• Top 10 Video Games of All Time

  

  Written by Zeromage 54 Comments
  Last Updated:: March 1, 2008

  5. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

  Who stops playing this game once they have started? Maybe when one is deleteriously affected by looking at a screen too long? Maybe when one wants to go out into the actual wilderness and pretend to be a bounty hunter? For those who are fans of Super Metroid, this is its brother. Similar in layout and theme, this game stands out as one of the best games ever made for Playstation. The map is large, the story is large, the game is a monster. Just when you think you have obviated Dracula’s castle, the whole thing turns upside down, and you realize that your just 50% of the way through. The bosses are some of the most innovative bosses to come out of the Castlevania series, and of course, there’s the Soundtrack by the renowned Michiru Yamane which is often played live at concerts in Europe by the demand of those who realize the power in the techno/symphonic pieces. The Castlevania series is never wrong. It’s always just a question of which one is the best.

  4. Super Metroid (SNES)

  The only bad thing about Super Metroid for the SNES are the hand cramps you will get from playing it so much. In Super Metroid, the successor to Metroid for Nintendo and Gameboy, we see Samus back on Zebes fighting old enemies from her prior outing; Craid and Ridely are back, not to mention the plethora of new space pirates trying to get a lock of Samus’s flowing hair. The suspense of this game has been unmatched by any other. As you are about to fight Craid, the music in the room before changes to the somberness of a Beethoven Sonata, and you come across a previous journeyman being eaten up by space insects. This type of engagement with the player is often lost in the “high-tech” musings of current video game makers. Between the valence of the soundtrack and the emotional ending where “you-know-who” comes to save you, you are in for a one of the most amazing video game experiences of your life. When playing this game for the first time, know that you will never be able to play it for the first time again…

  3. Chrono Trigger (SNES)

  The theme music for 600.AD is perhaps the most recognized theme in RPG history. Hit up Youtube now and you will find variegated renditions, from the simple piano mimicry, to obscure oboe afflatuses. This is just the music though…There’s also the game…made by “Sqauresoft”, which means it’s impossible that it wasn’t a great game. The theme of Chrono Trigger was arguably the best, most thought out idea for any RPG ever made. Taking advantage of the idea of the chronology of actual world history, you were to adventure across every span of the world’s totality, even to the “end of time” which gave you goose bumps knowing you were on the brink of timelessness. The creators of this game must have been reading Hegel before and during the development in this game, as creating a game with the theme of personally following out the logic of history, was surely an ode to Hegel’s essential philosophical insights. Philosophy aside, this game was effulgent and munificent in its delivery. The entire game, you think that the last boss is Magus, until you beat him and realize that he becomes one of the members of your party. Its here you realize how much time you spent playing this game, and how much more time you will have to spend to get at the real ending. Like all great RPG’s, this game had a series of fake endings, where you could play the game 15 hours and get a bad ending with the world being destroyed, to be completely unsatisfied in your “accomplishment” up to that point. The realization that you have more times to explore with their own massive story lines in these lands led to a feeling of grandiosity, the hallmark of all square soft games. Chrono Trigger is up there with Final Fantasy 3 and Secret of Mana as some of the best accomplishments in gaming history. It’s with this knowledge that one then wants to understand what was going on in the minds of the creators of these games. To make games like this required inspiration and muse not needed in modern game making that merely requires “sex appeal”. Video games did have a golden age. Chrono Trigger represents that golden age…

  2. Super Mario Brothers (NES)

  What more is there to say about Super Mario Brothers that hasn’t been said before? This game is the Casablanca of all video games and will go down in history as a true classic. This was the game that put video games on the map. Granted other video games existed before Super Mario brothers, but none stirred the hearts and control pads of the masses quite like this one. After all, who could resist Mario and Luigi? They were more than just a couple of brothers in the plumbing business, they were pretty bad ass renegades who didn’t think twice about stomping mushroom traitors or kicking turtle soldier shell butt clear across mushroom kingdom if it meant saving Princess Toadstool. Speaking of the princess, she was smokin’ even though they hadn’t pixelated cleavage yet. This is a game that had it all, bizarre villains, midgets, hot princesses, and wanton fireball destruction. All in all, the original Super Mario Brothers was a fun game, but it also taught us some important life lessons: much like you can’t go back on a screen, you can’t go back in life. Once you make a choice you are stuck with it. Eat your vegetables and you’ll grow big and strong, always chase stars, no matter where they lead you, if you eat a flower you just end up spitting fire, and with a little manual labour you’ll find gold coins in the most unlikely places. Yes, this game was a true classic that created a whole generation of super gamers and maybe some renegade plumbers too.

  1. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)

  It’s difficult to rate a game over its predecessors…the predecessors that established the series as popular in the first place. Zelda 1 and Zelda 2 were both amazing games and were the first in the series that brought adventure gaming to the forefront of the gaming industry. Nonetheless, there are times when a game is so good, it takes precedence over its own founding. Super Metroid is one of those games, Zelda: Link to the Past is the other. Link to the Past walked the thin line between maturity and puerility better than any game in adventure and RPG game history. The story line develops with a slightly tragic sense that never overbears the actual gameplay. The map is big, but not so big that one is overwhelmed with the sheer time it’s going to take to run through the game. The game is perfectly thought out. The transition from the light world to the dark world with the “mirror” gives a perfect level of puzzle solving in changing worlds to affect the other world when need be. The graphics are sometimes stunning, like the forest area with the gentle mist passing over the area until Link recovers the Master Sword inside. The top of the mountains radiate with powerful backgrounds of lighting and vistas, and the towns are detailed with a type of quaintness that other games simply skimp on. Most of the musical score for “Link to the past” have been used by every Zelda game afterwards, even more so than the original, ubiquitous motif of Zelda 1. This game delivers on all levels of what makes great games. Those not into adventure games find themselves enjoying this game regardless, because of its simplicity and not having to wait through hours of dialogue to know what they need to do next. Those into adventure games love this game because of all the palpable fantasy themes reoccurring throughout. “Link to the Past” is the best example of a game that transcends all tastes in video gaming.

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54 Comments

1. #1 Joe says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 12:23 am

   It’s a good list, although there are a few I would change, Goldeneye for one should be there without a doubt, everything about that game was just fantastic, from the superb multiplayer to the hilarious shot-in-the-groin animation of the guards
2. #2 shane says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 1:13 am

   pro evoluyion 4 is, for me, the greatest game i have played, followed by sims ( on pc ) and half life also on pc.
3. #3 lars says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 8:57 am

   if you think gears of war should even be on the top 1000 list you are a burden society… as for the list good job well done. honestly though top 10,100.. is just opinion of the gamer and for everyone *itching i don’t understand why you take it so *ucking personal when your favorite game is not on there get over it move on. lapiz you’re a ***t hair for saying anyting bad about nintendo learn some respect for one of if not the greatest gaming companies of all time oh and i would love to hear your top 10