Let's all relive 1997!

[Baloo]

http://web.archive.org/web/19970605140355/http://www.sega.com/

Even the flash games and downloads section works.

[Iron Lizard]

Wow, the internet has come a ways a think.

[mrbigreddog]

Just downloaded that Daytona USA PC Demo from the download section! That's pretty cool!

[j_factor]

Most of the downloads don't work for me...

[Baloo]

Most of the downloads don't work for me...

You'll have to give them time to load, sometimes the site is slow. The downloads were working for me just fine.

I'm thinking about saving all the pages of the site and loading them onto like a whole separate site as a neat little thing.

[j_factor]

You'll have to give them time to load, sometimes the site is slow. The downloads were working for me just fine.

I get "not in archive" pages for many of them.

[FoxHound]

Ah the year I was hooked on Star Fox 64 and dreaming of having a NEW Trans Am
http://ws6.bambeezer.com/opening2.jpghttp://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01856/media/StarFox64_N64_Game_Box.jpg

[gamegenie]

the year I got my PlayStation.

[mrbigreddog]

The year I got my girlfriend pregnant!

Edit: Thanks for the memories Baloo!!! hehe... Silly Old Bear!

[MrMatthews]

The year I graduated high school and moved 2000 miles away from my parents to make it on my own.

[Baloo]

I get "not in archive" pages for many of them.

Then try a different date. Some dates have one thing logged while another wont, it's a little wierd how it was done.

[nathanallan]

1997 I was in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield. Yay. There were no games there :(

[Devil N]

The year I first got internet at home. Yes, that late.

[mrbigreddog]

The year I graduated high school and moved 2000 miles away from my parents to make it on my own.

I had a friend do the same thing, but we graduated in 1998. He moved 2000 miles away! Tyler? Is that you?!!

[runback22]

The year I met a girl who made the next 4 years of my life a living hell...../Pass

[Puffy2k316]

97 was the year I finally gave up on Nintendo and went and got a PSX + FF7 and never looked back.

I never had a Saturn back then. My dad told me to wait until the other two systems came out before I made a decision. Smart man (note: The Saturn was awesome but not for a kid with no means of importing games).

[Mr. Ksoft]

Wow this is why I love the Internet Archive. I find it amusing that this is brought up right now... on their archived front page they're pushing Fighters Megamix, and my friends and I just started playing it last week and discovered how awesomely fun it is. Nice coincidence.

1997: I was five years old and the only games I owned were Super Mario Land, Lemmings, MegaRace, and a bunch of edutainment titles. I had no knowledge of what was going on in the world at the time. Ah, a time of blissful ignorance.

[QuickSciFi]

1997 was a pivotal year in my life...

[17daysolderthannes]

97 was the year I finally gave up on Nintendo and went and got a PSX + FF7 and never looked back.

I never had a Saturn back then. My dad told me to wait until the other two systems came out before I made a decision. Smart man (note: The Saturn was awesome but not for a kid with no means of importing games).

I did the reverse. I didn't really care about the Saturn, probably because they played Virtua Racing in the store display and that game quite frankly looks like shit on a then-next-gen system. Then, the Playstation came out and I played all sorts of awesome games like Jet Moto, Tomb Raider, ESPN Xtreme Games (fucking LOVE that game), and others and was hooked. I asked my mom for it and she said "well just wait, there'll be another one out in a year and you'll want that." In my still retarded 12 year old mind I thought the N64 was going to be the best system of the generation, and boy what a mistake. Once you got past the solid list of launch titles, the system was just ass all the way through. Meanwhile, PSX got Tony Hawk, Gran Turismo, and a slew of other games far ahead of their time. Fortunately, around 99 or so I got the Mac based PSX emulator and a dual shock-style USB controller and had a "close enough" PSX experience.

Long story short: fuck the N64, it ruined my life.

[Puffy2k316]

I think everybody fell for Nintendo's propaganda. I mean what kind of kid wouldn't freak out at the sight of Mario 64? I knew of people that would make their parents take them to Toys R Us just to play it on the demo kiosk leading up to launch. Then, Nintendo released like 4 worthwhile games over the next year :bang:

[David J.]

I remember this site!!!!111 And I got internet at home around this time too... or was it late '96? I dunno, but close enough.

1997... I was in the fourth grade, drooling over a Saturn but fell in love with PC gaming. I was in the fourth grade the first half, and what a fucking hell hole. The teacher called me stupid at open house in front of my parents, and many years later when I bought my DC I ran into her that day. How fucking ironic.

Second half, fifth grade, don't remember much about it, but still a hell hole. Drooled over more PC games and Saturn some more. Haeted PSX!!111

And mrbigreddog, some one named tyler sent me a txt message the other day. WTF??!?!?

[kool kitty89]

Tony Hawk... [snip]
Long story short: fuck the N64, it ruined my life.

Heh, oddly enough the N64 versions are the only ones that I've actually played. (don't own any, but used to rent them and a couple freinds would bring it over)

We never had a problem with the more limited library of the N64, we got ours (used) in christmas of 1999, so there were lots of games already out. SSB was my #1 must have, I was a bit dissapointed when all it came with was Mario 64. (I think it was SSB, Star Fox 64, and then SM64 that I really wanted -then others like DK Racing, MK64, Goldeneye -which I didn't get until a couple weeks ago, only rented it before)
Then there's Zelda, but I only remember seeing that one time in a store display, and a vague reccollection of the ads, until my dad bought a used copy.
I have pretty much nothing but fond memories of the N64, granted being a bit younger probably helped (I was 10 in '99), along with getting the console late. I think the best aspect was party games, th elarge number of 4-player simultaneous games was an awesome aspect of the console.

There was a fleeting interest in PSX games for the while Bleem! was out, but that died and I've never cared that much for PSX, save a handfull of games I really wish had been ported, some of which are expensive now that emulation is good... (like the first Silent Hill)


However, on to the main topic: in 1997 we were having fun with our SNES as well as the old NES occasionally, and the PC of course -X-Wing is Awsome -and Return to Zork and Myst and some Sega PC ports. (though maybe we got those later, Garfield, BUG! and S&K collection demo)
We got the SNES christmass of '95 or maybe '96 (can't remember if the N64 was out), used of course (from a neighbor) and with around a dozen games.

Yeah, so no Sony (inless you count the Trinitron and VCR), and on'y Sega PC (not positive we had those yet though), and my Grandpa has one of the PCs that came with Sonic CD pre-installed. Well that and 1 or 2 freinds who had a Genesis (but I don't remember playing much, maybe watching).

Oddly enough I remebber the Saturn better than PSX in the late '90s, aat least in terms of people owning them (none of my freinds, but several freinds of my parents -or children thereof).
After the PSone came out I remember a few more people getting them as a budget system, and a few others getting used older PSXs. Still, for some reason the thing never appealed to me all that much, I think the limit of 2-players was a big part of it. (N64 spoiled me)

[Cornugon]

I think everybody fell for Nintendo's propaganda. I mean what kind of kid wouldn't freak out at the sight of Mario 64? I knew of people that would make their parents take them to Toys R Us just to play it on the demo kiosk leading up to launch. Then, Nintendo released like 4 worthwhile games over the next year :bang:

The first time I saw Mario 64 in action on toystore display in '97 or '98 I actually thought i looked like ass and utterly boring. But then again I was 15/16 already at that time and was more in stuff like Duke Nukem and such.

[Rusty Venture]

1997? I was playing computer games at the time and discovering just how much AOL chatrooms actually weren't very cool.

If you really wanted me to get nostalgic, you should post "Age of Empires" pics.

Catapult ships FTW!

[streetsofrage]

1997? I was playing computer games at the time and discovering just how much AOL chatrooms actually weren't very cool.

If you really wanted me to get nostalgic, you should post "Age of Empires" pics.

Catapult ships FTW!


Age of Empires 1 and 2 are my favorite pc games of all time , i played the shit out of those games too bad AOE 3 sucked

[16-bit]

The first time I saw Mario 64 in action on toystore display in '97 or '98 I actually thought i looked like ass and utterly boring. But then again I was 15/16 already at that time and was more in stuff like Duke Nukem and such.

When I saw it for the first time in a store demo in 1996, I couldn't figure out how to work the damn N64 controller, then again I was pretty short and they probably didn't make it so kids my age could reach it.

In 1997 I was 7 years old and I had a SNES, no next gen consoles for me at that point.

Our family friend's friend had a Sega Saturn that they would bring over every once in a while, I remember being absolutely horrified by the violence at Virtua Fighter 2 (which is very odd because me and my friend would play Killer Instinct at his house all the time) and falling asleep while his mom would play Sim City 2000 on her friends Saturn.

[Flygon]

I was 5 at the time...

Uh, well, almost nothing interesting happened in my life. I was in the prep grade in school and just watched TV and played Mega Drive games...

Hell, on the new years day for 2000 some guy had brought over his PSX, I asked what the hell it was and he said 'it is better than what you were going to play', referring to my Mega Drive II.

I quite literally didn't understand that the guy meant at the time, I just thought 'Oh, it's another video game system'.

Uh, I should stop describing 2000.

[Rusty Venture]

Age of Empires 1 and 2 are my favorite pc games of all time , i played the shit out of those games too bad AOE 3 sucked

Should an "Age of Empires" thread ever magically appear, I'd gladly look back with nostalgia on AOE2 and my numerous conquests as leader of the Turks.

Too bad that chicken-shit computer always quit before my Janissary Troops could blast their last villager. :shame:

[gamevet]

1997 was the first year I got onto the internet, and I was using a Saturn to do so. My favorite sites were Gamefan, Daily Radar and tele-games.

[Flygon]

Should an "Age of Empires" thread ever magically appear, I'd gladly look back with nostalgia on AOE2 and my numerous conquests as leader of the Turks.
You called?;)

[kool kitty89]

In 1997 I was 7 years old and I had a SNES, no next gen consoles for me at that point.

Kind of the same for me (as I posted in my big explanation earlier)


falling asleep while his mom would play Sim City 2000 on her friends Saturn.

Weird, I remember back seat gaming on Sim City 2000 on the Win95 IMB PCs in my elementary school library. (there were always kids either playing or "watching" with those PCs. often Jazz Jackribbit otherwise "Fun Pack" -arcade knock-off compilation, -I loved hyperoids)
I think this was 1998.

[Mr. Ksoft]

otherwise "Fun Pack" -arcade knock-off compilation, -I loved hyperoids)
I think this was 1998.
This is the first time I have ever seen this mentioned by somebody other than me. I had it in 1998ish on my grandmother's Windows 3.1 computer. I still have the disc.
So it did sell more than one copy...
(Hyperoids was pretty good, but I played a lot more Emlith and Chomp. Especially Chomp once my young self figured out how to make it run slower so it was easier...)