If you could own every game released during a single 5 year window but could never play a game released outside of that time period, which 5 years would you choose?
Time line of console release dates:
Example: if you pick 1991-1996 you get the tailend of 7800, SMS, and NES, the first half of SNES and Jaguar, the first year of Saturn and PS1, all of Virtual Boy (woot!), the majority of GBX, Genesis and Game Gear, plus all of the arcade, computer and other games released during those years. But nothing before or after. Which means you could never play SMB1 or Minecraft.
Rules.
Original official releases only. Wil Virtual Console, re-releases, anniversary editions, hacks, fan-made recreations, emulators, etc don't count.
No picking games from the future. 2014 is the cutoff.
Bonus question. Which 10 years were the worst? You can have all games except for one 10 year period after 1980.