As the second month of the new millennium rolled around, we realised that the doomsday Y2K bug was a furphy and we pumped up the volume to All Saints‘ ‘Pure Shores’!
By February 2000 the PlayStation was showing its age, but it was still host to many great games – hello Crash Team Racing! If you were in the Nintendo or Sega camps, February 2000 was a good one, as their respective consoles, the Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast, were definitely not short of ace games.
So let’s put on some Christina Aguilera and take a look back at what games made the top 5 charts on the PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast in February 2000. See any you like?
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1) Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (Eidos) |
| 2) FIFA 2000 (EA) | |
| 3) Crash Team Racing (Sony) | |
| 4) Tomorrow Never Dies (EA) | |
| 5) This Is Football (Sony) |
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1) Donkey Kong 64 (Nintendo) |
| 2) WWF Wrestlemania 2000 (THQ) | |
| 3) Super Smash Bros. (Nintendo) | |
| 4) Rainbow Six (Take 2) | |
| 5) Rayman 2 (Ubisoft) |
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1) Virtua Striker 2 (Sega) |
| 2) Shadowman (Acclaim) | |
| 3) SoulCalibur (Namco) | |
| 4) Jimmy White’s 2: Cueball (Virgin) | |
| 5) UEFA Striker (Infogrames) |
We roll the clock back 17 years to see what games were hot on the Playstation, N64 and the humble PC. As you peek at the games charts below, you’ll notice some very well known gaming franchises that are still going strong till this day. But what makes it great to look back at old charts like these is the more obscure and long forgotten games, like Rollcage for the Playstation, Virtual Pool 64 on the N64, and The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield on the PC.
Rewind the clock 18 years to December 1997 and take a gander at what the top games were on the Saturn, Playstation and PC. Surprised? Well, you shouldn’t be. The Christmas games charts were always a great barometer of the types of games that we were going to see more of in the coming new year. Suffice to say, the iterative annual sports titles (your FIFAs and Maddens), including driving games (Formula 1), were always going to play their part in the charts.
While some of us were bopping to the Spice Girls‘ “Who Do You Think You Are” and No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak”, others were busying themselves playing some absolute classic games on their console of choice.