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"DEFINITIVE GAMES TOPIC"

Lately, I have been getting back into gaming... big time.

I've been doing everything in my power to owning the largest range of consoles and games posible. NiGHTS on the Saturn. Sonic on the Mega Drive. Halo on the Xbox.

So, in this topic, I hope to create the definitive list of games that any hardcore gamer should have played - with your help of course. But before I start on the list, here's a definition for you:

"A definitive game is one that revolutionises, defines or creates great gaming experiences. It must either cause an existing genre to evolve, often spawning leagues of copies and setting a benchmark that stands for at least a console generation, or must develop a new genre or gaming style"

As such, good, or even great, games do not make the list. The game has to be one of such brilliance that other game designers will try to emulate its success (although this need not be success in sales terms).

So, your homework for the holidays is to produce such a list of me. So far I have some obvious titles to help guide you:

N64:

*Mario 64 - invented 3D gaming as well as setting a benchmark in the platform gaming genre.

*Zelda OOT - added to the technical brilliance of Mario by defining 3D real-time combat, as well as being one of the greatest games ever made in its own right.




Now go my minions, and return with games are explanation why they should make the list. The full list will appear early next year.

Sonic

Captain Keen (dont ask me what it was on)
Pacman
Frogger
Centipede
Street Fighter 2
Pilot Wings
Space Invaders
Defender

That is a lyric in some song.

Mission failed! doh!

I wrote that message thinking it was Saturday already! i have no real routine at the moment, time has no meaning to me!

You don't have a lot of time, do oyu.

*Looks at clock*

***Ortega's mission for today***

Find my bloody amiga 600!

I have no idea where it is. Everything got moved around the house when we had a new carpet fitted, i have no idea where half my stuff is :S

I'm just looking at the SWOS box now, wishing i was playing on it...

You should be ashamed of your self!

G®åpô²ºº² wrote:
> Amiga, ahh i loved my Amiga, classics like:
>
> PJ's American Antics
> Zool
> Wizzball
> Kick off 2
> Simpsons attack of the space mutants
> Soccer Kid
>
> ahhh the old days, wish my amiga wasnt taken to the dump...


sorry made a mistake, it was actually:

PJ's elephant antics or sommink then, PJ in the USA , cant remember exactly

I never got one of those, i had a Nes, they were brilliant!, playing Mario Land 96, or sommit, bliss.

Amiga, ahh i loved my Amiga, classics like:

PJ's American Antics
Zool
Wizzball
Kick off 2
Simpsons attack of the space mutants
Soccer Kid

ahhh the old days, wish my amiga wasnt taken to the dump...

Joe, this topic is aimed at hardcore gamers who try to play every great game out there. Just because the games were released well before my time, doesn't mean I can say that I don't know about them.

It would be like shunning a great film like The Godfather, because it was made before I was born, or never listening to The Beetles because they're "old".

Even worse, almost every great literary book ever written was penned decades, even centuries, before I was born. Dickens, Orwell, Chaucer... all before my time.

Now, obviously not everyone on the site is hardcore enough to have played that many games - many people here are just casual players. But don't say that the reason people haven't named old games is because they're too young to have owned them. I think you'll be suprised at just how many people on this site go out of their ways to experiencing gaming of old.

Sonic