My all time top 10... Probably.
I know I'm going to get this list wrong. I'm going to put down 10 games and then think 'oh shit, I forgot <game X>!' and then edit it and be here for hours and hours. But here we go.
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Nothing will ever beat this. I don't give a fuck what you have to say, this is the pinnacle of gaming. Nothing before or since will be better. These are facts, and you must deal with them. If awesomeness in gaming terms were proximity to the sun, this shit is the motherfucking corona. Game #2 on this list is out in a different fucking galaxy. I cannot make this plain enough. There will not be a single game not named Street Fighter that will have even a fucking 1000000000-1 chance of coming remotely close to approaching this game. This is it. Deal with it. I will fight you if you don't like it. YOU HEAR ME GERSTMANN? IS THIS ON YOUR LIST OF GAMES YOU WILL ACCEPT?
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And now the runners up. Yeah, Tetris. Hard to argue with this one.
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I honestly do not know of a game I have come back to and played through again more times than this. In a very bored youth with new games being inaccessible (because I was a kid and had fuck all money), I killed Bowser more times than I can remember. This also became a source of income in my university days, as people are very willing to make bets that you can't beat Bowser inside 30 minutes on this, especially when drunk. Let me tell you, 30 minutes gave me time to go have a shit in the middle of the bet.
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I don't know, this game is so broken in many ways, yet I keep coming back to it. I think it's the music. I went and learnt to play the Icecap and Launch Base Zone music on bass, and I did the same for Sandopolis on Sonic And Knuckles. That's some damn fine bass in that game.
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This became a university standout. Drink, drink, drink, someone suggests Streets of Rage, cheat for mania difficulty entered, finish without using a continue. Yup. In fact, at one point, this was played on two different consoles using split screen on a single TV at the same time - and neither of those consoles was a Mega Drive. To say it was a weird experience would be an understatement. Oh, and for the record, me and my partner finished before the other guys did. That's right bitches, Streets of Rage 2 speed runs.
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Now, all the PES games get played to death in my group of friends. It is very much the currency by which our gaming wealth is measured, and in fact in some cases actual wealth. Money tournaments on Pro Evo are more the rule rather than the exception. Either way, the point is that singling out one Pro Evo above all others was difficult - yet this one was always a favourite for me. It's most definitely the one I was most dangerous on, especially with free kicks. It got to the point where it was safer to tackle me in the box and give away a penalty than it was to tackle me outside and give me a free kick. 8 free kicks scored in 7 games in a league is a record I hold very dear.
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This was probably the game to put me on the road to Championship (and later Football) Manager. It came to its prominence for me not long after we'd moved house as a lad and still didn't have internet - I had to pass the time somehow, so between Opeth (which was also conveniently on the computer) and CM4, I was set. 11 seasons into the game and having managed to win a Champions League final 9-0 with 8 players injured or suspended, thus rendering the game ludicrous, I still couldn't get enough of this shit. You know, until I got the new one.
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The first and only time I have ever been ahead of the curve when it comes to anything. I got Blue on release day, and proceeded to tell everyone who would care to listen to get this shit now, because by Christmas time you will be ass deep in it and it will cost a hell of a lot more. Boy I was fucking right. The upshot of this though is that when it caught on in school, I was already ahead of the curve there too, and I was prepared for all the bullshit to come. Go take your 60 Venusaur and have him suck on my 100 Ditto, minion. Little tip, Ditto FTW. Seriously. Shit works like a charm.
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I got this game in 1999, I'm still playing it in 2010. I was once a mod for the biggest league the game has ever had. I've won awards voted on by the community for this game. I'm quoted relentlessly on the game's equivalent of Bash. I've made what are regarded as THE fort maps to play. I've won a clan league season in a 3 man clan. Yeah.
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I really didn't want to include this. I really, really fucking didn't. But, the facts are when I load up my disc priest and it tells me I've played for something like 36 days, that's hard evidence to refute. It turns out I hate every other class and spec though, as I can't get anywhere without thinking 'shit, I could be playing my disc priest and enjoying it a lot fucking more'. Fucking game.
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