I already covered some of them in retro friday/saturday(aka slowdown saturday) but anyways here's some things that happened in 1997 and it's hard to believe that was 20 years ago
Mmbop being released, The marlins winning the world series against the indians, the bulls almost won 70 games again and won in the finals against the utah jazz. Mike tyson bites the ear off evander holyfield,interleague play in baseball starts, the yankees dynasty is in it's infancy. The packers beat the patriots in the super bowl, Wannabe by the spice girls is released, notorious big is shot dead, shaq is on the lakers, ozzfest starts, 98 degrees and have the backstreet boys released a debut album(starting the trend of boy bands)
The montreal screwjob happens at survivor series 1997 and it is also the last time we see brett hart in wwe for more then a decade, Final fantasy 7 comes out and changes the console wars and rpgs, notable games released are: tekken 3, mario kart 64, castlevania:symphony of the night. mega man 8. goldeneye, grand theft auto 1, mortal kombat 4, crash bandicoot 2, gran turismo 1, diddy kong racing, parappa the rapper, tomb raider 2, the snes mini and game.com are released with one being a huge failure, beanie babies were all the rage among with alien and ufo merchandise, and giga pets and tamgotchis and spice girl lollipops, batman and robin was released and flopped same with george of the jumgle.
Titantic was the blockbuster among with men in black and la confidental. For lesser known movies there was: flubber, leave it to beaver, beverly hills ninja, turbo power rangers movie, home alone 3, mouse hunt, hercules, austin powers, shaq in steel, jungle 2 jungle, con air, air force one, the saint, spawn and american beauty
Chris farley died as did princess diana, bill clinton is president and the economy is doing great, A sheep named dolly is cloned, steve jobs returns to apple computers, the lost world jurassic park is released, Selena the movie is released, the smashing pumpkins are in they're prime, south park gets it start, malls are still popular, orbitz soda is still selling, kb toys is still in it's prime, Arcades were still popular hang outs and it's where I spent a lot of my time. EGM2 and other video game magazines were still around and I would always go to the magazine rack, Lastly, the world was more carefree and I had a subscription to disney adventures magazine and was huge into goosebumps books and toys r us
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