1. The Legend of Zelda
2. Halo
3. Final Fantasy
4. Mario
5. God of War
6. Pokemon handhelds
7. Grand Theft Auto
8. Resident Evil
9. Gears of War
10. Metal Gear Solid

I thought I had this in the bag... I was wrong.

1. Super Mario Bros.
2. Sonic the Hedgehog
3. The Legend of Zelda
4. Metroid
5. Banjo-Kazooie
6. Super Smash Bros.
7. Mario Kart
8. WarCraft
9. Resident Evil
10. Paper Mario

I'm sorry to all of the awesome franchises that couldn't make it. Forgive muh!

wow I thought this would be easy then I started making my list and looking at all the other awesome franchises on peoples lists and was like, god there sure are alot of good games out there.

1. Grand Theft Auto
2. Halo
3. Half-Life
4. Call of Duty
5. Battlefield
6. Gears of War
7. Age of Empires
8. Gran Turismo
9. Pro Evolution Soccer/Winning Eleven
10. *cough* Pokemon *cough*

Note: I only considered franchises where I played at least 2 games.

Hard to decide between some...I hope I'm not forgetting anything. The top 5 is definitive, though

1. Suikoden
2. Shin Megami Tensei/Persona (if they are different, just Persona)
3. Final Fantasy
4. Monkey Island
5. Grand Theft Auto
6. Winning Eleven/Pro Evolution Soccer
7. Xenosaga
8. Prince of Persia
9. Advance Wars
10. Metal Gear Solid

Well , i would have had Dead rising in my list but the sequel is not out yet hence not a full franchise yet, Left 4 Dead would have made the list too.

1. Shenmue (Fave is part 1)
2. Streets of rage (Fave is 2)
3. Resident evil (2)
4. Street fighter (2)
5. Sonic (& Knuckles)
6. Gears of war (1)
7. Hitman (2)
8. Virtua tennis (3)
9. Onimusha (2)
10. Tony hawk (ooh... 3 or Project 8? hhhmmm........ 3)

1)Half life
2)Warcraft
3)Mario
4)Diablo
5)Civilization
6)Zelda
7)Age of
8)Gears of War
9)Uncharted
10)X-com

Yea, how are you going to count all these and add them up? It will take forever.

1.Zelda
2.Final Fantasy
3.Mario
4.Silent Hill
5.Age of Empires
6.Warcraft
7.Sonic
8.Street Fighter
9.Metroid
10.Shin Megami Tensei

Better start hiring some people with calculators!