what was The Golden Age of Gaming
Pinball-50’s 60’s and early 70’s
Early arcade-mid to late 70’s
Arcade Revolution-early to mid 80’s
The Old Computers(such as Commodor and Apple II)-early 80’s
Nes and Master system(late 80’s)
early Snes and Genises(early 90’s)
post 94 snes(mid 90’s)
Playstation and N64(mid 90’s to 2000)
PS2,xBox,and Game Cube(now)
Arcade revolution, and doesn’t this belong in the polling forum?
SNES. DG and I were talking about it recently. Ah, the memories… 
Gotta be SNES.
Personally, I’m going to have say that the golden age, was the mid 90’s. With the snes, and a new wave of consoles, just on the horizon. Those were the good old days.
I agree.
I think this one goes back a step to the NES. Call me crazy, but there was something more pure and wholesome about 8-bits. Though there is no doubt that the SNES era was the peak of ass-kicking.
What year was Mario 3 released in? Because that would be the single highest year in gaming ever.
1988, according to the title screen.
There is no golden age, just sentimental reminescent saps that ought to replay through the crap of their childhood.
Mid-80s IMO. Ataris were still fairly commonplace even if they were taking a nosedive, all of the major series (Super Mario, Zelda, FF etc) burst onto the scene- AM2 arcade games are another highlight, and the good ol’ Speccy was still around.
Plus, 1986 was when I played my first videogame. :o)
The ‘crap’ of MY childhood was Super Mario All Stars, Mario World, Zelda: Link to the Last, Mario Kart, Lost Vikings, Street Fighter II Turbo, and the Donkey Kong Country games. I don’t even NEED rose-tinted glasses mutherfucka. 
You already have them :P.
Your cynicism makes me sad. 
By the term “Golden Age” I cannot help but think of my grandmother listening to her AM radiostation that plays “Golden” Oldies…
So by golden I say SNES is too modern and advanced to be a “golden” era. Instead, NES because gaming was just evolving from it’s primitive state into somthing more durring this era and thus opening doorways to classic games… SNES was good, but there was too much good before it to consider it the “golden age of gaming”.
According to a source I read, it was 1978-1982. [I think]
When was the big collapse in the 80s? 83 or 84 or 85?
For me, the SNES era. THough deep inside I believe what Sin says to be true. In a few years, Halo will cease to be popular, and all the little tweeners of today will grow up and look back at it the same way we look back at Mario and the early FFs.
Well, it’s not like it makes Sin happy either, right?
Here is something that could easily get me some good old fashioned mob justice if it got spread around my dorm:
:hint: HALO is not that revolutionary.
It took a lot of things that were already there, and brought them together in a very VERY shiny package, but it didn’t change a damn thing in terms of overall philosphy of the game. NES on the other hand made a huge impact in the world of games. Three words could be applied to consols at that point: “Save” “Load” and “Continue”
Thank you for that, and as an added connection, I’ll say Halo is just like World of Warcraft, its not going to be anything revolutionary, just take alot of good ideas and put it togather in a stylish package…
I’m glad someone isnt stuck on SNES as the “golden” age. Yay for you.