S.Peelman on 29 December 2021
So before I post the #3 game, Super Mario 64, here's a list of Honourable mentions, 20 of them in alphabetical order. Obviously, I find these games to be excellent, and some have been in the main list for one or more years in the past. I raise my glass to these;
- Age of Empires, a great RTS that fuelled my love for history and will be remembered because of the sound the Priest makes.
- Age of Mythology, has been in the main list for most years, and like Age of Empires, fuelled my love for in this case, classical mythology.
- Anno 1404, sometimes in the list, a great city builder with great variety that gives you the ability to create beautiful things.
- Banjo-Kazooie, a clever and great looking platformer with lots of fun humour, which I appreciate as some entries in my list prove.
- Crazy Taxi, has been in the list most years, a racing game that suited me, probably because it's not a racing game.
- Dynamite Cop, has been in the list most years, a ridiculous beat-em 'up where you can hit people with basically everything in sight.
- Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, sometimes in the list, made me realise there's more series out there worth playing.
- Game #14: Gunfighter, has been in the list, an ancient arcade versus shooter game I played on my mother's old Videopac G7000 as one of the first things I ever played.
- The Legend of Zelda, the original Zelda game for NES, a milestone in game design, cryptic yet intriguing.
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, a unique game in the franchise with an awesome control scheme and some of the best dungeons.
- Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon, one of the greatest uses of a game of its parent system, in this case the 3DS.
- Missile Command, though I played more clones of it than I did the original, which I do own, this is the definition of 'less is more' in the gaming world.
- Professor Layton & Pandora's box, a great puzzle adventure with a unique story you can't really put down.
- SimCity 2000, the two successors made the list, but really my love for city builders started here.
- Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, one of the other great 'Quake III-engine' games, games on that engine just worked well.
- Star Wars Shadows of the Empire, an underrated Star Wars game, that really kills it with the atmosphere, never mind the music in level 9.
- Step-On-It, has been in the list most years, an obscure puzzle game that is a clone of NES game 'Solomon's Key', that really made me think.
- Super Mario 3D Land, this game is better at being a 3DS game than 'Super Mario 3D World' was at being a WiiU game due to it's awesome use of the 3D effect.
- Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, a beautiful game almost at the level of its predecessor though I do like this one's story better.
- Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, a great RTS with unique yet balanced playable races of which I actually completed the campaigns.
