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- The last 10 years of gaming have been a wild ride.
- Both "Minecraft" and "Pokémon Go" didn't exist when this decade began, and all three major console makers launched new consoles - two in Nintendo's case.
- We looked back at the last decade and put together a list of the 10 biggest, most impactful games.
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In December 2009, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were still years away. The Nintendo Switch? Further still.
Gaming on the iPhone was barely a year old, and smartphones weren't yet able to power a cultural phenomenon like "Pokémon Go."
But not everything was so different.
Online gaming was already a staple, even on home game consoles. "Minecraft" had already begun to emerge as a new generation's "Super Mario Bros."
It's been a decade of evolution in gaming, and these are the 10 games that pushed the whole medium forward:
