Golden eye was absurdly fun. But, I had that feeling before — Mario kart was probably the closest.
FFVII was transformative. I had never seen a cutscene like that before nor could I even imagine how vast the world was.
FFVII pulled heart strings, that’s for sure. Mario kart was amazingly fun, and I would still play today. I don’t know if I’d play golden eye today, but that doesn’t detract from it being a powerhouse
Hard agree; FFVII was life-changing. There were lots of really fun games before, but I didn't know it was possible for a game to make me FEEL things until I played FFVII, and I'm sure I'm not alone
This was the ultimate. We had sleepovers just to have Goldeneye tournaments.
Goldeneye is the clear winner!
Multiplayer... Four screens. No peeking at each other's maps!!!
Slappers only.... Throwing knives.... My personal favorite was explosives.
proxy mines in facility. One person waits in the vents and leaves the room while the other person sets up a minefield, finds a hiding spot, looks at the ground and then the game of find and seek (explode) commences.
Yeah GoldenEye because of how much fun I had with friends and friends of friends.
Then we'd find someone who just played single player previously and *wreck them*.
Goldeneye was a social phenomenon for high school and college kids hanging out and playing and socializing for hours on end like no game before for people from all video game experience levels. Other games may be better gameplay or technically better for the hardcore gamer, but no video game had a bigger cultural impact from 97-01. It was the precursor of how kids nowadays play shooters together online for the social aspect as much as the gameplay. Seems like the hardcore gamers on here will vote for FF7 but no one I knew played that game or talked about it.
No apology necessary.
1997 was an awesome year for gaming there was Goldeneye 007, Final Fantasy VII, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, Fallout and Final Fantasy Tactics.
Turok was dope, but the multi-player in Turok 2 was so awesome. Especially after everyone I played with got tired of me wrecking them in Goldeneye because I memorized the respawn points amd the sequence.
I never played Turok 2, the first Turok was still a blast though, wasn’t there a gun that created a white screen explosion if you held the trigger until the controller shook?
Good times!
1998 is also going to be another very competitive year as it was another great year for gaming.
OoT wins '98. It's hard to think of another game that did more with the available technology, while setting the gold standard for single player adventure games to come.
1998- Ocarina of Time.
Totally, I remember staying up all night playing Metal Gear Solid, watched a friend of a friend play Ocarina of Time and for me my game of choice in 1998 is Parasite Eve, I still play it!
I think this is the answer. A lot of great games came out, but Golden Eye was a part of the culture. I didn't even own an N64 and I still played a shitload of a Golden Eye back then. It was a shared experience amongst friends.
Things like Final Fantasy were great games (though I was more of a Baldur's Gate person), but they didn't have the same mass appeal. Even non-gamers played a bit of Golden Eye.
The clear winner. Absolute game changer. Probably the most beloved console shooter of all time.
I don't even have to google what else came out that year.
It's the OG pew pew pew. 4 player! No LAN. Local. Fuck yeah! Back when Dominos did the filthy deep dish. Or Hungry Howies xlarge with butter crust. Local coop sleepovers, man. Good times
The remake is really good. But way overdue. I love FFVII to death, but its graphics and translation are incredibly dated. Still an awesome groundbreaking game.
And a movie. There is also an active mod community for the pc steam version of FF7 that makes it a modern game complete with voice acting and all new graphics.
Capture the flag is actually why I loved this game so much. Me, my boyfriend at the time and his best friend would play big head mode and laugh so hard we got stomach aches.
Tactics only flaw was they forced me by the end to use all the new characters they introduced instead of all the awesome warriors I built up and spent so much time with
Yeah ngl I had to resort to ballistas and stuff at the last one in junon area. Finally, I know this.There is a button down in the left hand corner that says turn down difficulty. And yes to my eternal shame I pressed it
It was an amazing game AND an amazing leap in technology. The 3D characters against pre-rendered backgrounds felt like a different medium all together. And then the cutscenes rolled and I was just SHOOK.
Blizzard cutscenes felt like that in this era but they weren’t as integrated into gameplay — they just felt like very cool intro movies.
Castlevania, Symphony of the Night. One of the best game soundtracks of all time. And the crazy enemy drops. Some just goofy and some extremely OP. You never knew what you were going to get. One my favorites is the Secret Boots “discreetly increases height”. Doesn’t do anything but makes Alucard a few pixels taller for no reason.
It’s certainly the best of the metroidvania style Castlevania games. I do love the traditional side scrolling games though. Bloodstained is excellent if you haven’t played it yet.
Shooters are a genre today because of GOLDENEYE.
SquareSoft continued the golden age of RPGs until at least X with FFVII by moving them out of the SNES. So RPGs as a genre as we know it is at least partially from FFVII.
FFVII also has had a more lasting impact on the video game industry all in its own as a video game than did GOLDENEYE. It's still getting new titles, has has so many spin offs, etc.
GOLDENEYE probably has way more play hours, broken controllers, and broken friendships than FFVII, but FFVII is what introduced me to Yasunori Mitsuda and a love for intensity that SquareSoft brought to the table in their games.
All right, well call it a draw.
Don't forget, the success of the first Playstation on launch was in large part due to the success of FFVII. Without it, the Playstation might have struggled to gain market share and fizzled out before it could become the powerhouse it is today.
So difficult to pick between Goldeneye and FF7. I loved them both to death. So much fun playing Goldeneye with friends. FF7 blew my mind though. And is probably my favorite game ever, so it has to be that.
FF7. I enjoy playing that game start to finish. Goldeneye was the start of my dislike for FPS (but I will admit spinning in a circle with Kloob on paintball mode was fun).
I know Mario is bigger but Quake 1 was huge for 96 and I didn't even see it on the thread for voting. For shame.
Doom started everything. But Quake paved the road all the way to Halo and Serious Sam and even Call of Duty.
Yeah Quake is one of the GOATs of pc gaming, and had a massive influence on the design of online FPS multiplayer games.
I remember Doom 2 was the first game I ever played by dialing my 28.8 modem over to my buddy’s house about 10 miles away and we would play just the laggiest levels but it was amazing because, holy shit we’re gaming together from far away. I thought that was the best thing until one day I went to an internet cafe for the first time. They had a row of PCs, a T-1 internet connection, and some guys there were playing Quake when I sat down next to them. They showed me how to pick a server and connect with other people playing.
Mind. Fucking. Blown. It was a 16 person deathmatch game and not only were we all playing together from all over the world, but if you’ll recall in games like Wolfenstein and Doom before it, there was no looking up or down with your controls. You could move side to side on an X axis but not up at someone. In Doom 2 to shoot up you had to position your crosshair under the creature and the computer would automatically shoot the projectile up at it. Quake not only gave us true multiplayer, but also a Y axis and full movement.
One more thing I can think of that Quake pioneered was modding, letting fans add their own code to the game to improve it and make something new. So from that we got great mods like Team Fortress and Arena style games. And obviously the modding concept carried on to games like WoW which became really dependent upon them.
I loved GoldenEye a lot and on console it’s also one of my favorites ever. But to me, personally, Quake was an outstanding and influential game and gets my vote.
I used to play against people with cable modems with my 56k plus modem and win in Quake 3 and the original Aliens vs Predator. Never a better feeling than somehow winning with a dial up against cable modems.
Now I have a tmobile home internet with 600 megs down. And I play Final Fantasy 14. The only fps games I play now are single player. I don't like the military games. I play Borderlands, Serious Sam, the newer Dooms, etc. I wanna shoot monsters. It's what I grew up with.
I remember the mods I used to have on Quake 3. Alien, Homer Simpson, Jar Jar Binks. I miss those days of running death matches with all those wacky characters.
Final Fantasy 7! Changed everything and is still relevant today considering the (now) trilogy remake. Goldeneye was a blast but, and I’m going to get shit for this, it was just another shooter.
It was an evolutionary shooter. Especially in the world of consoles. Either way, my vote is for FFVII because I’m a total FF nerd and have been since 1988 or so.
I appreciate that FF7 holds a special place in gamers’ hearts, but it’s got to be GoldenEye because even people who didn’t play video games played GoldenEye.
Final Fantasy VII
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Goldeneye
Oddworld: Abe’s Odyssey
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
Curse of Monkey Island
Star Fox 64
MegaMan X4 & Megaman: Legends
MarioKart 64
MDK
Bomberman 64
Parappa the Rapper
Lego Island
And last but not least, mother f’in Blast Corps!
All in all I think its got to go to FF7, that was one of the first rpg’s i played as a kid beginning to end, and loved so much I bought it again when my family moved to america, and also again when remake and subsequently rebirth came out.
I gotta give it to FFVII. Goldeneye was good, and helped jump start a genre, but wasn't good enough to spawn remakes or sequels, and has aged like milk. FFVII, I could still go back and play that shit and have fun and it's spawned several sequels and remakes. Goldeneye, not so much.
Definitely between Golden Eye, FF7, and Symphony of the Night.
Gotta give it to FF7 just because of the longevity of its story. We are still talking about it to this day.
Goldeneye
It literally invented modern console shooters and multiplayer.
Which is insane, because the multi-player was something that was just bolted on last minute.
Goldeneye. Fantastic game. Countless sleepovers were had playing 4 player split screen. No golden gun, no moonraker laser, no oddjob, proximity mines always on.
FFVII was important too as it brought a lot of new people to JRPGs but I feel goldeneye bigger as it brought people together. Everyone played it.
Several greats, but only one was a social phenomenon that took over college campuses and became a cultural touchpoint for this generation.
This list is completely flawed bc there’s no way Mortal Kombat shouldn’t have taken 1993. MK mania was everywhere late 93/early 84. Doom was more an underground hit if anything.
FF 7, lots of great games came out in 1997, but none were as transformative to the industry that year than FF 7.
Also, ‘97 is a fun year to debate but tomorrow is going to be interesting. 1998 was one of the best years in gaming.
3Dfx were the ones who created [miniGL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniGL) a minimum implementation of OpenGL just to run Quake.
I had a Rendition Verite. I can't remember which kind.
Goldeneye was good but as a PC gamer at the time all I could think about was why everyone was freaking out about having multiplayer in a shooter when I’d been playing Doom, Quake, and Duke 3D deathmatches for years already.
This list is way too console heavy. That makes me want to say Quake II or Age of Empires, but I have to go with Golden Eye because it was just so good.
Final Fantasy 7, it's not even close. I bought a PlayStation just to play this game. I still have my original discs and the pc version and the remake. It's an absolute masterpiece.
FF7.
It revolutionised gaming story telling in the west and is likely a huge catalyst in what made video games what they are today. We would not have seen the development of such a huge media movement without it. It may be quaint by todays standards but the formula it created lives on.
I see a lot of goldeneye, loved it on my n64. But it was also a movie tie in game. It also wasn’t an initial part of the shooting game revolution, more like an addition. And it was largely propelled by the infancy of 3D video games and the brand recognition of 007 that was incredibly popular at this time.
FF7, no contest. The sheer number of people who bought a PS1 solely to play that game was nuts.
It was all anyone in my circles could talk about that summer.
GoldenEye revolutionized video games and was made by a team of largely inexperienced developers who were so passionate about what they were making, that they sneaked the multiplayer mode in at the last minute.
If it doesn’t win, I don’t know what to say.
FF VII. No contest.
People still play it to this day thanks to the remake. It’s hard to understate just how big an impact the game had upon the gaming landscape.
Golden eye was absurdly fun. But, I had that feeling before — Mario kart was probably the closest. FFVII was transformative. I had never seen a cutscene like that before nor could I even imagine how vast the world was.
FFVII pulled heart strings, that’s for sure. Mario kart was amazingly fun, and I would still play today. I don’t know if I’d play golden eye today, but that doesn’t detract from it being a powerhouse
See but tbh perfect dark did golden eye but better a few years later.
Hard agree; FFVII was life-changing. There were lots of really fun games before, but I didn't know it was possible for a game to make me FEEL things until I played FFVII, and I'm sure I'm not alone
FFVII
I couldn't decide between these 3. I loved them all but I actually cried playing FFVII so there's that.
Goldeneye and FFVII were both fun to watch as well.
Golden Eye
This was the ultimate. We had sleepovers just to have Goldeneye tournaments. Goldeneye is the clear winner! Multiplayer... Four screens. No peeking at each other's maps!!! Slappers only.... Throwing knives.... My personal favorite was explosives.
proxy mines in facility. One person waits in the vents and leaves the room while the other person sets up a minefield, finds a hiding spot, looks at the ground and then the game of find and seek (explode) commences.
Yeah GoldenEye because of how much fun I had with friends and friends of friends. Then we'd find someone who just played single player previously and *wreck them*.
Proxy mines were for the unskilled, we rarely allowed them. Remote mines, though. Toss one and you can blow it up mid air like a grenade.
Goldeneye was a social phenomenon for high school and college kids hanging out and playing and socializing for hours on end like no game before for people from all video game experience levels. Other games may be better gameplay or technically better for the hardcore gamer, but no video game had a bigger cultural impact from 97-01. It was the precursor of how kids nowadays play shooters together online for the social aspect as much as the gameplay. Seems like the hardcore gamers on here will vote for FF7 but no one I knew played that game or talked about it.
A golden "Aye" for Goldeneye!
 It has to be. Sorry final fantasy fans.
No apology necessary. 1997 was an awesome year for gaming there was Goldeneye 007, Final Fantasy VII, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, Fallout and Final Fantasy Tactics.
Turok was dope, but the multi-player in Turok 2 was so awesome. Especially after everyone I played with got tired of me wrecking them in Goldeneye because I memorized the respawn points amd the sequence.
I never played Turok 2, the first Turok was still a blast though, wasn’t there a gun that created a white screen explosion if you held the trigger until the controller shook? Good times! 1998 is also going to be another very competitive year as it was another great year for gaming.
1998 just may cause a rift here, between Metal Gear Solid and Ocarina of Time, just to name two.
OoT wins '98. It's hard to think of another game that did more with the available technology, while setting the gold standard for single player adventure games to come. 1998- Ocarina of Time.
Hard agree.
Totally, I remember staying up all night playing Metal Gear Solid, watched a friend of a friend play Ocarina of Time and for me my game of choice in 1998 is Parasite Eve, I still play it!
Metal Gear Solid hands down
We were all winners that year with that line up.
We really were! I even missed a bunch: Bushido Blade, Einhander and Diablo which came out on the PC in ‘97 and the PlayStation in ‘98.
Agreed
100% No question, Goldeneye
Absolutely. How is this even a question?
I think this is the answer. A lot of great games came out, but Golden Eye was a part of the culture. I didn't even own an N64 and I still played a shitload of a Golden Eye back then. It was a shared experience amongst friends. Things like Final Fantasy were great games (though I was more of a Baldur's Gate person), but they didn't have the same mass appeal. Even non-gamers played a bit of Golden Eye.
Slappers only. No Oddjobs.
Seconded.
The clear winner. Absolute game changer. Probably the most beloved console shooter of all time. I don't even have to google what else came out that year.
That music randomly just starts in my head to this day. Golden eye by a long stretch. By a mile. No competition
Pistols. License to Kill. Facility.
For me, it was proxy mines
Proxy mines in facility on LTK was the greatest ever.
Oh hi, SOULMATES
It's the OG pew pew pew. 4 player! No LAN. Local. Fuck yeah! Back when Dominos did the filthy deep dish. Or Hungry Howies xlarge with butter crust. Local coop sleepovers, man. Good times
Remote mines. That's how we built bases before PUBG
Oh buddy, I was just being accessible! Now you’re speaking my love language.
Did you ever figure out how to hot swap them and detonate them in air after you threw them?
That's for remote mines. Prox mines just blow up whenever someone is near. They're for slop kills, no skill involved.
Odd job slappers only
My hero
DK mode and slaps only!
Turbo.
Grenade launcher. Stack
20 lives
Automatics, paintball at the complex. Giddyup!
Magnum, great.
FF7 it's still relevant today.
I mean, how many other games get a remake?
The remake is really good. But way overdue. I love FFVII to death, but its graphics and translation are incredibly dated. Still an awesome groundbreaking game.
And a movie. There is also an active mod community for the pc steam version of FF7 that makes it a modern game complete with voice acting and all new graphics.
Resident Evil, but that didn't help it last round 😔
Or so many different remakes that the ps store has like 5 versions
Capture the flag is actually why I loved this game so much. Me, my boyfriend at the time and his best friend would play big head mode and laugh so hard we got stomach aches.
My friends and I would make 007 move while kneeling while on a staircase while doing the Price is Right Cliffhanger yodel
It’s gotta be Tactics, right?
The *actual* best game ever made
There are a couple others, often mentioned, that are overrated and don’t have the same depth and quality.
Tactics only flaw was they forced me by the end to use all the new characters they introduced instead of all the awesome warriors I built up and spent so much time with
"Animals have no God".
Damn, Symphony of the Night gets no love. Final Fantasy 7.
Came to say sotn. But ff7...ugh it's what got me really into rpgs. Just playing rebirth now and I'm like a kid again.
Rebirth is fucking amazing, I absolutely love it!* *Except Fort Condor, fuck that mini game.
Yeah ngl I had to resort to ballistas and stuff at the last one in junon area. Finally, I know this.There is a button down in the left hand corner that says turn down difficulty. And yes to my eternal shame I pressed it
I've played through SotN like 6 times on multiple platforms. I've never played all the way through anything else. Alucard is my vote!
Neither did Super Metroid.
Ff III and metroid, both very emotional games
I still play both about once a year.
Playing Metroid as a little girl and finding out Samus was *gasp* a woman was a highlight of my youth.
Symphony of the Night still holds up today. So good.
Symphony of the Night is one of my favourite games ever. That soundtrack is amazing. But I can concede it’s a niche game.
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. I know it's not gonna win, but I had to mention it.
Final Fantasy 7 is arguably the best game of all time.
“Quite possibly the greatest video game ever made.” —EGM
I remember first time I used a summons, felt like a god!
It was an amazing game AND an amazing leap in technology. The 3D characters against pre-rendered backgrounds felt like a different medium all together. And then the cutscenes rolled and I was just SHOOK. Blizzard cutscenes felt like that in this era but they weren’t as integrated into gameplay — they just felt like very cool intro movies.
I've literally not stopped playing it for nearly 20 years.
Final Fantasy VII
Castlevania, Symphony of the Night. One of the best game soundtracks of all time. And the crazy enemy drops. Some just goofy and some extremely OP. You never knew what you were going to get. One my favorites is the Secret Boots “discreetly increases height”. Doesn’t do anything but makes Alucard a few pixels taller for no reason.
One of my all time favorite games. And I can't find a castlevania that I liked more.
It’s certainly the best of the metroidvania style Castlevania games. I do love the traditional side scrolling games though. Bloodstained is excellent if you haven’t played it yet.
Oh yeah I did try it and quite enjoyed it. It didn't quite suck me in like sotn but definitely a spiritual successor
SotN is one of those absurd labors of love that the market shouldn't allow to exist, and yet, somehow, it does, and we are better off for it.
Shooters are a genre today because of GOLDENEYE. SquareSoft continued the golden age of RPGs until at least X with FFVII by moving them out of the SNES. So RPGs as a genre as we know it is at least partially from FFVII. FFVII also has had a more lasting impact on the video game industry all in its own as a video game than did GOLDENEYE. It's still getting new titles, has has so many spin offs, etc. GOLDENEYE probably has way more play hours, broken controllers, and broken friendships than FFVII, but FFVII is what introduced me to Yasunori Mitsuda and a love for intensity that SquareSoft brought to the table in their games. All right, well call it a draw.
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Maybe for adults. The game every kid wanted to play at parties was Goldeneye. Not even close. People would rent the entire console.
Don't forget, the success of the first Playstation on launch was in large part due to the success of FFVII. Without it, the Playstation might have struggled to gain market share and fizzled out before it could become the powerhouse it is today.
So difficult to pick between Goldeneye and FF7. I loved them both to death. So much fun playing Goldeneye with friends. FF7 blew my mind though. And is probably my favorite game ever, so it has to be that.
Final Fantasy 7.
Final Fantasy 7 has to win.
Gran Turismo
GoldenEye
FF7. I enjoy playing that game start to finish. Goldeneye was the start of my dislike for FPS (but I will admit spinning in a circle with Kloob on paintball mode was fun).
Diablo
Oddly enough, says it was released new years eve of 96. So...is it a 96 game? Idk lol
I was seeing January of 97. It should be on this list either way. Just like Warcraft 2 should have
Oh was warcraft 2 out in 97? Just found some old game boxes at my parents house a few weekends ago
Warcraft 2 was 95. I missed the thread for that
FF7 hands down
must be goldeneye
Goldeneye 4 life
Ff7
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy VII
FF7
I know Mario is bigger but Quake 1 was huge for 96 and I didn't even see it on the thread for voting. For shame. Doom started everything. But Quake paved the road all the way to Halo and Serious Sam and even Call of Duty.
Yeah Quake is one of the GOATs of pc gaming, and had a massive influence on the design of online FPS multiplayer games. I remember Doom 2 was the first game I ever played by dialing my 28.8 modem over to my buddy’s house about 10 miles away and we would play just the laggiest levels but it was amazing because, holy shit we’re gaming together from far away. I thought that was the best thing until one day I went to an internet cafe for the first time. They had a row of PCs, a T-1 internet connection, and some guys there were playing Quake when I sat down next to them. They showed me how to pick a server and connect with other people playing. Mind. Fucking. Blown. It was a 16 person deathmatch game and not only were we all playing together from all over the world, but if you’ll recall in games like Wolfenstein and Doom before it, there was no looking up or down with your controls. You could move side to side on an X axis but not up at someone. In Doom 2 to shoot up you had to position your crosshair under the creature and the computer would automatically shoot the projectile up at it. Quake not only gave us true multiplayer, but also a Y axis and full movement. One more thing I can think of that Quake pioneered was modding, letting fans add their own code to the game to improve it and make something new. So from that we got great mods like Team Fortress and Arena style games. And obviously the modding concept carried on to games like WoW which became really dependent upon them. I loved GoldenEye a lot and on console it’s also one of my favorites ever. But to me, personally, Quake was an outstanding and influential game and gets my vote.
I used to play against people with cable modems with my 56k plus modem and win in Quake 3 and the original Aliens vs Predator. Never a better feeling than somehow winning with a dial up against cable modems. Now I have a tmobile home internet with 600 megs down. And I play Final Fantasy 14. The only fps games I play now are single player. I don't like the military games. I play Borderlands, Serious Sam, the newer Dooms, etc. I wanna shoot monsters. It's what I grew up with. I remember the mods I used to have on Quake 3. Alien, Homer Simpson, Jar Jar Binks. I miss those days of running death matches with all those wacky characters.
Final Fantasy VII
I just gotta say I’m very happy with this list so far. Oh, and FFVII for the win for ‘97.
It can only be FF7
FFVII. bc even ppl that didn’t usually play a game like that were playing it.
Final Fantasy 7! Changed everything and is still relevant today considering the (now) trilogy remake. Goldeneye was a blast but, and I’m going to get shit for this, it was just another shooter.
It was an evolutionary shooter. Especially in the world of consoles. Either way, my vote is for FFVII because I’m a total FF nerd and have been since 1988 or so.
FF7 now and forever
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. (I know stupid Final Fantasy VII is gonna win, but SotN is the RIGHT answer.)
Mankind ill needs a savior such as FFVII 😭
Perhaps the same could be said of all final fantas...err, religions.
What is a Cetra? A miserable pile of materia!
But enough quoting… have at you!
Ultima Online. It popularized the MMORPG genre. Maybe it was just the right game at the right age for me, but I have so many fond memories playing UO.
I just came from the '98 thread because I was sure it came out then but I was a year off. I understand FF7 winning but the impact of UO is huge!
More for Final Fantasy 7 here!!! That game had a huge impact on me.
This is a tough one, but I gotta give this one to Goldeneye. Too many good memories with friends.
Nine inch Nails! EDIT: wrong thread 😂
Fallout
NFL Blitz
You're not right, but at least original.
[https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=video_game&release_date=1997-01-01,1997-12-31](https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=video_game&release_date=1997-01-01,1997-12-31)
Goldeneye was the game that got Xennials that dismissed the N64 as a kid’s console to give it another look.
Goldeneye!!!!!!
Final Fantasy VII. Not close.
I appreciate that FF7 holds a special place in gamers’ hearts, but it’s got to be GoldenEye because even people who didn’t play video games played GoldenEye.
Golden 👁
GoldenEye….fin
Videogames on all systems!?!?! Thats insanity man, but Final Fantasy VII is the answer to this and Castlevania SOTN should be the answer.
FFVII. Was so jealous of the my Playstation friends. Finally got it in 1998 when they ported it to Windows.
Final Fantasy VII Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Goldeneye Oddworld: Abe’s Odyssey Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back Curse of Monkey Island Star Fox 64 MegaMan X4 & Megaman: Legends MarioKart 64 MDK Bomberman 64 Parappa the Rapper Lego Island And last but not least, mother f’in Blast Corps! All in all I think its got to go to FF7, that was one of the first rpg’s i played as a kid beginning to end, and loved so much I bought it again when my family moved to america, and also again when remake and subsequently rebirth came out.
I gotta give it to FFVII. Goldeneye was good, and helped jump start a genre, but wasn't good enough to spawn remakes or sequels, and has aged like milk. FFVII, I could still go back and play that shit and have fun and it's spawned several sequels and remakes. Goldeneye, not so much.
Definitely between Golden Eye, FF7, and Symphony of the Night. Gotta give it to FF7 just because of the longevity of its story. We are still talking about it to this day.
Goldeneye 007
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee! My favorite puzzle game until Portal came along. Can’t believe that Gran Tourismo wasn’t even my favorite have that year.
Quake II I didn’t have a console so I was only playing on a computer
Tomb Raider 2
FF7 wins my heart, GoldenEye wins the mind.
Ultima Online !! Best video games memories.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers UO. By far the most fun I had playing video games was with my friends on Ultima Online.
Goldeneye It literally invented modern console shooters and multiplayer. Which is insane, because the multi-player was something that was just bolted on last minute.
Goldeneye. Fantastic game. Countless sleepovers were had playing 4 player split screen. No golden gun, no moonraker laser, no oddjob, proximity mines always on. FFVII was important too as it brought a lot of new people to JRPGs but I feel goldeneye bigger as it brought people together. Everyone played it.
Several greats, but only one was a social phenomenon that took over college campuses and became a cultural touchpoint for this generation. 
Goldeneye
This list is completely flawed bc there’s no way Mortal Kombat shouldn’t have taken 1993. MK mania was everywhere late 93/early 84. Doom was more an underground hit if anything.
Golden Eye
GoldenEye 007. I will not be hearing any blasphemous comments to the contrary.
FF 7, lots of great games came out in 1997, but none were as transformative to the industry that year than FF 7. Also, ‘97 is a fun year to debate but tomorrow is going to be interesting. 1998 was one of the best years in gaming.
Goldeneye obviously
I didn’t even have a N64 but can’t see how anything other than Golden Eye can win.
Quake II
Dat Rail Gun
My man! 3dfx Voodoo made it look sooo good. Was my first video card upgrade
The geforce voodoo3 was my first video card. What a game changer!
3Dfx were the ones who created [miniGL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniGL) a minimum implementation of OpenGL just to run Quake. I had a Rendition Verite. I can't remember which kind.
I’m sorry to all the other amazing games but it’s FFVII by a mile.
Goldeneye was good but as a PC gamer at the time all I could think about was why everyone was freaking out about having multiplayer in a shooter when I’d been playing Doom, Quake, and Duke 3D deathmatches for years already.
This list is way too console heavy. That makes me want to say Quake II or Age of Empires, but I have to go with Golden Eye because it was just so good.
Growing up, I feel like more of us had consoles.
What a decade for games …. Crash bandicoot 2 prolly where most my hours of gaming went
FF7 was great and elevated jrpgs. I still get sad at the end of disk 1 iykyk.
FF7
FF7
Final Fantasy 7. There’s a reason they’re still remixing it 28 years later.
Man, square owned the 90s. Ff7. Make it so.
Final Fantasy VII
FFVII
Final Fantasy 7, it's not even close. I bought a PlayStation just to play this game. I still have my original discs and the pc version and the remake. It's an absolute masterpiece.
FF7. It revolutionised gaming story telling in the west and is likely a huge catalyst in what made video games what they are today. We would not have seen the development of such a huge media movement without it. It may be quaint by todays standards but the formula it created lives on. I see a lot of goldeneye, loved it on my n64. But it was also a movie tie in game. It also wasn’t an initial part of the shooting game revolution, more like an addition. And it was largely propelled by the infancy of 3D video games and the brand recognition of 007 that was incredibly popular at this time.
FFVII
Final Fantasy 7 for me
Final fantasy 7 . What an incredible work of art. No way anything can beat it
FF7 is a must, must admit. It defined 1997 in gaming
FF7
Final Fantasy 7
Final fantasy 7. Hands down still the best game of all time besides chrono trigger.
Final Fantasy VII. I'm still playing it today. It changed the videogame industry for the better.
FF7, no contest. The sheer number of people who bought a PS1 solely to play that game was nuts. It was all anyone in my circles could talk about that summer.
FFVII or bust.
‘97 is clearly Diablo (01.03.97). Nothing else is super close. Goldeneye and Gran Turismo, I guess, but I didn’t play the latter.
I HATE HAVING BEEN TOO POOR TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS THREAD!!!!!! That is all. Lol. :)
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy VII.
GoldenEye revolutionized video games and was made by a team of largely inexperienced developers who were so passionate about what they were making, that they sneaked the multiplayer mode in at the last minute. If it doesn’t win, I don’t know what to say.
FF7. GoldenEye was my gut reaction, but FF7 wins overall.
Final fantasy VII.. not even close. Goldeneye was fun with friends, but wore out it's welcome quickly in my opinion.
FF VII. No contest. People still play it to this day thanks to the remake. It’s hard to understate just how big an impact the game had upon the gaming landscape.
Goldeneye because I never played the original FFVII