Great book, folks! - but the real question is, how many from the list (see below) have you played? Be honest now! Gonna go through and bold the ones I've played in a minute.
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Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation ActRaiser Advance Wars Advance Wars: Dual Strike Adventure Afrika Age of Empires Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings Age of Empires: Mythologies Age of Mythology Aion: The Tower of Eternity Alex Kidd in Miracle World Alien Soldier Alien Zombie Death Alien Versus Predator Alone in the Dark Alter Ego Amplitude Animal Crossing Animal Crossing: Wild World Anno 1701: Dawn of Discovery Another World Ape Escape Archon Arkanoid ArmA: Armed Assault Armadillo Run Army of Two: The 40th Day Art Style: Intersect Art Style: Orbient Assassin's Creed II Asteroids Astro Boy: Omega Factor Audiosurf Auditorium Axelay Baldur’s Gate II Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance Ballblazer Bangai-O Bangai-O Spirits Banjo-Kazooie Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Banjo-Tooie Bank Panic Bard's Tale, The Batman: Arkham Asylum Battalion Wars Battle Zone Battlefield 1942 Battlefield 1943: Pacific Battlefield 2 Battlefield: Bad Company Bayonetta Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery, The Beatles: Rock Band, The Beatmania Bejeweled 2 Bejeweled Twist Beneath a Steel Sky Beyond Good & Evil BioForge Bionic Commando Rearmed BioShock BioShock 2 Bit. Trip Core Black Black & White Blade Runner Blast Corps Blasteroids BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Body Harvest Bomb Jack Bomberman Bonsai Barber Bookworm Boom Blox Bash Party Boot Hill Borderlands Boulder Dash Bounty Bob Strikes Back Boy and his Blob, A Braid Breakout Breath of Fire II Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars Bubble Bobble Buggy Boy Bully Burning Rangers Burnout 2: Point of impact Burnout Paradise Bushido Blade Buzz Quiz TV California Games Call of Duty Call of Duty 2 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Canabalt Cannon Fodder Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 Captain Forever Carcassonne Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now Carrier Command Castle Crashers Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Cave Story Centipede Chibi-Robo! Chime Choplifter Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay Chrono Cross Chrono Trigger ChuChu Rocket Chuckie Egg City of Heroes Civilization Civilization II Civilization IV Clubhouse Games Cogs Colin McRae: Dirt Colin McRae: Dirt 2 Columns Combat Command & Conquer Command & Conquer: Red Alert Commando Commandos 2: Men of Courage Company of Heroes Contra 4 Contra III: The Alien Wars Counter-Strike Source Crackdown Crayon Physics Deluxe Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller Crimson Skies Critter Crunch Cruise for a Corpse Crush Crysis Crystal Castles Curse of Monkey Island, The Cursor*10 Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Oratorio Tangram Cybernator Dance Dance Revolution Darius Dark Chronicle Darkness, The Darwinia Daytona USA De Blob Dead or Alive 4 Dead Rising Dead Space Dead Space Extraction Death Tank Del Jam: Fight for NY DEFCON Defender Defender of the Crown Defense Grid: The Awakening Déjà Vu Demigod Demolition Derby Demon's Souls Descent Desert Strike. Return to the Gulf Desktop Tower Defense Deus Ex Deus Ex Machina Devil Dice Devil May Cry Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening Devil May Cry 4 Diablo Diablo II Diagasso! Band Brothers Dig Dug Dig, The Disaster Report Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories Disgaea: Hour of Darkness Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, The Dissidia Final Fantasy DJ Hero DoDonPachi Donkey Kong Donkey Kong Country 3 Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat Donkey Kongo Doom Doom 3 Doom II: Hell on Earth Double Dragon Dr Kawashima's Brain Training Dr. Mario Dragon Age: Origins Dragon Quest Dragon Quest V Dragon Quest VIII: Journey Of The Cursed King Dragon's Lair Dreamfall: The Longest Journey Drill Dozer Driver Drop7 Duke Nukem 3D Dune II Dungeon Keeper Dungeon Master Dungeon Siege E4 Eamon EarthBound Earthworm Jim Ecco the Dolphin Echochrome Earth Defense Force 2017 Edge/Edgy Eets: Hunger. It's Emotional Einhänder Elasto Mania Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The Elebits Eliss Elite Elite Beat Agents Empire: Total War Eternal Darkness Eve Online EverQuest EverQuest II Everybody's Golf: World Tour Everyday Shooter Excitebike 64 Exile Exit 2 Eye of the Beholder EyePet F.E.A.R. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin Fable Fable 2 Façade Fahrenheit Fairlight Fallout Fallout 3 Fantastic Contraption Fantasy World Dizzy Far Cry Far Cry 2 Faselei! Fat Princess Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Fatal Frame IV: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves Ferrari F355 Challenge Fieldrunners FIFA 2010 Fight Night Round 3 Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Final Fantasy IV Final Fantasy IX Final Fantasy Tactics Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift Final Fantasy V Final Fantasy VI Final Fantasy VII Final Fantasy VIII Final Fantasy X Final Fantasy XII Final Fight Final Furlong Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance Fire Pro Wrestling Returns Flashback FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Flight Control Flipnic Flow Flower Flywrench Football Manager 2010 Forgotten Worlds Forza Motorsport 2 Fonra Motorsport 3 Freak Out Free Running Freedom Fighters Freedom Force vs. The 3rd Peich Freespace 2 Frequency Frogger Front Mission 3 Frontier Elite II Fuel Full Throttle F-Zero GX F-Zero X Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords Galaga Galaga '88 Galaxian Golcon Garry's Mod Gauntlet Gauntlet II Gears of War Gears of War 2 Gemini Wing GeoDefense Swarm Geometry Wars Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 Ghosts 'n Goblins Ghouls 'n Ghosts Giants: Citizen Kabuto GitarooMan G-LOC:Air Battle (R-360) God Hand God of War God of War II God of War: Chains of Olympus Golden Sun Golden Tee Live GoldenEye 007 Gorf Gottlieb Pinball Classics Gradius Gradius V Gran Turismo Gran Turismo 3:A-Spec Grand Prix Legends Grand Slam Tennis Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto III Grand Theft Auto IV Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Grandia ll Gravitar Gravity Crash Gravity Power Green Beret Gregory Horror Show Grim Fandango GrimGrimoire Grow GT Legends Grand Theft Auto 2 GTIClub Rally Côte d'Azur GTR 2 Guardian Heroes Guild Wars Guitar Hero Guitar Hero ll Guitar Hero World Tour Guitar Hero: Metallica Gunpey Gunstar Heroes Gunstar Super Heroes Gyruss H.E.R.O. Half-Life Half-Life 2 Half-Minute Hero Halo 2 Halo 3 Halo 3: ODST Halo Wars Halo: Combat Evolved Harvest Moon Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town Head Over Heels Heavenly Sword Heavy Rain Henry Hatsworth in the PuzzlingAdventure Herzog Zwei Hexic 2 Hidden & Dangerous 2 Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Hitman 2: Silent Assassin Hitman: Blood Money Hobbit, The Homeworld Hotel Dusk: Room 215 House of the Dead 2, The House of the Dead: Overkill Hunter Hyper Sports I, Robot Ikari Warriors Ikaruga IL-2 Sturmovik IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey Impossible Mission II Incredible Machine, The Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Infamous Intelligent Qube International Karate + International Track & Field Interstate ‘76 ISS Pro Evolution Jade Empire Jak and Daxter. The Precursor Legacy Jak II Jeanne d’Arc Jet Force Gemini Jet Set Radio Jet Set Radio Future Jet Set Willy Jetpac John Madden Football John Woo Presents Stranglehold Joust Juno First Just Cause Karate Champ Katamari Damacy Kid Icarus Kill Switch Killer 7 Killer Instinct Killzone 2 King of Fighters '94 Kingdom Hearts Klax Knight Lore Kung-Fu Master Laser Squad Lost Express, The Leader Board Left 4 Dead Left 4 Dead 2 Legend of the Mystical Ninja, The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/Ages, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The LEGO Star Wars Lemmings Let’s Tap Line Rider Little Big Adventure Little Computer People Little King’s Story LittleBigPlanet LocoRoco 2 Lode Runner Logan's Shadow Logical Journey of The Zoombinis, The Longest Journey, The Loom Lords of Midnight Lost Vikings, The Lost Winds Lost Winds: Winter of the Melodias Luigi’s Mansion Lumines Lumines Live Lunar Lander M.U.L.E. Maboshi: The Three Shape Arcade Machinarium Mad Planets Madden NFL 10 Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven Manhunt Maniac Mansion Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle Manic Miner Marathon Infinity Marble Madness Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story Mono & Luigi: Partners in Time Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga Mario Golf Mario Kart 64 Mario Kart DS Mario Kart Wii Mario Kart: Super Circuit Mario Power Tennis Mario vs. Donkey Kong Mark of Kri, The Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes Mashed Mass Effect Mass Effect 2 Max and the Magic Marker Max Payne Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne Maximo: Ghosts to Glory MDK Mech Warrior 2: 31st Century Combat Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Medieval II: Total War Medieval: Total War Mega Lo Mania Mega Man 8 Mercenary Mercury Meltdown Mercury Meltdown Revolution Metal Arms: Glitch in the System Metal Gear Solid Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes Metal Slug Meteos Metroid Fusion Metroid Prime Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Metroid Zero Mission Metropolis Street Racer Micro Machines Micro Machines 2: Turbo Tournament Microsoft Flight Simulator X Midnight Club: Los Angeles Midtown Madness 3 Midwinter Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes Mighty Flip Champs Mind Forever Voyaging, A Miner 2049er Minesweeper Missile Command MLB 09: The Show Mojib Ribbon Monkey lsland 2: LeChuck's Revenge Monster Hunter Freedom Unite Monster Max Moon Patrol Mortal Kombat Mother 3 MotorStorm MotorStorm: Pacific Rift Movies, The Mr. Do! Mr. Driller Ms Pac-Man MUD Muramasa: The Demon Blade Myst Myth: The Fallen Lords N+ Naked War NARC NBA 2K10 NBA Jam NBA Street Vol. 2 Nebulus Need for Speed: Most Wanted Need for Speed: Shift Neptune's Pride NetHack Neverhood, The Neverwinter Nights New Zealand Story, The NHL 10 NHL Hockey Nights Into Dreams Ninja Five-0 Ninja Gaiden [2004] Ninja Gaiden II [2008] Ninja Gaiden Black Nintendogs No More Heroes No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy In H.A.R.M.'S Way Noby Noby Boy North & South Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath Odin Sphere Oids Okami One-Dot Enemies Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Operation Wolf Oregon Trail, The Out Zone Outcast OutRun OutRun 2006. Coast 2 Coast Pac-Land Pac-Man Pac-Man Champ Ed Pain Pang Panzer Dragoon Orta Panzer Dragoon Saga Paper Mario Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Paperboy Paradroid PaRappa the Rapper Patapon Path, The Peggle Perfect Dark Phantasy Star Online Phoenix Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Picross DS Pikmin Pikmin 2 Pilotwings Pilotwings 64 Pinball Dreams PixelJunk Monsters PixelJunk Shooter Planescape: Torment Planet Puzzle League Planetfall PlanetSide Plants vs. Zombies Plok Point Blank Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire Pong Pool Paradise Populous Portal Power Drift Power Stone 2 Powermonger Prey Prince of Persia [1990] Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Pro Evolution Soccer 3 Professor Layton and the Curious Village Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box Project Gotham Racing 3 Prototype Psi-Ops: the Mindgate Conspiracy Psychonauts Punch-Out!! Pure Puyo Pop Fever Puzzle Bobble Puzzle Quest Q*Bert Qik Ouadradius Quake Quake II Quake III Arena R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 Race Driver: Grid Race Pro Radiant Silvergun Raiden Railroad Tycoon 3 Rainbow Islands Rampart Ratchet & Clank Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters Rayman Raving Rabbids Rebelstar Rebelstar: Tactical Command Red Dead Revolver Red Faction Guerilla Reflect Missile Reset Generation Resident Evil Resident Evil 2 Resident Evil 4 Resident Evil 5 Resident Evil Code: Veronica Resident Evil Zero Resistance 2 Retro Game Challenge Return Fire Return to Castle Wolfenstein Return to Zork Revenge of Shinobi Rez HD Rhythm Heaven Ridge Racer Ridge Racers Rise of Nations Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends Robotron 2084 Rock Band Rock Band 2 Rocket: Robot on Wheels Rockstar Presents Table Tennis Rogue Rogue Galaxy Rolando 2 RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Rolling Thunder Rome: Total War R-Type R-Type Delta R-Type Final RuneScape Sacrifice Saints Row 2 Salamander Sam & Max Hit the Road Samba de Amiga Samorost Samurai Shodown II Saturn Bomberman Scramble Scribblenauts Seaman Second Sight Secret of Mana Secret of Monkey Island, The Sega Bass Fishing Sega Rally Championship Sensible World of Soccer Sentinel, The Serious Sam Settlers, The Shadow Complex Shadow of the Colossus Shadowrun Shatter Shenmue Shenmue II Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 Shining Force III Shinobi [1987] Shinobi [2002] Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution Sid Meier's Pirates! Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon Silent Hill Silent Hill 2 Silent Hunter III Silent Scope 2: Dark Silhouette Silhouette Mirage SimCity 2000 SimCity SimCity 4 Sims 2, The Sims 3, The Sims, The Sin & Punishment Sin & Punishment: Successor to the Sky Singstar Sins of a Solar Empire Siren: Blood Curse Skate 2 Skies of Arcadia Skool Daze Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress Slitherlink Sly 2: Band of Thieves Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus Smash TV Snake Snake Rattle 'n' Roll SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters' Clash Sokoban Solomon's Key Sonic Adventure Sonic The Hedgehog Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Soul Calibur II Soul Calibur IV Space Channel 5 Space Giraffe Spate Harrier Space Invaders Space Invaders Extreme Space Invaders Infinity Gene Space Station Silicon Valley Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe Spelunky Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor Spider-Man 2 Spindizzy Splatterhouse Spore Spy Hunter Spy vs. Spy SSX Tricky S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Star Control 3 Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Star Wars Star Wars Jedi Knight ll: Jedi Outcast Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader Star Wars: TIE Fighter Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II Star Wars: Rogue Squadron Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter StarCraft Starfox 64 Stargate Starship Patrol Steel Battalion Street Fighter Alpha 3 Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting Street Fighter III: Third Strike Street Fighter IV Strider Stunt Car Racer Sub-Terrania Suikoden III Summer Games II Super Castlevania IV Super Hang-On Super Mario 64 Super Mario Bros. 3 Super Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros. 2 Super Mario Bros.: The l.ost Levels Super Mario Galaxy Super Mario Kart Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars Super Mario Sunshine Super Mario World Super Metroid Super Monkey Ball Super Punch-Out!! Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo Super Smash Bros. Brawl Super Smash Bros. Melee Super Sprint Super Stardust HD Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Super Tennis Supreme Commander SWAT 4 Swords & Soldiers Syndicate Syndicate Wars System Shock 2 Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling Together Tales of Symphonia Tapper Team Fortress 2 Team Fortress Classic Tecmo Super Bowl Tehkan World Cup Tekken Tekken 3 Tempest Tempest 2000 Test Drive Unlimited Tetris Tetris Party Theme Park Thief II: The Metal Age Thief: The Dark Project Threads of Fate Thrust Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Time Crisis Time Gentlemen, Please! Time Pilot TimeSplitters: Future Perfect TimeSplitters 2 Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent Tomb Raider Tomb Raider Legend Tomb Raider Underworld Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 Tony Hawk's Project 8 Top Spin 3 Torchlight Torus Trooper Total Annihilation Tower Bloxx Track & Field Trackmania DS Trackmania: United Forever Transformers Trauma Center: Second Opinion Trauma Center: Under the Knife Tribes 2 Trine Trinity Trism Tron Typing of the Dead, The UFC 2009: Undisputed UFO: Enemy Unknown Ultima I Ultima Online Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds Ultima VII Ultimate Ghosts 'n Goblins Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Uniracers Uno Unreal Tournament 2004 Unreal Tournament 3 Uplink Utopia Vagrant Story Valkyria Chronicles Vectorman 2 Venture Vib Ribbon Viewtiful Joe Virtua Cop 2 Virtua Fighter Virtua Fighter 5 Virtua Racing Virtua Tennis 3 Viva Piñata VVVVVV Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Warhawk Wario World WarioWare, Inc.: Mega MicroGames! WarioWare: Twisted! Warlords Warriors, The Wave Race 64 We love Katamari Wetrix Wii Fit Wii Sports Wii Sports Resort Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom Wipeout Wipeout 2097 Wipeout HD Wipeout Pulse Witcher, The Wizball Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Wonderboy III: The Dragon's Trap World Ends With You, The World Games World in Conflict World of Goo World of Warcraft Worms WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2010 X3: Reunion X-COM: Apocalypse Xenogears Xevious Xybots Yakuza 2 Yie Ar Kung-Fu Yoshi: Touch & Go Yoshi’s Island You, Me & The Cubes Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders Zen Bound Zeno Clash Zombies Ate My Neighbours Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner Zoo Keeper Zork I Zuma
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Oh, and please guys, lets not debate individual games in the list. I mean not everyone is going to agree with every game, but this is overall a list of 1001 games that are important to the history and development of the games industry (as opposed to being just "1001 best games")
why can't we debate individual games on this list? seriously, who named Yoshi: Touch and Go important to the history and development of the video game industry? :/ and bit.trip core but not beat? to be fair, beat kinda started it all with that line of games; it was there first, shouldn't it get the credit?
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Both Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 are important enough to the history and development of the games industry to merit individual spots on the list? I'm sure one would suffice and they could have given the other spot to somebody else, but hey...
I've played a bunch of these. I'd be more specific but no way am I going to list them.
why can't we debate individual games on this list?
Because it'll then be the "we hate COD/ halo is overrated" junk that every second games thread is.
I didn't mean don't discuss individual games (poor wording, my bad), but rather "Lets not rage against a game on the list just because we personlly don't like it, yeah?" And it was a request more than a demand. I'm well aware there's going to be Halo hate anyway <_<
That said I also don't understand why Yoshi is there, or some other games are not (Magic Carpet? Hello?) but for the most part I think it's a good "history of games" list
Ok, but there are a few games missing. In fact there are a few series missing. MySims series missing and I didn't see Kirby. Star Trek games from Activions is missing.
Some of these were hard to track in the list since they are using sub-titles as main titles and in other places I think they are just refering to the series as a whole.
Here is a short list that I would add.
Ascendancy Chip's Challenge Donkey Kong Country 2 Excite Truck Kirby's Epic Yarn MySims Rabbids Go Home Starcraft 2 StarFox Adventures StarFox Assult Star Trek Elite Force Wario Land Shake it Worms: Armageddon
@Oddy: discuss them, agree/disagree with them being on the list, who cares? Suikoden II didn't make that list, but Suikoden III did? seriously???
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So just to be clear, we can discuss games but not outright bash them for no reason, right?
Ideally, yeah. Unless Tony Mott is on this forum and we didn't realise. In which case fire away and watch him defend his choises (mind you, with some of the "iffy" games in there, the writers of the book do a great job of explaining why they are included - the difference between seeing a raw list, and reading the book)
Ok, so on my count I've played 567 games... halfway there!
There are a couple of games I would add in to the list that isn't there too:
Star Ocean 3 Magic Carpet Dungeons and Dragons: Wake of the Ravager Dungeons and Dragons: Strahd's Prophet Heroes of Might and Magic Chocobo's Dungeon Shiren the Wanderer Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth Warhammer Shadow of the Horned Rat Final Fantasy.
Those games were all pretty influential on my gaming youth, so that's probably tinted with rose coloured glasses, but yeah.
Saw this book in a Barns & Noble about a week ago. Wanted to get it, but it was $37.
Anyway, I think I've played 61 of the games on this list. There are definitely some games that probably don't belong on this list (Army of Two: The 40th Day made this list?)
Finally, this list was made about mid-last year, so that's probably why games like KEY, Starcraft 2, Shantae RR, etc. aren't on this list.
They chose CORE out of all of the BIT.TRIP games?! I can understand only having one to represent the series (even though both L4D titles were on there, as Chicken pointed out), but RUNNER and BEAT are easily the most recognizable/important games in the series, even if not necessarily the best. I suppose I should be glad the games are finally ingrained in mainstream gaming culture to the point that they are highlighted in this book, though. Any chance you could grab a scan of this entry so I could read why they chose it, Waltz?
Nice to see de Blob on there, haha.
Also, please don't tell me you wrote up this entire list, Waltz.
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