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1999 saw many sequels and prequels in video games, such as Heroes of Might and Magic III, System Shock 2, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Final Fantasy VIII, Age of Empires II, Crash Team Racing, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, Grand Theft Auto 2, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Chrono Cross, Unreal Tournament, Pokémon Gold and Silver, and Donkey Kong 64, along with new titles such as Super Smash Bros., Silent Hill, Syphon Filter, Driver, EverQuest, Homeworld, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and Planescape: Torment.

The year's most critically acclaimed video game was the Dreamcast title Soulcalibur, which remains among the highest-rated games of all time on Metacritic. The best-selling home video game worldwide was the Game Boy title Pokémon Red/Green/Blue/Yellow for the second year in a row, while the year's highest-grossing arcade game in Japan was Sega's Virtua Striker 2.

Eventsedit

• British Academy of Film and Television Arts hosts the 2nd annual BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards.^{[citation needed]}
• March – Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children is republished as Game Over: Press Start to Continue.^{[citation needed]}
• March 15 – Game Network hosts the 1st annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) at GDC.^{[citation needed]}
• March 15–19 – Game Developers Conference (formerly Computer Game Developers Conference); moves to San Jose, California where it stays for six consecutive years; hosts the 1st annual Independent Games Festival.^{[citation needed]}
• May 12 – Nintendo has started working on what will eventually be the GameCube, under the codename "Project Dolphin".^[1]
• May 13 – Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences hosts 2nd Annual Interactive Achievement Awards (at E3); inducts Sid Meier of Firaxis Games to the AIAS Hall of Fame.^{[citation needed]}
• May 13–15 – 5th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3); the 2nd annual Game Critics Awards for the Best of E3.^[2]
• September 7 - The SegaWorld London amusement park shuts down for good exactly three years after its original opening date in 1996. The bottom two floors of the park continue to operate as a generic arcade until 2011. ^[3]

Hardwareedit

Top-rated gamesedit

Game of the Year awardsedit

The following titles won Game of the Year awards for 1999.

Critically acclaimed titlesedit

Metacritic and GameRankingsedit

Metacritic (MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews.