> What is your favorite wrestling match from each of those years? 95: This was well before I was watching, so it's tough. Kinda wanna give it to Flair/Sting vs. Pillman/Anderson at Halloween Havoc, just for how hilarious Flair betraying Sting is.

Most-Played Consoles Per Year: 95: Sega Genesis 05: Nintendo GameCube 15: Wii U 25: Switch 2

2005 was the exact nadir of my Sonic fandom. I was so checked out and cynical, I don't remember even having much of a reaction. "Oh, they're replacing the entire cast with those godawful voices from the godawful Sonic X dub? Yeah, that sounds about right." Wasn't surprised, but didn't really care.

Five years ago, I made a mashup of Gangplank Galleon that gave my Youtube channel a bit of a boost. Now, here's an improved revision that adds more tracks and goes even wilder with the visuals! Shout out to @geekcritique.org for kindly providing the Bananza footage for the video!

I was lucky to play Mega Man X5 right before becoming a teenage boy. It protected me from making such faux pas.

I didn't know we had the internet or what it really was until the end of 1995, so this was peak "not knowing a game exists until you see it on the shelf," times, and that was very exciting! Ooh, I remember my cousin showing me that KNUCKLES WAS GETTING HIS OWN GAME in a magazine, so probably that!

I *loved* Toy Story. I had my own Woody and Buzz and wrote my name on their feet just like Andy did! But as far as 3D went, I didn't really think about it. My frame of reference was too small to know what a big deal it was on that front. I did know the Genesis game looked incredible, though!

Ask me anything about any year I can remember ending in... 5! 1995, 2005, 2015, or 2025! geekcritique.straw.page

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My 8th grade computer teacher was your prototypical 80s/90s computer nerd, and even though it was the 2000s, he had this on all the PCs in the lab. *Loved* it.

Some of them will never really get it Some of them will say they do but they're pretending I hate to say both are here to stay in this world we share The world has not been heaven-sent The world is not in hell just yet Existing in between, a silver lining there

The trio! #art #sonicthehedgehog

Waka-wa HEY HEY

Sonic aside, most of Sega's IPs skewed a bit older, particularly with the Saturn. I played NiGHTS, but I didn't *get* NiGHTS until I was a baby teen.

I wrote this six years ago now, and it just keeps going! Maekawa to Pontac & Graff to Ian Flynn, Adventure 2 to Colors to Frontiers, the ride never ends!

I remember when it was public enemy #1, the catalyst for all the bad times that followed, the most hated game in the fandom. I remember when it was the last time Sonic was good, the introduction of the series' most iconic elements, and if only they'd make 'em like this again, Sonic would be okay.

One year ago today. Fortunately, they later added H*rry P*tree, so I uninstalled it and haven't touched it since.

I played the demo and > IGN's Michael Higham saw Pragmata as being a game "straight from the Xbox 360 era" with its primary focus on creative gameplay mechanics over storytelling. yeah okay I need to play this.

In Alisha's game, Satoru Gojo is now in a relationship with Sabrina Carpenter. They rode a ferris wheel, and he claimed she could have half the island if they dated. Well, she did recently sing with a Material Girl...

Put him in CrossWorlds, you cowards.

> How would you rank those "7" years? 2017 > 1997 > 2007! 2007 was absolute trash. I'd failed out of college and had my heart broken for the first time, I was listless and directionless and had SO MUCH growing up to do, but on the bright side at least Sonic was in a rut too. <3

To be fully transparent my wife & I had to leave our jobs because we were being harassed all the time We made a small business to continue what we loved doing but without all the bigotry Now my wife is depressed & thinks we're stupid for even thinking we could succeed Please help however you can

At the time I *loved* it, I binged it so hard and was enthralled the whole time. I felt like it was everything Sunshine should've been, a true successor to Mario 64. But I've never been able to get into a replay of it.

This issue was canon for me as a kid. When I played the game, I felt like the Freedom Fighters were running recon somewhere just off-screen.

First instagram comment was someone complaining about me queering up Sailor Moon.

That guy knew what he was talking about.

In the most 2007 sentence possible: "I saw Spider-Man 3 in theaters on a first date with a girl I'd met on MySpace."

> What was your favourite game and most disappointing game that year? Already did favorites, but 97: Sonic Jam! A magazine I'd read in the school library had incorrectly informed me it contained 3D remakes of all four Genesis Sonic games, and I didn't know otherwise until the moment I got it!

If that qualifies as the "stone age," then you're right. Downloading music (aside from MIDIs) wasn't really a thing until Napster circa '99, and even that was slow. Watching videos was right out. I spent hours downloading the Sonic X-Treme E3 trailer in postage stamp resolution at 5fps.

I thought it was pretty much the most underwhelming way they could possibly handle that dream crossover we'd always talked about, but I was hopeful that if they were doing this, there's no way they WON'T put Sonic in Brawl, right...?

> What game could (realistically) come out in 2027 that would immediately be your GOTY?

> Is Drake & Josh on GBA actually your 3rd favorite game of 2007? Hahahaha Of course not. It's #1. (screenshot from my friend group's private encyclopedia of in-jokes - one of the back of the box "features" was "PLAY AS BOTH DRAKE AND JOSH!" and we found that hilarious in 2007)

> Why didn't Zavok have more of a role in Sonic Forces??? 😢 Because Sega listened to ignorant game journalists who didn't understand the appeal of the series, even while us true fans demanded his glorious return. The result? A half measure that pleased nobody.

> What were your first impressions of Breath of the Wild? I had no interest whatsoever and thought it was just gonna be another Zelda game. I got it because it was *the* launch game. Then it surprised me: youtu.be/Ht-DswIaDF8?...

> Top 3 games of each year? (3->2->1) 97: FFVII, Sonic R, Star Fox 64 07: Portal, Team Fortress 2, Drake & Josh 17: BotW, Odyssey, Sonic Mania

Ask me anything about any year ending in 7 that I can remember! (That's 1997, 2007, and 2017!) geekcritique.straw.page

Wanted to show you this post in English because it’s so good and we truly are a global village

bluesky having less people than all the other social media’s is it’s main selling point to me

Now this is happenin'.

> Thoughts on the Fingerpoke of Doom (and for that matter Foley's WWE title win) back in 1999? January 4, 1999 was a formative night of my wrestling fandom. I'd only been watching for about five months, and from my perspective it was the first time EVER that the status quo changed.

Anyone else remember going onto the Smash Bros. Dojo back when Brawl was coming out?

God, I saw AJJ and JDF on a panel one time, and this guy opens with, "MY QUESTION IS FOR KIMBERLY." JDF kindly but firmly corrected him, and that's maybe the most second-hand embarrassment I've ever felt.

> Do you have any thoughts on Brock Lesnar retiring? It's odd, I think him and Cena are the first wrestlers where I can remember seeing their very first moments on TV, all the way to the end of their careers.

I <3 Sega