Top 100 Most Well-Written Game Storylines of Their Time (1975 to 2015)
Notes
- 1 game per year from 1975 to 1980
- 2 games per year from 1981 to 1991
- 3 games per year from 1992 to 2015
List items
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1975
Arcade
Run & gun shooter
Tomohiro Nishikado (Taito)
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1976
Arcade
Paddle & ball
Nolan Bushnell & Steve Jobs (Atari)
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1977
PDP-10
Text adventure
William Crowther & Don Woods (Stanford University)
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1978
Arcade
Shoot 'em up
Tomohiro Nishikado (Taito)
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1979
Arcade
Run & gun shoot 'em up
Genyo Takeda & Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo)
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1980
Apple II
Adventure
Roberta Williams (On-Line Systems)
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1981
Arcade
Platformer
Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo)
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1981
Apple II
Adventure
Roberta Williams (On-Line Systems)
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1982
Fujitsu FM-7, NEC PC-8801, Sharp MZ
Adventure
Tsukasa Moritani (MicroCabin)
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1982
Apple II
Adventure
Roberta Williams (On-Line Systems)
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1983
NEC PC-6001
Adventure / visual novel
Yuji Horii (Enix)
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1983
Fujitsu FM-7 & NEC PC-8801
Adventure / visual novel
T. Sugie (Enix)
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1984
NEC PC-6001 & NEC PC-8801
Adventure / visual novel
Yuji Horii (Login Software)
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1984
RPG / adventure
Fujitsu FM-7 & NEC PC-8801
Hot-B
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1985
MSX
Adventure / visual novel / interactive movie
Eiji Yokoyama (T&E Soft)
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1985
Fujitsu FM-7 & NEC PC-8801
Adventure / visual novel
Hironobu Sakaguchi (Squaresoft)
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1986
NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, Fujitsu FM-7
Adventure / visual novel
Hironobu Sakaguchi (Squaresoft)
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1986
NEC PC-8801 & NEC PC-9801
Adventure / RPG
Arrow Soft
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1987
Sega Master System
RPG
Kotaro Hayashida & Rieko Kodama (Sega Consumer Division 2)
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1987
Fujitsu FM-7, MSX2, NEC PC-8801
Adventure / visual novel
Koji Miya (Enix)
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1988
MSX2 & NEC PC-8801
Adventure / visual novel
Hideo Kojima (Konami)
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1988
Famicom Disk System
Adventure / visual novel
Kazushige Nojima (Data East)
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1989
Sega Mega Drive
RPG
Chieko Aoki & Chiemshi (Sega)
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1989
NEC PC Engine CD-ROM²
Action RPG
Tomoyoshi Miyazaki (Nihon Falcom)
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1990
NEC PC Engine CD-ROM²
Adventure / visual novel
Rika Suzuki (Riverhill Soft)
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1990
MSX2
Stealth
Hideo Kojima (Konami)
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1991
NEC PC Engine CD-ROM² & Sega Mega Drive
Action RPG
Hiroshi Akahori (Telenet Japan)
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1991
SNES
RPG
Takashi Tokita & Hironobu Sakaguchi (Squaresoft)
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1992
Sega CD
RPG
Kei Shigema (Game Arts & Studio Alex)
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1992
SNES
RPG
Yuji Horii (Chunsoft)
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1992
SNES
Visual novel / survival horror
Chunsoft
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1993
FM Towns & PC
Adventure / visual novel / interactive movie
Haruhiko Shono (Synergy)
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1993
PC & Mac
Adventure / visual novel
Takashi Kawahara (Softedge)
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1993
SNES
RPG
Kazushige Nojima (Data East)
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1994
SNES
RPG
Yoshinori Kitase & Hironoby Sakaguchi (1994)
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1994
Sega CD
RPG
Kei Shigema (Game Arts & Studio Alex)
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1994
SNES
Visual novel / survival horror
Takemaru Abiko (Chunsoft)
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1995
SNES
Shigesato Itoi (HAL Laboratory)
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1995
SNES
RPG
Masahide Miyata (Neverland)
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1995
NEC PC-9821
Adventure / visual novel
Hiroyuki Kanno (C's Ware)
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1996
PS1 & Saturn
Adventure / visual novel
Hideo Kojima (Konami)
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1996
NEC PC-9821
Adventure / survival horror
Team GrisGris & 5pb
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1996
NEC PC-9821
Adventure / visual novel
Hiroyuki Kanno (ELF)
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1997
PS1
RPG
Kazushige Nojima & Yoshinori Kitase (Square Division 1)
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1997
PS1
Action-adventure / action RPG
Ichiro Tezuka (Matrix Software)
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1997
PS1
Tactical RPG
Yasumi Matsuno (Squaresoft)
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1998
PS1
Action RPG
Tomoyoshi Miyazaki & Masami Ohkubo (Shade & Arc Entertainment)
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1998
PS1
RPG
Tetsuya Takahashi, Soraya Saga, Masato Kato (Square Division 3)
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1998
PS1
Tactical RPG
Yoshitaka Murayama & Junko Kawano (Konami)
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1999
PC
RPG / visual novel
Chris Avellone & Colin McComb (Black Isle Studios)
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1999
PS1
RPG
Masato Kato (Squaresoft)
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1999
PC
Visual novel
Jun Maeda (Key)
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2000
Dreamcast
Action-adventure
Masahiro Yoshimoto & Yu Suzuki (Sega AM2)
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2000
PC
Visual novel
Jun Maeda (Key)
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2000
PC
RPG
Lysander86
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2001
PS2
Adventure
Junko Kawano (Konami)
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2001
PS2
Action-adventure
Amy Hennig, Paul Jenkins, Richard Lemarchand (Crystal Dynamics)
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2001
PS2
Stealth
Hideo Kojima & Tomokazu Fukushima (Konami KCEJ)
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2002
PC
Visual novel
Romeo Tanaka (D.O.)
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2002
PS2 & Xbox
Survival horror
Hiroyuki Owaku & Takayoshi Sato (Konami KCET Tokyo)
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2002
PC
Visual novel
Kotaro Uchikoshi & Takumi Nakazawa (KID)
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2003
PS2, GameCube, Xbox
Platformer / hack & slash
Jordan Mechner (Ubisoft Montreal)
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2003
PC
Horror visual novel
Ryukishi07 (07th Expansion)
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2003
PC
Horror visual novel
Gen Urobuchi (Nitroplus)
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2004
PS2
Stealth
Hideo Kojima, Tomokazu Fukushima, Shuyo Murata (Kojima Productions)
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2004
PS2, GameCube, Xbox, PC
Platformer / hack & slash
Corey May & Dooma Wendschuh (Ubisoft Montreal)
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2004
PC
Visual novel
Jun Maeda (Key)
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2005
Nintendo DS & PC
Adventure / visual novel
Shu Takumi (Capcom)
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2005
PS2
Action-adventure / action RPG
Hase Seishu (Sega)
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2005
PC
Visual novel
0verflow
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2006
PS2
Visual novel
Kinoko Nasu (Type-Moon)
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2006
PSP
Stealth
Gakuto Mikumo, Satoshi Hirano, Hideo Kojima (Kojima Productions)
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2006
PC
Visual novel
Hirohiko Yoshida (Age)
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2007
Xbox 360 & PC
Survival horror FPS
2K Games
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2007
PSP
Action RPG
Kazushige Nojima (Square Enix)
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2007
Xbox 360
RPG / visual novel
Hironobu Sakaguchi & Kiyoshi Shigematsu (Mistwalker & feelplus)
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2008
PC
Action-adventure / stealth
Corey May & Dooma Wendschuh (Ubisoft Montreal)
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2008
PS3
Stealth / third-person shooter
Hideo Kojima & Shuyo Murata (Kojima Productions)
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2008
Wii
Visual novel / adventure
Jiro Ishii (Chunsoft)
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2009
Xbox 360
Visual novel / adventure
Naotaka Hayashi (5pb)
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2009
Nintendo DS
Adventure / visual novel
Hideyuki Shibamoto & Shigeyuki Hirata
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2009
Xbox 360
Visual novel / adventure
Naotaka Hayashi (5pb) & Vio Shimokura (Nitro+)
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2010
PC & PS3
Visual novel
Ryuukishi07 (07th Expansion)
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2010
Xbox 360 & PS3
Survival horror TPS / action-adventure
Hidetaka Suehiro & Kenji Goda (Access Games)
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2010
PC
Visual novel
SCA-Ji (KeroQ)
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2011
PC
Adventure / visual novel
Kan Gao (Freebird Games)
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2011
PS3 & Xbox 360
Horror adventure / puzzle-platformer
Yasuyuki Shimizu & Shijiro Nishimi (Atlus Persona Team)
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2011
PC
Visual novel
Ryuuta Fujisaki (Front Wing)
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2012
PS3, Xbox 360, PC
Horror adventure / visual novel
Sean Vanaman, Mark Darin, Gary Whitta (Telltale Games)
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2012
Nintendo 3DS & PS Vita
Adventure / visual novel
Kōtarō Uchikoshi (Chunsoft / Spike Chunsoft)
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2012
3DS, PS Vita, PSP
Visual novel / adventure
Jiro Ishii (Level-5)
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2013
PS3
Survival horror TPS / action-adventure
Neil Druckmann (Naughty Dog)
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2013
Mac OS X
Third-person shooter
Walt Williams & Richard Pearsey (Yager Development)
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2013
PS Vita
Visual novel
Maruto Fumiaki (Leaf)
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2014
PS Vita
Adventure / visual novel
Kazutaka Kodaka (Spike Chunsoft)
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2014
PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC
Puzzle adventure / visual novel
Ubisoft Montpellier
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2014
PC, PSP, PS Vita
Visual novel
Ryuuta Fujisaki (Front Wing)
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2015
PC
Horror visual novel
Ryukishi07 (07th Expansion)
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2015
PC
RPG
Toby Fox (tobyfox)
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2015
PC
Visual novel
Jun Maeda (Key)
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