Video Gaming in 1998

According to a very helpful post by McLaglen over at the REMEMBER blogspot page,  1998 was a very important year for video games!  Sure enough if you google '1998 video games' you get results like these:  1998: Gaming's Greatest Year   1998 was the Best Year in the History of Gaming  and  Was 1998 The Ultimate Year in Video Gaming? 

Back to looking at lists for me.  Game Rankings is helpful but often has the dates wrong so everything needs to be double checked.  Wikipedia comes through again with a list of possibly every game released this year.  It's difficult to know which games should be included just from looking at these lists though,  especially if you weren't particularly in the know at the time.  That's why lists of the best games of the year are more helpful,  such as Unikgamer's. 

It was the original Playstation/Nintendo 64 era, and game developers had just hit their stride with the new 3d polygon based technology as opposed to the old 2d sprites of previous consoles.  This new technology was really starting to shine with titles like Metal Gear Solid, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time,  Resident Evil 2 and the original Spyro the Dragon.

Home computers had the original Unreal as well as Starcraft, Baldur's Gate and the revolutionary Half-Life.

The unstoppable Pokemon Red & Blue came out on Gameboy,  and the Gameboy Color was released a little later in the year.

So, a big year for gaming and tons to include in the video!