Back in the halcyon gaming days of 2001, plenty of us were busy playing on our GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Dreamcast, PC, or Game Boy Advance, enjoying all kinds of games we couldn't have known at the time would go on to become so formative and important in their genre.
In this list, we're looking back at the ten best games that released in 2001 whose effects can be felt in one way or the other across the gaming industry, games that made an impression on us all those years ago that just keep on impressing after all these years.
While you might think of Mario Kart mostly as a home console game, we've enjoyed plenty of handheld iterations throughout the years as well, and that's right where Mario Kart: Super Circuit comes into play, providing hours of fun on your Game Boy Advance back in the day. It was the first handheld Mario Kart game, but it certainly wouldn't be the last!
Gameplay on the handheld console is identical to that of the home console titles, but Mario Kart: Super Circuit let us take our favorite Nintendo characters out onto the track no matter where we were for real. There are eight of them to choose from as you dash across a cool 40 total tracks, so the options for mastery feel almost endless.
Halo has been such a part of our lives as gamers for so long now that it's hard to believe it had to debut at some point, but Halo: Combat Evolved is the best place to start checking out the Halo titles, launching what nobody could have known at the time would go onto become one of the most iconic gaming franchises of all-time.
We got to meet Master Chief and Cortana for the very first time in this action shooter title from Microsoft, one of the driving Xbox exclusive series back at the height of the console wars. It's impossible not to feel the aftershocks as you play through later entries in the series, with the gameplay evolving in multitudes since its early 2000s debut.
Good luck not singing the Run DMC song now, after reading that title! If you were a fan of winter sport games back in the day, then we don't doubt you put some hours in on the slopes of a game as iconic as SSX Tricky, one of the most formative snowboarding games of all time.
Choose a character (and unlock more as you go) to shoot down a variety of snowy courses, landing a variety of impressive tricks and getting your score as high as can be by the end of each run. Whether you were playing the solo races or challenging a friend or sibling to meet you on the slopes, gamers from this era definitely have some fond memories in this game.
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