The decade that brought us the GameCube, Xbox, PS2, and GameBoy Advance has come to an end.
If you want to get technical the N64 and the PS1 were laid to rest in this decade too.
The SNES is fixing to be the next NES, aka the console that “retro gamer” wannabes (like myself with the NES) will play, if it hasn’t become it already.

I may say that many of my favorite games are on the SNES, but in reality, I was a 2000′s kid. I don’t have much memory of what happened in the 90′s, I was born in 1991, and only really experienced the later half of it.
I was only 8 in 1999, and thought nothing of games except that I wanted the game my cousins had. I didn’t start reading and looking at game magazines until 98/99; they served as my catalog of games, with the internet being of some use as well.
Starting with MFGG in 2005 is where I began to be more informed about the more obscure games, and even shaped my opinions. Sonic Adventure 2 Battle was my last console Sonic Game, for some reason I didn’t buy Heroes. Shadow came out when I started posting at MFGG and all the negativity towards it, and subsequently any big Sonic Game, turned me away from it.

But now as I think about it, it amazes me that games like Majora’s Mask, Pokemon G/S/C, are in this category along with Twilight Princess and Diamond/Pearl. Call of Duty and Modern Warfare 2. etc.

It’s kinda amazing thinking back but at the same time mildly depressing, as it always is when feeling nostalgic.

I may say that many of my favorite games are on the SNES, but in reality, I was a 2000′s kid.
The following are the games I associate most with this era.
They are in Chronological order, to the best of my memory, that is.
My Top 25 games of the 2000′s; I would not hesitate to replay these. Some of them I still do/am.

Kirby and the Crystal Shards
Paper Mario
Pokemon Gold
Majora’s Mask
Hey You Pikachu
SSBM
Luigi’s Mansion
WindWaker
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
Super Mario Advance
A Link to the Past/Four Swords
Battlefield 1942
Call of Duty
Advance Wars 2
Halo (System Link)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes
Mario Party 4
007 Nightfire
Wario Ware Touched
Phoenix Wright
Civilization 4
Animal Crossing
Mario and Luigi Super Star Saga
MGS 3

After a certain point games just didn’t impact me as they once did. The last game on the list I would consider the cutoff as to when this occurred. Mother 3 is an exception but I felt it to recent to add to this list.
I will miss thee, 200X