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Half-Life
Chrono Trigger - SNES, 1995
I hear people say all the time that it is perfect. It definitely has imperfections.
However while I will insist on it being imperfect it has still been my number one favorite game for at least two decades.
It is easily the closest to perfect I think you could possibly ask for with the hardware limitations and the fact that teams don’t have magical infinite time or budgets. Anyone with even a slight interest in RPGs should play it.
Plus it gave us the musical career of Yasunori Mitsuda
Best JRPG of all time and I’ll die on that hill 🤣
I never played it, what are everyone’s thoughts on the 2018 pc version? Some reviews don’t like the port?
Super Mario Bros 3 - NES
This game was huge. People that weren’t around at the time don’t understand how much better it was than previous games.
They made a freaking MOVIE to promote it!
And that stupid glove.
Looking back, boy did they have vision. I get that the Power Glove wasn’t all it was cracked up to be but Nintendo really saw early on how we want to interact with our machines.
Then somewhere along the way they realized they could make a lot of money by relicensing the same game over and over again, and suing their most loyal fans out of existence.
I love the Power Glove™️.
It’s so bad.
YES. It’s absolutely criminal that people always show the first one off and out it on a pedestal.
Doom
Starcraft
This game started esports.
I would argue Quake or Street Fighter 2 holds that distinction, but it’s close.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Nintendo 64
Reporting!
Unit. Lost. Unit. Lost. Unit. Lost.
Our base is under a tack.
Mission. Failed.
I think that phrase just chipped away at my delicate teenage self esteem back in the day. Something new to bring up in therapy: being bullied by RTS games.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
There are better Zelda games. ALTTP is clever, for sure, but the path through the game has too many obtuse moments. I don’t know how I would have gotten through it the first time without Nintendo Power magazine. I liked Link’s Awakening and Link Between Worlds more, though without Link to the Past, we wouldn’t have those games.
Now, the Super Metroid and A Link to the Past Randomizer is an incredible achievement and a must-play for people who have finished both original games.
Super Mario World. The perfect platformer.
Castlevania Symphony of the Night - PlayStation
How do I upvote twice?
Use an alt account, but this would technically count as vote manipulation.
Super Metroid - SNES
Metroid 2 - Return of Samus for Gameboy too. I loved it.
Final Fantasy 7 - PlayStation
Goldeneye - N64
Boooo! The World Is Not Enough was superior in every way. Fully-voiced dialog and a working physics engine, on the freaking Nintendo 64! No Oddjob bullshit in multiplayer, either.
Never understood why everyone sleeps on TWINE and praises GoldenEye. Every single time. Y’all missed out on a really good sequel.
Edit: *sigh* See what I mean? Why does everyone hate this game!?
The only sequel was Perfect Dark.
See? This is what I mean! Shame on you for never giving TWINE a chance.
and TimeSplitters, of course!
Tetris - Gameboy
