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This is about as close as I can get to pinning down my favorite game. Just looking at these games, I have to all but fight back the urge to start playing them again immediately.

The games are simply in the chronological order that I played them, not a ranking of preference.

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  • The SNES was my first game console, and this was my first game for it, which makes Super Mario World my first console game (I was already playing a little bit of PC stuff though). In a very real sense, Super Mario World is the definition of a video game to me.

  • The first game to actually blow my mind. Before C&C, I had no idea it was even possible for games to be so awesome.

  • 4-player multiplayer. It was ecstasy back in the day. And the singleplayer was highly varied and challenging, with great-feeling shooting and weapons.

  • First Final Fantasy game I played, and one of my first JRPGs, so it made an impact on me. I still think it's an exceptional RPG in its own right, and a victim of strong popularity backlash.

  • My awakening to online multiplayer gaming, and the reason we ditched the dial-up modem at my house. Nox had it all: snappy twitch gameplay, layers of creativity and strategy, and unexpected hilarity in every match. Also, it's the only game that's earned me money playing competitively!

  • My first rogue-like, ADOM still is amazingly imaginative, richly detailed, and highly replayable. It was 10 years between the first time I played the game and the first time I beat the game. What it lacks in visuals it makes up tenfold in breadth of content, depth of gameplay, and carefully detailed design. It achieves the rogue-like gold standard of difficulty for dishing out a million ways to kill you, but giving you a million and one ways to survive.

  • One of the first games to make me think about its story and ideas in the context of the real world, and not just the game's world. Deus Ex's social commentary, breadth and consequences of choice, character development, and rich game fiction all left a deep impression on me.

  • Surprisingly to me, this game helped me to discover that I love the Fallout setting and I love squad-based strategy games. Fallout Tactics still remains my favorite example of each, and I go back to it year after year.

  • I've always loved explosions and crashes, and this was the first game to really allow me to beautifully express that.

  • How many games have you enjoyed playing through 27 times (actual, accurate count) and would still look forward to playing again? Not too many for me, either.

  • I've played and loved just about every multiplayer shooter Valve has made, but none has captured me like L4D2 with its mix of coop and competitive play; humor and personality; and responsive, visceral action. I averaged more than 3 hours of this game per day for well over a year after it came out.

  • Dark Souls took time to grow on me. Only after I had completed it once and was doing replays did I come to really love and appreciate the game. It is enormously rich with intentional details as well as user projections, spanning emotions from terror to elation, and hilarity to rage.

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