Huge Nerds only...Your Top 25, 50, whatever games of all time.

[daxx1970]

I'm only about 180-190 so I'm a just moderately sized nerd. I hope it's OK to post in here.

Top 13

Metal Arms: Glitch in the System (GameCube)
Unreal Tournament 3 (PS3, mainly the on-line co-op)
King's Bounty - (Sega Genesis)
Borderlands (PS3)
Fallout 3 or New Vegas (PS3, only when it isn't freezing up)
Myst (Sega Saturn)
Rock Band 3 (PS3)
Legend of Zelda (original Nintendo; dig it out of the closet, blow into it, and it will still work I bet)
Joe Montana Sports Talk Football (Sega Genesis)
Pitfall (Atari 2600)
Red Dead Redemption (PS3)
Mario Kart (Nintendo 64)
Rock Band Blitz (did you really read this far?)

[Dadasaurus Rex]

Kind of like Daxx, but 200 -210. In no particular order after "Super Metroid"Rock Band 3 - *cough*....Wii
Rock Band 2 - see above
Half-Life - PC
Half-Life 2 - PC
Beatles - Rock Band - see other Rock Band titles (Could rise up the list if more DLC was released)
Quake 2 - PC
Unreal Tournament 2 - PC
Resident Evil - PC
Tiger Woods 2005 - Xbox
Mario Kart - Wii
Super Metroid - SNES
Super Ghosts and Goblins - SNES
Soldier of Fortune - PC
Hitman - PC
Sudden Sam - PC
Donkey Kong Country - SNES
Super Mario World - SNES
Super Mario 3 - NES
Kaboom - SNES
Superman - NES
River Raid - Atari 5200
Missle Command - Atari 5200
Buck Rogers - Atari 5200

[FujiSkunk]

This is something of a hybrid list, mixing up a "50 Current Favorites" list with a "50 Games I've Wasted the Most Time On" list. I hesitate to list too many games in any one series, especially for games like Rock Band where the current release pretty much renders past releases completely obsolete. But even then, some sequels stand out and demand to be counted.

The machines in parentheses are the ones where I played these games the most.

The higher titles are my bigger favorites, but the exact order isn't necessarily set in stone.

1. Rock Band 3 (Xbox 360)
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade)
3. Burnout 3: Takedown (PlayStation 2)
4. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 + Knuckles (Sega Genesis)
5. The Addams Family (pinball)
6. DarkStalkers (arcade) / Night Warriors: DarkStalkers’ Revenge (Sega Saturn)
7. Twilight Zone (pinball)
8. Road Runner (arcade / Commodore 64)
9. Rampage (arcade)
10. Paperboy (arcade / Commodore 64)
11. Marble Madness (arcade)
12. Burnout Paradise (Xbox 360)
13. Scorched Earth (PC)
14. Portal 2 (Xbox 360)
15. Galaga (arcade)
16. Joust (arcade / Atari 2600)
17. Eight Ball Deluxe (pinball)
18. Defender (arcade / Commodore 64)
19. Crystal Castles (arcade / Atari 2600)
20. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (Xbox 360)
21. Descent (Mac / PC)
22. Tempest 2000 (Atari Jaguar) / Typhoon 2K1 (PC)
23. Raiden DX (arcade)
24. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (arcade)
25. Yars’ Revenge (Atari 2600)
26. OutRun (arcade / Commodore 64)
27. Arkanoid (arcade / Apple II)
28. Mario Bros. (arcade / Apple II)
29. Moon Patrol (arcade / Apple II)
30. Road Fighter (arcade)
31. Portal (Xbox 360)
32. Food Fight (arcade / Atari 7800)
33. Centipede (arcade / Atari 2600 / Atari 5200)
34. Dig Dug (arcade / Atari 2600)
35. Ms. Pac-Man (arcade / Atari 2600 / Apple II)
36. Spy Hunter (arcade)
37. Wizard of Wor (arcade / Atari 2600 / Atari 5200)
38. Space Harrier (arcade / Commodore 64)
39. Asteroids (arcade / Atari 2600) / Maelstrom (Mac)
40. Mortal Kombat (arcade / Sega Genesis)
41. Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega Genesis)
42. Ridge Racer (arcade / PlayStation)
43. The Oregon Trail (Apple II)
44. Star Wars (arcade)
45. The Beatles: Rock Band (Xbox 360)
46. Donkey Kong (arcade / Atari 2600 / ColecoVision / Commodore 64)
47. California Games (Apple II / Atari 2600 / Atari Lynx)
48. Pitfall! (Atari 2600)
49. Croc (PlayStation)
50. Missile Command (arcade / Atari 2600)

If any titles or systems seem particularly missing, in the late '80s I was very pro-Atari and anti-Nintendo. I thought Nintendo was unfairly strong-arming their way into the video game market and not giving competitors like Atari and Sega a fair shake. It wasn't until later that I learned two things: 1, Atari's and Sega's failures were as much their own fault as anybody else's, especially in Atari's case; and 2, the NES really did have some great games. Perhaps if I had begged for an NES for Christmas that year instead of an Atari 7800, there would be a lot more Nintendo titles in this list. But I didn't, and so even now I'm biased toward the games I actually did grow up with.

[BohemianMatt]

1. Star Wars: Battlefront II

Oh man, yes!

[BohemianMatt]

Well, I tried putting them in order, but it proved too hard, so instead here are my top 31 games (and some series) organized by platform.

Xbox 360-

• Grand Theft Auto (series)
• Assassin's Creed (series)
• Rock Band (series)
• Bioshock
• Portal (series)
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Half-Life (series)
• Red Dead Redemption
• Braid
• Left 4 Dead (series)
• Guitar Hero (series)

Xbox-

• Halo (series)
• Star Wars Battlefront II
• Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
• Gun

Nintendo Gamecube-

• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Twilight Princess
• Super Smash Brothers Melee

Nintendo 64-

• GoldenEye 007
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask
• Super Smash Brothers
• Super Mario 64
• Wave Race 64
• Turok

Super Nintendo-

• F-Zero
• Mario Paint

PC-

• RollerCoaster Tycoon (series)
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert
• Warcraft II
• Lemmings
• Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures
• Prince of Persia (1989)

[jibjqrkl]

Honorable Mentions:
Wasteland

weird, i just replayed that last month.

and i heard there's finally a sequel coming!

[www1221]

weird, i just replayed that last month.

and i heard there's finally a sequel coming!

I believe that that was the game that a kickstarted passed for a few months ago.

[jibjqrkl]

I believe that that was the game that a kickstarted passed for a few months ago.

yes it was, which is why i mentioned it

no offense, but i'm really getting the feeling you just HAVE to quote every post i make on here. and it's getting a liiittllee tiny bit annoying

[daxx1970]

Totally forgot Perfect Dark on the N64. Way ahead of it's time.

I couldn't remember the name of the games (just looked it up) but Intellivision had a voice module add-on that you plugged on the side of the console and the games B-17 and Bomb Squad were among my favorites of all time too.

Many an hour was spent playing Intellivision baseball against myself. One controller in each hand. I was pretty dang good...never lost a game.

[Hogan2000]

20. Duck Hunt
19. Pilot Wings
18. Resident Evil 2
17 Guitar Hero Metallica
16. F-Zero SNES version
15. Mega Man X
14. Super Mario Bros. NES
13. Ninja Gaiden NES
12. Twisted Metal 2
11. Rock Band
10. Legend of Zelda Ocarina of time
9. Donkey Kong (Snes)
8. Legend of Zelda, Link to the past
7. Final Fantasy X
6. Super Mario Kart (Snes)
5. Donkey Kong 2
4. Goldeneye (N64)
3. Banjo Kazooie
2. Contra (nes)
1. Super Mario 3 (nes)