There are so many great games already out this year and there are still more to come. This year is shaping up to top 1998 with even more great games and more importantly, less bad games! 1998 was the year of Half-Life, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, Madden '99, Delta Force, Final Fantasy VII on the PC, Fallout 2, Tekken 3, NFS 3, Pokemon Red, Gran Turismo, Gameday 99, Resident Evil 2, Heritic II, SiN, Grim Fandango, Baldur's Gate, Banjo-Kazooie, Xenogears, Thief, Turok 2, F-15 and a little game called Starcraft....and even more!

Ok, after looking at this list, I realize that 1998 wins especially since it brings back memories of needing to have a cyst remove from the base of my spine because as the doctor asked me, "There are only two ways this could have happened. Either you fell on your ass really hard or you sat in one position for a really long time." "Do I need to answer that question Doc?"

It actually really comes rushing back to me, where I was when I was playing each of these games, who I was with, you name it. Luckily after my operation I was out of work for 3 weeks and could get in some serious time to mow through all of these. I remember that at the time we didn't realize how lucky we were, we thought every year would be like that one...we also thought we would be going to E3 for the rest of our lives.

It is still a pretty good year though and right now I am happy as can be with the quality of games I have to play and I am going to appreciate all of them, you never know what next year will bring!