ILX'S 100 GREATEST VIDEO GAMES EVER

#59: Sega NHL series (1991-2007)
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Developer:EA Canada
Publisher:EA Sports
Original format:Sega Mega Drive
Highest position:#6, Euler, bnw

If most Sikh cricketers find the turban impractical for playing, I'm pretty sure Dhalsim shouldn't wear one for street fighting.

shit, the Sega NHL games man.

Question: why did I love the Madden games but I've never given a shit about playing an Ice Hockey game?

Dhalsim wears a turban in SF2:Alpha

No doubt in honor of his ancestor, Great Tiger from Punch-Out!. As well, any game with a desert board probably has at least one turban to speak of, eg Super Mario 3 (the king of that world). Quest For Glory 2 is absolutely rife with turbans.

Also do you think EA Rugby League sells any copies at all in the US?

i'm sure it's trounced by EA cricket

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#58: R-Type (1987)
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Developer:Irem
Publisher:Irem
Original format:Arcade
Highest position:#10, blueski

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I love side-scrolling shooters in theory (like, within issues of Nintendo Power) but have never gotten past level 2 on a single one.

the spectrum version was pretty brutal IIRC

I like Sexy Parodius.

They're ALL brutal.

that's comforting

whoa this thread

I gave A Mind Forever Voyaging a pity vote.

Why 'pity vote'? plz to explains.

#57: Grim Fandango (1998)
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Developer:LucasArts
Publisher:LucasArts
Original format:PC Windows
Highest position:#3, Mordechai Shinefield, Louis Jagger

Yeah, I voted for A Mind Forever Voyaging (17, I think). I also gave Nethack my no 1 vote, mostly because i still play it.

^^^One of the all-time PC greats. xp

Need to play Grim Fandango soon.

I put R-Type at #13, although I was really voting for Super R-Type for SNES.

Another really difficult game (although nothing really touches the madness of Life Force, which resorts to cheapness more than just about any other game I've ever played), but again, it rewards your hard work. I'll always associate R-Type with Kraftwerk's Computer World, as I spent the entire summer of 2004 doing nothing but playing and memorizing both.

Grim Fandango looks pretty awesome.

#56: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (1991)
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Developer:Konami
Publisher:Konami
Original format:Arcade
Highest position:#1, Mehlt

No. Just, no.

#55: Galaga (1981)
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Developer:Namco
Publisher:Midway
Original format:Arcade
Highest position:#7, antexit

"pity vote" because it's not one of my favorite infocom games, but I didn't want it to get shut out.

Galaga is my favorite 80s arcade game.

o fuck i've just shot my own ship.

#54: Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 (1987)
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Developer:Taito
Publisher:Taito
Original format:Arcade
Highest position:#3, Thomas

SO BEAUTIFUL. Great mechanics, challenging but doable, but getting 7 crystals in spectrum order is a pig. Not enough platform games go up like this.

Probably my second favourite C64 platformer, behind New Zealand Story (which, disgracefully, wasn't nominated)

Spectrum version of Rainbow Islands was great, but playing it on Mame is the real deal.

nothing ever seems to work properly in MAME :(

how grim fandango is not a top ten game is beyond me ;_;

#53: Guitar Hero (2005)
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Developer:Harmonix Music Systems
Publisher:RedOctane
Original format:PlayStation 2
Highest position:#4, Raw Patrick

As I said in one of the other threads, Turtles in Time = representative vote for all 2.5D beat-em-up side-scrollers of that generation. The two-screen X-Men arcade game is unquestionably the god of this quarter-munching, superficial genre, and god was it so much fun. Unless you got stuck playing as Dazzler. Other greats - the TMNT and Simpsons arcade games...Knights of the Round ain't bad in a pinch...etc...

Galaga has probably aged the best of games of its generation, except for Ms. Pac-Man... it's never an unwelcome sight at any bar or pizzeria.

I think I nommed Guitar Hero and immediately regretted not giving my 00's nom to Tony Hawk, which consumed half the hallway in my freshman dorm. But Guitar Hero has a lot of similarities to that title - absolutely made for two-player, but delivering a pretty decent geek wallop when played alone, gradually mastering its rhythms. It's really too soon to tell how it'll age, but its immense crossover appeal as a party game for non-gamers seems a good sign. That said, having to buy new versions of the same game just to get new songs seems like a big dud to me - why not just have you able to buy new batches of songs online and forget about it?

#52: Worms Armageddon (1999)
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Developer:Team17
Publisher:MicroProse
Original format:PC
Highest position:#5, Dom Passantino

Didn't vote specifically for Armageddon but hell, it's Worms. I've probably laughed more playing these than any other games, and it's the most fun videogaming with my kids. Except for my daughter thrashing me at Wii Bowling, maybe.

No. Just, no.

-- Noodle Vague, Saturday, 3 May 2008 23:08 (29 minutes ago) Link

Oh please do not tell me this is about Turtles in Time.

I didn't even have Super Nintendo and it's still my favourite.

two crude dudes for number 1

Just beating out Yie-Ar Kung Fu.

whoa, what is this rainbow islands game? kawaaiiiiiii!

mehlt, the whole poll/thread is about differences of opinion. It's fascinating seeing how different people approach games. But #56??????? NO WAI

I think we could safely get another good poll out of the worst/most irritating video games.

#51: Jet Set Radio (2000)
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Developer:Smilebit
Publisher:Sega
Original format:Dreamcast
Highest position:#5, stet, Greg Pallis

Last one of the evening. Next 50 tomorrow. SPOILER: there's a bunch of NES shit on there.

I think we could safely get another good poll out of the worst/most irritating video games.

Wonder how much crossover there'd be?

i found the level 3 vampire the hardest boss in Rainbow Islands - much tougher than any of the subsequent ones. if you didn't have triple rainbow and the red shoe you were fucked.

bullshit reward at the end tho: 'now go play it again and this time collect the jewels in the right order on every island, sucker'

lol i never even realised you had to collect the jewels in an order!

Like I said, jewels in the right order is ROCK. I find most bosses on the arcade version want at least double rainbows to beat.