Every Year In Video Gaming Ranked From WORST To BEST 

2007 was a remarkable year for video games. The gaming industry was seeing some of its most significant releases of all time, and we were met with a plethora of titles to choose from. Halo 3, Super Mario Galaxy, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Uncharted, Half-Life 2 Episode 2, Crysis, The Witcher, and Modern Warfare - to name a few. 2007 was an outstanding year for games.

Amazing Video.

why does this have no likes it's been 45 minutes

@@CBeanss I wasn't playing video games at all in 2007, despite being 14 years old. In fact, I've never been a COD fan ever. However, after reading this, the impact that 2007 had on the industry is undeniable. Anyway...I'm going to watch the list now! Happy New Year!

That's cool, I'm a 1978 baby too

I was born in 1978 and feel exactly the same 👍

Born in 77 myself. Still enjoying videogames with passion

I was born in 1977. We grew up in the best Period to grow up, in my opinion. Starting with the Atari 2600 we had the Luck to play aaaall the great Games when they were new.

1979 here, I'm usually the oldest person commenting on this type of stuff, but we definitely have seen the best years of gaming.

'74 here

They didn’t even mention COD4. Stupid review really, and actually very childish to not mention it considering it’s one of the most influential games of all time

@@mrjayk1982 They also didn't mention God of War 2, one of the greatest sequels and best Playstation exclusives that came out near the end of PS2 life cycle, but nope, let's just showed a footage of Bee the movie video game instead, smh.

@@mrjayk1982 Yeah Cod4 is the most important multi-player videogame of the entire 7th generation.

@@mrjayk1982 people hate call of duty so much that they forgot how innovative and influential it was. Cod 4 literally changed the FPS genre, multiplayer gaming, and shot the entire series into the stratosphere. It doesn’t get enough respect.

@@mrjayk1982 Childish? Your reaction seems more childish. Maybe they just didn't think it as important as you do in the great scheme of things. Lots of things they didn't mention that some us might feel they should have. It's already 2 hours long.

Where’s COD 2?

The gaming crash was mainly a US thing and the strength of the industry in Japan and Europe is what saved the year and maybe also the industry, even if it did affect the world through the issues at Atari. Japan was going strong with the Famicom and Europe, especially the UK, had a strong home computer market with things like the ZX Spectrum, Commodor 64 and the BBC Micro.

Not to mention just how influential Super Metroid has been for Indie Games and any Metroidvania game since it's release

You looked up the wikipedia page for 1994 in gaming, didn’t you Squidward?

@@snorzyyt No, I'm just old

@@llpalm08 I mean…gaming wasn’t that big in Europe. They had mini PCs that could play games but also were meant for productivity tasks. The US basically was the video games market at the time, at least the “global market” outside of Japan. It’s important to note that video games were seen by many as a fad at this time. Similar to electro-mechanical arcade games, which went in and out of fashion. That’s why a company like Nintendo was able to sneak in and own the market when other industry players, like Mattel (the biggest toy maker) and Magnavox or RCA (leading American electronics makers) really struggled. (Compare to how Nintendo struggled against the PlayStation, despite being the more established company) There has been a tendency to overstate how big the crash was, with some commentators saying gaming “could have died” with the “Atari Crash”, but this is clearly over simplifying things, as the video shows that people wanted to make video games before there were even computers that could run them….so someone would have made video games even if everyone had actually stopped in the 1970s…but that doesn’t mean we should understate the harm of the crash to the industry. The industry went pretty dormant. I’ll put it this way….let’s say the global economy tanked and most of the major US and Japanese Automakers died off. Yes the Germans will still have cars, but we would still talk of this as the “Global Auto Crash”

50+ and still gaming. Love to see it.

Mostly good shouts for 2007. But just to point out (without trying to be pedantic), Pokemon Diamond and Pearl strictly speaking did first release in 2006 in Japan, and I think the scrutiny towards PS in 2007 was more to do with the PS3 as a console. 2014 immediately springs to mind in terms of a worse year for PS, across all platforms at their respective times.

2007 was a weak year for Japanese games aside from Nintendo. That’s why lots of other years surpassed it since western games are overrated.

For sure. I don't always see eye to eye with their countdowns (like this one), but I've followed them since their WhatCulture days and am happy that they're still churning out great content together.

They are almost like ASMR

Agreed. Making the jump from WC to TJ was the easiest choice in the world for me.

@@CrowTRobot Ben, Peter, and Jules..man if Jules came over to TJ that would be amazing

you'd just need to play this in reverse lol

To be honest, many years deserve top spot, and I wouldn’t have put 2001 as top spot due my own biases. Looking at the majority of comments, everyone has a different idea of what should be top and there seems to be no consensus. They also seem to ignore the Amiga, BBC, and spectrum which for a UK based channel is quite baffling. Those computers had a huge impact on the industry. This list of course, has an entirely subjective assessment but quite a few people have pointed out that a few entries at the start don’t make sense, and really could be a lot higher, and so could be interpreted entirely differently by the same scale they created. But the ranking shouldn’t be taken seriously. and it was a really good look at the development of the gaming industry. I feel the ranking is more of a hook to get interest -it definitely succeeded in that!

Overall I still give 1998 the top spot but It's close. You could make an argument for both being the best In two different ways.

2001 had banger games from the N64, Dreamcast, GameCube, Xbox, GBA, PlayStation, and PlayStation 2. It’s unbeatable as the best year in gaming.

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Thank you for being the random, and sole reason for the making of this video.

Earthbound and KIller Instinct were there as well, and it's also the year in which The Elder Scrolls and Warcraft both got their starts. 1994 was freaking awesome, I can't fathom how they think it's the worst year for gaming of all time. Like, I just can't wrap my head around it at all. Legitimately perplexed by it, haha.

it's probably my favorite year. up there for sure. 90s gaming was very strong and 94 had an amazing lineup.

Well, they missed a huge part of the gaming industry that were the reason it became and industry in the 80 's and 90's. Look up Commodore 64 and Amiga, , Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum and Atari ST.

My birthday year is GOATED

1992 was huge for PC gaming: Wolfenstein 3D, Dune II, Ultima VII, Wing Commander, Ultima Underworld, Star Control II. Some of the greatest PC games ever made.

What is AS CRAZY?

@@jeremyshepherd1700 Well, excuse me if my english is not 100% accurate, since it's not my mother language. I meant "like crazy", but you already knew it of course. The satisfaction some people get out of nitpicking...

@@theLethalRabbit that makes more sense. Thought AS CRAZY was a game I’d never heard of before

Here in Germany too. The NES and MS were on the pretty same pupularity Level were I grew up.

It was more popular in Europe, but less popular in Japan and North America.

@@TAGibby Yeah, definitely North America it sounds like most people weren’t even aware of it. With it being a UK based channel though, just thought it might get some more love. 😢😂 I would have been pretty happy with a master system back in the day.

Every year in video gaming ranked based on what Nintendo were doing in each particular year.

The script was either written by an American or the research was based off the typically US-centric take on 80s gaming history. The dismissive attitude toward the Master System illustrates this too, as it was very popular in Europe and the UK. Frustrating how myopic US gaming historians can be.

I don't understand how you could possibly justify 2017 for the #1 or #2 spot , 2001 and 1998 are unquestionably better , 2004 Is better , and there's a few more easily stronger years I could think of. 2017 was a good solid year maybe 8th gens best but I just don't feel like It has any business In top 5 all time.

@@fawkkyutuu8851 Matter of taste. For me, 1998 mostly defends itself with Baldur's Gate, nothing too impressive. 2001 was pretty good, same with 2004, but I couldn't really call them one of the best. 2017 on the other hand, easily belongs to my top 3, right behind 2002 and 2005.

missing these... 2010 - Call Of Duty: Black Ops , Super Street Fighter IV , Heavy Rain 2011 - Dark Souls , Dead Space 2 , Modern Warfare 3 2012 - Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 2013 - The Legend Of Heroes: Trails Of Cold Steel 2014 - The Legend Of Heroes: Trails Of Cold Steel 2 2015 - Bloodborne 2016 - Dark Souls III , Nier Automata 2019 - Days Gone , Biohazard 2 Remake 2020 - Yakuza: Like A Dragon

@@fawkkyutuu8851 fellow days gone enjoyer 🗿 🤝 🗿

Superunknown and Definitely Maybe. The best albums from the best bands of the 90's. yeah, 1994 was badass for music. Turned quickly to shit from 1998 on tho.

@@Cristian-vm1bg yup. Also Smash, Dookie, Illmatic, Downward Spiral, Blue Album, Jar of Flies, Ill Communication, Parklife, Ready to Die, Mellow Gold, Monster, Vitology, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, No Need to Argue, I'm sure I'm forgetting more. The year was insane.

@@CrowTRobot Vitology and Dookie that year too. Holy cow i forgot about those. for some reason i those were later. Man this is like the modern summer of love. Epic year for albums.

Literally, this. But i think it's their "thing", ranked... and this is probably for spicy comments, too. That's why so contriversial strange takes right here.

I concur, consumer wise, but as for their efforts & research is expensed, I understand why they did as they did

I'm sure that's been done to death already

I enjoy it in the ranking format much more

Agree. No way 1994 is the worst year in gaming.

It was launch in Japan in 1998 thats why Sorry to say it but the whole world doesn't just focus around the usa there are over 200 other countries on this earth

@@dkvestboy By the same token this video doesn't mention the entire legacies of European /British 8 and 16 bit home computers launched in the 80's despite the fact it begins covering games from 1972.

As far as I can tell, the UK and Europe didn't exist for triple jump for the past 50 years, so nothing happened there. Oh well.

Americans don't care about our microcomputer history over here.

I had to scroll way too far down to see this comment. Everyone is saying how amazing this video is - and it is well put together - but it almost entirely ignores the European microcomputer market. Deriding the Master System also illustrates how US/Japan centric this list is.

Yes, because it's not like the US was and still is the biggest market for gaming in the world. Focusing on smaller markets while covering the best years in the entire 50 year history of gaming really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Moving along... I guess you missed the part where they only talked about 3rd and 4th generation console launches from Japan huh? For reference, the SG-1000, Famicom, PC Engine, Sega Mega Drive, and Super Famicom were not released here in the states at all. Did you also ignore the part where the narrator spoke almost exclusively about Japanese game releases? You know the bit "if they released in Japan first, that's the date they went with?" Well, that was roughly half the games on the list making your "American centric" claims ridiculous.

@@Sinn0100 The people who made this video are *checks notes*... British. What infuriates me is that people who are British talking about the history of videogames, just fudge over the history of gaming in Britain. Whilst you in the US were afflicted by a videogame crash, the gaming scene here in the UK was thriving, not struggling in the slightest. When they made sneering comments about the Master System, or went on about how the NES was dominating the gaming scene, it goes counter to the experience of the country they were born in, live in, and work in. The Master System did better than the NES in the UK market, but neither could really compete with the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, or Amstrad CPC 464. Why was this? A game on the Speccy could feasibly be bought with pocket money (starting as they did at £1.99), and a huge collection could be gathered if one your mates had a tape-to-tape recorder. The NES didn't save anything in the UK, it barely made a blip on the sales charts. Some of the most important studios got their start here in the UK. Psygnosis made WipeOut (and much, much more), Rare (formerly Ultimate Play the Game) made legendary games on the ZX Spectrum, some of which still hold up today. Peter Molyneux (for all his sins), was an important figure in gaming for many years before he became a walking punchline. It's upsetting that this history barely gets a mention, and thus risks being forgotten. Who cares if the American market is larger? It's not the be all, end all of the history of gaming. Neither is Japan (I was making an analogy, not a one-to-one comparison). At the very least, it would be appreciated if the history of gaming includes a full account, rather than focusing on the one that America tells itself. I'm not being petty, I'm standing up for a past I lived through. You'd think that a group of content creators from Britain would remember their own history wouldn't you? Which was my point in it's entirety. You Americans might learn something if you were introduced to the history of gaming as experienced by other countries, and history wouldn't be left distorted. Personally, I want to hear about the history of gaming from the perspective of France, Spain, Russia, Germany etc. Don't you? At the very least I'd expect journalists from those countries to not only remember and recall, but to value the lived history of their communities. Wouldn't you? The videogame crash if 1983 WAS important, I'm not denying it, but the bedroom coders, studios and publishers of 1980s Britain are being done a disservice when their stories are not even an effing footnote in the history recounted by their fellow countrymen. Their history is still important, regardless of the size of the market. So, what did French filmmaking contribute to the stories told by Hollywood? Which filmmakers were inspired by it? Same principle applies to games... Hence my comment.

@@benjamindurkin If you have the time and resources to make that video list that you (and only you) want, go ahead.

@@MattyisaG Not even an effing footnote for the history of gaming in their own country. Is that not important? In 1982 the ZX Spectrum was released. It's maker wanted it to be for serious stuff, schoolwork, accounts etc. It was only ever used for games, and for a fair few game developers who are STILL active in the industry, it was their first introduction to coding. Sure, if journalists from the USA want to remember gaming history from the perspective of the US, then that's great, but if a generation from Britain that didn't grow up with the 'dead flesh' keyboard are remembering another country's history of gaming, that's really sad isn't it? And not only is it sad, it's a sign of things to come. So please, don't pooh pooh these concerns as irrelevant, or churlish... They're not. History and its preservation is important. If it wasn't everyone would believe that Braveheart was a factually accurate telling of actual historical events wouldn't they? Or that U-571 was an accurate account of a key moment of WWII. Those retellings of history not important?

@@benjamindurkin It’s a gaming RU-vid channel my guy. It’s really not that deep.

They unfortunately let a lot of personal biases into these lists when it's not based strictly on scores and numbers. I love these lists to death, but I had the same feeling about their Zelda game rankings with how pathetically low they placed Twilight Princess while also completely (and warrantless-ly) TRASHING the visuals.

1994 as the worst year ever in gaming is quite a hot take. I would rank it as one of the best. 🤷‍♂️

@@Apanblod Same. I'm so confused by their take!

Super Metroid and DKC alone elevate that year by a lot already.

1999 is also way too low, considering we got games like Heroes of Might & Magic 3, Unreal Tournament, Quake 3, Pokemon Gold/Silver, Re-Volt, Worms Armageddon and Planescape Torment.

The crash has long been blown way out of proportion with people only focusing on the state of gaming In the US for many years and running with this narrative for whatever reason , I guess It made for more marketable sensationalism and a greater sounding comeback story/legacy. Japan was always fine too that's why they decided to test NES In the US after continually enjoying rapid success for almost 2 years prior , and were so confident about It they agreed to cover any losses taking back whatever didn't sell.

missing these... 2000 - Vagrant Story , Valkyrie Profile , Skies Of Arcadia , Final Fantasy IX , Spyro Year Of The Dragon , Tekken Tag Tournament , Jet Set Radio , Banjo-Tooie , Marvel vs Capcom 2: New Age Of Heroes , WWF Smackdown 2: Know Your Role , WWF No Mercy , Age Of Empires II: The Conquerors , Thief II , Diablo 2 , Mega Man Legends 2 , Power Stone 2 2001 - Silent Hill 2 , ICO , Final Fantasy X , SSX Tricky , Red Faction , Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 , Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty , Super Smash Brothers Melee , Shadow Hearts , Fatal Frame , Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec , Grand Theft Auto III , Twisted Metal Black , Sonic Adventure 2 2002 - Biohazard Remake , Age Of Mythology , Warcraft III: Reign Of Chaos , Timesplitters 2 , Mafia , Dark Cloud 2 , Suikoden 3 , Armored Core 3 , Contra: Shattered Soldier 2003 - Def Jam Vendetta , Mario Kart Double Dash , NBA Street Vol. 2 , Tony Hawk's Underground , SSX 3 , Silent Hill 3 , Homeworld 2 , Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield , SOCOM II: US Navy Seals 2004 - Ninja Gaiden , Far Cry , Gran Turismo 4 , Def Jam: Fight For NY , Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic II , The Sith Lords Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher's Bay , WWE Smackdown! vs Raw , NFL 2K5 , Suikoden IV , Shadow Hearts: Covenant 2005 - Biohazard 4 , Shadow Of The Colossus , Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory , Ninja Gaiden Black , Age Of Empires III , Condemned: Criminal Origins , Cold Fear , Fear , Devil May Cry 3 , Kingdom Hearts II 2006 - Wii Sports , Company Of Heroes , Guitar Hero II , Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter , Lost Planet: Extreme Condition , Motorstorm , Dead Or Alive Xtreme 2 , Suikoden V 2007 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow Of Chernobyl , Mass Effect , Lost Odyssey , Assassin's Creed 2008 - Call Of Duty: World At War , Dead Space 2009 - Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 , Street Fighter 4 , Demon's Souls , 1 vs 100