@Kakadu18 There's something wrong with a picture or something at the end of your Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle post, which breaks the page.

I noticed the image not showing, but it takes forever to load to edit it. With two or three images it loads over 10 minutes, with so many like there It'll load for an hour. I'll try.

Okay I understand, no rush.

Done.

Guessed by drbunnig

You don't need cutting edge power to make a great game. This has been proven time and time again. During the 7th Generation of Video Games, Nintendo's underpowered Wii could still deliver what is arguably the prettiest game of the generation. Of course, there's no way it can compete on a pure, base technical level in number of pixels and particles and polygons on screen, but it could through stellar art direction. Pun intended. Personally I think Nintendo's core teams are very talented in this regard in general, but sometimes they release something that can really stand out from the rest.

'Super Mario Galaxy' was such a game. During the 6th Generation of Video Games I fell out of the console gaming sphere due to one too many disappointments, but the 7th Gen reeled me back in with games such as this one. The rest of the world seemed to agree, as proven by the game's raving reviews. The sequel, 'Super Mario Galaxy 2' was also top of its class, but the first game had something extra special. This time it's not necessarily because it was merely first, but because the game's levels are connected through the Space Observatory hub world, and the hidden, but not so hidden, touching and greatly illustrated story of Rosalina and Luma. Rosalina by the way, also a great addition to the Mario character pantheon. She's a keeper.

Looking over my list, it is clear that I am a fan of strategy/tactic games (among others). Jagged Alliance is pretty old, but it still is unmatched in some qualities.

The game had you as an organizer of mercenary services and your client was a scientist who developed a cure from some mutation some trees on the island of Metavira were showing. But a former partner of him had sabotaged his work, stolen stuff and had gained control over the island besides a small corner left. So he hires you to get things back on track. And you go on a satellite phone app (or something) to hire mercenaries from an organization that offers people that are willing to shoot first and ask questions later.

And with that interface to A.I.M. (Association of International Mercenaries) the game starts showing it's uniqueness that I haven't seen in this combination in any other game I know. The mercenaries are all different, have all theirunique abilities but also quirks. And most just aren't working for an unknown client, you have first to successfully finish a few missions, before they are willign to join your team. But that is not all. Some mercenaries hate other and will only work for you if you fire the other first. Or let him die in the field. But too many deaths or too much hire-and-fire is also a reason they don't want to work for you.

In the field they are also showing their personality. Some might be more than willing to shoot the other guy they hate in the back. They have their unique way on commenting about the missions and what is happening. And sometimes they do what they want and aren't follow you command. Say someone is in a shooting duel with an enemy and you want to order him to a better position, they might stay were and keep shooting. This is happening not often, but it happens. More professional mercenaries abstain form such behaviour, but they ask for a much, much higher salary too.

So you start taking over the map sector by sector, managing the income of harvesting the trees, guarding sectors you have taken over from enemy attacks and slowly advance towards the enemy headquarters. But things can go wrong fast. Your mission might go well, but then suddenly something goes wrong. Your guy doesn't disarm the bomb and it goes off. One or two enemies are seemingly bullet-proof and just keep hitting your guys. Learn to save often.

Gog and Steam both offer this great game. So it is easy to try out. It works well in DosBox. Or you can play for free in the browser at archive.org.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W52AJktdt2g

Extending my hint for #23:

#23: Pay a donkey carrots to get more corpses. A talking skull is your helper.

Everything has been guessed again, so moving on to just #22.

#22: This game really only came to be because of a dare.

This is the most "90s" collection of people I've ever seen.

More hints to my games:

26. a) This is an arcade game from the 80's that isn't even one of the most popular ones.  I'll try to make the clues easy, because this is not an easy game to guess.  You dig around the board like Dig Dug, but the game uses apples instead of rocks.
b)  Defeat enemies in this game either by hitting them with a power ball or by dropping apples on them.
c)  Here is a clue to one of two words in the title.  _____ or _____ not.  There is no try.

25.  If you get to the end of this two player co-op arcade game, then you have to fight the other player to see who gets the girl in the end.

24.  This game is so great, even cleaning up vomit is kind of fun.  First in the series.