Summertime may have been easy for Porgy and Bess, but it's certainly no picnic for videogame news sites. Starved of their staple diet - i.e. game news - they're often forced to make their own entertainment. And inevitably this means lists.
Over the last week or so we've had Game Revolution's list of the 50 Worst Game Names, while IGN has gone for the more contained 10 Worst Coin-Op Conversions. I'm sad to see the original Saturn version of Virtua Fighter in there, but I suppose it's fair. The Atari 2600 conversions of Pac-Man and Donkey Kong are more deserving victims.
There have been a couple of more positive round-ups. Gametrailers.com goes all Web2.0 by creating a YouTube compilation of the Ten Best Game Weapons. My favourite though is a list of the Ten Manliest Videogames of all time. I especially like the way the writer goes to great lengths to define manliness in the introduction - "there are a number of factors at work here," he explains sagely.
So today's Friday Question: are there any videogame Top Tens you haven't seen yet, but would like to? I promise to take the best suggestion, research it thoroughly (mostly by ringing ex-Edge editor Joao Sanches and raiding his brain/magazine collection) and present it this time next week for your delectation. You see, this is what they call 'user-generated content'...
