That's it! Good job.

#10.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

While not necessarily the greatest Zelda game ever developed, A Link to the Past is definitely the quintessential Zelda experience; it established many of the items, enemies, and tropes that appear in almost every Zelda game. Once again players control Link, the once and future hero of Hyrule, in his quest to rid the land of evil. Along the way, he crisscrosses a huge world map filled with oddball characters, ingenious dungeons (A Link to the Past has the most dungeons of any Zelda game), and more secrets than the life of an American teenager. If Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess achieved greatness, it's because they stood on the shoulders of this giant.

Clue for #9:

This game was so good no one could make a sequel for 8 years, and even then it wasn't the original team :P

#10 - Metal Gear Solid (PS1)

At the time I bought MGS, it was literally all you could hear about when reading Playstation magazines.  They kept touting 'best game ever', 'groundbreaking' and so on, and I thought "this will never live up to the hype".  How wrong I was.

I had never really played a stealth action game before so MGS was my introduction, and what an introduction it was.  Perfectly mixing stealth gameplay with moments of all-out action, it's the first time I actually felt like I was playing an interactive film while gaming.  When you add in one of the most interesting plotlines I'd experienced at the time (never expected that twist - thought it was great when it happened though) and a fantastic cast of bad guys (never bettered in my opinion) then you have the start of a legendary series.  No other game at the time had me sneaking through the snow, petrified beyond belief at being spotted and then having me take down a Hind D helicopter moments later.  The atmosphere in the game was just electric, and I can see why Kojima felt the need to revisit it in MGS4.

Clue for my #09 - The other PS1 classic. Brought a genre crashing into the mainstream more than ever in glorious 3D, a first for the series.

Final Fantasy VII, the game I shamefully placed lower on the list :P

SHAME ON YOU.

I'll let you off for guessing this!

Super Metroid?

Damn, I think you beat me to it -_-

Super Metroid it is :)