Top 10 Worst Years In Gaming History
1983 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1983rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations. As horrid as anything goes, the video game crash is what makes it still impossible to beat such a horrendous year in gaming history.
Ah, the horrid crash that brought forth some of the worst titles yet.
I don't know how anything else can top this one.
2006 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2006th year based on the Common Era/Anno Domini designations. It is the 6th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2000s decade. 2006, while it was a great year to be me, was a horrible year for gaming in general. While you got some solid gold gaming hits of that year like Bully, The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Okami, Pokemon Diamond & Pearl (only released in Japan in 2006 and worldwide in 2007.), Tomb Raider: Legend and The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, while you got some games that bombed horribly, like the infamous Sonic 06. I just couldn't wait for the Wii to come out...
I can show you reasons why 2006 sucked.
1. Sonic the Hedgehog's 15th anniversary was terrible. There was Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis for the Game Boy Advance & Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) for Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3. Nice job, Sega. You ruined Sonic's franchise by letting him have an unhappy anniversary.
2. Tiger Telematics went defunct.
3. Crash Boom Bang!
4. Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots is released on the Game Boy Advance & it's horrible.
2016 (MMXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2016th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 16th year of the 3rd millennium, the 16th year of the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2010s decade. When the hype train went too far and started to crash and burn the whole industry.
Almost no good games came out in 2016. Full of games with microtransactions all over the place.
2014 (MMXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2014th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 14th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2010s decade. 2014 was overall a good year for me. However there were only a few good games I can think of from this year such as Mario Kart 8 . overall this year was pretty bad for gaming.
I was working on making a list of top three games for each year starting with 2000 all the way to 2019. Literally struggled to even come up with games to put in the 2014 list, much less good ones.
Almost no good games this year. The only good games were remasters of games from 2013 and everything that could have been good was pushed to 2015 instead. Sad year for gaming.
2011 (MMXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2011th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations. Marvel vs. Capcom 3 will release bare bones and empty and it's rushed then ultimate edition came in the same year.
Megaman Legends 3 is Cancelled.
DLC and Microtransactions exploded for worst for the gaming industry.
Mobile phone dominates the mark over Console gaming.
RE-Mercenaries you can't erase your save file.
2015 (MMXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2015th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 15th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2010s decade. While the death of Iwata and Konami's suicide is definitely sad, this was the year that brought us The Witcher 3, Fallout 4, Rocket League, and much more. If anything, this was a comeback, especially after the pile of crap 2014 was.
I wish 2015 came before 2017, because 2016 was the year that I lost interest into logos. :'(
Also, Don't come to me saying "People lose interests every year" because I already know that by now.
In 2015 A game called The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt was released. I doubt it.
2013 (MMXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2013th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 13th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2010s decade. Year in which Ride to Hell Retribution got released. Being that it on it's own is capable of easily winning 2013 a "worst year in which A game was released" list it should, at the very veeery least, get the second spot.
2019 (MMXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2019th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 19th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2010s decade. Rinse, market, sell, repeat. Rinse and repeat the rinse, market, sell and repeat over and over. Best year ever if you like bugs, glitches, broken games and games that don't even work. What a shameful way for companies and corporations to end a decade of gaming.
November 15, 2019. The day that Pokemon died. While I think Pokemon Sword and Shield are decent games, I think I kind of get why the game was hated before the DLCs rolled along and made the game better. It was way too short and easy, and don't get me started on the whole Dexit controversy.
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2003rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 3rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2000s decade.
2017 (MMXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2017th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 17th year of the 3rd millennium, the 17th year of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2010s decade. I think this is when Fortnite (the abomination) was made.
2018 (MMXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2018th year of the Common Era (CE), the 9th year of the 2010s decade, the 18th year of the 21st century, and the 18th year of the 3rd millennium. 2018 was a bad year for gaming in my opinion. Not just fortnite, so many terrible video games all around. The year itself was meh, but it has really bad video games around!
Steam especially has the worst games, filled with indie trash. But a lot of big name companies have been squeezing out some real stinkers, too. I'm hoping 2019 will be better.
Fortnite. Just Fortnite, game what ruined gaming.
2021 (MMXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 21st year of the third millennium, the 21st year of the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2020s. 2021 was scheduled to host many major events that were originally scheduled for 2020... read more This year basically felt like 2014 over again, with a ton of lackluster titles, such as Pokemon Unite (even though a lot of my friends actually enjoy the game, I chose not to play it because it's Tencent.), generic shooter games and don't forget League of Legends at its worst. Honestly, the only enjoyable games I had from this year probably was Monster Hunter Rise, Metroid Dread, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (despite its flaws.) and many more. 2021 just plain sucked.
Virtual Boy, Sega Saturn, Tiger R-Zone, the Nintendo 64 got delayed to 1996.. but the PS1 released. But still by far the worst year for hardware. And 1995 only has like 3 notable games... Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong Country 2 and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.
I thought that said "1985" and I was like WHAT? that year saved video games. But 10 years after, 1995 was a lukewarm year. Grossout ad for Yoshi's Island, Virtual Boy, Atari burning itself down and the N64 being delayed.
Yeah... next year did make up for it.
2012 (MMXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2012th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 12th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2010s decade. Nothing stands out to me this year.
The year Mass Effect 3 released.
The year 1984 holds a prominent place in literature due to George Orwell's dystopian novel of the same name. Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh, a revolutionary personal computer with a graphical user interface. The Los Angeles Summer Olympics showcased sporting excellence and saw the emergence... read more This year was just a continuation of the crash of 83.
2022 (MMXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2022nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 22nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2020s decade. Poppy Playtime , a brainrotting horror game all around and so much more bad games from 2022!
Not many good game releases, other than a couple exclusives and Elden Ring
This was the release of Superman 64, and it sucks so bad. 1999 was a good year, but it's all Superman 64's fault
In 1982, the Falklands War between the United Kingdom and Argentina highlighted geopolitical tensions. The debut of the Commodore 64 computer marked a significant milestone in home computing. The Michael Jackson album "Thriller" achieved unprecedented success, becoming one of the best-selling albums... read more
The year The Wizard and that those godawful Nintendo cartoons (Mario, Zelda, and Captain N) came out.
The year that the super creepy NES advert (YOU CANNOT BEAT US! ) came out and scarred many kids watching (I think it came out this year. If not then please correct me if I'm wrong).
2020 (MMXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 20th year of the third millennium, the 20th year of the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s... read more This is when fortnite peaked.
Worst years for gaming here we go ðŸ˜
1. 1983 (video games went down)
2. 2023 (NO GOOD)
3. 2010 (my least favourite 2010s year, 2010 was a below a average year in my opinion, that was my first dark age 2009-2010 my second dark age 2020-2024 is worse, video games have terrible graphics that year, games got better when 2011-2012 came!
4. 2022 (PRETTY MUCH SUCKED)
5. 2018 (Some bad video games hanging around, the 2010s were mostly good, but my second least favourite year)
6. 2020 (True this is a bad year for video games)
7. 2008 (Just after the great games of 2007 games in 2008 are crap)
8. 2000 (Not much good games, the sims was good at least)
9. 2009 (Same as 2000)
10. 2024 (So far as of april the video games suck so much)
2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2007th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 7th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2000s decade.
The Next Generation" television series premiered, carrying on the legacy of the original franchise. The Montreal Protocol was adopted to address ozone layer depletion, showcasing international cooperation on environmental issues. The company known as LJN started to publish games since that year...until 2000
2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2002nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 2nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2000s decade.
The year 2000 (MM) was a century leap year that started on a Saturday according to the Gregorian calendar. It marked the 2000th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations. It was the last year of the 2nd millennium and the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 2000s decade.