ILX'S 100 GREATEST VIDEO GAMES EVER

#29: We ♥ Katamari (2005)
http://www.joystiq.com/media/2007/06/welovekatamari_realbox.jpg
http://media.herald-dispatch.com/blog/games/uploaded_images/we-love-katamari-4-784168.jpg
Developer:Namco
Publisher:Namco
Original format:PlayStation 2
Highest position:#3, emil.y

Oh come on now, are those two games so different as to have required separate noms/votes?

I wish KD and We <3 Katamari had been reduced to a single nom. Should be way higher than this.

Not getting into this argument, but American sports are based around the draft system, which seems to me to be the only currently existing example of full-scale Marxism in the Western world. Football, on the other hand, is straight-up capitalism: the team who has the richest Russian oil magnate/Italian media mogul/faceless Saudi investment group bankrolling it wins the most trophies.

-- Dom Passantino, Sunday, May 4, 2008 1:37 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ha i like this! someone write a paper stat. btw you left out salary caps and revenue sharing which make american sports even more communistic. (tho baseball doesnt have a salary cap)

I was going to say the same thing as Dom about UK football - particularly the 'false consciousness' that there is some meritocratic system in it. I don't know shit about that foreign football.

#28: Worms (1995)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/Worms-win-cover.jpg
http://www.classicamiga.com/images/stories/jreviews/games/W/worms_4.png
Developer:Team17
Publisher:Ocean Software
Original format:Commodore Amiga
Highest position:#5, robertwolf8080

why are sensible soccer etc condensed into one nom and these others split up?

Arbitary decision to make sports games series and non-sports games not.

#27: Iron Man and X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal (1996)

http://www.vgmuseum.com/scans/saturn/saturn-02.jpg

Hotlinking is not allowed, dude.

When we do this again in a few decades, I vote for things can only be condensed if they are self-evidently the same game AND the same engine. So Katamari is one entry, but the various sports series or King's Quest or whatever aren't.

when we do this again zelda and metriod should be in the top 10

When we do this again the top 20 should just be C64 games with digitized speech.

Super Metroid and Link To The Past still have their shots. I would argue that both games are basically the NES games, but with better grahpics and a lot more depth.

fuck! ok does this work

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Iron_Man_and_X-O_Manowar_in_Heavy_Metal_Coverart.png

when we do this again all of you ppl should just kill your damn selves - http://209.85.62.26/12257/100/emo/emot-smithicide.gif - and leave me in charge of the listing~

#27: Speedball II: Brutal Deluxe (1990)
http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/961176889-00.jpg
http://www.gamershell.com/static/screenshots/8810/182678_full.jpg
Developer:Bitmap Brothers
Publisher:Konami
Original format:Commodore Amiga
Highest position:#1, NateWools

Ah, ffs:

http://www.insidetonic.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/s.png

haha buy speed.

What kind of game is this? I'm imagining you are managing some kind of team of "speedball" players? Futuristic arena sport? What do you do?

Might be the first game I don't know at all

Dom do you have these in an xls for doing plots of rank vs year etc

SB2 was good game apart from the megadrive version had some weird bugs

It's basically Rollerball: The Game. Endlessly captivating, probably the first game it was ever fun to play through an entire league season of. Lots of wacky power ups and opportunities for bank shots, bonus points for crippling opponents.

xxxxp

glad my nomination made it, didn't think it would

best Bitmap Bros game easily - they pretty much dined out on this as all their other games were meh at best. always intricate graphics and excellent music...but only with SB2 did they get the gameplay bang on imo
(nb never played anything they did after Magic Pockets)

Dom do you have these in an xls for doing plots of rank vs year etc

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 4 May 2008 19:34 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

I don't, know. If you want to knock one up, feel free.

oh wait Chaos Engine was good too sorry xp

In chronological order:

* Xenon (1988)
* Speedball (1988)
* Xenon II: Megablast (1989)
* Cadaver
* Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe (1990)
* Gods (1991)
* Magic Pockets
* The Chaos Engine (1993)
* The Chaos Engine 2 (1996)
* Z (1996)
* Speedball 2100 (2000)
* Z: Steel Soldiers (2001)
* Speedball Arena (cancelled)
* World War II: Frontline Command

Like, what was the lowest "highest position"?

So far #13 for Maniac Mansion and Wolfenstein.

Ok, I'm going to complain about the rank of the original Legend of Zelda.

I limited myself to one vote per series and had to give it to Link to the Past but... yeah, seriously.

did any British games really work it over in the American market? i'm thinking Lemmings will be the highest ranking here

I have _no_ idea why Speedball wasn't big in the US... wasn't M.U.D.S. popular over there? Similar game, except more fantasy than sci-fi obv.

Cadaver was AWFUL

Gods I remember really fondly?

#26: Grand Theft Auto III (2001)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/GTA3boxcover.jpg
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2001/ps2/gta3/gta3_screen013.jpg
Developer:DMA Design
Publisher:Rockstar Games
Original format:PlayStation 2
Highest position:#4, Louis Jagger

did any British games really work it over in the American market?

that one

Hah.

looks so bad now :( fuck a progress

GTA games need El Burro back.

#25: GoldenEye 007 (1997)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/GoldenEye007box.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Returnofallbonds.jpg
Developer:Rareware
Publisher:Nintendo
Original format:Nintendo 64
Highest position:#5, Ledge

is the bottom right one peter hitchens?

Goldeneye came out a year after Quake

Quake was not even nominated

cos it was crap

Most overrated game of the 90s? That screenshot says it all - four hideous deformed freaks in a completely undifferentiated space. My friend Matt and I played this a couple years ago, and every deathmatch ended with us running out of time before we even found each other to try and shoot it out. Like, "OK, I'm gonna stand still in this room. You come here and shoot me." "Fuck, how do I get over there?" This game sucks.

four hideous deformed freaks in a completely undifferentiated space.

ILX

I mean, quake looks shit now but at least you could see where you were? And the multiplayer had more than four players? I am still butthurt about this, I guess.

did any British games really work it over in the American market?

i meant to say before PC games got proper good

Quake 2 was nominated, Gravel

#24: Bomberman (1983)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/BombermanCover.jpg
http://jumafas.blogvideojuegos.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/bomberman-nes.gif
Developer:Hudson Soft
Publisher:Hudson Soft
Original format:MSX
Highest position:#2, Blueski

elite? it had a NES version xxp

Bomberman 93 was better

really all about getting 4-5 players in on it. completing the game in 1 player mode was great fun too tho - and the Amiga version played a really great italo-ish tune at the end over star warsy credits