Listing off my top fives of each game system. Very well.
While I may own more systems than what I present below, these are the ones I played enough of to have an opinion on being some of my certain favorites. The list is in no particular order. Part of the criteria was actual ownership and/or completion of the game. (So some titles like Fable aren't on the list despite them being great games for the system in question)
Atari 2600 -
1. Pitfall
2. Yar's Revenge
3. Asteroids
4. River Raid
5. Combat!
Nintendo Entertainment System -
1. Legend of Zelda
2. Final Fantasy
3. Mega Man 3
4. Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers
5. Gyruss
Sega Genesis -
1. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
2. Earthworm Jim
3. Mutant League Football
4. Mortal Kombat
5. Disney's Aladdin
Super Nintendo Entertainment System -
1. Super Mario World
2. Final Fantasy 3
3. Super Street Fighter 2
4. F-Zero
5. Super Mario Kart
Playstation 2 -
1. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
2. Kingdom Hearts
3. Marvel vs. Capcom 2
4. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
5. Silent Hill 2/Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3
Microsoft XBox -
1. Halo
2. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
3. Doom 3
4. Star Wars: Republic Commando
5. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Game Cube -
1. Soul Calibur 2
2. Mario Kart Double Dash
3. Super Smash Bros. Melee
4. Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
5. Resident Evil
Microsoft XBox 360 -
1. Red Dead Redemption
2. Borderlands
3. Batman: Arkham Asylum
4. Super Street Fighter 4
5. Mass Effect 2
Yes, see, that's where my experience radically differs way back in the day.
ReplyDeleteI played a couple things briefly over at friends' houses, but my first console was an SNES that was a hand-me-down of sorts, so not early in its life cycle. FF 6/3 was the first console game I really dug into, and I was heavily RPG-biased since.
Which is not to say I missed out on games entirely during those years. About the time you were playing Final Fantasy, I was playing Pool of Radiance. When you were playing Mega Man 3, I was playing Wing Commander. My "game console" was my Commodore 64, and later my dad's PC for a good many years.
That's how I missed out on such classic franchises as Castlevania. ;)