• Top 100 Video Games

  

  Written by Zeromage 226 Comments
  Last Updated:: February 1, 2009

  What’s happening? What’s going on? Is this some sort of sick game? The answer to all of these questions is: YES BEOTCH. We’ve held out this long to weed out the suckers and prune our rose bushes. It’s hard for us to believe we’ve actually done it, the top 100 video games of all time list. We’ve separated ourselves from the pack by freely admitting that the only science behind this list is our cumulative gigantic brain. You’ve read the sales charts, you’ve formed your own opinions, now you are ready for the truth…the OLD-WIZARD TRUTH. If you don’t like the list, yell at us and we’ll undoubtedly yell back. So without any further ado: The Top 100 Video Games of All Time Ever in the Universe List!!!

  100. Donkey Kong (Arcade)

  Staring at the screen, littered with ladder type structures, you found yourself wondering if the person who designed this arena had ever heard of a tool called the level. You then realize that this area is totally out of whack because of the huge ape that has decided to climb up top and jump around a bit. Taunting you with what appears to be an easy question of “how high can you get?” Donkey Kong seems like a piece of cake. It’s in this game that you are first introduced to Jump Man, who’s a little rough around the digital edges. He moves at a rate slower than year old molasses and his jumps also leave much to be desired. Later in his life, this character gets an upgrade to the much loved Mario, who is much more agile. As for Donkey Kong, your only goal is to reach the girl at the top of each level, while avoiding falling barrels and flames. The barrels follow random routes, sometimes falling down a ladder, and sometimes just continuing onto the end of the screen. The randomness of the barrel’s path adds to the frustration and poor visual quality of this game. Overall this was a great game for its time, and most importantly it introduced us all to Mario.

  99. Rampage (Arcade)

  Rampage is one of the most popular games in the coin-op industry to come to the NES, missing nothing of the greatest of the former. In this game you get to choose between a giant gorilla (George), a dinosaur (Lizzie) or werewolf (Ralph), and knock down buildings, and each other! Like all great fighting games, the option of throwing your ostensible partner in the river gives the game an always welcome tension with the 2nd player. I myself always geared the entire game towards knocking my partner off a building right when he thinks that I’m stopping the mayhem on him. The levels are numerous (North American cities) and so are the enemies. Tanks, Helicopters, Boats, Taxis, and even residents of buildings try to stop you from wreaking havoc on the innocent cities (although it’s a stretch that a dinosaur could be hurt by a coffee cup). When you are out of energy you turn into a little man wanting to escape the carnage, the perfect time for the 2nd player to eat you and gain some energy. All in all, this is an extremely fun game to play. Once again, this game shows that simplicity and playability always make for the best gaming experiences.

  98. Wonderboy in Monster World (Sega Genesis)

  Wonderboy in Monster World is the definition of a “lost classic”. Released for the austere Sega Genesis, it is often forgotten because it was never played. Don’t let the puerile title fool you though, because this game is massive and sophisticated. Much like the great adventure RPG’s of the Zelda series, Wonderboy combines real-time fighting with journeys to all parts of a massive world. All the towns in Monster World are filled with their collective indigenous people properly embodying their own diction and dress code. You especially feel at home in the Ice world and Jungle town welcoming the Wonderboy in with a sweet mellifluous soundtrack that makes you want to hang out in the town for the rest of the day rather than moving onto the actual fighting. Beyond the towns and into the actual fighting, the landscapes are filled with variegated puzzles and incandescent bosses. The mushroom king of the forest takes up your whole screen and the dragon of the volcano world takes up 3 whole screens! All the bosses are a perfect difficulty level being neither too easy nor too hard. Beyond the boss’s and the towns, you meet mystic gods and wise animals who help you throughout your journey. Like all the enemies in Wonderboy, they are incandescent beyond belief for a game that has been appropriately deemed as “lost”. Poseidon takes control of the screen with his underwater words of wisdom and the elder dragon of the mountains endows the Wonderboy with the sword to take on the final quest. In general, there is much to talk about with this game. It’s easy on the eyes, ears, and mind as it embodies all the greatest qualities needed to make for an amazing RPG adventure.

  97. NHL 94 (Sega Genesis)

  NHL 94 for Sega Genesis is one of EA sports first forays into the hockey world. The game was a genuine success that it led to annual installments up to the current year of ‘08. The controller movements are perfectly fluid, the teams are represented by an accurate ability for each specific player, and the difficulty is just perfect for entering into a season or playoff race. Also in this installment of NHL 94, four players could play on the same team or on opposed teams using a specific four player adapter for the Sega Genesis. This is a game like Mario Kart that one could get extremely good at, to the point where no one wants to play with you, especially when you learn the “behind-around the goal” trick of scoring goals. Within two minutes you can have the other player pinned down to a 15-0 lead and have him wondering why he ever agreed to play with a nerd who spends all his time thinking of ways to dominate his friends in video games. Another addition to NHL 94 is being able to play a shootout mode for more of an ephemeral challenging. Who could forget the most conspicuous addition to this vigorous EA series, breaking the glass when checking your opponent into it? This was a sure fire way to have tempers flared in the virtual realm. The best sports games can be played over and over and over again. This is a perfect exampleample of a game that transcends all tastes in video gaming.

  96. Advanced D & D (Treasure of Tarmin) (Intellivision)

  Intellivision games came with a 17 button controller. Each game came with a plastic card you slide into the controller that describes that game’s button configuration. I think the system wasn’t more of a winner because it was stupidly complex for the graphical interface…unlike the 2600’s one button/one stick genius. The D&D series for this system was colour coded, later to be ripped off by Pokemon games. I was too young to care much for back stories, so the manual went unread. I inserted the cartridge and toggled the power on. The game started with me in a lo-fi quake style 3-D setting. Before I could press a button a huge purple blob with horns appeared in front of me, a purple lightning bolt flashed across the screen, game over. Holy crap, this game is worse than ET for 2600! It turns out, you never play the same game twice. The levels are completely random, each level descending further into Hades a-la the circles of Amsterdam in “The Stranger.” Sometimes the game would be 60 levels long, and your arsenal would be so deep that defeating the game was a snap. Other times, like my first time, you meet the purple Satan as soon as you enter the game. The replayability of this game was original, and the 3-D interface was unprecedented. I really wish my Intellivisions still worked…

  95. Ecco the Dophin (Sega Genesis)

  In the battle between 16 bit systems, the SNES for the most part dominated the Sega Genesis because of the sheer amount of memorable games that the SNES produced, and because SNES had a little company called “Squaresoft” on its side. One of Sega’s best attempts at competing with the creativity in SNES games was from Ecco the Dophin. It had a deeper instinct to it than the “hip” and “cool” Sonic the Hedgehog. It also had an aggrandized storyline in it not seen by the likes of many of the games made for Sega Genesis. Ecco the dolphin is an illustrious game that was easy on the eyes and ears. You were a dolphin communicating with your family and other pods in your own “ecco” language. Your journey takes you up to the northern artic ocean to find “Big Blue” who tells you of the disaster of all the marine life being sucked up by sprouts and storms. The main enemy in this game was your breath support, as being a dolphin, you needed to jump for air periodically. Also, this game was more of a puzzle game in which you had to collect clues from other families of dolphins facing the same immanency. Storylines of time machines and food-scarcity evolve as you rush to find the cure to all the seas problems. This game always keeps you on edge and keeps you disposed towards saving that which is bigger than yourself. Sega had trouble making meaningful games like the SNES, but “Ecco” stood out as one of it’s most memorable accomplishments.

  94. Dig Dug (Arcade)

  Dig Dug, was a simple game. You dig underground and destroy the monsters underground. That’s about it. Like Pac-Man, the game does not need to be elaborate to make one want to play it 24 hours a day, meaning, that it was an 80’s arcade game. Dig Dug, like Pac-Man represents what a great arcade game could do; have hardly any programming technicality, but still earn its creators mansions on the coasts of Iceland. The music was always the same, the sounds were always the same, the enemies were always the same. It seems like the work of a beginning programmer who gets excited about making their first elementary game. If the idea is there though, then you have something more than just the technical prowess in making video games, you have the ingenious ability to make players addicted to your creation. Often, the most addicting games were the most simple, because the player knew he only had to master a limited amount of skills. It’s with this in mind that there begins to be players who are freakishly good at the game, where random people stand around the person in the arcade gasping at the fact that the player is at level 228 using 2 quarters. Those tendentious towards the Coin-op industry only need to look at its original history in games like Dig Dug, to understand the sway it used to hold.

  93. Gears of War (Xbox 360)

  Gears of War for the X-Box 360 is one of the truly great sci-fi, non-first person shooter video games out there. This game alone made me want to get an X-Box 360. Unlike almost every other action game on the market, in this game crouching isn’t enough to avoid getting shot. You have to move from one piece of cover to another, just like if you were playing paint ball. In my mind, this game really simulated what it would be like to be on a battlefield. Then again, I’m probably not the best ones to be asking about reality. Anyway, this is a game that could be potentially beat in 5-6 hours, but because of the fact that you have to keep hiding behind cover, grinding your way from area to area, it takes more time. Whether the bad guys were coming straight at you, or dropping from the ceiling like raindrops, you are always on your toes, waiting to duck behind cover. And sometimes I found myself with no bad guys at all and still going with the cover system, diving from door frame to door frame, or hiding behind a jersey barrier. All in all, I really liked it, my only complaint being that it went really slow, which irks me, because sometimes you just want to run around like an ass nugget in berserker mode, shooting everything in sight.

  92. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (SNES)

  Would Mario be able to make the jump to a true Final Fantasy style RPG? Play Super Mario RPG for more than a half an hour and you will see how seamless the transition was. The graphics are effulgent with the best use of 16-bit 3d imagery and the tasks that Mario has to encounter are exorbitant following the greatness of the traditional RPG format. The story line is much more sophisticated and involved than the other Mario’s and all the indigenous habitants of each town made you feel at home as you actually wanted to go around and talk to everyone. The new Mushroom Kingdom was how it always should have been; a large, story-bookesque world with incandescent princess’s and nefarious dragons (Bowser) who you would actually befriend as the game moved on. Staying consistent with the best RPG’s for the SNES, Super Mario RPG would have many side games to build up the levels of your players and areas you didn’t need to visit unless you felt you wanted to at the time to see all that this beast of a game had to offer. Smithy would be the true enemy of this game taking on the role of the best RPG final boss’s that were always shape shifting and transmuting at every chance of defeat. Some of the weapons that Mario and his friends were able to use were creative and simple at the same time. You felt powerful with a simple hammer, especially as you started to get the best hammers in the game and knocked out an enemy in one shot. The types of magic acquired would both be interesting and consistent with the Mario theme being able to usher in a constellation of stars at your enemy for example. The game’s length is perfect finding a mid point between a traditional adventure game (Zelda) and a more robust RPG (FF3). In the end, Super Mario RPG is incredibly fun to come back to and keep playing over and over again. This is the mark of a great RPG; when it’s not too long and tedious to want to play over again.

  91. Super Dodgeball (NES)

  Super Dodge Ball created by Technos (Double Dragon, River City Ransom) was one of the more fun multiplayer games for the 8 bit NES. You could play both elimination and team/tournament dodge ball, both perfectly conceived for hours of extraneous beat downs on a 2nd player. The tournament style dodge ball was the main game consisting of choosing a team from a variegated choice of hegemonies. Each nation had its own idiosyncratic abilities from the superlative catching abilities of China, to the home court advantage of Iceland and their ice rank you had to slip all over. As you traverse the nations in an Olympic style tournament, Russia was always reserved as your last opponent with good to great stats on all of the abilities in the game. Along with the unique playing abilities for each nation, each nation also retained an indigenous aesthetic appearance further showing the games convincingness in the care projected by its creators. The melee “every man for himself” game was just as fun as the tournament dodge ball, with the screen moving mellifluously on the exact movement of the dodge ball. This game was addicting for 2 players in need of a high energy game to play when the conditions outside were not conducive to their expenditure. With the trilogy of Double Dragon, River City Ransom, and Super Dodge ball, Technos would go on the be considered one of the more successful makers of early video games.

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226 Comments

1. #1 il-cattivo says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 7:52 pm

   Umm…where’s Half Life, Half Life 2, Age of Empires 2, Fallout, Fallout 2, System Shock 2, Planescape Torment, Majora’s Mask, Resident Evil 4, Perfect Dark?
2. #2 Nxs says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 7:52 pm

   I love some of the games on that list and they deserve to be there. FF, Chrono Trigger (awesome), Battletoads, Wonderboy, etc. Brings me back to my childhood
3. #3 Resolver1 says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 7:53 pm

   Nintendo whore fest.
4. #4 Magus says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 7:55 pm

   Well i kinda agree with this list in personal taste.
   With Chrono Trigger, A link to the past, Illusion Of Gaia, FF7, FF3, Secret Of Mana, god i need to replay those!
5. #5 Artemis says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 7:55 pm

   It is pretty cool that he mixed the new stuff with the old stuff instead of just makeing the same top number list as every one else.

   w00t Secret of Mana ranks number 9!
6. #6 NecrisJ1MM says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 7:57 pm

   How do sports games ever make it into Top X lists? I don’t get it. But then again I’ve never played them, but still… its just a sport on a video game…

   Other than that, the list is pretty good. Though missing some games I liked, and having others that I didnt, it’s alright.
7. #7 SpecJoe Magic says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 7:58 pm

   I don’t like it. Mixing the old games with the new just doesn’t work. I grew up playing many of those classic games, and I have fond memories of them, but the vast majority of them are pathetic when compared to most modern games. Even the best of the best classic games are only somewhat comparable to today’s gaming experiences. Nostalgia plays a huge role in ranking classic games. We like to think that those games are much better than they really are. I’ve been playing a few of my favorite classic games lately on Wii’s Virtual Console. I still enjoy them to a certain degree, but they simply don’t stack up to the amazing gaming experiences that we have available to us nowadays.

   I’m shocked that Duck Tales is ranked that high (20). It’s a pretty good game, but this is supposed to be an all-time best list. It’s ranked above Knights of the Old Republic, and Deus Ex! It’s not even in the same league as those games. Super Mario Bros. 3 on NES is ranked #2. I realize that it had a huge impact on the gaming industry and modern day gaming owes a great deal to it, but there is no way that it’s the second best game of all-time.

   I could go on and on about this, but you get the point. In my opinion, a top 100 list that contains classics should have only games from the start of the industry up through the 16-bit era.
8. #8 JAcK0R says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 8:11 pm

   I have some quandaries with a few of the placements, but it’s a pretty good list.
9. #9 SWSilentkiller says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 8:11 pm

   Ocarina of time is the highest rated game ever
10. #10 arcadeplayer987 says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    I think is a stupid top 100, alot of good games are not in there

    [uh, yeah!]
11. #11 The Fat Controller says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    That list was awesome. Personally I disagree with the order for most of the way, and where was Valkyrie Profile!? But I’ve never seen a list which included so many games I’ve played. I’d completely forgotten I’d played Contra until I saw the screenshot. Awesome.
12. #12 Karst says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    Seeing some of those screenshots sure brought back memories (F-Zero!), but it seems like at least half of the games are generic arcade games from the early 90ies that certainly were not all groundbreaking and otherwise cannot exactly be considered “the best games of all time”.
    Not only are there only about 3 PC-exclusive titles, revealing the editors know nothing of PC gaming, but even among the innumerable older Nintendo games there are important titles missing, like the Pokemon and Golden Sun series.

    Obviously such a list is going to be subjective, but this one is really a joke.
13. #13 fagfuck says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 8:20 pm

    There is a good amount of older games, though the last couple generations got the shaft compared to the NES. Final Fantasy Tactics, Gran Turismo Three, a modern Metal Gear game, Chrono Cross, Perfect Dark, Resident Evil 4, among others are top-100 material, but their absence is understandable.

    I was delighted to see Dr. Mario, some Megaman titles, along with some arcade picks. Plus, my favorite games Chrono Trigger and Castlevania SOTN place favorably in my book.

    But the best part are the blurbs. People can be lazy and just make lists without presenting any reasoning. I think it was good work.
14. #14 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbbcccc says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 6:15 pm

    nintendo fan boy
15. #15 mike says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 10:05 am

    thought list was alright, but MAYBE, there should be a list of games pre-2000 and post 2000 in my opinion…

    Thank you for the read though, as it has taken up few hours at work

    But, personally aswell as the above iv written, maybe there should also be a list for 8-bit, 16-bit, and so on and so forth
16. #16 ur mother says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    GTA sucks, FF sucks, Halo sucks, god of war is okay.

    Wheres my Portal at, man?
17. #17 tsaweeos says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 9:35 pm

    Really? No Half-Life? Gears of war (a mindless shooter) but no Half-Life?! Damn that’s a first.
    I know you guys like the old school games/rpgs but you can’t ignore such a classic fps game.
    I’m glad you didn’t put Halo in however

    Oh well everyone has different taste in games.
    At least you put Donkey Kong Country in the top 10. My respect for you guys have been redeemed.

    It’s not surprising to see a Zelda game for #1 in a “top X games” list but at least you put the right one in. If any Zelda game is taking #1 it’s A link to the past.
18. #18 Ian says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 6:25 pm

    Why have so many people given out that CoD:4 wasn’t on this list, Cod and CoD:2 I can understand, but CoD:4 was bad. It was basically BF2 with smaller maps. Its the reason I stopped playing the CoD series so much and that was after being in a clan on top of Euro SD in vCoD and CoD2, helping in the running of BFE and spending a total of a bit over 2000 hours playing the two of them.

    The CoD games have gone to crap because they concentrate on the console versions now and just transfer it (badly) to PC, same happened with CoD:WaW and will probably happen with the next 20 in the series as they milk it for all its worth rather then taking longer and making sure to make actual good games.
19. #19 avi says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    my top 10 is 10.Portal 9.Kirby 64 8.Chrono Trigger 7.Secret of Mana 6.Mortal Kombat (Genesis) 5.Mario world 4.Mario RPG 3.Ocarina of Time 2.Majora’s Mask 1.Mario 1.
20. #20 jEzEp says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 2:12 pm

    Id like to know why Super Smash Brothers (N64), Mario Kart 64, and Super Mario 64 is not on this list. I would LOVE to know where they went.
21. #21 MaximoDestructo says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 2:53 am

    There aren’t enough WW2 FPS games on this list! I fucking hate you losers!
22. #22 Glitch-Mode says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 2:30 am

    Loved this list. I tried to write a top 100 list before and it didn’t come out 1/100th as good as this one. Genius!
23. #23 khoo says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 1:35 pm

    Wow that list was a waste of my time, i didnt see one of my favourite games on their except metal gear solid, and metal gear (the original) i feel is a terrible game
24. #24 Adam says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 2:28 am

    I agree with JeZep, where are the N64 games!
25. #25 Ryan says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 11:33 pm

    Absolutely pathetic. You forget the other 3 games in the Metal Gear Solid series, Ocarina of Time(arguably the best game ever made), Majora’s Mask, every single Pokemon game, Earthbound, Super Mario 64, Castlevania III, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and basically any quality game for the GBA. Not to mention Final Fantasy VI, Goldeneye 007, StarFox 64.

    You went crazy on the old school SNES RPG’s, Arcade games, and 8-bit sports titles. Some are just fine, but at the cost of games like Ocarina of Time, Mario 64, Earthbound, Super Smash Bros. Melee (which trumps Brawl in pure gameplay), or even the original Pokemon games.
26. #26 vito says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    I really can’t stand how great people like you try to make old games you grew up on sound. I grew up on them too and they were great games back then, but they pretty much suck in comparrison to modern games. Burger Time is better than Gears of War? Seriously? Wow.
27. #27 Chris Spears says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    I am amazed at how bad this list is. It isn’t balanced at all. Where in the hell are the other Metal Gear Solid games, Resident Evil and Resident Evil 4, Okami, OCARINA OF TIME, Earthbound??? How did Duck Tails get 20, that is insane. I have one thing to suggest, i know it costs money, but shell out a little cash and get some of the post SNES systems. You seem to be missing many games, especially all those wonderful PS2 games.
28. #28 Jesse says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    i REALLY disagree with the nintendo “whore-fest,” but even if i did approve, where the hell is ocarina of time?????
29. #29 meh says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 10:46 pm

    The guy says Metal Gear on NES is one of the greatest games ever made when it was a half-assed port of the great Metal Gear on MSX… what a fucking loser, this whole site sucks.
30. #30 meh says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 10:47 pm

    The guy says Metal Gear on NES is one of the greatest games ever made when it was a half-as*** port of the great Metal Gear on MSX… what a f***** loser, this whole site s****.
31. #31 meh says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 10:54 pm

    Holy-fucking-fuck-on-a-stick, this is the WORST LIST I HAVE EVER READ, holy fuck, so many wrong shit (FFVI ON THE NES?! WTF!? METAL GEAR ON THE NES SUPERIOR TO THE MSX VERSION?! WTF?!!!!!!!). Made me rage in oh so many levels, old wizard is a great troll. And, yeah, where’s Portal? Half-Life? God of War? Heck, where’s QUAKE?! Duke Nukem?! Grim Fandango?! Fuck this bullshit, I’ll post a link on /v/, u rage u lose.
32. #32 NOTAHALOFANBOY says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 12:00 am

    WHY THE FUCK IS THERE NO DOOM OR QUAKE!!!??? Y’KNOW, THE GAMES THAT STARTED ONLINE FPS GAMING???? FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
33. #33 NOTAHALOFANBOY says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 12:02 am

    IM REPORTING THIS TO /V/ AND /B/ DAMMIT YOU A-HOLES ARE ABOUT TO GET TROLLED MOFO’S
34. #34 Anonymous says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 12:05 am

    Biggest nostalgiafest I have EVER seen. Metroid Prime lived up to and surpassed Super Metroid. Twilight Princess was a steaming pile of crap compared to OoT and MM, and where are games like Half-Life and Psychonauts? There was no “golden-age” of gaming, it’s always been the same 8 or 9 awesome games in a sea of complete shit.
35. #35 JR says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 1:08 am

    The inclusion of Oregon Trail is ridiculous. Clearly some child of the 90’s with too much reliance on nostalgia, because if you actually compare that game, it’s quality, it’s features, it’s fun factor, to others, you’ll find hundreds of games that are more fun, more educational, more innovative, etc. The only reason anybody got obsessed with Oregon Trail to begin with is because it was one of the few games they had access to, like school children in computer class, with that game as the only game on the computer.
36. #36 Dr. Cossack says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    This list was great. I’m much more partial to older games, especially those on 8 and 16-bit systems. I was happy with how eclectic the range of systems that were shown. My only gripes are that Street Fighter 2 should’ve been a bit higher on the list, Super Mario Kart didn’t belong on it all, and the Super Star Wars trilogy shouldn’t have been so high on the list. And come to think of it, I think it would’ve been cool to see some of the MacVenture games or Maniac Mansion.

    There are plenty of comments talking about where all of the first-person shooters are, not realizing that first-person shooters aren’t really anything groundbreaking. I don’t think many people will care about Portal 25 years from now. But amazingly, some of the most well know games are almost that old.

    And to the “Nintendo fanboy” comments, Nintendo makes the best games in history. That’s why there are so many on the list.
37. #37 avi says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    dr. cossack, why won’t anyone remember portal 25 years from now? it ain’t an FPS, it’s not even an S. why? because you don’t actually have to SHOOT ANYTHING.
38. #38 avi says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    OMG WURR DA FUCK IS SHAQ-FU? UR A RACIST AAAGHHH!
39. #39 Dr. Cossack says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 2:57 am

    Whoops, sorry about that. I didn’t know that Portal wasn’t a first-person shooter (I hardly even bother with the genre). But that wasn’t necessarily my point. I just wanted to put my 2 cents in on the matter of such a wide backlash among the comments for the lack of many first-person shooters. I feel that only a few of them are truly legendary, most notably Goldeneye 007, Wolfenstein 3D, and the first Doom. And maybe Metroid Prime. By the way, Shaq-Fu isn’t on the list because it’s a terrible fighter. I’m assuming that comment was a joke, but ya never know.
40. #40 avi says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 9:15 pm

    ya, that comment about shaq-fu was a joke. i don’t really like FPS’s very much, either, TPS’s are OK, but the shooters that i normally enjoy most are the ones where you don’t actually have to shoot anything, like portal or mirror’s edge.
41. #41 avi says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 9:18 pm

    I agree w/ anonymous, well except I’ve never played half-life.
42. #42 avi says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 9:19 pm

    no dreamcast or N64 games?
43. #43 else3573 says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 4:27 am

    F-zero, NBA Jam, Super Mario World and FF3 kept me entertained for weeks or even months. I got REALLY good at F Zero and NBA Jam, could destroy anyone I played, using the Knicks on NBA Jam. I never did beat FF3, I’ve had the game twice, once when it first came out, and I got really far, had a bunch of characters and espers, then loaned it to my friend who never returned it. Probably a decade later I got a new one and got even farther, but got stuck right after the Opera house part and could never figure out how to get through the cave looking deal (if I remember correctly).

    Anyway, a few other great games IMO:

    *1942 (arcade)
    *Track and Field (arcade)
    *Spyhunter (arcade, another HARD game though)
    *Excitebike (NES)
    *Gauntlet (arcade, with the 4 controllers, GREAT game)
    *TMNT (arcade, 4 controllers, like Gauntlet or X-Men)
    *Marble Madness (arcade)
    *Crystal Caverns (arcade)
    *Millipede (arcade)
    *Area 62 (arcade)
    *Mario 64 (N64)
    *Die Hard Trilogy (Sony Play Station)
    *Tetris (Gameboy, gotta count THIS version)
44. #44 else3573 says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 4:30 am

    Dammit, I forgot QBert and Frogger!! Should definitely be on this list, unless I just missed em.
45. #45 whereswaldo says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 3:54 am

    Some of these games are good but you completely ignored most of the top games of the past decade in favor of mediocre NES games. Where are the games like Oblivion and Morrowind? Half-life? Quake? Resident Evil? Pokemon? Man you missed out on a lot of the awesome games that redefined gaming.
46. #46 Patrick M says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 1:48 am

    FRUSTRATING LIST! I don’t want to sound whiny but if you think those over again, you would realize that your order is off. Kid Icaras above Super Mario Bros 1: The Most Innovational Game Ever? DK Country is undeniably worse than most every real Mario game (though still a great game) and Secret of Mana is an great but akwardly built and overly simple game that doesn’t close to deserve that high of a placement.
47. #47 Will says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 8:38 am

    How Super Mario Galaxy and Diablo I beat out Final Fantasy VII is BEYOND me.
48. #48 olawole11 says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 8:07 pm

    this game is cool mario
49. #49 Matt says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 4:55 am

    Secret of Mana is the greatest game of all time. Thanks for giving it the recognition it deserves.
50. #50 mONGHEAD says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    This list is awfully biased towards Nintendo.