By pure numbers, mine has got to be GTA San Andreas since I only had a PS2 for the longest time. I think that might be why I kinda hate games now? Buying a new game and you get maybe a couple dozen hours if you're lucky kinda sucks. Oh it's just a campaign of like 9 missions? And the missions are pretty linear? idk man, might be worth like $10 but definitely not fullprice $60 or even half off $30.

• Space Invaders I feel like I should include one of the classic games I played in the 80s. You never forget your first, and I played this more than any others and it influenced my career as an adult. However I think 10 mile hike, burger time, breakout and pacman are better.
• Heroes of Might and Magic 3 My room mates would hotseat games while watching movies. A lot of fond memories
• Factorio Probably played more than any other game
• Golden Axe Warrior Not to be confused with Golden Axe. This was a Zelda clone on the Sega Master System. One of the best games on that platform IMO.
• Boulders gate 1 Besides golden axe warrior the only other RPG I really got into. Unfortunately I wiped my hard drive with a game that I had been playing for months and I just couldn't get back into it after that.

Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Space Invaders (on an Atari 2600), Tempest and Pitfall!

Mine is:

• Legend of zelda, a link to the past (snes)
• Super mario bros (nes)
• Tetris (nes)
• rock n roll racing (snes)
• street fighter 2 (snes)

...

• secret of mana, terranigma, kevin alone at home, there are so many before I even get to the more modern games. I haven't even reached command and conquer 1&2 yet or starcraft or diablo1 or 2.

Pokémon, wow, final fantasy tactic advanced, harvest moon, civilization I guess ?

No order:

•Chrono Trigger •FFVII •Panzer Dragoon Saga •GTA3 •EverQuest •(Street Fighter Alpha 2 is up there too)

Am I young or everyone else old?

• Super Mario Bros
• Delta Force
• Unreal tournament 99
• GTA San Andreas
• NFS Underground 2

Games that i bonded with my siblings playing growing up. Our lives would have not been the same without them.

Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros, Xena Warrior Princess, Going Quackers, Pokémon Stadium

I was in high school when I bought my first console, so it's pretty much just Landstalker and Phantasy Star IV.

Most important?

Morrowind.

I was already playing it, when a pack of dogs killed my two geese. One had a broken neck, the other had its guts spilling out.

I'm convinced that Morrowind helped me through my depression, and prevented me from becoming suicidal.

But I also like Drakan: Order of the Flame, Little Big Adventure 2, Dune 2, and Warcraft 1.

• Dune 2, C&C and RA
• Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and 3
• Pokemon gen 1 and 2
• Warcraft 2 and 3
• Diablo 1 and 2

Lots of honourable mentions though.

• Doom, Doom 2 and Hexen
• Sonic 2, 3 and Knuckles
• Wow
• Counterstrike 1.6 and Source
• Half life and all the sequels
• Xmen and Xmen 2 (Sega)
• Gta 1, 2, 3 and Vice City
• FF7

Lemmings. Prince of Persia. Doom. Tomb Raider 1. Gran Turismo.

1. Lego Island
2. Oregon Trail
3. TMNT for the NES
4. Mario 64
5. Worms Armageddon

Super Mario Galaxy

Red Alert 2

Age of Empires 2

Fallout New Vegas

TES Oblivion

FF VII

Ocarina of Time

Ghost & goblins

Galaga '88

Ninja Spirit

• Civilization 1
• Wing Commander Privateer
• X-wing
• Hanse
• Eye of the Beholder 2: Darkmoon

And then there were games like Pizza Connection (my mother loved playing all parts except for the action sequences, which were my obligation), Aces over the Pacific, Lands of Lore, One Must Fall: 2097, Mortal Kombat, Stars!, Sinistar, Master of Orion 2, M.A.X., Z, Gender Wars (lol the story was utter trash but the gameplay was fun), Metal Marines (I just loved shooting rockets between windows on my desktop)...

And the longer i think, the longer the list gets because i start to remember more, like Syndicate, Alley Cat (i just found out that there is a Remeow Edition for free!, Abuse, Mechwarrior 2, ...

Damn, gotta look into my old archives and go on a retro rampage this weekend

• RuneScape
• soldier front
• MapleStory
• dota
• league of legends

• Populous - The Beginning
• Command & Conquer - Red Alert 2
• Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 2
• Super Mario 64 DS
• Europa Universalis III

I think at least. Mario Kart DS also ranks highly of course, so does Team Fortress 2 and Supreme Commander Forged Alliance. GTA SA/IV, Pokémon Diamond, Wii Sports, Super Mario Galaxy. I gamed a lot as a kid/teenager so there's plenty that influenced me.

• LEGO Universe
• Club Penguin
• Minecraft
• Space Engineers
• Skyrim

Counter-Strike 1.4 Counter-Strike 1.5 Counter-Strike 1.6 Call of Duty: United Offensive Day of Defeat

Hmm definitely Minecraft, Skyrim, and Sa2b. As for the other two… probably Town of Salem and Fantasy Life for the 3ds

I still play Minecraft, I played some modded skyrim last year (and got the oblivion remaster) and I literally got a steam deck primarily so I could play sa2b on it whenever I want. I’ve been loving the fantasy life sequel that just came out too. The only thing I don’t really play anymore is town of Salem bc the servers suck even worse now. So few players that you’re always stuck with racist trolls and shit

Basically, teen me had pretty good taste

• Maniac Mansion (and sequel)
• The Curse of Monkey Island (and sequels)
• Wing Commander (and sequels)
• Baldur's Gate (and sequels)
• Autodesk Animator

Pretty much every Sierra franchise.

Warcraft, C&C, Street fighter two turbo, and final fantasy!

• super mario world
• doom
• age of empires 2
• RuneScape
• world of warcraft (only started it as young adult though)

• Super Mario 64

• Pilot Wings 64

• Balloons Tower Defense

• Portal 2

• Banjo Kazooie: nuts and bolts (I dont care if it killed the franchise, I really enjoyed this game)

• Commander keen

• Wingnuts

• Burn:Cycle

• Myst

• Duke Nukem (the first one but also 3D)

Wingnuts was a dumb fmv 'dog fighting' game, but when you beat it you could play it again with silly dialogue. I also remember when setting up the sound card the test audio was a guy saying 'ah veiners, just ze vay I like zem!' In a bad German accent.

Burn:Cycle was an fmv adventure game that I adored, it also came with a sound track cd and a little packet of leaflets based on in game stuff that was really cool. I still listen to the ost on occasion

• Sims 3

• Skyrim

• Animal Crossing New Leaf

• Cities: Skyline

• Sims 2

So I don't really feel that old when reading the notes, I do however apologise to anyone having an age crisis reading this.

• Star Fox 64, for sure
• Half Life was a very big deal for me. Couldn't finish it when I was 8 because it was too scary, and it felt absolutely amazing coming back at 15 and blowing through it.
• Turok 2 seeds of evil. Didn't play it outside of using the cheats. It was basically a gore Sim for me.
• LoZ series was a very big deal.
• Much later, Armored Core 4 and 4A would make me obsessed with good mech gameplay.

Man, it's hard stratifying games you care about, especially when you have a massive log of them that all impacted you in one way or another. There were a bunch of free Linux games that I have very fond memories of too, like Nexuiz, OpenArena, Abuse, etc. Also a bunch of weird niche games and demos, like One Must Fall and Food Fight and Fur Fighters. It's an impossible task, honestly.

• Pacman (bar arcade game with joysticks on the top and bottom, my mom worked there so I was often there during the day)
• Civilization 1
• The Incredible Machine
• Super Mario Bros.
• Duke Nukem 3D (Learned the commands to call a friend on my modem and then boot up duke3d.exe and play multiplayer, all from DOS)

Baulders gate on ps2 was my introduction into RPG and a bonding experience with my aunts ex.

GTA 1 was my escape from an abusive house

Tony hawk kept me from getting picked on for my gaming choices

Smash bros had me bonding with my closest friends

NBA street helped me and my brother escape from our parents.

• Zork Zero
• Streetfighter II
• Diablo
• GoldenEye
• World of Warcraft

Just five is so limiting:

Mario Kart Mega Man 3 Donkey Kong Country Jet Moto Final Fantasy VII

Even expanding to ten feels restrictive, alas:

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 The Neverhood Perfect Dark Seventh Guest Earthworm Jim

• Half life
• NFS Most Wanted (2005)
• Heroes of might and magic 3
• Delta Force
• Unreal tournament

My top 5 were (in no particular order):

• Pokemon Diamond
• Star Wars Battlefront: Rogue Squadron (PSP)
• Fossil Fighters
• Skyrim
• FTL: Faster Than Light

• Dizzy (ZX Spectrum), all the games in the series
• Heroes of Might and Magic, played up to 5, but 2 and 3 were my favorites
• Masters of Orion 2
• Little Big Adventure
• Monkey Island, all the games in the series