The 2000s
The era where gaming grew up — online play, HD visuals, and the first generation to debate whether games were art.
76 games in this room
Uncommon Dreamcast
Jet Set Radio
ジェットセットラジオ
Jet Set Radio (2000), developed by Smilebit and directed by Masayoshi Kikuchi, is a cel-shaded open-world action game se…
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Dreamcast
Crazy Taxi
クレイジータクシー
Crazy Taxi (2000), developed by Hitmaker (formerly Sega AM3) and directed by Kenji Kanno, is an arcade racing game that …
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Uncommon Game Boy Color
Pokémon Crystal Version
ポケットモンスター クリスタルバージョン
Pokémon Crystal is the third and final entry in the second generation of the Pokémon series — an enhanced version of Gol…
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
ゼルダの伝説 ムジュラの仮面
Released in Japan on April 27, 2000, Majora's Mask was built on the engine of Ocarina of Time in just under 18 months — …
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Skies of Arcadia
エターナルアルカディア
Skies of Arcadia (2000), known in Japan as Eternal Arcadia, is a turn-based JRPG set in a world of floating continents a…
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Wario Land 3
ワリオランド3 不思議なオルゴール
Wario Land 3 (2000) for Game Boy Color is the highest-rated entry in the Wario Land series, praised for a radical design…
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Vagrant Story
ベイグラントストーリー
Vagrant Story (2000) is an action RPG developed and published by Square, directed, produced, written, and designed by Ya…
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Paper Mario
マリオストーリー
Paper Mario (2000) — known in Japan as Mario Story — is a Nintendo 64 turn-based RPG developed by Intelligent Systems, p…
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Phantasy Star Online
ファンタシースターオンライン
Released in 2000, Phantasy Star Online was a watershed moment in gaming history: the first true online RPG on a home con…
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Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
マーヴル VS. カプコン2 NEW AGE OF HEROES
Released in 2000, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 assembled 56 characters from Marvel and Capcom universes for the largest fighting …
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Final Fantasy IX
ファイナルファンタジーIX
Released in 2000, Final Fantasy IX was the series' deliberate return to its roots — a response to the urban, technologic…
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Grandia II
グランディア II
Released in 2000, Grandia II refined the series' beloved battle system — already celebrated in the original Saturn and P…
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Metal Gear: Ghost Babel
メタルギース ゴーストバベル
Metal Gear: Ghost Babel is a 2000 Game Boy Color original — not a handheld port of the PlayStation hit, but a standalone…
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Mario Tennis
マリオテニスGB
Mario Tennis for Game Boy Color is the first handheld entry in the Mario Tennis series, released the same year as its Ni…
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Perfect Dark
パーフェクトダーク
Perfect Dark is the 2000 Nintendo 64 first-person shooter developed by Rare as a spiritual successor to their landmark G…
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Sin and Punishment: Successor of the Earth
罪と罰〜地球の継承者〜
Sin and Punishment: Successor of the Earth is the 2000 Nintendo 64 rail shooter developed by Treasure and published by N…
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Resident Evil Code: Veronica
バイオハザード コード：ベロニカ
Resident Evil Code: Veronica is the 2000 Dreamcast survival horror game that marked a technical turning point for the se…
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Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble
コロコロカービィ
Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble (2000) is one of Nintendo's earliest experiments with motion-based controls, using a tilt sensor b…
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Mega Man Xtreme
ロックマンX サイバーミッション
Mega Man Xtreme (2000) brought the Mega Man X series to the Game Boy Color, condensing the action and boss roster of the…
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Virtua Tennis
パワースマッシュ
Virtua Tennis (2000) is the Dreamcast game that set the template for every tennis simulation that followed. Developed on…
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The Typing of the Dead
ザ タイピング オブ ザ デッド
The Typing of the Dead (2000) is one of gaming's most audacious concept games: a complete reimagining of House of the De…
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Pokémon Puzzle Challenge
ポケモンでパネポン
Developed by Intelligent Systems and released in September 2000, Pokémon Puzzle Challenge brings the Panel de Pon puzzle…
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Bionic Commando: Elite Forces
バイオニックコマンドー エリートフォーシーズ
A notable footnote in game development history, Bionic Commando: Elite Forces was the debut title from Nintendo Software…
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Dead or Alive 2
デッド オア アライブ 2
Team Ninja's follow-up to Dead or Alive, released for the Dreamcast on February 29, 2000 — a leap day release that match…
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Ferrari F355 Challenge
F355チャレンジ Passione Rossa
Directed by Yu Suzuki — creator of Out Run, After Burner, and Shenmue — and developed by Sega AM2, Ferrari F355 Challeng…
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Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future
エコー・ザ・ドルフィン ディフェンダー・オブ・ザ・フューチャー
The fifth and final Ecco the Dolphin game, released for Dreamcast in 2000, marked a complete reinvention of the franchis…
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Nintendo 64
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
カービィ64 クリスタルのひみつ
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards (2000) is Kirby's only mainline entry on the Nintendo 64, and HAL Laboratory's boldest expe…
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Nintendo 64
Mario Tennis
マリオテニス64
Mario Tennis (2000) defined what a Mario sports game could be: tight arcade mechanics wrapped in franchise characters, w…
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Uncommon Dreamcast
Power Stone 2
パワーストーン2
Power Stone 2 (2000) expanded everything that made the original remarkable: where the first game was a two-player arena …
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Banjo-Tooie
バンジョーとカズーイの大冒険2
Released on November 20, 2000, Banjo-Tooie is Rare's magnum opus on the Nintendo 64 — a vast, richly interconnected 3D p…
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▶ Nintendo GameCube
Pikmin
ピクミン
Pikmin (2001) is a real-time strategy game created by Shigeru Miyamoto, released as a GameCube launch title in Japan. Ca…
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▶ Nintendo GameCube
Super Smash Bros. Melee
大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズDX
Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001) is the second entry in the Smash Bros. series and the best-selling Nintendo GameCube game…
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Uncommon Game Boy Color
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
ゼルダの伝説 ふしぎの木の実 大地の章
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons is one of two interconnected Game Boy Color adventures released simultaneously in…
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The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
ゼルダの伝説 ふしぎの木の実 時空の章
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages (2001) is a Game Boy Color action-adventure developed by Capcom's Flagship team. Ora…
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Luigi's Mansion
ルイージマンション
Released in 2001 as a GameCube launch title, Luigi's Mansion finally gave Nintendo's perpetual sidekick his own starring…
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Dragon Warrior Monsters 2
ドラゴンクエストモンスターズ2 マルタのふしぎな鍵
Dragon Quest Monsters 2 is the 2001 GBC sequel to the monster-raising RPG that introduced the series to Game Boy players…
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Conker's Bad Fur Day
コンカーのバッドファーデイ
Conker's Bad Fur Day is the 2001 Nintendo 64 game that began its life as an entirely different product: a family-friendl…
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Rez
レズ
Rez is the 2001 rail shooter directed by Tetsuya Mizuguchi and developed by United Game Artists, built around a single c…
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Resident Evil Gaiden
バイオハザード ガイデン
Resident Evil Gaiden (2001) is the unlikely survival horror entry on Game Boy Color — a top-down adventure set on a zomb…
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Cosmic Smash
コズミックスマッシュ
Cosmic Smash (2001) is one of the rarest and most visually distinctive Dreamcast exclusives — a futuristic sports game c…
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Lufia: The Legend Returns
エストポリス伝記 よみがえる伝説
The first Lufia game on a handheld, released for Game Boy Color in September 2001 — just months after the Game Boy Advan…
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Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001
カプコン バーサス エス・エヌ・ケイ 2 ミリオネア ファイティング 2001
Released in September 2001, Capcom vs. SNK 2 arrived months after Sega had officially discontinued the Dreamcast hardwar…
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Super Monkey Ball
スーパーモンキーボール
Released as a GameCube launch title in 2001, Super Monkey Ball challenged players to tilt an entire world around a monke…
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Wave Race: Blue Storm
ウェーブレース ブルーストーム
Released as a GameCube launch title in 2001, Wave Race: Blue Storm was Nintendo's showcase of the console's water-simula…
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Rare Game Boy Color
Star Ocean: Blue Sphere
スターオーシャン ブルースフィア
Star Ocean: Blue Sphere is a 2001 action RPG developed by tri-Ace and published by Enix exclusively for the Game Boy Col…
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Game Boy Color
Mega Man Xtreme 2
ロックマンX2 ソウルイレイザー
Mega Man Xtreme 2 is a 2001 Game Boy Color action platformer developed and published by Capcom — a sequel to Mega Man Xt…
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Uncommon Dreamcast
Shenmue II
シェンムー II
Shenmue II (2001) is the direct continuation of Yu Suzuki's open-world epic, following Ryo Hazuki from Yokosuka to Hong …
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▶ Nintendo GameCube
Super Mario Sunshine
スーパーマリオサンシャイン
Super Mario Sunshine (2002) is the second 3D Mario platformer and the first mainline Mario title released on the GameCub…
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Very Rare Game Boy Color
Shantae
シャンティ
Shantae is the game that proved the Game Boy Color still had undiscovered depths three years into its lifespan. Develope…
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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
ゼルダの伝説 風のタクト
Released on December 13, 2002 in Japan, The Wind Waker traded the dark realism fans expected after Ocarina of Time for b…
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Ikaruga
斑鳩
Ikaruga (2002) is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up developed and self-published by Treasure, released for Dreamcast in …
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Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
エターナルダークネス 〜招かれた13人〜
Released in 2002, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem was unlike any horror game before it. Spanning thirteen playable ch…
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Resident Evil
バイオハザード
Resident Evil (2002) is Capcom's ground-up remake of the landmark 1996 survival horror game, developed exclusively for N…
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Resident Evil Zero
バイオハザード0
Released in 2002, Resident Evil Zero is the origin story of the Raccoon City disaster, following S.T.A.R.S. medic Rebecc…
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Star Fox Adventures
スターフォックス アドベンチャーズ
Released in 2002, Star Fox Adventures sent Fox McCloud on foot across the primeval world of Dinosaur Planet in a Zelda-s…
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Uncommon Game Boy Color
Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors
ドラゴンボールZ 伝説の超戦士たち
Released in North America on June 30, 2002 and in Japan on August 9, 2002, Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors is a …
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Uncommon ▶ Nintendo GameCube
Animal Crossing: Doubutsu no Mori e+
どうぶつの森e+
Doubutsu no Mori e+ is the final and most complete GameCube entry in the Animal Crossing series, released exclusively in…
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Uncommon ▶ Nintendo GameCube
Metroid Prime
メトロイドプライム
Metroid Prime (2002) is a first-person adventure developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo. It translated the…
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F-Zero GX
F-Zero GX
F-Zero GX (2003) is a GameCube racing game co-developed by Sega's Amusement Vision division and published by Nintendo — …
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Tales of Symphonia
テイルズ オブ シンフォニア
Released in 2003, Tales of Symphonia became the breakout RPG of the GameCube era — introducing many Western players to t…
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Viewtiful Joe
ビューティフル ジョー
Released in 2003, Viewtiful Joe was the debut game of Clover Studio — Capcom's internal creative team that would later p…
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Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
マリオカート ダブルダッシュ!!
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! is the 2003 GameCube entry in Nintendo's kart racing series, introducing the two-character sys…
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Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
バテン・カイトス 終わらない翼と失われた海
Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean (2003) is one of the GameCube's most distinctive RPGs — a card-based comb…
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Kirby Air Ride
カービィのエアライド
Kirby Air Ride (2003) is one of the GameCube's most unusual Nintendo games — a racing title stripped of acceleration and…
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Pokémon Colosseum
ポケモンコロシアム
Released in 2003, Pokémon Colosseum was the first full RPG adventure in the mainline Pokémon tradition on home console h…
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1080° Avalanche
1080° アバランチ
Released in 2003, 1080° Avalanche is the sequel to the acclaimed 1080° Snowboarding for Nintendo 64, this time developed…
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Wario World
ワリオワールド
Released in North America on June 23, 2003, Wario World is an unusual entry in Nintendo's lineup: a fully 3D action-plat…
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Pikmin 2
ピクミン2
Released in 2004, Pikmin 2 expanded the original Pikmin formula in nearly every dimension — removing the time limit, add…
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
ペーパーマリオRPG
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is the 2004 GameCube RPG developed by Intelligent Systems and the second entry in th…
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Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
メトロイドプライム2 ダークエコーズ
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (2004) takes the first-person Metroid framework of its predecessor and doubles it — introducing …
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Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
ドンキーコング ジャングルビート
Released in 2004, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat was controlled entirely by the DK Bongos — the drum peripheral originally bund…
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Uncommon Nintendo GameCube
Custom Robo
カスタムロボ バトルレボリューション
Released in Japan on March 4, 2004, Custom Robo: Battle Revolution is the fourth entry in Noise's Custom Robo series — a…
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Resident Evil 4
バイオハザード4
Released in January 2005, Resident Evil 4 abandoned the fixed camera angles and tank controls of its predecessors for an…
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Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
ファイアーエムブレム 蒼炎の軌跡
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance is the 2005 GameCube tactical RPG developed by Intelligent Systems — the first entry in th…
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Chibi-Robo! Plug Into Adventure!
チビロボ！ プラグインベイビー
Chibi-Robo! (2005) is one of the most quietly original GameCube games — an action-adventure where a 10-centimeter tall r…
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killer7
killer7（キラー7）
Released in 2005, killer7 is one of the most deliberately radical games ever published by a major studio. Directed by Go…
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