Watching Over my own Shoulder
The fabled "Overwatch Killer" that actually managed to kill Overwatch.
Marvel Rivals (Net Ease, 2024)
The successor to DOOM that was the very first First Person Shooter to ever have real-time polygonal 3D graphics.
Quake (id Software, 1996)
Pong (Atari, 1972)
Adobe Flash Player ended support in this year.
2020
This game console was created out of spite against Nintendo for breaking a deal with Sony that would have seen a Nintendo 64-like console created that uses Optical Media to play games.
Sony Playstation (Sony, 1994-1995)
This game is known best for its insane number of corssovers with other games and media.
Fortnite (Epic Games, 2017)
This composer is best known for the DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal soundtracks.
Mick Gordon (known for DOOM, Killer Instinct)
This game console was completely redesigned to appeal to a post-video-game-crash America in 1985, packaged with a toy robot to make it sell easier in a region that had supposedly moved on from video games.
Nintendo Entertainment System (Nintendo, 1983-1985, first released as the Famicom in Japan)
This website was often cited as the go-to place to play web games back before Flash support ended. Now it's a husk of its former self, unfortunately.
Cool Math Games (coolmathgames.com)
Nintendo hates this practice that "promotes video game piracy," and will do nearly anything to stop it from happening.
Video Game Emulation
This top-down action-adventure game from 1997 sparked a well beloved franchise that's moved to full 3D, and currently has its next entry cited as the most anticipated unreleased game to ever exist.
Grand Theft Auto (Rockstar, 1997)
DOOM's predecessor, known for creating the First Person Shooter formula that DOOM popularized later on.
Wolfenstein 3D (id Software, 1992)
This game engine is now widely used and adopted in the AAA gaming space, making development easier for developers, but games harder to optimize and create for lower-end hardware.
Unreal Engine (Epic Games, first used to create Unreal Tournament)
This symbol was used to show that you didn't have Adobe Flash Player installed on your device, accompanied by an error and a gray background.
A Jigsaw Piece
The Nintendo console cited as the "most hackable console ever," despite typically being marketed towards casual gamers and families.
Nintendo Wii (Nintendo, 2006)
A spinoff of a Hideo Kojima series, this stark departure from its original source material is a character action game with a very politically charged villian.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (Platinum Games, Kojima Productions, 2013)
This First-Person-Shooter is the first of its kind to use the Right Analog Stick to aim your character's weapon.
Halo Combat Evolved (Bungie, 2001)
This game is commonly cited to be the reason why the Video Game Crash of 1983 happened, and marked a turning point where the game market was too bloated with crappy video games for consumers to want to buy games anymore.
E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (Atari, 1982)
Adobe Flash was slowly fazed out by this new technology that is pre-installed in almost every modern web browser.
HTML5 (created as an alternative to the Adobe Flash Player)
This video game is commonly cited as the game that created the ESRB rating system the US uses today, and was too graphic for Nintendo to put on their console without toning down the gore a bit.
Mortal Kombat (Midway, 1992)
A survival horror game known best for its limb dismemberment and complete lack of any HUD that isn't physically in the game world.
Dead Space (Electronic Arts, 2008)
This technique derived from the original Quake engine, and persisting in its child engines, is the go-to-speedrunner-engine-exploit that is used by making snaking motions with your movement keys and mouse.
Strafing (or Air-Strafing, first derived from Quake)
This game on the Atari 2600 is commonly cited as the very first game to ever contain an easter egg.
Adventure (Atari, 1980)
The filetype "SVG," commonly used in Flash Games, is an acronym for this phrase.
Scaleable Vector Graphics
This console sparked the first real competition in the 16 bit era, being first to the store shelves in the console wars, and taking down the monopoly Nintendo had on the gaming market at the time in America.
Sega Genesis (Sega, 1989-1990, first released as the Mega Drive in Japan)