80.) Dragon Age 2 (Playstation 3)
Dragon Age, one of the few
“modern” RPGs that I can tolerate. While I liked the cast of Dragon Age 2 a lot
more than I liked the cast in the original, the skill trees and battle system
didn’t live up to the first game.
79.) Captain Comic (PC)
Good old DOS. We had a bunch of
games on our old 386, and between playing Wheel of Fortune, Paperboy, and Super
Munchers I came across a game labeled as “Comic” on the start screen. Being 12
and a genius, I decided to play it, thinking I would be reading a comic strip.
While the game I found wasn’t as good as Calvin and Hobbes, it ended up taking
away hours of my life. If only our install wasn’t broken and didn’t crash the
game near the end.
78.) The Simpsons (Arcade)
When we would take the car ferry
across Lake Michigan for the summer camping trips, I would go into the arcade
and spend around $20-$30 between this game and Final Fight. It helped a hyperactive kid survive four hour
boat rides.
77.) Worms 2 (PC)
Out of all of the games I’ve ever
played, this one brings back some of the fondest memories. Sitting with Ben and
Chris in the computer room at Ben’s house, perfecting the use of the Ninja Rope
to bypass obstacles and poke someone else’s worm into the water. Of course, we
would sometimes switch it up to the baseball bat for a change of pace. There
was the Super Sheep for long range destruction, sending the old woman after the
opposition, and the classics like Mike’s Carpet Bomb, Concrete Donkey, Super
Banana Bomb, Holy Hand Grenade, Mad Cow, and the Confused Sheep Strike. There was a period of time where I used the Angry Scots voice shouting "YOU ARSE!" whenever I'd get a message on AIM, so I'm pretty sure my family hated this game because of it.
76.) Basewars (NES)
Baseball with robots. Instead of
being tagged out on the basepaths, the two robots fight. If the runner wins
they’re not out and can continue along. Every robot had HP, and if it drops to
zero, BOOM. You would get money for winning, which you could use to repair
damaged players (HP doesn’t regenerate post game), or you could buy weapons to
use in fights, or other enhancements to make your players hit the ball harder,
or give them more HP, etc. My favorite was always Cyborg Osbourne. No idea why.
75.) Super Smash Brothers Brawl
(Wii)
Between this game and Melee, I’ve
probably spent about 100 hours on the series. No matter how much time I play
it, I’m still terrible. My wife loves to play as Yoshi, and the noise he makes
when jumping makes me cringe every time. And yes, she beats me most of the time
when we play. And no, I’m not letting her win.
74.) The Raiden Project
(Playstation)
This is the game I stole my
online name from. It was summer and we were camping at Wolf River. It was about
100 degrees and the only place that we wouldn’t melt was the air conditioned
arcade. Jeremy and I were looking for interesting games to play and we came
across Raiden. The rest is history.
73.) Lemmings (SNES)
I had never heard of a lemming
before I ran into this game. I secretly wanted a lemming as a pet when I was
younger after I got into this game. Thankfully I wasn’t stupid enough to assume that lemmings were
naturally green and blue.
72.) Super Mario Brothers (NES)
Everybody knows this game (or at
least should). My wife wanted to play two players when she first found out I
had it, and I lucked out and managed to get through the game without dying
(normally I have a few issues with those hammer brothers in 8-3) and she still
doesn’t believe that it was dumb luck.
71.) Castlevania: Lament of
Innocence (Playstation 2)
The only thing I’d change about
this game is to give it a proper level system like Symphony of the Night had.
Great control, excellent combat, everything I had hoped for when I first heard
about it.
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