Top 100 Games Of All Time Decided - Again

Thanks to submitter Brad1138, who points out an article at MSNBC.com about a new list of the top 100 games ever. This time it was staffers at Entertainment Weekly and the games TV station G4 who decided the list, and the article only mentions the 5 highest-rated titles, which include Legend Of Zelda, Doom and Tetris. Which games would you have included in your list?

Comments

Re:useless lists.

[nathanh]

they're just as useful as 'best song ever' lists..

Well, I *do* find these lists useful. I have neither the time nor money to play every game in existence. I rely on these lists to give me an indication of which games are worth my attention.

Oh sure, there's a tiny chance that the list won't have an obscure title that I would enjoy playing. Tough. I'm not willing to rent/buy an obscure title on the off-chance it won't suck.

And yes, I have the same philosophy for music, movies and books.

I will avoid the chance to spout about my faves

[drinkypoo]

Just notice, Entertainment Weekly is one of the crappiest media franchises ever. They are complete playboys of the movie industry, consistently giving good reviews to complete formula pap. I am completely uninterested in their opinion on the best videogames. I've never really watched G4 (every time I turn it on some stereotypical geek is saying something stupid, so I click away from it, I watch less than 4 hours of television a week anyway so I won't waste it there) so I can't comment on their taste in games, but even if it matches mine perfectly, EW's skew will send it off into fuckville.

Incidentally, if I had to pick the greatest video game of all time, I'm not sure what it would be, but Zelda would have a decent shot at it, so at least that is a reasonable match. But it's also a no-brainer, you look at the games that sold like mad and really captivated gamers in their time. I mean you have to put sonic on that list even if you think it sucks, it's just another platformer, albeit faster, because it's one of the best loved games of all time.

So Much Yummy Goodness. Ow, Nostalgia Overload.

[edward.virtually@pob]

As someone else mentioned, "best" is a very subjective term. Some of the games (video and pinball) I remember fondly from the arcades and 7-11s in no particular order: Qix, Astro Blaster, Gorf, Frogger, Lunar Lander, Star Fire, Night Driver, I Robot, Road Blasters, Sinistar, Space Duel, Dig Dug, Domino Man, TRON, Discs of Tron, Pac Man, Super Pac Man, Rushin' Attack, Food Fight, Wizard of Wor, Scramble, Black Knight, Space Fury, Gyruss, Star Wars, Star Trek, Test Drive, Outrun, Klax, Congo Bongo, Journey, KickMan, High Speed, Cyclone, Gauntlet, Road Runner, Rally-X. I remember playing computer games such as Adventure, Zork, Jumpman, Dungeon, Trader, Wumpus, Choplifter, Frantic Freddie, and Impossible Mission. Mmm.

Old School

[010_digital_100]

Top 5 in no particular order:

1. River Raid
2. Pitfall
3. Tyson's Punchout
4. Contra (we all know the code)
5. Dope Wars (aka Drug Cartel) for my TI-82 Calculator

010_digital_100

Classics

[AlasdairCake]

I'm always surprised when Top 100 lists miss games like Frontier Elite 2, HalfLife, Civilization 2, Homeworld, etc. At the time, many of these games scored top marks, and were "Game of the Year". I must admit, it's amazing that not a single "modern" Open-Ended Space Sim comes close to Frontier Elite 2 - Microsoft Freelancer is fun, but it's no way nere as "big" as the Frontier universe was. Or as open ended.

mine for each decade

[ScurvySeaDog]

The 80s would be the Ultima series, with 5 being my favorite.

The 90s, Civilization. That was the 90s right? or late 80s.

Today there's a lot to choose from, but I pick Everquest. Yea, muds have been around for a long time and EQ wasn't the first big commercial venture... but I think they're still the best.

Looking forward to Star Wars Galaxies and Everquest2.