Greatest Video Games of All Time
I just installed a copy of ScummVM on my PSP, which lets me play wonderful old LucasArts games like “Sam and Max” and “Day of the Tentacle” in the subway. As I said to Christmas, these are some of the greatest video games of all time, and it’ll be wonderful to have a chance to play them again.
Which got me thinking: what would my personal list of the greatest video games of all time be? So here it is. In parentheses after each game is the system I played the game on. The games are in no particular order. In the future, I’ll write a little blurb about each game and link ‘em back to this list.
- Alpha Centauri (Mac)
- The Fool’s Errand (Mac)
- Chrono Trigger (SNES)
- The Lurking Horror (Mac)
- Metal Gear Solid (PSX)
- Day of the Tentacle (Mac)
- Final Fantasy VIII (PSX)
- Deus Ex (Mac)
- The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (GB)
- Amber: Journeys Beyond (Mac)
People who know video games will notice that these games are all old–nothing more recent than the turn of the millennium, I believe. It’s not that I believe video games used to be better than they are today, not at all. But I think “greatness” for video games, like for any other medium, can only be judged with a bit of a historical vantage point. These are all games I still want to play again, even 10 or more years after their release. If I drew up another list in 10 years, I think a bunch of recent games (Beyond Good & Evil, possibly God of War, possibly Oblivion) would probably be on it.
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