ILX'S 100 BEST VIDEO GAMES EVER: VOTING TIME

I thought Street Fighter II Turbo (or similar) had been nominated??

http://www.yda.org/images/93.jpg

fuck i forgot to nominate darklands! oh well, i'd be the only one voting for it probly

No Ecco, no vote.

Not even the other 30, with a respectful blank spot for number 1?

i have my ballot together but i'm waiting for a definite answer on this street fighter issue.

btw Dom, I'd be willing to write a blurb or two when it comes down to the results.

Oh, I'm pretty sure I can't name 29 video games. I just really like Ecco.

No iteration of Street Fighter was nominated.

fuuuuuck, i was faked out by jon's non-nomination:

gta 3
twisted metal 2
sonic & knuckles
mk 2
street fighter 2 turbo
quake

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, March 17, 2008 1:18 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

oh wait i didnt read the first post lol

gta 3
twisted metal 2
sonic & knuckles
mk 2
street fighter 2 turbo
quake

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, March 16, 2008 9:18 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

gta 3
twisted metal 2
raid on bungeling bay

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, March 17, 2008 1:19 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

disenfranchised ;_;

I wonder if there are any other huge ones like that we're missing...

Doom

ah shit, Dr. Mario

i totally wasted my noms.

Gauntlet

is Mappy like Qix? that was a classic concept - my idea was to combine that with Tron Cycles

Mappy involves a police mouse bouncing across colored trampolines while trying to save the Mona Lisa.

my nomination of Lego Star Wars 2 is missing

Combining pretty much any idea with Tron Cycles would probably be a good idea.

where is Lode Runner

Paperboy

Thanks for doing this, Dom - despite my kvetching about the nomination restrictions (I could easily come up with fifteen missing 80s and 90s games, zero missing 00s ones), this should be fun.

Heads-up - Mario 64 is double-listed with Super Mario 64...

One thing that'll make this interesting is voting (or NOT voting) from individual games that represent a larger series or genre of non-nominated things. Ie, I didn't play all that much Turtles In Time, but generally speaking a huge amount of my youth was spent on nearly identical beat-em-ups of the same generation: the double-screen arcade X-Men, Knights of the Round, the Turtles arcade game for that matter, etc etc.

Also: my vote for "King's Quest" includes every King's Quest I-VI, hell, every Space Quest I-V, Quest For Glory I-III, and about twelve other Sierra games. This will probably skew results unfairly (King's Quest I, by itself, would never deserve a slot in my Top 30) but such is the nature of these things...

er, voting or not voting FOR individual games. I'm not concerned with the cartridges themselves stuffing the ballots...

nice one Dom, how long we got ?

king's quest i is impossible.

King's Quest I is impossible, and was not tremendously fun then, let alone now. II is sorta interesting if thin - but III is, bullshit climbing challenges aside, a delight. It was in fact the first computer game I remember my Dad bringin home from the store, so I probably am sort of inflating its majesty, but it really was a cool game. IV was also good, probably richer in some ways. V brought in VGA graphics and the mouse and got kind of clunky as a result. VI is worth it mainly for the CD-ROM voices, especially the guy that whines "Old lamps for new!" and the jovial shopkeeper ("Helloooooo, Prince Alex!"). All of these games, along with Monkey Island etc, are WAY WAY WAY more fun, based on my experience, when you play them as a team with your roommate.

(I'd also like to make an early prediction for TETRIS as the winner, not because it's the best game on here, but because its appeal cuts across all categories of gamers and non-gamers alike, ensuring it will be in any honest person's top spread...)

i started a thread on ILG.

I HAVE VOTED! WOO!!! I guess I'll save exegesis for the blurb thread, but if anyone else wants to join me in bogosifying this, here are some more recommended fudgings: count "Majora's Mask" under "Ocarina of Time," "Sonic The Hedgehog 2" under "Sonic The Hedgehog," and all shareware platformers ever under "Commander Keen" (or at least, Commander Keen 4-6). I know we were supposed to keep sequels as separate noms, but I suspect given the rules for nomination that later posters might have held off on adding, say, Sonic 2, when there was still the pressing need to cover everything else made in the 90s.

The entire enterprise does remind me of that nice little thread, The Greatest (Console) Generation...

Dr. Robotniks Bean Machine was a worthy sega competitor to Dr. Mario and Tetris.

But yeah, king's quest should be all of them and same for quest for glory. Monkey's Island 1-4 together also.

Thanks for including my picks, and the idea of choosing 30 games in order is a very good idea.

I'm down to 40. Obviously these selections are completely arbitrary, bollocks to appealing to history.

Also, check out this site for VGA remakes of the first 2 King's Quest games!
http://www.agdinteractive.com/KQ1.php

They do a pretty ace job aping the look of those VGA Sierra games - bravo. Those backgrounds must have taken a while.

I do think KQII seems strangely devoid of the little life it possessed without the freakish, acidic look to everything. Wasn't there a purple sky? Or am I making that up?

IT IS DONE.

I've narrowed mine down to 30, but ranking them is hard.

Only having the first Sonic game is kind of screwed up, it's easily the worst of the first 3 + Sonic CD + & Knuckles.

1. thank you for not listing chrono cross

2. i voted for chrono trigger

What? Mappy but no MappyLAND?

That mouse needs all the accolades he can get.

nah, the first sonic game is tight.

what is Mappy?

DEUS

http://www.sys2064.com/pic/jas/mappy02.jpg

You play a mouse that jumps on trampolines to stop cats from stealing household electronics and heirlooms.

http://www.cyberiapc.com/vgg/stills/nes/mappyland_2.gif

In Mappyland, you play a mouse that jumps on trampolines to avoid cats festooned in hilarious period costumes.

so it's kind of like ILM vs. ILE?

Hahaha yes!

That pink blob at the bottom of the ladder is two cats that Mappy has distracted with a sprig of catnip. TACTICS.

http://media.strategywiki.org/images/thumb/5/5c/Mappy_flyer.jpg/250px-Mappy_flyer.jpg

Jesus, that sinister boss cat got your pixilated television set, and all Mappy can do is mouthbreathe over his fatty cop shoulder.

I remember renting Mappyland as a kid and being totally perplexed by it - it felt like it was a franchise entry from a nonexistent franchise, like I was supposed to already be familiar with these characters in order to excuse their crappy game. Was I right?

Only having the first Sonic game is kind of screwed up, it's easily the worst of the first 3 + Sonic CD + & Knuckles.

I've decided, unilaterally, that you can kind of count them all as one game under the "sports games don't count as sequels" rule - basically the same exact engine, released in very short intervals, and despite gradual feature creep, essentially the same game. The leap from Sonic to Sonic 2 is pretty big, admittedly. But there's a case to be made for it.

Just noticed another sad omission: Mario Kart 64. :(

No, the first Mappy game is just as baffling! But Mappyland, yes, it would be like making Burger Time World 3 or something.

Worse, really - you need a crappier game and a less prominent entry in the series. Like, the equivalent of Mario Golf or Sonic Spinball, but it's, you know, the guy from Spelunker, Deadly Towers, 3-D World-Runner, or Elevator Action.

ridge racer contains not one, but two mappy-liveried cars.

yes there's a pink one and a blue one

OH MY GOD WHY ISN'T ELEVATOR ACTION ON THIS LIST.

Sad about the Tiger Woods series absence, too. Those things have eaten up at least 1000 hours of my life.

OMG we FORGOT KICK OFF 2!

Mario Kart 64 can be filed under Super Mario Kart. That's where I'm polling it anyway.

Diddy Kong Racing was better...

I think I'm down to the mid 40's in my choices, hard decisions need to be made...

I see there's some title duplication in the list. I guess you're going to count votes for Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 as being for the same game? What happens if someone votes for both? Does that count as one or two votes?
What about when there's a series nomination like say, Monkey Island, and also an individual game from the series nominated as Monkey Island II is? Do they get collated or are they individual votes?

I am going to join the chorus of people who have voted and now feel entitled to complain about the quality of ballot options

SOMEBODY forgot to nominate STAR CONTROL 2

and some of you simply had to have been taking the piss

Diddy Kong Racing was better...

DKR, the Erasure of cutesy racers

OMG we FORGOT KICK OFF 2!

are you steve screech?

bugger no Ultima Underworld

"You see a piece of day-old cheese belonging to an upset rat named Hallbard."

Never before has cheese age determining skills been so crucial.

Weirdly... after the first five ballots, one game has already shot into a massive fucking lead..

Suikoden II?

this is hard to rank my 30

Lords of Midnight FTW

Suikoden II?

-- HI DERE, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 1:18 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.klov.com/images/11/118124210730.png

Fire Truck (Atari), 1978

My Top 2, maybe even Top 3, are almost interchangeable depending on mood.

I gotta level, those are fucking good graphics for 1978. They're better than Spectrum graphics from 91.

Lords of Midnight FTW

-- Noodle Vague, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 1:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Voted for this v.high. Maybe the first video game I ever got properly, "shit three hours have just passed", lost in.

I also regret omitting a certain trackball-operated game that I shovelled shitloads of student grant money into in the late 80s.

It was in my top 15, for reals.

Sorry, that second sentence was re: Lords of Midnight

In fact I placed LoM Top 10 cos it's that fucking great.

I would have voted for darklands gff!

The only real o_o on this list for me is no Quake I, DM4 u guys!

Noodle Vague - was the trackball game Marble Madness? I feel like starting an underground ILX viral marketing campaign to push MM into the top 20.

I suck so bad at Marble Madness

Marble Madness has some of my fave computer game music in it.

i preferred Spindizzy

Spindizzy had no scrolling though?

Spindizzy's good, and has way more levels. But each turn, each obstacle, and each required pause in the 6 levels of Marble Madness is ingrained in my mind.

did a deadline ever get set? this is going to take me forever to whittle down on work time, and i'm not doing it on my own time when i could actually be playing games video games instead.

i can't find Brian Clough's Football Fortunes. is it listed under B, C or F?

SOMEBODY forgot to nominate STAR CONTROL 2

OH NO!!!!!

can we do write-ins??????

Deadline is around the end of the month.

i'm so happy i have nothing to do at work today so i can "work" on this

The only real o_o on this list for me is no Quake I, DM4 u guys!

There's no DOOM and you're worried about Quake? I wish there were an easy way to intuitively type/communicate the "Blueaagggh" noises the guys made in DOOM, to convince you of the wrongness of this.

what the hell is "zarch/virus zelda"?

i am done, i will email you soon dom

I think it's just an age thing - Doom was awesome but it was just single player, for me? Whereas Quake was the school computer room - I've never had 12 player deathmatches against people i actually know since...

I can still remember that PC GAMER top 50 list where they put Quake at #2 despite it only existing as a multiplayer demo at the time, they made a really big deal of how **SHOCKWAVES** they were being which i massively bought into at the time. Is there an archive of those top 50 lists anywhere? Mad nostalgia.

"zarch/virus zelda" should have a line break before zelda.
zarch was an an archimedes game where you controlled a 3D hover ship shoot em up game with 'real gravity' physics with the mouse. Virus was the version that was released on amiga/st maybe pc?

Zarch/Virus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarch

I can understand the multiplayer thing totally. For me that would be Duke 3D (also sadly missed on the list), playing in the basement on three PCs with my brother and sister. I even played once with some random person from a BBS, across town on local area code dialup. It was a really different time.

Doom was just such a landmark game in so many ways. I mean, Wolf-3D essentially invented everything we take for granted now in FPSes; right down to Halo, the basic template is in those shareware games. Doom just perfected the formula by opening up the 3D environments considerably, upping the atmosphere, introducing a more clearly "grownup" flavor, adding rocket launchers, etc. It was the first gmae I played that actually spooked me a little. My parents were convinced it was related to anger management problems I was having at school etc, and banned it for a while. It was a big deal.

Oh I've played Zarch! It wasn't as fun as lander really :(

I think mid 90s FPS kinda suffered in this poll from how other genres threw themselves over a cliff in the mid 90s and they didn't? Loads of people had spare noughties votes for Halo/Half Life/Portal etc.

was the trackball game Marble Madness?

Fraid not. I've just realised 720 wasn't a trackball but a weirdy rotational joystick, so I lied to you. I think I only played MM in its Spectrum iteration and I wasn't that into it on that.

can't we just add stuff to the list that was oversighted? i mean... what difference would it make?

except a great difference!!

wait a second

NO STREET FIGHTER 2?????

I DEMAND WRITE-IN VOTES>

I wrote in SFII. :)

my write-ins so far:

Starcraft
Star Control 2
Street Fighter 2
Phantasy Star 2
Thunder Force 3

double dragon 2 but not 1??

unlike the movies, game sequels are nearly always better

i put double dragon 2 on my list out of respect for dd1. i know i played 2, but i don't really remember it (whereas i remember 1 really clearly).

I'm sad Dragon Quest/Warrior i-IV aren't on the list. "Have you seen Nestor?" "I hear there is a man named Nestor at Tantagel Castle." You have found a Cursed Belt.

unlike the movies, game sequels are nearly always better

-- blueski, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 17:38 (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this is generally true, but fails in the change from 2D to 3D gaming, where all bets are off.

a red slime draws near!
xpost

but fails in the change from 2D to 3D gaming, where all bets are off.

you may well be right, i wouldn't know anymore! what an interesting development tho - games becoming more like films in more ways the one then

Dom, what's the final word on write-ins? If they're allowed I would want to change my ballot...

NO WRITE-INS; what's the point of the nomination phase if there are write-ins?

NO WRITE-INS; what's the point of the nomination phase if there are write-ins?

-- HI DERE, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 5:53 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

HI DERE, CASH SITTA

Look, write-ins would have markedly changed my ballot (WoW, Starcraft, Windows Minesweeper, Windows Hearts, Darkstalkers 2: Night Warriors, Soul Calibur II, Virtua Fighter 2, Virtua Figher 5, Mortal Kombat II, Street Fighter II Turbo, Captain America and the Avengers, Gauntlet, Joust, Dig Dug, Robotron 2084, Donkey Kong Jr, Samba de Amigo, Space Channel 5, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, LOOM, and Golden Axe all would have stood a very good shot of getting mentioned) but they weren't options. I dealt; so can you.

you may well be right, i wouldn't know anymore! what an interesting development tho - games becoming more like films in more ways the one then

-- blueski, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 18:20 (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

it's not so much games becoming more like films, but more the mechanics of most genres of games changing completely if you remove the 2D movement restriction. This is not always an improvement. e.g. imho, Zelda III > Ocarina of Time.

so make a new a ballot! xp

noms process should really just be a way to get brainstorming and provide a list of stuff ppl like. there is no earthly reason why we should be bound by it; it's completely arbitrary.

i'm doing write-ins. a very special episode of Full House taught me to always be true to my heart. "bigdog" can strip 'em out if he doesn't like it.

No, the first Mappy game is just as baffling! But Mappyland, yes, it would be like making Burger Time World 3 or something.

-- Abbott, Monday, March 31, 2008 10:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I've wanted to make a burgertime mmog for a while...

no Zaxxon, no credibility!

I've wanted to make a burgertime mmog for a while...

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=60

One actual legitimate risk with write-ins is unknowing vote-splitting...right now those who feel that Sonic, generally, needs to be in there, and find no objection to Sonic 1, are going to rally around Sonic The Hedgehog. With write-ins, that energy might be diffused across five different games and no Sonic makes the Top 100.

Write-ins make the returning officers job much harder.

Yeah, just look at the mess in Zimbabwe, you want that on your conscience?

no one said this would be a cakewalk, people.

Or a write-in for Cakewalk 2: The Minstreling.

^^^^^ ok wau

As a bonafide terrorist I wrote in no less than eight responses.

here is no earthly reason why we should be bound by it; it's completely arbitrary.

the question is if SF2 or whatever was such a good game how come no-one nominated it this time?

No one nominated it because JW fucked up his ballot.

And because there are more classic games from the late 80s and early 90s than any other era (PROVEN FACT) so all of us had to make really tough decisions for our single 90s nom while making casual coin-tosses for the 00s.

the question is if SF2 or whatever was such a good game how come no-one nominated it this time?

-- blueski, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 7:30 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

who cares if we want to vote for it now?

No one nominated it because JW fucked up his ballot.

yeah that occurred to me, but people should pay more attention innit

Also, of the games on my list there are at least 5 that I assumed someone else had already nominated (Starcraft, MKII, WoW, SC II, either of the VF games).

I am pretty chill w/ write-ins or no write-ins or doing the whole thing over again or whatever, there should be a RULING though.

Sorry, the cakewalk crack was just meant to be stupid, not o_O

Also, of the games on my list there are at least 5 that I assumed someone else had already nominated (Starcraft, MKII, WoW, SC II, either of the VF games).

-- HI DERE, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:01 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

so basically... we're talkin' write-ins here.

sorry if it hurts your brain blueski.

I'm perfectly fine with the nomination list as-is! I'm bummed that some of my faves didn't make it but that's okay; it's not like this is a binding ranking of the best possible games of all time.

this might not be, but my ballot sure is, lemme tell you.

sorry if it hurts your brain blueski.

don't patronise me /butthurt

how many giant polls have we done this way on ILX now? 20+
people make the same complaint every time

about the lack of an admin log?

people make the same complaint every time

-- blueski, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:31 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

cuz it's valid

if ppl make the same complaint about a completely arbitrary system every single time, perhaps that says something

that they're whiny losers

hahaha

i can't wait for dom to come back and bring his solomonic wisdom to this issue

but in the meantime, as pretty much everyone has admitted to voting for write-ins, i'm voting with my heart <3

i'm dicking around there, but personally am more interested by the nom process in terms of what does get left out and why, and then putting the list into order via the voting process. when we did the 00-04 music ones i was aghast at what was missing but accepted it.

that's same logic that got us into this iraq mess in the first place.

how do you think the CIA compile their Most Wanted list anyway?

WTF didn't I nominate Thrust??? down to a final 45. this is hard.

No write-ins, people. You gotta make your vote count at the early stage.

DOM LAYS DOWN THE LAW

http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/gihrensgreed/ms-09rs.jpg

I learned it from you, dad.

As only one Interactive Fiction/Infocom game was nominated, I assume the game that took the early lead was AMFV???

Also, I'd be interested in seeing other people's "pure" top 40 lists. Maybe we should make another thread?

don't bump my points up for write-ins then, my #11 does NOT deserve #10 ranking points LET ALONE MY #30 DESERVE #23 etc!

SHIT! I forgot Zork II!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can we have a Best Game Poll mark II in May, once GTA IV has been released ?

:))

waaaaaaaaaaay too many mario games. abundance of marios hos on ilx.

Nintendo fanboys man, what do you expect from them?

taste

My top 30 has one Mario game and no Zelda games. You motherfuckers don't appreciate Mayhem In Monsterland.

Which I forgot to nominate.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/Mayhem_in_monsterland_2.gif

if your top 30 has no zelda games then I can never respect anything you have to say about anything

http://users.skynet.be/NightGem/c64/images/mayhema.gif

i'm convinced.

also, where's fuckin' duck hunt? surely nes-owning mario lovers played that too?

my top 30 had no zelda, no mario... possibly no nintendo at all unless you count goldeneye.

no advance wars?!

Can we get clarification on "Bust A Move"? There are two games with that name - it's the US name for Taito's Puzzle Bobble, but it's also the Japanese (and European) name for Enix's Bust a Groove. Which is on the list?

I'm _assuming_ it's Puzzle Bobble... who nommed it originally?

Yeah, both deserve noms really, but I'd be amazed if puzzle bobble wasn't in there, and only midly disappointed if bust a groove wasn't.

Shocked that none of us remembered Jet Set Willy.

The big omissions in this, for me, are Jet Set Willy and Sim City 2000.

Games you would have voted for on that ILE poll if they'd been nominated has more!

Bubble Bobble RIP. :(

http://yfinder.de/bub2.jpg

As only one Interactive Fiction/Infocom game was nominated, I assume the game that took the early lead was AMFV???

Don't forget Spellbreaker (my nom)! Hardest adventure game ever, seriously.

Spellcasting 101 > Spellbreaker :)

The lead was Chrono Trigger dollars to doughnuts! because a couple people mentioned it upthread

it seems kinda weird/useless sending my list as a shit-ton of my favorites aren't on this list

[/my turn to bitch]

Mike Tyson's Punch Out?!

Twenty ballots already kids, we're doing great!

I want 50 by the end of the month, but then again I want a lot of things.

You now have mine. I didn't think I'd even get 30 out of that but t'was harder than I thought it would be. Monkey Island for the win.

I don't think any poll results or challenging opinionz in the history of ILX are gonna make me more pointlessly, chokingly incoherent with misplaced fury and saddo butthurted denunciatoriness than this one.

Yeah, it's gonna be great. Especially if the numbers one, eleven, and nineteen stay as they are currently.

NAZI VIDEO GAME NERDBOY ELITIST PUNKS FUCK OFF

You now have mine.

-- Upt0eleven, Thursday, April 3, 2008 10:39 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

LIES

WOOPS. Wonder who Juror9 is? Fixed.

amazing the lack of
civilization
sim city
transport tycoon

and yet someone nominated THEME HOSPITAL (was it because of 3rd degree sideburn?)

and no
command and conquer red alert
mortal kombat
street fighter ii

most of my favourite games happened in the 90s i think.

You gotta vote for your 90s faves to make 'em count.

haha i would if they're actually there for me to vote :)

oh ok CIV2 is there

NOT NOMINATED::

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/LeisureSuitLarry7.jpg

lol 15 floppies

phantasmagoria to thread

I thought about Leisure Suit Larry during the noms, not because I'd vote for it I suppose but because it represents the acceptable tip of the whole eroge/hentai/AIF iceberg: the genre that dare not speak its name (except on the Date Ariane thread), and I felt like that shit ought to be acknowledged somewhere somehow.

Probably should have just nommed one of those dating sim tentacle rape games.

ariane?

i've really struggled to make 30 game list - may cut my losses at 28

^^^even ILX poll grand puba having troubles

Jeez I had to cut down from 40-50. Lightweights.

No Gals Panic no credibility.

Seriously, though, Marble Madness.

i am struggling to find more than 15 games that i like from that list.

zarch ftw i think

http://tripalot.com/roguelike/images/nethack.gif

NetHack FTW. I started playing it on a Xenix machine in the 80s, and still play it sometimes, I must somewhat shamefully admit.

I just listed all the games I would consider voting for, ranked them, then double-checked the rankings for sanity and chopped off all the ones after 30.

sanity has no place here, and that's why i'm putting Arkanoid above Wii Sports

also my top 3 all have really shitty graphics sorry

my top game has really well rendered arrows.. if that counts as good graphics....

I voted some older games I wouldn't particularly want to play now above newer games I'd love to play tonight.

ken, you totally let me down by not nomming syndicate.

I've got my list down to 63, but narrowing further might take me a while. What's a bit scary is the thought that each one of those 63 is a game I've spent at least 2 hours (and sometimes as much as 60, 70...hell, HUNDREDS when it comes to Goldeneye) of my life on.

Arkanoid above Wii Sports

That's just correct.

I was gonna say!

also my top 3 all have really shitty graphics sorry

my top game has no graphics at all.

I voted. My ballot included:
10 Nintendo-developed games
7 or 8 PC games
6 RPGs
6 games from the 80s

16 of my games are 80s game, wau

only 4 are RPGs, double wau

90s games are 20-22 of my list (I suck at counting and I don't feel like looking stuff up). The rest are 80s. Only four are 3D. Games were more melodic back then and have suffered ever since.

hahaha

1. EarthBound
2. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
3. Super Metroid
4. Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night
5. Mega Man 2
6. The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past
7. Super Mario Bros. 3
8. Contra
9. Metal Gear Solid
10. Pikmin 2
11. Beyond Good And Evil
12. The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker
13. Actraiser
14. Super Mario Bros.
15. Castlevania
16. Super Mario RPG
17. Double Dragon II: The Revenge
18. Metroid: Zero Mission
19. Rock Band
20. Super Mario 64
21. X-Wing
22. Ninja Gaiden
23. Grim Fandango
24. Super Mario World
25. Shadow of the Colossus
26. Wii Sports
27. Bionic Commando
28. Goldeneye
29. Tetris
30. Lemmings

1. Doom II-- I will be instituted th' midi files for the production of the next 50 cent album

HEH *ing alized whatever

2. EARTHBOUND yes

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/F/Football_Manager_II_%28English%29.png

If this shit isn't top 100, you guys are in fucking trouble.

How many nominations were there? More than 200?

207, I think. 26 ballots so far.

That list is too long for me to care about reading it.

From what I saw at a glance:

Nethack
R-Type

No Scorched Earth.

It's there

I'm not really happy with my list but I've already wasted enough time on it.

01 Lunar: Silver Star Story
02 Final Fantasy Tactics
03 Castlevania
04 Metal Gear Solid
05 Chrono Trigger
06 Sid Meier's Civilization II
07 Super Metriod
08 Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past
09 Bomberman
10 Super Mario World
11 Sid Meier's Pirates!
12 Resident Evil 4
13 Dragon Quest VIII
14 Half-Life 2
15 Tetris
16 RBI Baseball
17 Secret of Mana
18 River City Ransom
19 Ninja Gaiden
20 Madden NFL series
21 Maniac Mansion
22 Bubble Bobble
23 Xenogears
24 Commander Keen
25 SNK vs. Capcom 2
26 Katamari Damacy
27 Prince of Persia
28 Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation.
29 EarthBound
30 Bioshock

Guyz don't spoil the surprise by posting your maddeningly wrong ballots here until after the results, eh?

omg, ranking Lunar #1 is basically begging to get punched in the face

you'd think deej posts on enough threads to know not to post his ballot yet

Well, judging by all the grandpa games listed above I figured Lunar needed all the points I could give it. Sorry about posting my strikingly otm ballot though.

write-in: http://www.mazapan.se/games/BurnTheRope.php

Upset by secret boards? Make your voice heard in "ILX's 100 Best Video Games Ever", and help the healing begin.

I will probably write some nonsense about some of the games I voted for. When would you want this nonsene by, Dom?

I think in-thread nonsense at the end would be our best bet. It's gonna be a proper, two day, four posts an hour reveal. Weekend of the 3rd/4th May. Be there.

serious business

as serious as having to nominate the same amount of 80's games as 90's games.

FWIW, current top 10 has two 80s games, five 90s games, and three from the 00s.

fair play

C'mon Dom, surely we don't have to wait a whole month!

no no it coincides nicely with gta4 release, two ferocious gaming extravanga events happening at the same time. jubly.

Ste did you pick a console yet?

probly ps3, but i can see me getting a 360 too somewhere down the line - just to play dead rising and also pwn ilxors at gta4 multiplayer.

two day, four posts an hour reveal.

nonono, drag it out!!!! four posts an hour = coming back to my desk at the end of the day and finding the whole thing already over. :-( It's the equivalent of thinking you've killed all the enemies, going to get a coke, and coming back to find that someone respawned and killed you.

Or joining the ILX poker room on a Sunday night then immediately forgetting it and going into the kitchen to make curry for your tea while you lose like 75% of your chips on blinds until you go back 35 minutes later and remember you were supposed to be playing. Good times.

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you run people over, and they turn into little crosses. a+++

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i wish Pang was in this thing

PANG

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YHTBTR is stupid

Fuck! Pang would definitely have made my 30.

Pang is Super Buster Bros., right?

Yeah.

BUMP

Two questions: When is voting deadline (I'm sure it's in the thread somewhere but not first post), and is it okay I vote for 15 instead of 30?

Deadline is the end of the month, and of course it's OK to submit a shorter than 30 ballot.

Well, I managed to come up with 30 that I'd played and thought at least warranted a few points. It's a bit of an odd list, particularly things like voting for We Love Katamari and not Katamari Damacy, as I have only played the former.

breathing

virtual world

remindinem tpb

ftlol

o.n.

2-r-t

dgaad

u think its funny

i don't mf

centyr'd whhaq an u rKUBF vr

if only there was 1 h

don't breathe while u do tho i run u boy, fool w no gay. u th wors

damn get ur own dick, u know? we redjall boox bro., nuttin

i worked miles and miles in my yard. cmere bitch ?xz-a-syn, b

u came, pedamee

fag

fag! shut the fuck up

that's the band P:)+;^[

i'm n n oven nao

kykykyky ;=

out n about

tones so gay id turn a glockman why

come t do yours

maybe i'm crazy; maybe I shouldn't; it's a state of mind centured

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i wuz: A bitchwhore B bloodymerckerd C sick

heal

abuse;lose;use

block up n out

cantrite-b

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LOL

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what was the turn out like?

35 ballots so far

closing date?

2nd May

cheers, must send mine in.

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Damn this is likely be a gruelling excursion into Rong.

i know, i can't wait

With an extended detour thru Challops County

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IT'S JUDGEMENT DAY (in 20 or so hours)

FOUR OR SO HOURS LEFT

To vote or before the results start?

I didn't vote because my taste in video games is really limited/specific, but here's what my ballot would have been:

1. Super Mario Bros
Legend of Zelda
Mega Man 2
Metroid
Super Mario World
Pac Man
Baseball Stars
Contra
Shadow of the Colossus
10. Super Mario Brothers 3
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past
Ninja Gaiden
Rock Band
Guitar Hero
Madden NFL series
Portal
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Worms Armageddon
20. Katamari Damacy
RBI Baseball
Skate
Half-Life 2
Super Mario Brothers 2
River City Ransom
Resident Evil 4
Super Puzzle Fighter Alpha II Turbo
Metal Gear
Bionic Commando
30. Bubble Bobble

Whoops, wrong thread!