Riddle for my #47:

The third game in a sixth-generation trilogy from a franchise originally conceived in Jordan...

Hehehehe, nope. If you get this one I'd be impressed. It doesn't actually have BLOB in the name of the game.

If anyone gets this I'll be impressed.

That's it! Good work, axum. I thought I might fool some people with the Jordan thing.

my 48 had to be Donkey Kong Jungle beat from the Gamecube the spinoff to the Donkey Konga games where rather than playing to songs with the bongos you played a platforming game with them. Now I know this game was re-released on the wii with new play controls aka you just press left and right to move that direction but unless you've played the original where you gotta hammer the hell outta the bongos to beat the face off the bosses you haven't lived.

My 47 will be a game that Sega showed they could bring the Arcade experience into the home and then went on the spawn a trilogy on the system.

I just wrote up a list of all the most amazing games I've played, then shuffled them up or down in prio based on how much I would rather be playing them over the other games on the list or based on how much of a knock on effect those games had on me as a gamer, be it games which got me more in the motion control or games which more into music genre etc basically the games which opened my eyes to other genres.

Absolutely loved that game on the psone I wonder was it as fun to see 2 trains full of people smash into each other on the pc version :D I limitation of the psone was the game ended after a 50 year period I would think the pc didn't have the same issue. Still tho great pick :D!

Streets of Rage?

Edit: Jungle Beat is a tremendous game. One of the best GCN titles.

streets of rage was never in the arcades :D but damn close, as for jungle beat I know it sold fairly poorly since you needed the bongos to fully enjoy it and here in EU they didn't ship with it you had to get them from Donkey Konga but still such a fun game to blast your palms away to, glad someone else enjoyed it before it's "new control" version on the wii

Gah, completely missed the discussion thread >_>.

50th - Illusion of Gaia (SNES, 1994)
Starting my list off with the second entry in the Quintet "trilogy", Illusion of Gaia is a pretty good RPG that had a bit of flaws which prevents it from gaining higher spots like the two other entries in the trilogy. While having an amazing history, relatively high difficulty for a RPG and some pretty good level and character design, Illusion of Gaia was also an extremely linear and slow paced RPG, which set it apart from the trilogy's open ended gameplay and fast paced adventure and exploration.

49th - Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (PS2, 2006)
The second-to-last spot marks the debut of the first Dragon Quest game on my list. One of my favourite RPGs in the entire PS2 catalog, it brought back the feeling of exploration and open-world of the 8 and 16-bit era JRPGs back into the era of story driven, little exploration RPGs. While not having a solid story as previous Dragon Quest games, the battle system was much more fluid and open to more strategies with the introduction of systems like Tension or attack combos, and the pacing was excellent, with a few twists in the right places to keep the player wanting to know more. Kudos as well for the excellent monster battle side-game and the better alchemy system. Oh, and also it has Jessica... .

48th - Tales of Phantasia (SNES, 1996)
The only Tales of game in my list, Tales of Phantasia is an amazing RPG with one of the most thought provoking villains and endings that I've seen in a video game. The entire premise of your actions are based on the fact of overthrowing a tyrant which was only acting out in desperation of his entire planet, your final actions have a lot of weight and leave open a lot of questions that are only partially answered in future Tales of games. Having said this, the game did have a lot of pacing troubles, with a lot of void and meaningless tidbits in between some actual good story moments, plus it had a badly responsive and bugged battle system from time to time which annoying given the high difficulty of the overall battles (this issue was later resolved on the PSX version, with a much more responsive command input system and better animations).

My next game will be a second entry in a RTS series known for it's building of kindgoms and fun LAN battles.

48. Super Metroid (SNES/Wii VC)

I only briefly played this game at the time of its release. I didn't own it, but a childhood friend of mine did, and it was on his SNES that I had my first experience of this game. Thankfully, the Wii came along many years later and allowed me to download the game and play it properly via the Virtual Console, and I am extremely thankful for that, as I would have missed out on fully experiencing a truly fantastic game otherwise.

My 47th game was a long awaited return, which was the catalyst to records being smashed.