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Line 1: {{trope}} When a show's title incorporates the year it was ~~released -- more~~released—more or less. Forward-dating shows by using next year is somewhat common, especially if the release is late in the year. Back-dating is less heard of, since it implies the show is falling behind the times; usually annual titles get incremented in case production slips behind schedule. Affixing a contemporary year to the title of a familiar story often implies a [[Setting Update]], though not necessarily. Fans will often do this with [[Similarly Named Works]] and [[Recycled Title~~\|Recycled Titles~~]]s. Since those are [[Retronym~~\|Retronyms~~]]s rather than official, ~~[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=Main.AnnualTitle#33965~~ they may or may not have their place here.] Compare [[Title Byby Number]] and [[Trope 2000]]. {{examples\|Examples:}}▼ ▲{{examples~~\|Examples:~~}} == [[Comic Books]] == * [[DC Comics]]' ''L.E.G.I.O.N.'' '89-'94. Line 14: == [[Film]] == * ''[[Godzilla]] 1985'' and ''Godzilla 2000''. * [[Hammer Horror]] ''[[Dracula ADA.D. 1972]]'' * ''[[Dracula 2000]]'' (Released in Europe as ''Dracula 2001''). * ''[[The Amityville Horror\|Amityville 1992: It's About Time]]'' * Movie studios in [[The Thirties]] used [[Annual Titles]] more often for formula musical comedies: ''[[Gold Diggers of 1933]]'', ''Gold Diggers of 1935'', ''Gold Diggers of 1937'' (Warner Bros.) Released in 1932, 1934 & 1936, respectively. ''Broadway Melody of 1936'', ''Broadway Melody of 1938'', ''Broadway Melody of 1940'' (MGM) ** ''The Big Broadcast of 1936'', ''The Big Broadcast of 1937'', ''The Big Broadcast of 1938'' (Paramount) Line 27: == [[Live Action TV]] == * The 1960s revival of ''[[Dragnet]]'': ''Dragnet 1967'', ''Dragnet 1968'', ''Dragnet 1969'' and ''Dragnet 1970''. However, the [[Pilot Movie]] ''Dragnet 1966'' was not broadcast until 1969. * The infamous ''[[Galactica 1980]]''. * ''[[Match Game]] '73'', '''74'', etc. Line 34: == [[Tabletop Games]] == * ''[[Magic: ~~the~~The Gathering]]'' core sets are all named after their year (forward-dated), a trend that began with 2009's ''Magic: The Gathering 2010 Core Set'', or ''Magic 2010'' for short. == [[Theatre]] == Line 41: == [[Video Games]] == * ''[[Time Pilot]] '84'' * ''[[Galaga]] '88'', also known as ''Galaga '90'' on its American [[~~Turbo Grafx~~ TurboGrafx-16]] release and as ''Galaga '91'' on the [[Game Gear]]. * ''[[~~Bomberman (Video Game)\|~~Bomberman]] '93'' & '' '94'' * ''Hector '87'' * ''[[~~Madden NFL (Video Game)\|~~Madden NFL]]''. Every year, it comes out with the next year's year in the title. ** And the ''[[FIFA Soccer]]''/NHLHockey games. The ''Madden'' bit was parodied by one webcomic by having the changes for a sequel consist of updating the number... and that's it. * ''[[Colin McRae Rally]] 04'' was actually released in September 2003. * ''[[~~The King of Fighters (Video Game)\|~~The King of Fighters]]'' did this every year from ''The King of Fighters '94'' to ''The King of Fighters 2003''. Since the next game was not released in 2004, the main series stopped using this, though it didn't stop ''King of Fighters: Maximum Impact 2'' from being retitled ''The King of Fighters 2006'' in the U.S. * Most 2K Sports games, with 2Kn as an abbreviation for (2000 + n). They are usually released in the preceding year, though. * ''[[Spyro the Dragon\|Spyro: Year of the Dragon]]'' is a variant; the year it was released ''was'' a Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac. == Miscellaneous == * Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000. Microsoft Office, too (95, 97, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013). {{reflist}} [[Category:Title Tropes]] [[Category:Annual Title]] ~~[[Category:Trope]]~~