47th - Age of Empires II: Age of Kings (PC, 1999)
The first RTS entry on my list, Age of Empires II is, by far, the best interation of the AoE series. Not only did it improve all the mechanics that the first game had introduced, the game flowed that much better with resource gathering gaining a whole new layer of strategy with the ton of new research fields that were added. The ability to also position your units in different attack and defensive patterns saw a revolution to the attack phases, since now no longer Rushing teams could be effective in early game against properly positioned Turtlers. The adition of amazing defensive structures such as Castles, a myriad of Towers and defensive walls saw to epic battles for domination inside towns.
AoE II was also one of the best examples of a LAN community that arose from the excellent multiplayer component of the game. With extremely large maps that could easily make space for gargantuous 8 player battles that could reach over 1000 units easily, there wasn't a single match that wasn't at least a bit fun to play.
Number 46 will be my favourite racer of the 16-bit era. An amazing tribute to the best F1 driver ever.
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