Staff Beef: Why 1993 Was Dope Game For Millennial Nerds

[divider type=”space_thin”] I often get into debates with fellow writer for the site, Ian Khadan. We’ve been friends and have had serious debates over who is the best ninja to come out of Hidden Leaf Village, were the 3rd Hokage’s policies helpful in Naruto overall (this is an argument that leads to us not speaking for a week), and of course who loves Jennifer Williams more (I do. You’re married, you can’t). However, the one thing we talk about that tears us apart on the friendship spectrum is which year was better: 1993 or 1994. I had a theory with a childhood friend from high school up until my (shutter) adult years, that all the most memorable things across the board in genres happened in 1993. Music: Wutang Clan’s “C.R.E.A.M.”, Cypress Hill’s “Insane in The Brain”, H-Town’s “Knockin Da Boots”, Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You”, The Proclaimers’ “I’m gonna be”… you know, it’s the song that goes “And I would walk 500 miles”. Movies: The Fugitive, Tombstone (BEST WESTERN EVER IDC IDC IDC), Philadelphia. These are some of the things that the year 1993 blessed our lives with. Of course my comrade Ian disagrees, so we thought it best to limit this to the nerd genre and compare between the years which produced quality hits nerd-wise. That being said, there’s a lot of pressure going into this. Each representative selected to represent “The’93 Nerd Dream Team” must have put numbers on the board in pop culture, have a cult following or be an undisputed underrated champio…