Super Nintendo Entertainment System · 1995
Chrono Trigger
Square's 1995 SNES JRPG, made by an unrepeatable assembly of talent, and still the genre's high-water mark thirty years on.
Games
Notes, reviews, and one or two pieces written for love rather than obligation.
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Nintendo 64 · 1997
GoldenEye 007
The N64 game that taught a generation how console first-person shooters should feel, and invented split-screen multiplayer in the process.
Sony PlayStation · 1998
Metal Gear Solid
Hideo Kojima's 1998 PlayStation stealth opus, the game that taught the medium how to be cinematic without becoming a film.
Sega Dreamcast · 1999
Shenmue
Yu Suzuki's 1999 Dreamcast epic, the most expensive game ever made at the time, and the strangest premier title any console has shipped with.
Sega Mega Drive · 1991
Sonic the Hedgehog
The 1991 Mega Drive platformer that gave Sega a mascot, an attitude, and the only sustained period of competition Nintendo has ever faced.
Nintendo Entertainment System · 1985
Super Mario Bros.
The 1985 NES platformer that defined the medium's grammar, running, jumping, level design, the warp pipe, the hidden block.