1001 Video Games you must play before you die

By release date.

Yeah, that's right. But if you think of it, the 70s were the beginning of it all, kind of normal for it to have less games than the upcoming years. 1980 got a lot more and so got the 90s.

 

Or I should get a life lol

 

To be honest, my confusion was more based on the 140 must plays from 2009 alone, I don't remember 2009 exactly being memorable for amazing games, and if you can pick 140 from a single year, surely there must be more than 10 for a decade it's gaming history! I realise that there were far fewer games released back then of course but surely more than ten. That being said, I'm not trying to say the book is bad at all, after all I've not read it and if I saw it I would probably pick it up. Probably play most of the games too, assuming that I haven't already of course haha
Might I ask if there are many dreamcast games in there?

 

Yeah sounds unbalanced. I bet vib ribbon, rez, amplitude, rhythm tengoku, etc and other unusual games aren't in there. I like the idea that there a certain games that push the boundaries of what a game actually is, and redefine our expectations of entertainment.

For me games that you must play before you die are them sort of games. Would like to pick this book up.

 

Good point Hedgeyourbets, I remember 2009 purely for Uncharted 2: AT!

Having said that there were some pretty cool titles released in 2009 such as FF-XIII, Assassin's Creed II, COD: MW2, SF: IV, T:6 etc etc...but 140 titles worth mentioning in that year alone :-0 has to be a mistake!

Nice book btw:thumbsup:

 

Nope! Only the well-known titles, it seems. The ones I've found are Shenmue, Sonic Adventure (there's not even mention for the second one), Space Channel Five and Typing of The Dead.

It miss a lot of games on this 1001 list. Two examples are Zelda 2 (the only Zelda not listed, except for the CD-i ones) and Soldier of Fortune. Both aren't listed. But oh well, it was meant to be 1001 games and not 1003. ;P

 

The problem with a lot of modern games is that most will get forgotten about in a few years. A lot of old games age badly and play and look terrible now, I also think that a game should be on it's original format unless it has changed dramatically on another format. Typing of the dead is a lazy game to choose mainly as the concept of the game is nothing new, although it was the first game to be released in America (and laughablely it's deemed a shoot 'em up by the guy planning the Smithsonian games event....).

A lot of books do have bais towards American games, I doubt if any Sinclair Spectrum games made it into the book, even though games like School Daze, Death Chase 3D, Jet Set Willy, Lords of Midnight, Head over Heels, Run Baby Run, 3D Ant Attack and All or Nothing are games I think you should all play as well as Monster Maze 3D on the Sinclair ZX81 and Elite, Sentinel and Exile on the BBC Micro.

I am already planning my book which goes well with my job and should list over 300 games from all over the world, that I think you should play (and over 1,000,000 people have done already).

 

Disagree.

On the Snes alone you have more than just 5
Super Mario World
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country II
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the past
Super Metroid!!!!
Mario Kart
Kirby Superstar
Mega Man
Star Fox
Zombies Ate my Neighbors
Chrono Trigger
Mario RPG
etc etc etc

So stating that there's a super limited amount of really good games for each console is a bit far fetched.... It may be that 1001 games reaching the same quality standard is equally far fetched... but there are great games to be played on each.