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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8185587" data-attributes="member: 6988941">I think your dates are a little on the early side. <a href="https://www.giantbomb.com/s-rank/3015-2962/" target="_blank">This</a> (not necessarily exhaustive) list on Giant Bomb shows it first appearing in 1993 in the Fatal Fury games. After appearing in a handful of other Japanese titles it seems to have pretty abruptly become an order of magnitude or two more common in Japanese games around 1998 or '99. Western developed games seemed to have hopped on the bandwagon roughly a decade later.It is possible that some games on the list did not necessarily preserve use of the S rank in all localizations (and that some games were excluded because those taging them for this list were not playing a localization that preserved them). Converting &quot;grades&quot; to the familiar local grading system seems like a pretty basic and superficial localization move.The exact timeline is interesting to me personally as someone who played plenty of Nintendo in the 90s but checked out of console gaming completely when I left for college in the early 2000s. Having not happened to own any of the still relatively small number of titles featuring S-ranking from the tail end of my console gaming days I had no idea it was considered a familiar aspect of console gaming until this thread.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8185587, member: 6988941"] I think your dates are a little on the early side. [URL='https://www.giantbomb.com/s-rank/3015-2962/']This[/URL] (not necessarily exhaustive) list on Giant Bomb shows it first appearing in 1993 in the Fatal Fury games. After appearing in a handful of other Japanese titles it seems to have pretty abruptly become an order of magnitude or two more common in Japanese games around 1998 or '99. Western developed games seemed to have hopped on the bandwagon roughly a decade later. It is possible that some games on the list did not necessarily preserve use of the S rank in all localizations (and that some games were excluded because those taging them for this list were not playing a localization that preserved them). Converting "grades" to the familiar local grading system seems like a pretty basic and superficial localization move. The exact timeline is interesting to me personally as someone who played plenty of Nintendo in the 90s but checked out of console gaming completely when I left for college in the early 2000s. Having not happened to own any of the still relatively small number of titles featuring S-ranking from the tail end of my console gaming days I had no idea it was considered a familiar aspect of console gaming until this thread. [/QUOTE]

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