~ S.Peelman's Top 50 Best Video Games of All Times 2020: ~
Another year, another top 50 list. These are S.Peelman's most favorite games of all-time. Games can be on this list simply because they are excellent and made an impression on me due to quality, but they can also be here because they gave me countless hours of fun, or had a deeper impact on myself as a person or as a gamer. The very best games did all of those things, and that is worth a lot.
When a game spans multiple consoles, only those on which I played the game are mentioned, alongside the system a game originally released on. The year of release is based on the PAL releases of the original game, which really only really makes a difference in a handful of older games. This year there is one game that return (R) to the list, and two newcomers (*). This means that three games are different compared to last year. Most of the rest of the list has been shuffled to suit my updated feelings about all these games.
| # | Title | Genre | Platform | Year | YoY |
| 50 | #14: Gunfighter (Showdown in 2100AD.) | Arcade shooter | Videopac G7000 (Magnavox Odyssey2) | 1979 | R |
| 49 | Soccer | Sports | Nintendo Entertainment System | 1987 | = |
| 48 | Step On It! | Puzzle-Platformer | Mac OS | 1996 | = |
| 47 | Duck Hunt | Lightgun | Nintendo Entertainment System | 1987 | = |
| 46 | Star Wars Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire | Rail shooter | Mac OS | 1995 | = |
| 45 | Total War: Rome II | Turn-based strategy | Windows PC | 2013 | * |
| 44 | Pokémon Blue Version | Role-playing game | GameBoy | 1999 | v4 |
| 43 | Anno 1800 | Construction & Management Simulation | Windows PC | 2019 | * |
| 42 | Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds | Real-time strategy | Windows PC | 2001 | ^1 |
| 41 | Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force | First-person shooter | Windows PC | 2000 | v3 |
| 40 | Age of Mythology | Real-time strategy | Windows PC | 2003 | ^2 |
| 39 | Wolfenstein 3D | First-person shooter | Mac OS | 1994 | ^2 |
| 38 | Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock | Rhythm | Sony PlayStation 3 | 2007 | ^1 |
| 37 | Super Metroid | Action-adventure | Super Nintendo Entertainment System, WiiU | 1994 | = |
| 36 | Rome: Total War | Turn-based strategy | Windows PC | 2004 | = |
| 35 | Crazy Taxi | Arcade racing | SEGA Dreamcast | 2000 | = |
| 34 | Blast Corps | Puzzle | Nintendo 64 | 1997 | = |
| 33 | Star Wars Shadows of the Empire | Third person shooter | Nintendo 64 | 1997 | = |
| 32 | The Operative: No One Lives Forever | First-person shooter | Windows PC | 2000 | = |
| 31 | Metroid Fusion | Action-adventure | GameBoy Advance, Nintendo 3DS | 2002 | = |
| 30 | SimTower | Construction & Management Simulation | Mac OS | 1994 | = |
| 29 | The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past | Adventure | Super Nintendo Entertainment System, GameBoy Advance | 1992 | = |
| 28 | SoulCalibur | Fighting | SEGA Dreamcast | 1999 | = |
| 27 | Super Mario Galaxy | 3D Platformer | Wii, Nintendo Switch | 2007 | = |
| 26 | Call of Duty | First-person shooter | Windows PC | 2003 | v1 |
| 25 | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves | Action-adventure | Sony PlayStation 3 | 2009 | v1 |
| 24 | Mega Man 2 | Action-platformer | Nintendo Entertainment System | 1991 | v1 |
| 23 | Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast | First-person shooter | Windows PC | 2002 | ^3 |
| 22 | SimCity 3000 | Construction & Management Simulation | Windows PC | 1999 | = |
| 21 | The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask | Adventure | Nintendo 64, GameCube, Nintendo 3DS | 2000 | = |
| 20 | Motocross Madness | Racing | Windows PC | 1998 | v1 |
| 19 | GoldenEye 007 | First-person shooter | Nintendo 64 | 1997 | v1 |
| 18 | Prince of Persia (1989) | Action-platformer | Mac OS, Mobile | 1992 | ^2 |
| 17 | The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | Adventure | GameCube, Wii, WiiU | 2006 | = |
| 16 | Super Mario Bros. 3 | 2D Platformer | Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, GameBoy Advance | 1991 | = |
| 15 | Astérix (Asterix: The Gallic War) | Turn-based Strategy | Sony PlayStation | 1999 | = |
| 14 | Lylat Wars (Star Fox 64) | Rail Shooter | Nintendo 64, Nintendo 3DS | 1997 | v1 |
| 13 | MediEvil | Adventure | Sony PlayStation, Sony PlayStation 4 | 1998 | ^1 |
| 12 | Kula World (Roll Away) | Puzzle-platformer | Sony PlayStation | 1998 | = |
| 11 | Theme Hospital | Construction & Management Simulation | Windows PC | 1997 | = |
| 10 | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | Adventure | WiiU, Nintendo Switch | 2017 | = |
| 09 | SimCity 4 | Construction & Management Simulation | Windows PC | 2003 | = |
| 08 | Mario Kart 64 | Racing | Nintendo 64 | 1997 | = |
| 07 | Anno 1602 | Construction & Management Simulation | Windows PC | 1998 | = |
| 06 | RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 | Construction & Management Simulation | Windows PC | 2002 | = |
| 05 | The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening | Adventure | GameBoy, GameBoy Color, Nintendo Switch | 1993 | = |
| 04 | Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island | 2D Platformer | Super Nintendo Entertainment System, GameBoy Advance | 1995 | = |
| 03 | Super Mario 64 | 3D Platformer | Nintendo 64, Nintendo DS | 1997 |  |
| 02 | Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic | Role-playing Game | Windows PC | 2003 |  |
| 01 | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | Adventure | Nintendo 64, GameCube, Nintendo 3DS | 1998 |  |
Honourable mentions:
Great games, but not enough to make it into the list. Some have in years past, but have since fallen out, some come in and out, and some have never been featured. Some honourable mentions of last year have made it into the main list this year or have disappeared entirely and there's some new ones.
Honourable mentions;
- Age of Empires
- Anno 1404 (Dawn of Discovery)
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped
- Dynamite Cop (2019: #44)
- Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
- The Legend of Zelda
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
- Luigi's Mansion 2 (Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon)
- Medieval II: Total War
- Missile Command (2019: #50)
- Professor Layton & Pandora's Box (Professor Layton & The Diabolical Box) (2019: #45)
- Resident Evil: Revelations
- SimCity 2000
- Star Wars: Dark Forces
- Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
- Super Mario 3D Land
- Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
- Virtua Tennis
- Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Platform statistics:
Under here are some statistics like the amount of games from the main list by platform (counted by a game's original platform only) for each platform I own. These are to be added after the day of the #1 game, the final day.
| Nintendo | Sony | Others | Decades | ||||
| Nintendo | 4 | Playstation | 3 | Philips Videopac G7000 | 1 | 1970s | 1 |
| Super Nintendo | 3 | Playstation 3 | 2 | Atari 2600 | 0 | 1980s | 2 |
| Nintendo 64 | 8 | Playstation 4 | 0 | 1990s | 27 | ||
| Gamecube | 1 | Playstation Vita | 0 | Windows PC | 16 | 2000s | 17 |
| Wii | 1 | Mac OS | 5 | 2010s | 3 | ||
| WiiU | 1 | SEGA | Franchises (3 games or more) |
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| Switch | 0 | Mega Drive | 0 | Mobile | 0 | The Legend of Zelda | 6 |
| GameBoy/Color | 2 | Dreamcast | 2 | Star Wars | 5 | ||
| GameBoy Advance | 1 | Mario | 5 | ||||
| DS | 0 | Sim* | 3 | ||||
| 3DS | 0 |
- Best Year: 1997; 7 titles.
- Best Decade: 1990s; 27 titles.
- Most Featured Genre: Adventure; 7 titles & Construction & Management simulation; 7 titles.
- Most Represented Platform: Windows PC; 16 titles (inc. Mac 21 titles). Nintendo 64; 8 titles.
- Most Represented Generation: 5th; Nintendo 64+PlayStation+GameBoy/Color and Windows PC+Mac (of equivalent era); 17 titles.
- Most Featured Publisher: Nintendo (including subsidiaries); 19 titles.
- Most Featured Franchise: The Legend of Zelda; 6 titles.
- Most Featured Game-series: The Legend of Zelda; 6 titles.
- Oldest Game: #14: Gunfighter, Philips VideoPac G7000 (Magnavox Odyssey2), 1979, #50
- Newest Game: Anno 1800, Windows PC, 2019, #43
- Highest Newcomer: Anno 1800, Windows PC, 2019, #43
- Highest Re-Entry: #14: Gunfighter, Philips VideoPac G7000 (Magnavox Odyssey2), 1979, #50
Correct guesses:
| Mnementh | 9 |
| The_Liquid_Laser | 7 |
| UnderwaterFunktown | 6 |
| drbunnig | 5 |
| Jpcc86 | 4 |
| Bofferbrauer2 | 3 |
| TruckOsaurus | 2 |
| Darashiva | 2 |
| Kantor | 2 |
| Ka-pi96 | 1 |
| Runa216 | 1 |
| Unguessed | 8 |
