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EPISODE · Jul 24, 2026 · 2H 48M

The Best Games of 1997

from The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast

Stepping outside our 2000s comfort zone, this week we're sharing our two top 10 lists from 1997 in the first of a new quadrilogy of pods. Expect 1998, 1999 and 2000 episodes in the coming months.This week's music is from The Curse of Monkey Island soundtrack by Michael Land.You can get us, as ever, at [email protected] referenced in this week's episode: the German bloke touring E3 in Atlanta, Howard Lincoln talking about Rare, Nintendo's Space World, Games World's segment from the Sega booth at E3 1997 and B-roll of the games shown at Space World.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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