Red & Ocarina of Time.

Not this shit again.

Yeah, I gotta agree with you here, Bob.  People who say that gaming was in its peak in the 90s have the most rose-colored glasses ever, and ignores the progress that has been made in both design and narrative in the years since. 
 
Nostalgia - it makes people stupid as fuck.

@YukoAsho said:

@MysteriousBob said:

@BubbleBobble said:

Video Games were also at their peak, with Pokemon Blue/Red & Ocarina of Time.

Not this shit again.

Yeah, I gotta agree with you here, Bob.  People who say that gaming was in its peak in the 90s have the most rose-colored glasses ever, and ignores the progress that has been made in both design and narrative in the years since. 
 
Nostalgia - it makes people stupid as fuck.

No. Games in the 90's were made by small groups of people who had complete creative control. Sure, progress has been made in design. But narrative. Not really. Other then borrowing more and more from movies, I can't think of anything I'd consider a narrative that did not at very least seem to have it's roots in 90's gaming. In fact, we've been seeing a revival of those older narrative ideas in games like Dragon Age and Fallout 3. Funny that they were considered such refreshing successes.  And as for design, sure, games have gotten better. With that amount of money going into them it would be impossible not to. But modern gamers really have an incredible problem with mistaking gloss for quality. And are things like regenerating health bars really an innovation? Or are they just pandering to laziness in pursuit of money? In no era is every game going to be astounding. And with its low budget nature, I'm willing to concede that the 90's probably had more bad ideas put forward then in today's immaculately tended AAA world. It's just that the good ideas, and there were many, blow today's crap out of the water.   It kind of frustrates me to see how short a memory gamers have.

6. And dude...well done on the girlfriend. I hope it wasn't too late in the 90s though being that you're 31.

@Bombs_Away said:

6. And dude...well done on the girlfriend. I hope it wasn't too late in the 90s though being that you're 31.

What?

@Ragdrazi:   1. Simpsons can't be attributed to the late 90's. 2. Alt Rock was shit and always will be.  3. There is, and always will be, terror and terrorism. 4. I'm from the UK so I don't care about Clinton or America in that time. 5. Again arcades can't be attributed to the late 90s. 6. And dude...well done on the girlfriend. I hope it wasn't too late in the 90s though being that you're 31.

4. And yet you act like such a charming victim of the failing American educational system. Why is that?

The 90s were awesome! love the music

@Ragdrazi said:

4. And yet you act like such a charming victim of the failing American educational system. Why is that?

And then it all became personal...

@mnzy said:

@Bombs_Away said:

6. And dude...well done on the girlfriend. I hope it wasn't too late in the 90s though being that you're 31.

What?

What?

Threads like this make me disappointed in the GB community. Guess what? EVERY ERA WAS THE BEST. We get so self-entitled with our own goddamn generations that we refuse to look at the quality of other decades. Yes, Pokémon cards were cool. Yeah, the original Pokémon games, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VII, and plenty of other 90's-ass games were cool and would have trouble being made nowadays. Yes, alternative rock has always sucked as much as it rocked (except in the 80's before every rock band was an "alternative rock" band and the alt bands you'd heard of were pretty much limited to R.E.M., The Replacements, and a few more that weren't just local) and good movies got made.

Again, the only incendiary statements by the OP were the statements that film and games were at their peak then, which is an opinion that really merits little more than a comment in someone else's thread. But it leads to a ridiculous shouting match referring to people as "stupid as fuck" and "charming victims of the failing American educational system."

I would reproach all of you, but I'm about to go and get breakfast, so fuck that.

The Bosstones formed in 85, also Drops of Jupiter was released in 01. Your post is invalid.

The Stone Temple Pilots were still relevant, grunge was dying, but not quite dead, and a song about Barbies was about to ruin my brain forever:.

SWEET, MERCIFUL CHRIST

@Ragdrazi:

In terms of terrorism, being from the UK there was more terrorism then than there is now.

@Little_Socrates: One, pokemon was never cool.  Two, my comment was directed at the attitude of a troll. Nothing more.

90's for me... I was born at the very start of that shitty decade... we had shitty presidents, music was shit, tv was shit, games were starting to become more relevant to the everyday life of people, cars were SHIT <-- i fucking hate 90's cars.. Hawaii was awesome as always. The world seemed slightly more peaceful back then, Anonymous was nothing more then a word, Fashion was well.. lets put that in the category of cars.. pokemon was the shit *Still is* Gas was cheap.. man.. if only the 2000's were better.. (fashion got a little better, cars got better, games got more advanced and bigger in the world, tv still is shit, music is still.. shit,)

The 90s was the era for Black Metal, now most of it is shitty or simply not the same.
 
I'd say it was for Rap/Hip-Hop too but Straight Outta Compton was out in the 80s.

For anyone saying Drops of Jupiter was 2001, you're right, I was confusing it with "Meet Virginia". 
 
Anyway, I updated it with Paranoid Android, from 1997. 
 
As for the video games hitting their peak, it's true. Half-Life (1998) CS (1999) Quake 3 (1999) Everquest (1999) Asheron's Call (1999) Unreal Tournament (1999) Age of Empires II (1999) Starcraft (1998) Banjo & Kazooie (1998) Pokemon Red/Blue (1998) Ocarina of Time (1998) Crash Bandicoot 3 (1998) Goldeneye (1997) Xenogears (1998) Spyro the Dragon (1998) Final Fantasy Tactics (1998) Metal Gear Solid (1998) RE2 (1998)  Soul Calibur (1999) Powerstone (1999) SFIII:Third Strike (1997) Tekken 3 (1997) Final Fantasy 7 (1997).
 
seriously

 Starcraft (1998) Banjo & Kazooie (1998) Pokemon Red/Blue (1998) Ocarina of Time (1998) Crash Bandicoot 3 (1998) Goldeneye (1997) Spyro the Dragon (1998) Metal Gear Solid (1998) RE2 (1998) Tekken 3 (1997) Final Fantasy 7 (1997).
 
seriously

For anyone saying Drops of Jupiter was 2001, you're right, I was confusing it with "Meet Virginia". 
 
Anyway, I updated it with Paranoid Android, from 1997. 
 
As for the video games hitting their peak, it's true. Half-Life (1998) CS (1999) Quake 3 (1999) Everquest (1999) Asheron's Call (1999) Unreal Tournament (1999) Age of Empires II (1999) Starcraft (1998) Banjo & Kazooie (1998) Pokemon Red/Blue (1998) Ocarina of Time (1998) Crash Bandicoot 3 (1998) Goldeneye (1997) Xenogears (1998) Spyro the Dragon (1998) Final Fantasy Tactics (1998) Metal Gear Solid (1998) RE2 (1998)  Soul Calibur (1999) Powerstone (1999) SFIII:Third Strike (1997) Tekken 3 (1997) Final Fantasy 7 (1997).
 
seriously

You wanna talk late 90's?  Let's start here...

Shoemaker-Levy 9 dawg! That shit was crazy.

Well early mid 90's but still awesome.

yep, good times, playing super nintendo, n64, watching pokemon every  morning. it was good times back then.

As for the video games hitting their peak, it's true. Half-Life (1998) CS (1999) Quake 3 (1999) Everquest (1999) Asheron's Call (1999) Unreal Tournament (1999) Age of Empires II (1999) Starcraft (1998) Banjo & Kazooie (1998) Pokemon Red/Blue (1998) Ocarina of Time (1998) Crash Bandicoot 3 (1998) Goldeneye (1997) Xenogears (1998) Spyro the Dragon (1998) Final Fantasy Tactics (1998) Metal Gear Solid (1998) RE2 (1998)  Soul Calibur (1999) Powerstone (1999) SFIII:Third Strike (1997) Tekken 3 (1997) Final Fantasy 7 (1997).

                   

@PenguinDust

: Let's not.
 
Let's actually start here:
 

@BubbleBobble

said:

                       

  

Much better choice there.
 
Actually, we might just as well start here:
 

@BubbleBobble

said:

As for the video games hitting their peak, it's true. Half-Life (1998) CS (1999) Quake 3 (1999) Everquest (1999) Asheron's Call (1999) Unreal Tournament (1999) Age of Empires II (1999) Starcraft (1998) Banjo & Kazooie (1998) Pokemon Red/Blue (1998) Ocarina of Time (1998) Crash Bandicoot 3 (1998) Goldeneye (1997) Xenogears (1998) Spyro the Dragon (1998) Final Fantasy Tactics (1998) Metal Gear Solid (1998) RE2 (1998)  Soul Calibur (1999) Powerstone (1999) SFIII:Third Strike (1997) Tekken 3 (1997) Final Fantasy 7 (1997).

Plenty more to add to that. Fallout 1 (1997) Fallout 2 (1998) Baldur's Gate (1998) Unreal (1998) Monkey Island 3 (1997) Grim Fandango (1998) Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998 - now to be re-released in 3d) Super Mario RPG (1996) Mario 64 (1996) Super Smash Brothers (1999) Resident Evil 1 (1996)