Hey, not trying to be picky, but I have a couple questions. First which order is the list, is Donkey Kong 1 or 10? Also maybe it will remain the same, but we are ranking franchises not individual games, so do you want to keep the same order? Finally, the Dreamcast is part of the PS2/GC/Xbox generation, so Soul Calibur doesn't qualify for this, so which franchise do you want to replace it? Thanks.

You forgot the most interesting question, tarheel: Which ones are your numbers 11 and 12?

Oh, could you clarify what counts and what doesn't?

You put Super Smash Bros. on the OP, and that came out the same year as Soul Calibur on the DC (it actually came out 98 in the arcade). Actually, by the time Paper Mario came out most of the great Dreamcast games were already released (JSR, Shenmue, SoA, Grandia II, etc).

I guess we can remove the Dreamcast games, but that still leaves me confused on when to stop counting PC games. I just assumed anything before the PS2 counted.

Thats a good point and I should have done a better job defining it, as I was thinking by console generation, which makes it hard to decide which PC games count. Basically, I'm counting PS/N64/Saturn era fitting in but not Dreamcast/PS2/Xbox/Gamecube. So the qualifications will be if is on a 5th gen console or before it counts. But if it is not on a console, it needs to have been released in 2001 or before (when the N64 was discontinued and the Xbox/Gamecube were released which I'm going to say officially eneded the 5th gen). Thats not a perfect set of guidelines, but hopefully it will work and seems somewhat logical. I'll also put it in the first post so everyone can see it.

Bumping, to try to get some more votes for today.

1- The legend of Zelda
2- Super Smash Bros.
3- Metroid
4- Megaman
5- Star Fox
6- Super Mario
7- Resident Evil
8- Final Fantasy
9- Metal Gear
10- Ninja Gaiden


it was a tough one, some of those i had to do randomly, because i can´t decide which i like the most.

I can't I'm too lazy

Dano I had a hard time coming up with mine too, some of them could have easily switched spots, and it was hard to decide which franchises to leave off the list.

@morenoingrato, it only takes a few minutes, and its fun.

Daily bump to get more votes.

yes it was hard, also because there are a lot of games that i enjoyed that are not that big of a franchise, or could be considered retro, but i did my best to contribute to your cause =).