ILX'S 100 GREATEST VIDEO GAMES EVER

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.

I don't remember there being that much NES shit on the original list.

xposts, fair enough.

Either way, this thread + fresh start to <4 months of summer vacation without a job or anything to do. . .

http://www.retroscene.co.uk/prodimages/c64/m/rainbow-islands.jpg

why is there a cassette tape with this game

also this thread is fucken siccening 2 me

Man. I was top voter on a lot of these, huh? Tho I've probably blown my load at this point. Unless Fallout makes the list (or unless I'm the unlikely highest vote on Monkey Island).

And Casino - FFVII came out when I was 13 and was probably the first kind of massive console JRPG I played. I think I also played Fallout that year, and the two together really stand out in my mind.

Yeah FFVII is a big touchstone for gamers born between 84 and 87 or so

in my experience at least

<3 jetset radio, loved the cartoon-type 3d colouring - it's the first game I recall it in. Loved the feel of skating, the grinds and the little speed boosts you could get by bouncing/scraping off vertical surfaces. On the first level you could do an entire loop of grinds and jumps without ever touching the floor and actually skating and i used to just love going round and round and round...

Think it would almost be worth getting a dreamcast again just for that and MSR and chu-chu rocket.

Yeah, Max. That's pretty deadon IMHO.

Huh - that makes sense actually. I was born in 81 so my peak years of impressionability were just slightly earlier. Funny thing, though, with the exception of Secret of Mana, I hadn't played any of the great 16-bit RPGs by the time FF7 came out, unless you count Shining Force, which is a tactics game and also FUCKING AWESOME. But I didn't play FF7 until I had my own PSX, ie summer of 2000. By that time, I'd caught up on ChronoTrigger and FF6 and so, in a kind of delayed action, I was living out the spirit of '81.

I always loved the look of Jet Set/Grind Radio but never got the chance to play it - did it ever get ported off Dreamcast?

hahha i was singing the chu chu rocket song last night on my walk home!

But I'd like to flesh out this generational idea more - I guess it depends what really qualifies as a touchstone game. (Our various top tens, maybe?)

weirdly, i played tmnt: the arcade game (both in the arcade and on NES) to death but don't think i ever played turtles in time.

the games i remember most from my most impressionable years (i.e. middle school and first couple years of high school)--goldeneye, FFVII, and super smash bros.

and maybe mariokart 64

Mario Kart 64 has been a joy in my life at several different moments - playing it to death with my brother and sister a couple summers after it came out...then again in 03-04 with my roommates and their respective boyfriends and girlfriends. Such a blast.

The most impressionable years games for me from those years (some of which we will hopefully see later on in this poll) - Ultima 7, Ultima Underworld, Civilization, LucasArts games. Slightly later, Duke Nukem 3D... middle school and first couple years of high school are funny for me because it's a period where the NES was sort of in its death throes but except for three games for the Genesis, I didn't have a 16-bit console of my own. PC gaming I was very on top of but the technology slipped completely past me with Quake, and that was it.