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The blue-people movie that broke the all-time box-office record and put 3D glasses on the entire planet. James Cameron waited a decade for the technology to match his vision — then spent a quarter-billion dollars proving it was worth the wait.
A lonely kid's imaginary superheroes turn out to be real, and off he goes to Planet Drool in smeary red-and-blue 3-D. Nobody who was a child in 2005 forgot the dream song, the Land of Milk and Cookies, or a pre-Twilight Taylor Lautner scowling in a shark suit.
The game that showed the world what 3D could be. Super Mario 64 launched the Nintendo 64 by dropping Mario into an open, explorable castle, and its analog-stick control and swooping camera quietly wrote the rulebook every 3D platformer would follow.
Nintendo's red-and-black 3D machine that sat on a table and asked you to press your face into it. It was on sale in Japan for about five months and in America for about a year, and it is the lowest-selling standalone console Nintendo ever put its name on. Everyone remembers the demo unit at the toy store, and everyone remembers the headache.