What a tremendous twelve months we just lived through! Online console gaming is finally picking up the pace, 3D adventures now inspire more awe than queasiness, and we veterans of the Great Silver Age of Gaming are seeing a lot of dear old friends in bright new packaging. Things are as right as we ever dared hope. (Why are you all looking at me like that?)

The heart of what follows is TNL's official look back at the year that was, compiled by our staff and laid out by our inimitable Sqoon. An alternate take on 2002 follows, as Master and omfgninjas step out of the netherworld of our message boards and grab the spotlight. As an unprecedented bonus, Riisuke delivers a report on the current state of anime. (Why is Bahn looking at me like that?)

Year-in-Review Directory

Highlights of 2002

• (What we think mattered most this past year)

  The Year-end Awards No One Wanted to Read, But None Dare Ignore (TYEANWTRBNDI™)
  

• (Masters and omfgninjas actually think they're getting paid for this? CAUTION: Not what you're used to.)

  Anime in 2002
  

• (Yeah, it ain't games, but Riisuke loves being the odd-man-out.)

   

··· TNL Staff