20. Pac-Man – Nobody can say that a game of Pac-Man can’t be addicting. It’s still a thrill to see the old arcade machine.
19. Super Mario Brothers 3
18. Duck Tales- Who Didn’t Enjoy bashing enemies with Scrooge’s cane?
17. Street Fighter 2 – Do I Need to Say More?
16. Mega Man 2
15. Contra – Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, B,A, Start. If you don’t know that code you don’t know Contra
14. Bomberman 2- Who didnt enjoy getting around and bombing their friends?
13. Metroid – One of the deepest games a player could ever enjoy. Really paved the way for expansive video games.
12. Little Nemo the Dream Master
11. Legend of Zelda
10. Tetris – Still being played on cellphones all over the world.
9. Starcraft – The founder of RPG to the mass public
8. Super Mario Cart -Racing Around. Good Times
7.The Secret of Mana
6. Final Fantasy 3
5. Casletvania: Sympathy of the night
4. Super Metroid – Made the original look small
3. Chrono Trigger
2. Super Mario Bothers -
1. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past – No one thought that Zelda 1 and 2 could be passed. Oops.

Activision spent a lot of money promoting Call of Duty: Black Ops and it led to the best sales figures of all time. The problem is they neglected titles that were equally as good but different. Blur, was a prime example of this with its unique style of blending cart racing and street racing to create a unique gaming experience. Since Activision spent most of their budget backing Call of Duty caused them to neglect this series.

The biggest disappointment this year was the Wii’s lack of mature titles. Every year gamers want more of an experience with the Wii beyond bright colorful cartoon characters and another release of an intellectual property from 20 years ago. Would it hurt Nintendo that much to make games for an older audience? This has to be the biggest disappointment for all gamers this year.

-Battlefield 3 – The newest installment in the legendary multi-player first person shooter series promises to be the best one yet. The new Frostbite engine will allow unprecedented interaction with the environment as gamers will be able to destroy every part of the battlefield during the intense team-based multi-player battles. Battlefield 3 will include the deadliest of modern weaponry and a wide array of vehicles for players to jump into and change the tide of battle with.

-Portal 2 – The first Portal introduced gamers to an incredible gaming experience that had them maneuver increasingly difficult challenges with a “portal gun” that enables players to create wormholes to travel through and solve mind bending puzzles with. The second entry in the series will allow for cooperative gameplay that will allow two gamers to work together to solve the game.

-Mass Effect 3 – The first two Mass Effect games gave players an incredible role-playing game experience that mixed incredible action, deep customization, and an unprecedented level of storytelling that won numerous accolades and awards. The third game in the trilogy will wrap up the epic storyline as gamers attempt to save the galaxy from its greatest threat.

• Mike Haggar (Final Fight): Mike Haggar is a pro-wrestler-turned-Mayor from way back in 1989, when Arnold’s governorship was just a twinkle in his eye. Haggar returns to the streets to put the kibosh on the evil gang which has kidnapped his daughter and perverted the American dream.
• Tom Brady (Madden NFL Football): Star of the New England Patriots, Tom Brady epitomizes a sport which everybody else uses to mean “soccer.” In contradiction to that sport’s hands-off rule, Brady and his crew tackle, rush, and maul on their way to the endzone.
• Guile (Street Fighter II): In the tournament of hard men that is the Street Fighter tournament, Guile is one of the greatest. A soldier with a flag tattoo on each shoulder, Guile also represents the American values of justice and loyalty, as he tracks down M. Bison, killer of his best friend Charlie.
• Captain America (Marvel Ultimate Alliance): Steve Rogers (aka Captain America) multimedia star of comics, games, animated films, and soon of his own live-action film. His outfit is a stylized red, white, and blue, and his primary antagonists are the Nazis. Seems like a shoe-in.

• Minuteman (Freedom Force): Although Minuteman was developed after Captain America, his design harkens back to the American Revolution. Otherwise, they’re pretty much the same.
• Bad Dudes (Bad Dudes): These mild-mannered heroes of this game are street-fighters called upon by an Arnold Schwarzenegger-lookalike to rescue the president from ninjas. Of course, they don’t have to be asked twice.
• Liberty Prime (Fallout 3): The only non-organic patriot on the list, this character looks like The Iron Giant but talks like he was raised in the Reagan-era Cold War, espousing his opposition to communism at every guise.
• Duke Nukem (Duke Nukem 3D): I’m iffy about the inclusion of this hero, since as Gamespot notes he never acts particularly patriotic. Nevertheless, he is a pastiche of every ’80s action star ever, so I guess he counts.
• The Boss (Metal Gear Solid 3): This hero is responsible for the program which led to the Special Forces of the main character, and gives up everything for her countryincluding her life.

• GoldenEye 007: If you owned an N64 back in the day, GoldenEye 007 was the one game you had to have. Eurocom is hoping to carry that success into their remake, which also updates the game to encapsulate the new Daniel Craig bond persona. If the game can capture the original’s sense of fun while updating it with modern graphics, this could be a winner.
• Rage: Games like Grand Theft Auto have incorporated both action and driving, but id Software’s new post-apocalyptic title Rage looks to go even further. In the dune-buggy driving sequences, you earn items and upgrades, but the game continues once you get of the driver’s seat and keeps going as a first-person shooter. There’s also an inventory system reminiscent of RPGs.

• Epic Mickey: Reports of this game have been surfacing since last year, but it’s too cool to pass over. Warren Spector’s dark(ish) reimagining of Mickey and the early Disney universe was previewed at E3, showed how players could either attract enemies to their side with different types of paint, or totally obliterate them with a dose of paint thinner. Based on the player’s choices, Mickey will grow and change over the course of the game.
• The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: Can you believe this is the 16^th game in the series? Gameplay looks to get a nice invigoration with the use of Wii MotionPlus, which will allow players to swordfight and shoot the bow by performing the action with the Wii Remote. The game also features the ability to talk to your sword for the first time, as it takes on a mysterious female persona which will guide main character Link through the game.