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IGN's Top 100 Games 175

Posted by Zonk from the another-list-oh-me-oh-my dept.
fwice writes "IGN has released their list of the Top 100 Games of all time. This list covers games from all different systems, including PC and various different consoles. Each game listed has a write-up about why it was chosen and what makes it special." Yeah yeah, another list. This one's not bad, though, with selections including TIE Fighter, Tetris, and Civ II ranking high on the list.
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  • Am I the only one who feels these "Top 10" or whatever lists are absolutely redundant? They're all the same. No matter what order the games are in, people always argue and bitch and moan. Blah blah blah.

  • I don't think so... (Score:3, Funny)

    by Iscariot_ ( 166362 ) on Tuesday August 02, 2005 @10:20PM (#13228048)
    The original Zelda isn't on the list. This list doesn't count.
    • As much as I loved the original (and I did), A Link to the Past trumped it in almost every possible way. Nintendo took the same brilliant gameplay that made the original great, and they multiplied everything by 10.

      Would seem that it would be kind of redundant to put both on the list...

      Then again... Mario, Mario 3, Super Mario World, Mario 64... lol. Also loved all of these titles, but I don't think all four of them needed to be on the list if they left off the original Zelda... :)
      • Then again, look at how many Ultimas and Final Fantasys there were.
        • Ya, but who the hell puts FFX over FFVII, or Super Mario World 2 over Super Mario World? All respectibility was lost right there. Then I didn't see Mortal Kombat or Final Fight either. Damn, that is without a doubt the worst list I have ever seen. 'Best of' is just too hard to put together, and they always leave something out or out of order, in my opinion anyway.

          The Most Influential list that 1up had a while back was good. That was kind of hard to argue with.
          • Obviously, this is my opinion, but FFX trumped FFVII in every way, shape and form. The story was better, the characters were better, the visuals were better (course, PS2 vs PS1), the game was much longer (FFX took me 42 hours first time through, FFVII was closer to 20), and just a heck of a lot more fun. I'm actually surprised FFX wasn't higher.

            SMW2 over SMW is a bit ridiculous, though both games are definately excellent. I agree that MK1 should probly be on the list solely for the notion of the motion capt
          • ### Super Mario World 2 over Super Mario World

            Maybe because YoshisIsland(SMW2) is lightyears ahead of SuperMarioWorld, way better graphics, more interesting gameplay, cool SFX2 special effects, a Yoshi that actually looks cool and stuff. SMW isn't a bad game, but even when it was originally released I found it rather disapointing, SMB3 was already better than it.
    • Zelda? This list snubbs PONG.

    • I am confused on two points.

      (1) The list is 99 entries too long.

      (2) Paratrooper [dosgamesarchive.com] is not on there.

    • Elite isn't there either. This list definately doesn't count.
  • a top 100 list of all time games and nothing from Sierra On-Line is on it?
  • Normally I hate these lists. I mostly agree with this list. They made good choices, especially with PC games. They gave kudos to some of my favorites like Civilization II (#4), Starcarft (#7), Baldur's Gate 2 (#25), and Tie Fighter (#9). Super Mario Bros. made #1. I prefer Super Mario Bros. 3 (#23). SMB3 is SMB but much improved, with more depth, gameplay, and secrets.
    • It's not that bad at all, but's heavily biased towards modern games. I mean, God of War, Halo, Burnout... they're all fine games, granted, but among the best of all time?. People do forget quick....
  • And..where is FreeSpace 2? I certainly consider that more fun than Super Mario....
    • ...and I consider (my favorite game) to be better than (insert your favorite game here). It's opinion, what's your point?.
    • I've never managed to finish the mission in the nebula, searching for the lost pilot (arround mission 20 I think). But I've finished Freespace 1.

      Great game! Loved the fact that it had an editor and lots of maps. Anyone knows if anything happened with the source code? Any new game/mod came out from that?
      • "Like last time, our criteria for this uber-list of games consisted of a variety of factors, including how good the game was compared to others at the time, the overall game design, how well it stood up over the long-haul, how influential it was in the realm of gaming and just plain how much fun we had playing the damn things." - the article

        For those who don't want to read the articles explanation for each game.

        IGN Top 100 Games
        1. Super Mario Bros. 2. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3. Tetris 4. Sid Meier'
      • Indeed, the Freespace 2 community is alive and well. Check the FS wiki [gamespy.com]For information about FS2_Open, which added some new graphics and such. It's messed up the whole thing for me though, so make sure you know where your install disks are if you try it, and back up your pilots and such. They also have a bunch of user campaigns and such, but I ended up geting the underdogs version of FS2 and they won't run for me.
  • I find it very interesting that alot of Nintendo games made it on the list. I didnt look. But i suspect that if you broke the list down by developer, Nintendo would have the most games on there.
    • Yes, but Nintendo games are made for kids, aren't they? *rolleyes*
      I mean, having a look at the top 30, we see Mario Bros.. that's about as much of a kid-title as the Giana Sisters.
      Ocarina of Time was also quite the fairytale, what with all the cute and cuddly dragons, spiders and all.
      Tetris? Does it get any more child-friendly than sharp blocks falling down to smash the ground?
      Mario 64 was somewhat child-friendly though, but that's negated by the mind-eating enemies in Super Metroid.

      Link to the Past was ver

  • Best or Most Important? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by screwballicus ( 313964 ) on Tuesday August 02, 2005 @10:39PM (#13228162)
    The problem with this list is they're trying to straddle the line between honouring games which offer the best possible gameplay to players of any era and, simultaneously, games which, while historically signficant and great in their time, are now far from the best of their kind. And these two categories do not necessarily have anything to do with each other, in many cases.

    If this were a list of the 100 Most Historically Important Games of All Time, Super Mario Brothers would certainly fit in their as crucially influential. But few will argue that Super Mario Brothers is a better game than Super Mario Brothers 3, Super Mario World, and various successors in the genre. It probably shouldn't even be in a list of the "best" games of all time at all, evaluated independent of any and all history associated with it as a present day, uncontextualised gameplay experience. If SMB1 were released today as a never-before-seen title, it's fairly obvious what reviewers would have to say about it. Something I expect to the effect that, as free Flash games go, it's pretty dull. You certainly couldn't charge money for it.

    Creating a list which mixes unrelated criteria (good games and historically influential ones) as its basis for honouring certain titles is a ridiculous and purposeless exercise. Some will say any sort of list of this type is a purposeless exercise, but I think having an active critical discourse in the gaming world is crucial to its functioning as a meaningful artistic and recreational culture. But naming the "Top" games without basing those choices on something more specific is especially silly.
    • I think they did a pretty damn good job with this lists, its a good mix of classics and new stuff, way better then most of these lists I have seen so far. Sure, you might argue if SMB1 should made the first place or maybe 86th place, but you can't get a objective list anyway, even if you clearly state your criteria, I mean how can you compare RE4 against Tetris? Beside sales there is no way and even that would be heavily biassed since Tetris shipped with the Gameboy. So simply ignore the numbers and look a
    • Interestingly enough, between SMB1, SMB3, and SMW, the one I'm most inclined to go back and play is SMB1. Bear in mind too that I never got too far as a kid, and only picked it up in a flea market during my final year of undergrad (in a lot of ways, the first time I really played it) so I can't say I'm acting on nostalgia. I do, however, have a rather healthy respect for the level design, and the various hidden ways to give an extra challenge to talented players (killing each bowser through fireballs to f
  • Where is Marble Madness!??!?!!?!
  • BattleToads is number ninety-something? Is this game not universally reviled? IT'S FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE. Seriously, only Rush'N Attack was harder. If you want to put a hard game on there, put Rush'N Attack. If you want to put a great NES game on there, put Metroid. God of War makes the list? That game's like a week old! Where's Zork? NetHack? Street Fighter 2:Championship Edition? M.U.L.E.? 1-On-1: Larry Bird Vs. Dr. J? I'm just scratching the surface.
    • Another vote for one of the most difficult games I'd played on the NES: Ghosts and Goblins.

      Holy hell. Talk about a bad first game to get for the NES... every game I played after that seemed like a breeze. I don't ever recall beating Ghosts and Goblins until I got into the computer / emulation era, with savestates....

      I don't think that made the game "good", but it definitely tested your patience.

      Oh yea, had a friend beat Hydelide (sp?) once. That game was booooooring...

      Come to think of it, there were qu
    • Battletoads was an immensely addicting (if incredibly difficult) game. Most of the kids I knew played it for hours on end. And truthfully, there were only two extremely difficult portions that, these days, I skip over with cheats. Of course, I'm referring to the vehicle stages where you have to memorize the order of oncoming obstacles and you have less than a second to get into position for each one.
      • You forget the vehicle stage where you're on the giant circle thingie. It isn't even easy to practice, as it takes 45 minutes to get there. Never did beat that stage.
    • The real crime here is that River City Ransom got ranked two positions under it. That's just wrong. RCR was easily one of the ten best NES games there is, while Battletoads was crap.
    • Street Fighter 2 made the top 10, i think they're including all editions in that entry.
  • It also just feels like the opinion of a single person, like something you would see on a message board that nobody would listen to.

    But no, it's on IGN and people are paying attention to it for some reason (this is the second place I've seen it now). There's a good bit of lip service too, like even putting Halo on the list.
  • Like

    - Any Kings Quest
    - Any Space Quest, esp space quest I
    - Wolfenstien 3D
    - Tomb Raider

    Those were all major games as I grew up as a kid and into my teenage years. Wolfenstiend led the way for me and first person shooters. Kings Quest and Space Quests are the games that got me playing on the computer and insted of a console. And Tomb Raider waisted most my university time :)
    • Wolf 3d was not the best, just the first. Doom was arguably better.
    • I guess I missed something --- was Kings Quest actually fun?

      I more put it in the same basket as "Leisure Suit Larry", etc all.

      Those Sierra graphics games where what you have to do is walk up to and try to do something with EVERY THING IN THE ENTIRE DAMN WORLD to find where they hid something. It wasn't fun for 99% of the population - it was an exercise in patience and frustration.

      • Yes, King's Quest was a lot of fun (and the series kept improving until about KQ7, which was too cartoony and boring for most people, and KQ8, which was an FPS/adevnture hybrid that didn't really work). Most of the games Sierra produced were a lot of fun (with the exception of stuff like Manhunter and their action line). You obviously didn't like them, but that's really just you.
      • Yes, that's what the genre is -- adventure games.

        I loved those games, but eventually, they got boring. KQ3 and KQ4 were great, but 5 was too cartoony for me. I think they tried to turn it into a "storybook", and it wasn't fun.
    • Basically, in any of these lists, if it's not made by Nintendo and developed before 1992, it's got a snowball's chance in hell of making the list.

      I don't know why this is, but I have yet to see any of the really great C-64 | Atari 800 | Apple II games (like Lode Runner, Jumpman, Space Taxi, M.U.L.E., Racing Destruction Set, Original Wolfenstein) make the list.

  • What... no C64 or Amiga games :[ (Score:3, Insightful)

    by JPyObjC Dude ( 772176 ) on Tuesday August 02, 2005 @11:01PM (#13228279)
    I would have had Lode runner (c64) and stunt driver (amiga) on my top 20 at least.

    There was also a apple II game called dungeon quest or something like that which I know some people were very addicted to.
  • Ocarina of time at #2 and beating all the others in the series?

    Rome: Total War is at #14? While Counterstrike is #71 and Final Fantasy VII is #88?

    FFVII was below every other Final Fantasy on the list?

    Thrilled to see Starcraft at 7, but no mention of any Warcraft or Diablo?
    • Have you played Rome:TW? It's the capstone of the Total War series, and probably the best thing that's happened in strategy gaming since Civilization.

      It's the first worldmap/battelfield strategy game that actually makes it fun to play the battles, rather than getting bored or frustrated with a horrible combat system stuck into an otherwise good game (Rebellion comes to mind).

      The replayability factor is huge, and it looks good. Never before has running war elephants into masses of peasants been more
    • RTW is worth being on the list, although its a bit high. FF7 doesn't even deserve to be on the list, none of the PS FFs do.

      The sad thing is that original Zelda isn't even on the list. Wtf?
  • As with just about every 'top' list, it doesn't tell you what it is ranking these games by. Number of units sold? Gross revenue? Most profitable?

    Without even reading it, I'm going to assume its totally subjective. I'm going to spare myself reading the comments, which I assume will be "What! Why isn't [Game X] included?!" and "You jerks, [Game A] is wayyy better than [Game B]".

    Subjective top x lists are pointless, unless you're a rabid fanboy prepared to soak up the opinions of basically anyone like a dry sp
    • ### Without even reading it, I'm going to assume its totally subjective.

      You of course never can get a 100% objective list, but that one here gets pretty damn close. It still might have missed out a few classics, but in a top 100 list there is only place for a 100 games, so thats inevitable. From all the 'Best games ever' lists its among the best I have seen so far, since it gets the mix between classics and current stuff quite right.
  • I was playing dragon warrior just about an hour ago. Level 15. I've beat and restarted that game I don't know how many times. Theres something so calming and mind numbing about smashing slimes and drakes after a stress filled day at work. I receive a satisfying sense of accomplishment from beating a goldman sensless and robbing him of his gold.
  • Other than the obvious "it's just someone's opinion" is that they tend to put real innovators on there, leaving out games that surpassed them. Case in point, Final Fantasy 3, where they left out the compilation for the Playstation, which was almost a direct translation except for better graphics. Do they just prefer the old version? Maybe for nostalgia value, but most of the rest of the world would probably prefer the updated graphics.

    Same goes for Super Mario Brothers, the number 1 on the list. It was
    • ### Maybe for nostalgia value, but most of the rest of the world would probably prefer the updated graphics.

      I think it simply makes this list a heck of a lot clearer when they list only the original game instead of some obscure remake, especially since some games have been remade more then once. If they would list all SMB1 ever created, they would have like 4 places for SMB1 alone, add to that the SMB3 and YoshiIsland remake and you have already a good part of the list stuff with Mario alone. That would for
      • But see, they wouldn't have to include all four Super Mario remakes, just the "best" one. My very point is that if updated graphics improve a game, it must be better than the original.

        And it doesn't make sense to mix a "classics" list with a "best of" list. Those are two completely separate traits, which actually is demonstrated by my post above. Even if the game is still fun today, that does not make it an "all time best." I think for that moniker, you've got to have something that was never replicated
        • ### My very point is that if updated graphics improve a game, it must be better than the original.

          Sometimes it might be better, but it still makes little sense to refer to some remake instead of the original game, especially when the gameplay is 100% the same. If gameplay is noticable different, say RE1 (PSone) vs RE1 (Gamecube) it might of course good to refer to them seperatly, but SMB1 vs SMB1 (AllStars) is really just a new tileset.

          ### And it doesn't make sense to mix a "classics" list with a "best of"
  • Super Mario World 2, is in no way even close to being better than Super Mario World!

    Ha, I just remembered the time I bought Mario is Missing... Super Mario Bros 3 it wasn't!
  • I'm very surprised neither Sims or Sims 2 did not make the list... One of the Diablos should have been there as well, I think they're a better choice than Baldur's Gate... Starcraft as high as it is... I absolutely agree :) There were too many good Mario games. I'd have thrown in a Pikmin too...
  • Personally, I believe DOOM should have been higher on that list than 39th place. DOOM was the first game that got Amiga users to switch to PCs. It also started the 3D gaming revolution.

    At my Uni at the time large groups of people used to sneak into the computer labs to play it on the network. It also ushered in 3D games into the mainstream. I think it's probably had the greatest impact of any game in the PC market, and should be higher than 39th place. 'Sydnicate' should have been up there too IMHO.
    • I agree. I gained some sort of respect for Gamespy (of all companies!) when they ranked DOOM #1 game of all time in their Top 50 a few years ago.
    • Ditto. I said the same a couple of posts below: it was technically impressive and groundbreaking (it certainly put to shame everything in that era), incredibly influential, with lots of production values, and FUN. Yes, FUN. The levels were so well designed... i only had that much fun when i played Doom 2, and then again, i felt like i've already seen it all. Doom was just a riot to play. And if you did multiplayer? Nirvana. It defined the term "FPS" (yes, even more than Wolfenstein 3D), and no one did it be
      • People forget just how groundbreaking Doom really was. When Doom came out, people were still wowing over the graphics in Wolfenstein 3D. True, real time, 3D graphics were not common, usually confined to racing games or flight simulators. Even then, they tended to be flat, colored polygons (see StarFox) and not actual textured surfaces.

        SoundBlaster sound cards were not something everyone had, and virtually no PCs came with them pre-installed.

        Although Wolfenstein preceeded it, both were made by the sam

  • I was totally expecting to balk at the listing but I can agree on the top 10 (if perhaps not in that exact order).

    But I cannot believe Golden Eye beat out both of the Half-Lifes.

    Hey, now that there's been 2 half-lives past are we down to a quarter life?

    • "Hey, now that there's been 2 half-lives past are we down to a quarter life?"

      I was going to make a nasty joke about you sucking at math, but it's just too easy.
      • Oh, and HL2 did beat Goldeneye.
      • "Hey, now that there's been 2 half-lives past are we down to a quarter life?"

        I was going to make a nasty joke about you sucking at math, but it's just too easy.

        How about a joke of you sucking at physics?

        The time it takes for a radioactive substance to decay into half its original value is the half-live. Wait for another half-life and you have one quarter of the original left (it's exponential decay). Hence two half-lives = one quarter-life.

  • Katamari Damacy (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Paul Slocum ( 598127 ) on Tuesday August 02, 2005 @11:48PM (#13228435) Homepage Journal
    I really think it's a pretty good list, but the lack of Katamari Damacy shows poor foresight IMO. Katamari opened my eyes to the future of gaming in a lot of ways. After playing it at my friend's house, I borrowed his PS2 for a while just so I could play that.

    Also annoying is that they seem to think that the NES was the first video game system. When they're leaning towards landmark releases, not including a single Atari 2600 game seems odd for people who are supposed to be experts on video games.

    -paul
    • The list is all wrong - some games are too high / are too low / missing / appear twice.
    • Define "top".
    • The list is worthless since it's highly subjective.
    • The list is actually pretty close to my personal one, that for some reason I feel the need to keep.
    • The list has too many new games and too few old ones.
    • This story appeared on slashdot before.
    • This story appeared on IGN before.
    • ... etc, etc.

    We've done it all before, and will do it all again, several times a year. Oh yeah, no Manic Miner on the list (he said with

  • Did anyone else miss Chrono Trigger? It was easily one of the best games I've ever played and deserves to be on that list much more than FFX or FFVII. The epic storyline (with a sense of humor), the magnificent soundtrack, the detailed graphics (excellent for its time), the battle system (with triple techs), the lack of random encounters, and the replayability (so many different endings) all add up to make the game so enjoyable.

    Do yourself a favor, if you've never played it. Buy the remake for the PlaySta

    • Chrono Trigger's on there. Number 13.
    • Chrono Trigger was absolutely one of the best games ever made. I didn't find it until very late, sometime around 2001... just screwing around with SNES9X. I was absolutely hooked. This was when Counterstrike was out, mind you, one of the most fiendishly addictive games ever. My Counterstrike habit came to a screeching halt for awhile.

      At the time, SNES9X didn't handle the multilayered transparency effects used about halfway in, so when I got to that stage, I immediately eBayed a used SNES and cart. The
  • They left out EverQuest. Not even WoW!

    What kind of a Top 100 gaming list doesn't include at least one of the two BIGGEST games out there?

    Not only that, but when was the last time you walked into an arcade and DIDN'T see a Dance Dance Revolution setup?

    Sadly, no FreeSpace. Or EarthBound. So sad.

  • PC Gamer listed Total Annihilation [therecordist.com] as the `Best Game of All Time' in 1988. Granted, I'm not sure it's quite the best game of all time, even at the time, though I'd argue it certainly belonged in the top 10. Now, I'd say it belongs in the top 20.

    But it didn't even make this list's top 100? And yet Dune 2 did? Dune 2 may have started the RTS genre, but TA polished the interface until it shined. Games like Starcraft certainly had a much better story (and I like my games to have good stories) but TA h

    • But it didn't even make this list's top 100? And yet Dune 2 did? Dune 2 may have started the RTS genre, but TA polished the interface until it shined. Games like Starcraft certainly had a much better story (and I like my games to have good stories) but TA had the interface down better than anything that came before and I think anything that came after it. And it was so much fun in multiplayer, and the ability to add units (and Cavedog kept releasing new ones) kept it fresh for a long time ...

      I know TA has i
    • TA lacked a storyline, but frankly it didn't need one, and it *still* has the best and most consistent interface I've seen in an RTS.

      If only Blizzard and others would take a serious look at it and actually IMPLEMENT some of its ideas... :-(
  • Capture 20 years in 100 games? Of course we're going to miss some personal favortires.
    Some games i spent many hours with: Elite, Simcity, Lemmings, OMF2097
  • ... specially from the golden days of home computers like the C64 and such. Marble Madness? Uridium? Ghostbusters? Beachhead 2? Elite? The Summer & Winter games series from Epyx? Zak McCracken and the alien mindbenders? The original Maniac Mansion? And i'm sure i'm missing a lot that others that deserve to be atleast considered for a list of the top-100 best games OF ALL TIME. It didn't all began with the NES, you know.

    And, BTW, i feel Doom should be ranking a bit higher. It truly was a
    • Is there actually a single home-computer game in the list? They seem to have left out that area completly. Leaving out Elite should be considered a crime, especially since there was a very well done NES port of it. But overall I am quite happy with that list, while it misses quite a bit, includes a lot of good stuff.
  • Too many console games on the list and two versions of Tetris?

    PC classics missing
    StarFlight by Binary Systems, has anyone equaled what they did on two 360k floppies?

    Empire, the only pure strategy game and one of the oldest

    No MMORPG titles made it though I think either UO or EQ deserve to be on the list because they helped establish their genres. I think that a key to making the top 100 list is how the game has either never been equaled, set new standards or established them, or is still played.

    Still way to
  • Is better then FF7? Better then Syndicate? Better then Alone in the Dark? Common, this had to be one of the worst basketball games of all time.

    And while there were only eight selectable teams and modes were limited to Exhibition and Playoffs

    Whoot. Hours of fun.
  • No Amiga games, no Atari ST games, no Spectrum or C64 games in fact nothing predating the NES and Megadrive (Genesis). Where's Elite, Sensible Soccer, Jeff Minter's games, and they've got a platformer at number one, I was bored of platformers years before it even came out.
  • Is it just me, or does this list seem like they randomly picked some names out of a hat? Lakers vs. Celtics? Dear God! There are some important titles missing like Zork, Kings Quest, Wizardry, Phantasy Star, Karateka, Radient Silvergun, Fallout 2 (although they did get the original), Diablo I/II, etc. I suppose no list is going to have them all, but this lists seems so random. At least this one includes some 80's games for a change, most Top 100 lists start at the Playstation era.
  • I'd rather see some sort of database of all videogames ever made.

    Is there something out there like this on the internet. Sorta like imdb but for videogames?
  • Not having Quake 1 on the list is a travesty. It is one of the most groundbreaking PC games of all time.

    Quake was one of the first games that was able to successfully take advantage of OpenGL. I know I wasn't the only one who ran out and picked up a Voodoo 1 card when I saw what it looked like.

    Don't forget Quakeworld. Quakeworld was a groundbreaking addon that allowed you to actually play the game over dial up, something almost unheard of at the time.

    Don't forget all of the mods. Quake was one of the first
  • Or Space Invaders? Those two were HUGE in the early days of video arcades.

    I agree with others that Lode Runner and Elite should have been there, as well as The Sims.

    Where was Sopwith?? :-) :-)
  • 2002:
    http://www.kisrael.com/vgames/egm100.2002.html [kisrael.com]

    1997:
    http://www.kisrael.com/vgames/egm100.html [kisrael.com]

    In 2002 I did some comparisons of how the list looked vs 1997...
  • Doom and Quake totally started and defined FPS games, doom was somewhere around 30 and quake isn;t even listed? Quake was one of the best selling games of all times, and Defined FPS games with 360 degres of movement and aiming... wtf?

    As a lot of other people have pointed out, a lot of good games weren't even mentioned but a lot of shitty ones were.. TA where are you?!?!

    TA defined RTS gaming and to this day still has all of the best elements that make a great RTS...
  • I totally don't understand their comment on Tecmo Super Bowl.

    It offered season mode with full stat tracking, injuries, and all of the players from the NFL, like the unstoppable Barry Sanders. In fact, Barry Saders was so fast, many tournaments actually instituted a no-Detroit rule.

    I played this game a lot and still have it and an original NES system. Their comment about Barry Sanders doesn't make much sense because in that game, Barry wasn't the most dominant running back. The Raiders had Bo Jackson, who(

  • Funnest game I ever played. 'Twas addicted to it back in '96 or so. It would have been nice to see it on the list, but, from the comments I read, no one else seemed to miss it:-(
  • When did IGN become the VH1 of video games?
  • I'm disapointed that Donkey Kong Country didn't make that list. It may not have been "revolutionary" in terms of gameplay or anything, but it was damn fine eye candy, and the gameplay was varied and addictive. There were dozens (hundreds?) of hidden rooms to find for those players who like finding every hidden doo-dad in a game, while more casual players could just play from level to level and still enjoy it. There were so many different kinds of levels, like the mine car levels, the "On/Off" barrel level

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