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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

The best video games in history

Nothing unusual about lists of the Top 10 or Top 100 games, but here J.J. McCullough has collected lists from several sources -- Gamefaqs, IGN, Edge, CVG etc -- and picked out the handful of games that appear on most lists. These are (drum roll, please):

1 Tetris (appears on 15 out of the 19 lists)

2 Super Mario 64 (14 out of 19)

3 (tie)

Street Fighter II (10 out of 19) Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (10 out of 19) Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (10 out of 19)

Big win for Nintendo, yes? Otherwise, the PC appears to be the top gaming platform, with 19 games, while the good old SNES (11 titles) hammers the PlayStation 2 (2 titles). Of course, that's partly a function of using lists that go back to 1996.

But I won't be suprised if your all-time favourtie games don't even get a mention. Only one of my mine appears -- Sid Meier's Civilization -- but not Championship Manager, Defender, Freecell or Sim City.

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