Retro Roundtable Top 100 Games O.A.T. - AFI Style...

[digitalpress]

Sorry to resurrect this, but...

In light of IGN's Top 100, can we give this another go? I'd be willing to run the list just like any other "Top X" list we've done, adding and taking away as time goes by.

If anyone is interested in seeing this again - and more importantly PARTICIPATING - let me know.

[Scoots]

Sure, I'm game. Let's do it.

[Kroogah]

Very few people want to bother making a top 100, as I found out. Perhaps have everyone create a Top 50 from a list of 500, then make the overall list a top 100.......

[IntvGene]

I am willing to give it a go. But, I think that this is an incredible task! You have to have played a huge number of games from EVERY system! If you haven't played enough games, you're not going to be able to do it. That's why I can't see you putting a basic voting system up and doing it that way. It just doesn't work. You have to have an extensive knowledge of every genre and every console. The AFI list works because they have critics doing the voting. I know that we are all critics here, but it just isn't the same.

I am willing to see it go somewhere though... that IGN list is quickly turning into a disaster. They've spread themselves too thin, and I honestly don't believe that they're objective enough. I think you still have to define your list well from the start before you get debating. Are you measuring popularity? gameplay? graphics? influence on later games? originality?

[digitalpress]

Let's go for it!

I'm gonna need everyone's help.

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12325

[Scoots]

So how's it going to work? Just a big free-for-all or will you edit a "master list" like the other top lists? Here's my suggestion for a possible top 50:

1 Ms Pac-Man
2 Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
3 Legend of Zelda
4 Super Mario Bros
5 Metroid
6 Kid Icarus
7 RC Pro-Am
8 Centipede
9 Tapper
10 Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
11 Castlevania
12 Bubble Bobble
13 Dr Mario
14 Asteroids
15 Defender
16 Goldeneye
17 Super Mario 64
18 Donkey Kong Country
19 Sonic the Hedgehog
20 Bard’s Tale
21 Demon Attack
22 Marble Madness
23 Paperboy
24 Star Fox 64
25 Lifeforce
26 Arkanoid
27 Burgertime
28 Dragon Warrior
29 Donkey Kong
30 Gauntlet
31 Tetris
32 Dig Dug
33 Joust
34 Dragon’s Lair
35 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (Intellivision)
36 Crossbow
37 Yoshi’s Island
38 Tempest
39 1943
40 Berzerk
41 Microsurgeon
42 River City Ransom
43 Sinistar
44 Parsec
45 Earthworm Jim
46 Frogger
47 A Boy and His Blob
48 Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out
49 Ghosts n’ Goblins
50 Final Fantasy

Yeah, I'm a NES mark.