The dawn of the new millennium was a great time for gamers, and several hit titles from the early 2000s are still very playable today.

The golden age of arcade games ground to a halt in 1983, but before then, players enjoyed five games that would define the legacy of those early gaming halls.

Skyrim’s the Elder Scrolls V (screencaps by the author) We are a long way from the panning 8-bit landscapes of early video games into fully immersive other worlds that can be explored as places in ...