Monday, 1 March 2021

Top 100 Video Games of All Time - IGN.com

quote [ IGN counts down the 100 best video games ever made. ]

I just used the IGN article as a starting off point. The real stuff is in the extended.

To be clear, this is not a list of what I think the best games of all time are. These are the games I think people who have never played video games before should play, in order. Consider it a history lesson. Most of these games are still available legally in one form or another.

It's a bit hard to read because the formatting doesn't work.

Reveal

Pong - 1972 - arcade
Hunt the Wumpus - 1973 - PC
Indy 500 - 1977 - Atari 2600
Space Invaders - 1978 - arcade
Super Breakout - 1978 - arcade
Adventure - 1979 - Atari 2600
Asteroids - 1979 - arcade
Pac Man - 1980 - arcade
Donkey Kong - 1981 - arcade
Galaga - 1981 - arcade
Pitfall - 1982 - Atari 2600
Mario Bros - 1983 - arcade
Duck Hunt - 1984 - NES
Marble Madness - 1984 - arcade
Super Mario Bros - 1985 - NES
Dragon Warrior - 1986 - NES
Legend of Zelda - 1986 - NES
Metroid - 1986 - NES
Final Fantasy - 1987 - NES
Punch Out - 1987 - NES
Life Force - 1988 - NES
Mega Man 2 - 1988 - NES
Tetris - 1989 - NES
Space Quest III - 1989 - PC
Maniac Mansion - 1989 - PC
Dr Mario - 1990 - NES
Super Mario Bros 3 - 1990 - NES
The Secret of Monkey Island - 1990 - PC
Final Fantasy 2 - 1991 - SNES
Gradius 3 - 1991 - SNES
Sonic The Hedgehog - 1991 - Genesis
Super Mario World - 1991 - SNES
Lemmings - 1991 - PC
Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past - 1992 - SNES
Mario Paint - 1992 - SNES
Super Mario Kart - 1992 - SNES
Kirby's Adventure - 1993 - NES
Star Fox - 1993 - SNES
Doom - 1993 - PC
The Oregon Trail - 1993 - PC
Donkey Kong Country - 1994 - SNES
Super Metroid - 1994 - SNES
Bust-a-Move - 1994 - SNES
SimTower - 1994 - PC
Sim City 2000 - 1995 - PC
Crash Bandicoot - 1996 - Playstation
Super Mario 64 - 1996 - N64
Tomb Raider - 1996 - Playstation
Mario Kart 64 - 1997 - N64
Goldeneye - 1997 - N64
Age of Empires - 1997 - PC
Diablo - 1997 - PC
Zelda Ocarina of Time - 1998 - N64
StarCraft - 1998 - PC
Worms Armageddon - 1999 - PC
The Sims 2 - 2004 - PC
[SFW] [games] [+6 laz0r]
[by mechanical contrivance]
<-- Entry / Comment History

cb361 said @ 9:42am GMT on 2nd March
I think this list may be mixing up seminal games and great games.

Doom was groundbreaking, but you probably wouldn't play it today except for historical reasons. And the list admits that Halo didn't do anything radically new, but implemented what it did do incredibly well.


cb361 said @ 10:17am GMT on 2nd March
I think the IGN list may be mixing up seminal games and great games.

Doom was groundbreaking, but you probably wouldn't play it today except for historical reasons. And the list admits that Halo didn't do anything radically new, but implemented what it did do incredibly well.



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cb361 said @ 9:42am GMT on 2nd March
I think the IGN list may be mixing up seminal games and great games.

Doom was groundbreaking, but you probably wouldn't play it today except for historical reasons. And the list admits that Halo didn't do anything radically new, but implemented what it did do incredibly well.




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