Any specific method to your madness, or did you just take a shot in the dark?
Old age.
But seriously folks, like Justin I definitely researched the Games of the Year for 1999, and came to the same conclusion - there just isn't much information out there. I looked at Metacritic and a few other sources, pretty much anywhere that had even a whiff of a review or recommendation. You have no idea how much coverage of the video game industry has changed since 1999 until you actually go back and try to find some online information from that year. There isn't any.
That's why I ended up digging up my own photos and transferring them to digital format...there aren't any photos of E3 1999 available! It's the same with year-end awards. They didn't really kick in until 2000, and that was for only a few sites like IGN and maybe Gamespot. In 1999, video game coverage on the internet was still an uncharted frontier.
hmm in 1999 there was Tendobox, Nintendojo, ign64, the magic box, PlanetN2000, OpN2000, Dolphin Cove(maybe), Daily Radar, Gamespot, Cloudchaser, nshooters, nintendorks, zhq, there was a japanese website i used to read through a translator, but i have no idea what that was called anymore...the computer that had the bookmark is around somewhere. The best way to find it would be to scrounge up an old ign affiliate page, back when before they started eliminating the game news competition
edit: damnit i went to nintendorks, and apparently their stuff got corrupted in 1999, so they had to start all over again. If i ever for soem reason create some website, theres going to be a monthly dvd burn
Topic: A Decade of PGC/NWR: 1999 (Read 20020 times)
