Gametrailers posted this video covering the “Top Ten Years Of Gaming”. I suppose that people love “top ten” lists of anything, but ones like this make me wonder if we’ve exhausted that gimmick yet to where we’ll have to resort to genuine journalism soon.

Anyway, I agreed with most of the choices they made; those were certainly the most memorable years that I remember in my gaming experience. The one that I have to disagree with popped up right off the bat at #10, which was the year 1983. This year was highlighted for being the stage for the infamous crash in the gaming industry. It was in that year that video game developers were pumping out hundreds of titles, all of them being garbage. With the market flooded and gamers jaded, video games faced extinction. This is something that up until the past couple years, I feared would happen again.

While I can’t deny that this year belongs on a list of the top ten most influential years of gaming, it doesn’t quite fit the context of this particular list, which seems to focus on the gaming industry’s peak moments. If I were handling this list, I would have replaced that year with 1985, which was when Nintendo revived the industry with the NES. But you be the judge…

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