1998 was a World Cup year, and as you’d expect with the world’s largest sporting event there were a plethora of games to tie in to the occasion. World Cup ‘98, FIFA ‘99 and Actua Soccer 3 were just some of the titles that were contending with International Superstar Soccer ‘98 (ISS for short) for the proverbial Football Game of the Year cup…

Metal Gear Solid was perhaps the most talked about game on the floor of the 1997 Electronic Entertainment Expo (better known as ‘E3’). That was quite the achievement when you consider the competition consisted of heavyweight titles like Quake 2, Unreal, Panzer Dragoon Saga, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, GoldenEye and Banjo Kazooie…