The three day cycle thing just kills it for me, I don't like being under time pressure or having to micro-manage or repeat things, it drives me crazy haha

Tropical Freeze is WAY better than DCK2, so it's correct

Majora's Mask top? No chance.

And where did Yoshi's Island rank?

Top 10 Nintendo games created (not in order):

1) Pikmin 1
2) Luigi's Mansion 1
3) Galaxy 1
4) Prime 1
5) Dread
6) Twilight
7) Link to the Past
8) Mario 64
9) Skyward Sword
10) Paper Mario 64

Nah. If we limit it to the N64 to present, my Top 10 list would be:

1) Super Mario 64
2) Mario Kart 64
3) Star Fox 64
4) Perfect Dark
5) Super Mario Odyssey
6) Mario Kart 8
7) New Super Mario Bros. U
8) New Super Mario Bros. Wii
9) Metroid Dread
10) Wind Waker

Granted, there's a lot of games on that list I haven't played. I wasn't exactly made of money back in the N64 days, and $60-70 was a lot of money back then. I never owned Majora's Mask, for example. I also had somewhat lost interest in gaming in Gen 6. Also, series like Pokemon just didn't hold any interest for me, and I didn't even have a GBA or DS.

Plus the transition to 3D was a rough one, and for whatever reason Ocarina of Time just didn't grab me like A Link to the Past did six years earlier. There are only four N64 games (and a single PS1 game) on my list of Top 50 games we put out each year, and those are the four at the top of my list. I felt Mario transitioned very well to 3D, and still stands as my favorite 3D platformer. Mario Kart 64 was a racing game, which is a genre that always tried to emulate 3D before it was actually possible, and it was possible on the N64, and to this day it's still my favorite Mario Kart game. Star Fox 64 had similar shooters before it like Afterburner, Space Harrier, and the original Star Fox, but it did it far better and was an incredibly addictive and replayable game, the only shmup I'd put ahead of games like the Gradius series. Finally, Perfect Dark was an FPS, a genre that was a perfect fit (no pun intended) for 3D, and Perfect Dark was far more polished of a game than its more popular predecessor Goldeneye, with a far more feature-rich and better balanced multiplayer experience, which I still crank up semi-regularly to play against the bots.

The more recent games like the ones on the Wii, Wii U, & Switch don't rank higher, probably because they just haven't been around as long and it's harder for more recent games to make as big of an impact on me, probably because I'm a lot older and harder to impress, while the older ones are classics to me that I've played many, many times. So maybe nostalgia bias does come into play a bit. I mean, of my all-time Top 50, only four games from this century rank in the Top 25.

Man does it make me happy to see NSMB get the respect that its due: the games genuinely are among the best 2D platformers ever made, even if greatly uninspired in their art direction. (I’ll forgive the absence of Pikmin…)

My top ten would look something like….
1. Zelda TotK
2. Zelda BotW
3. Super Mario Odyssey
4. Super Mario 64
5. Pikmin 2
6. Pikmin 4
7. Zelda Majora’s Mask
8. Paper Mario TTYD
9. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island
10. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe or Mario Kart Wii
Honorable Mention: Banjo Kazooie would be 9., but I decided to keep this list purely 1st party.

It looks like the list only includes N64/GBA games at earliest.  My top 10 would look something like:

1. Breath of the Wild (Switch)
2. New Super Mario Bros Wii (Wii)
3. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (GCN)
4.  Wii Sports Resort (Wii)
5.  Punch Out!! (Wii)
6.  Hyrule Warriors (Wii U)  -  Not sure if this one is eligible to be on the list
7.  Excitebots Trick Racing (Wii)
8.  Cadence of Hyrule (Switch)
9.  Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch)
10.  Super Mario Maker (Wii U)

If Hyrule Warriors isn't eligible then put in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Wii) at 10th place instead.

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with so many Zelda games, it can't be wrong

Worth noting: I cut individual Metroid Prime titles in favor of including the Trilogy release— felt a little redundant being that they are the same game just released on a different (yet equally powerful) console. Individually, Prime 1 and Prime 2 make the list and pretty high as well. I’d have to double check where they land though if you want a specific placement.

MK8DX not being present also really surprised me! Especially for how much glaze the game gets on top of being Nintendo best selling game of all time (well… soon to be), I would’ve thought that no doubt it’d be here. But no.