Comment 98' and 04' Missing (Score 2, Interesting) 351
1998, as said in the Shlashdot blurb, is missing. Ocarina of Time fully made Analog control perfect. Metal Gear Solid started the games-as-movies craze. Starcraft revolutionized/prefected the RTS genre. Half-Life change how games were developed, creating an easily moddable engine and gave us a game that had no cutscenes that people took notice to. GoldenEye made FPS's on home concoles possible. Gran Turismo 2 came out.
2004 saw the release of the DS and PSP, marking the first time their is an acual Handheld war. Reggie Fils-Aime became joined Nintendo's marketing cor. and started the revolution in Nintendo's image. People took notice that our industry is becoming plagued with sequals like Half Life 2, Doom 3 and GTA:SA, the last which truely showed off the power of the Playstation 2. The first of the "negt-gen graphics" came with the frist two games too.
Lastly, they forgot to mention that GTA3 came out in 2001.