Every property, scored and ranked.

Verhoeven's 1997 fascism satire disguised as a bug-war blockbuster was misread on release and canonized later. 'Would you like to know more?' became a permanent piece of internet grammar.

Rare's 1998 bear-and-bird collect-a-thon was the N64's warmest masterpiece. Microsoft has owned it since 2002 and shipped no true platformer entry since 2008's vehicle-based Nuts & Bolts.

MTV's deadpan misanthrope surveyed suburban high school with lethal irony. The defining portrait of Gen-X teen alienation, and a permanent aesthetic reference.

Scholastic's mega-selling 1996 book series - five kids wage guerrilla war against brain-stealing alien parasites using animal morphing - got a low-budget 1998 Nickelodeon series that couldn't match the books' darkness.

Amy Heckerling's Emma-in-Beverly-Hills defined 90s teen style and slang. Cher Horowitz's yellow plaid suit and 'As if!' are permanent pop-culture vocabulary.

Craig McCracken's kindergarten superheroines - Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup - mixed kaiju battles with sugar-and-spice irony and became a global merchandising force and proto-girl-power icon.

The boy band that broke US sales records at the millennium went on indefinite hiatus in 2002 and never did a farewell - leaving the highest-value unfinished business in pop nostalgia.

Disney's modest 1995 theatrical about Goofy dragging teenage Max on a fishing trip while Max schemes to reach a Powerline concert. A generational cult classic far bigger now than on release.

Square's 1995 'dream team' time-travel RPG (Sakaguchi, Horii, Toriyama) is routinely ranked the greatest JRPG ever made - and has had no mainline successor since 1999's Chrono Cross.

'Wannabe' launched the biggest pop-cultural phenomenon of 1996-98: five personas, Girl Power, and merchandising on a scale pop hadn't seen. They never had a proper final act.

Four outcast Catholic-school girls form a coven and learn power has a price. The film that made teen witchcraft a permanent aesthetic subculture.

The 1998 animatronic gremlin that 'learned English,' caused Christmas riots and NSA bans, and sold 40 million units in three years - then kept resurfacing in uncanny-valley folklore.

Insomniac's purple dragon gave the original PlayStation its mascot platformer, later fueling the Skylanders toy boom. The 2018 Reignited Trilogy remake sold strongly - then nothing followed.

Blizzard's 1998 RTS became a national sport in South Korea and effectively invented modern esports. The franchise has been frozen since StarCraft II's content wind-down and a canceled shooter.

Shigesato Itoi's suburban-America RPG flopped in the US in 1995, then became the most influential cult game of its era - the direct ancestor of Undertale and a generation of indie RPGs.

Andrew Niccol's 1997 flop-turned-classic about a genetically 'invalid' man who borrows a superior man's identity to reach space. The definitive film about genetic discrimination.

Nickelodeon's football-headed fourth grader navigates a poetic, working-class city block of boarders, bullies, and urban legends. The rare kids show about empathy and economic reality.

The 96mm fingerboards with real skate-brand graphics that turned every 1998 classroom desk into a skatepark and made miniature kickflips a legitimate dexterity subculture.

Paramount's 1997 haunted-spaceship film about a vessel that returned from a hell dimension. Bombed on release, then became sci-fi horror's most beloved cult object, with famously lost gore footage.

Two 90s teens get trapped in a black-and-white 1950s sitcom, and their presence brings color, sex, books, and conflict to a town built on nostalgia. New Line's great film about nostalgia itself.

Joe Dante's 1998 film about action figures with military AI chips that wage real war on a suburban family. A toyetic satire that reads as prophecy in the AI-toy era.

Luc Besson's maximalist 1997 space opera: a cab driver, a perfect being in thermal bandages, Gaultier costumes, and the Diva Dance. Europe's biggest sci-fi export of the decade.

Sarah McLachlan's all-women touring festival was 1997's top-grossing festival tour, proving the industry wrong about stacking female acts - then a 2010 revival misfired and the brand went quiet.

Don Bluth's Fox-produced answer to Disney: a lost-princess musical with 'Journey to the Past' and 'Once Upon a December,' now owned by Disney via the Fox acquisition.

The Danish-Norwegian act whose 'Barbie Girl' was 1997's global novelty smash - and the subject of a landmark Mattel trademark lawsuit that Aqua won.