two decades on and these classics are
still regarded as some of the best that
gaming has to offer welcome to
watchmojo.com
and she’ll be counting down our picks
for the top 10 video games that are
turning 20 this year before we begin we
publish new videos every day so be sure
to subscribe for more great content for
this list we’re looking at games that
were released in 1997 in North America
that despite their age are still
considered landmarks in gaming round one
number ten Grand Theft Auto
[Music]
while these days it’s impossible not to
associate this juggernaut of a franchise
with the likes of its massive 3d
open-world cities back in the day its
original inception may have had less but
for the time it still offered up a lot
of content
with three distinct cities featuring
various missions revolving around
multiple crime syndicates players
because as much wanton destruction that
they wanted before getting wasted a
component that’s lived on till this day
as you might have imagined the game
caused quite a stir with the general
public another tradition which the
franchise has continued Grasim again
oh stick a gun up your ass Oh blow your
balls out number nine
Age of Empires despite competing
alongside many heavy hitters in the
real-time strategy genre at the time Age
of Empires still managed to leave its
mark providing a springboard for a
flagship franchise to take off starting
off with only a handful of
hunter-gatherers it’s down to you to
ensure that your ancient civilization
thrives from the Stone Age all the way
to the Iron Age with multiple campaigns
and various civilizations to choose from
this game offered many a player a chance
to test themselves as both a provider
and Conqueror number 8 Crash Bandicoot 2
cortex strikes back
[Applause]
taking everything that made the first
game such a hit with audiences and
cranking up the tornado spins the sequel
not only introduced the warp room system
but also a whole slew of new features
that would later become beloved staples
of the series from collecting crystals
and gems taking out the likes of
neocortex and tiny tiger he’s been
riding an adorable polar bear through
the frozen tundra crash his second
outing elevated him to new heights one
that thankfully came with a save system
that wasn’t crammed into bonus levels
and yes analog controls
number seven star fox 64 if star fox
zero taught us anything is that until
nintendo get its act together this
installment in the interstellar
adventures of fox mccloud stands out as
the best to the series so there is a 3ds
remaster so you get the idea not only
does it feature an engaging campaign
that has you soaring through the skies
doing barrel rolls and sniping down
enemies across various planets but it’s
rewards and multiplayer offered tons of
replay value even after so many years
nothing quite compares to piloting our
our wings snagging that final medal and
taking out and Ross’s ugly mug in record
time number 6
quake 2 despite being a sequel in name
only practically every aspect of the
original FPS was improved upon here gone
were the Lovecraftian elements of the
first quake and in their place was a
more sci-fi horror inspired narrative
about a lone Space Marine fighting his
or her way through an alien planet to
vent for a strange resemblance to the
industrialized areas birth anyway quake
2 was a solid follow-up in terms of
single-player but it’s the multiplayer
that secured it place in the realm of
video game history
essentially the first eSport quick twos
infamous deathmatch mode was the
primordial soup from which modern
multiplayer games crawled out out and
you did it all on a 56k modem number
five
fallout this proves nothing you will pay
for your insolence Hey to truly
understand the bank lash suffered by
fallout 4 you have to really understand
the original fallout while fallout 3 4
and new vegas preserved elements of the
original in terms of tone the first
Fallout game was a much slower more
punishing RPG viewed from an isometric
perspective and locked into turn-based
combat but what it lacked in pacing it
made up for in world building this was
the first time a post-apocalyptic Mad
Max inspired setting had been so
convincingly realized in a video game so
much so in fact that Fallout secured a
reputation of being the quintessential
post-apocalyptic franchise for decades
to come and frankly I think you’re the
only hope we have
now before Mario Kart 64
like a supercharged mushroom fueled fine
wine this series only got better with
age but even among some of its excellent
entries on the Wii or Wii U my own
company’s outing on the n64 remains one
of its best the shift to 3d graphics was
a monumental leap for the series kind of
handy since it also introduced four
player support allowing for a whole
generation of gamers to break
friendships as they competed over the
Mushroom Kingdom and beyond with 16
racetracks along with plenty of battle
modes for those who are tired of winning
all those trophies there’s still plenty
on offer even 20 years on
number three Final Fantasy seven
Sephiroth is in this game and that’s
pretty much all you need to know a JRPG
that’s become iconic for its characters
it’s incredible score its
larger-than-life boss battles its
infamous and heartbreaking death scenes
and that one part where cloud has to
dress up like a woman
[Music]
femme cloud a sign
it’s interwoven story involving the
Shinra corporation avalanches attempts
to stop it as well as the enigmatic
threat of Sephiroth and Genova offered
Western audiences a game that was
equally thrilling as it was beautiful to
behold
also in ed chocobos
number two Castlevania Symphony of the
night time has indeed been very kind to
what many consider to be the greatest
entry in the extensive Castlevania
franchise becoming a cult hit that a lot
of people consider to be the upper
echelon of the metroidvania genre as the
son of Dracula hallow card must traverse
through his father’s castle and strike
down all manner of unholy monsters with
various weapons and abilities including
a giant spear corpses and even death
itself oh and it has possibly one of the
best lines in all of videogames
tell us Drac what is a man exactly what
is a man a miserable little pile of
secrets before we unveil our top pick
here a few honorable mentions
[Music]
harassed their young lovers set sail for
my stronghold on monkey island number
one goal denied double-oh-seven
James Bond likes his martinis shaken not
stirred and apparently he likes his tie
in video games with amazing multiplayer
while the game does indeed have an
impressive single-player campaign that
showed that an FPS could successfully
incorporate stealth intricate locations
and a true sense of challenge while
gunning down waves and waves of in Ian’s
what everyone remembers most fondly
about this game is its four player
deathmatch mode those that were proud
owners of this cartridge can attest to
at least once screwing over their
friends for just one chance to land a
kill with the Golden Gun as the game
that set a new standard for first-person
shooters arm consoles Goldeneye is
easily one of 1997’s best
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from watch mojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
[Music]
still regarded as some of the best that
gaming has to offer welcome to
watchmojo.com
and she’ll be counting down our picks
for the top 10 video games that are
turning 20 this year before we begin we
publish new videos every day so be sure
to subscribe for more great content for
this list we’re looking at games that
were released in 1997 in North America
that despite their age are still
considered landmarks in gaming round one
number ten Grand Theft Auto
[Music]
while these days it’s impossible not to
associate this juggernaut of a franchise
with the likes of its massive 3d
open-world cities back in the day its
original inception may have had less but
for the time it still offered up a lot
of content
with three distinct cities featuring
various missions revolving around
multiple crime syndicates players
because as much wanton destruction that
they wanted before getting wasted a
component that’s lived on till this day
as you might have imagined the game
caused quite a stir with the general
public another tradition which the
franchise has continued Grasim again
oh stick a gun up your ass Oh blow your
balls out number nine
Age of Empires despite competing
alongside many heavy hitters in the
real-time strategy genre at the time Age
of Empires still managed to leave its
mark providing a springboard for a
flagship franchise to take off starting
off with only a handful of
hunter-gatherers it’s down to you to
ensure that your ancient civilization
thrives from the Stone Age all the way
to the Iron Age with multiple campaigns
and various civilizations to choose from
this game offered many a player a chance
to test themselves as both a provider
and Conqueror number 8 Crash Bandicoot 2
cortex strikes back
[Applause]
taking everything that made the first
game such a hit with audiences and
cranking up the tornado spins the sequel
not only introduced the warp room system
but also a whole slew of new features
that would later become beloved staples
of the series from collecting crystals
and gems taking out the likes of
neocortex and tiny tiger he’s been
riding an adorable polar bear through
the frozen tundra crash his second
outing elevated him to new heights one
that thankfully came with a save system
that wasn’t crammed into bonus levels
and yes analog controls
number seven star fox 64 if star fox
zero taught us anything is that until
nintendo get its act together this
installment in the interstellar
adventures of fox mccloud stands out as
the best to the series so there is a 3ds
remaster so you get the idea not only
does it feature an engaging campaign
that has you soaring through the skies
doing barrel rolls and sniping down
enemies across various planets but it’s
rewards and multiplayer offered tons of
replay value even after so many years
nothing quite compares to piloting our
our wings snagging that final medal and
taking out and Ross’s ugly mug in record
time number 6
quake 2 despite being a sequel in name
only practically every aspect of the
original FPS was improved upon here gone
were the Lovecraftian elements of the
first quake and in their place was a
more sci-fi horror inspired narrative
about a lone Space Marine fighting his
or her way through an alien planet to
vent for a strange resemblance to the
industrialized areas birth anyway quake
2 was a solid follow-up in terms of
single-player but it’s the multiplayer
that secured it place in the realm of
video game history
essentially the first eSport quick twos
infamous deathmatch mode was the
primordial soup from which modern
multiplayer games crawled out out and
you did it all on a 56k modem number
five
fallout this proves nothing you will pay
for your insolence Hey to truly
understand the bank lash suffered by
fallout 4 you have to really understand
the original fallout while fallout 3 4
and new vegas preserved elements of the
original in terms of tone the first
Fallout game was a much slower more
punishing RPG viewed from an isometric
perspective and locked into turn-based
combat but what it lacked in pacing it
made up for in world building this was
the first time a post-apocalyptic Mad
Max inspired setting had been so
convincingly realized in a video game so
much so in fact that Fallout secured a
reputation of being the quintessential
post-apocalyptic franchise for decades
to come and frankly I think you’re the
only hope we have
now before Mario Kart 64
like a supercharged mushroom fueled fine
wine this series only got better with
age but even among some of its excellent
entries on the Wii or Wii U my own
company’s outing on the n64 remains one
of its best the shift to 3d graphics was
a monumental leap for the series kind of
handy since it also introduced four
player support allowing for a whole
generation of gamers to break
friendships as they competed over the
Mushroom Kingdom and beyond with 16
racetracks along with plenty of battle
modes for those who are tired of winning
all those trophies there’s still plenty
on offer even 20 years on
number three Final Fantasy seven
Sephiroth is in this game and that’s
pretty much all you need to know a JRPG
that’s become iconic for its characters
it’s incredible score its
larger-than-life boss battles its
infamous and heartbreaking death scenes
and that one part where cloud has to
dress up like a woman
[Music]
femme cloud a sign
it’s interwoven story involving the
Shinra corporation avalanches attempts
to stop it as well as the enigmatic
threat of Sephiroth and Genova offered
Western audiences a game that was
equally thrilling as it was beautiful to
behold
also in ed chocobos
number two Castlevania Symphony of the
night time has indeed been very kind to
what many consider to be the greatest
entry in the extensive Castlevania
franchise becoming a cult hit that a lot
of people consider to be the upper
echelon of the metroidvania genre as the
son of Dracula hallow card must traverse
through his father’s castle and strike
down all manner of unholy monsters with
various weapons and abilities including
a giant spear corpses and even death
itself oh and it has possibly one of the
best lines in all of videogames
tell us Drac what is a man exactly what
is a man a miserable little pile of
secrets before we unveil our top pick
here a few honorable mentions
[Music]
harassed their young lovers set sail for
my stronghold on monkey island number
one goal denied double-oh-seven
James Bond likes his martinis shaken not
stirred and apparently he likes his tie
in video games with amazing multiplayer
while the game does indeed have an
impressive single-player campaign that
showed that an FPS could successfully
incorporate stealth intricate locations
and a true sense of challenge while
gunning down waves and waves of in Ian’s
what everyone remembers most fondly
about this game is its four player
deathmatch mode those that were proud
owners of this cartridge can attest to
at least once screwing over their
friends for just one chance to land a
kill with the Golden Gun as the game
that set a new standard for first-person
shooters arm consoles Goldeneye is
easily one of 1997’s best
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from watch mojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
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