This list has a few different purposes. One, I think the people here (or at least I) would like to see a list of top games completed some time in their lifetime. Two, I’d like to offer a different perspective from ICJ’s original list, in that 1) I haven’t played nearly as many games as he as, and thus have no business giving a top anything list, and 2) he put Mr. Do at #23, so obviously any other list is automatically superior.
Come with me, now, as we take a journey through… The Top 10 Games Of All Time!
 #10: PYRO II (1990)
Pyro 2 is unique, I think, within every “Top (x)” list that’s ever been created, in that it was never done before, and it has never been done since. Every other game you’ll ever find was either a copy of a copy, or was about to be copied after copied. Not Pyro 2. It showed up out of nowhere (for free, I should add) in a brilliant burst of creativity, and then was left to be, a shining singularity in the gaming world. Which I think is a shame, because if there’s ever been a game shouting from the hilltops, begging to be remade with modern technology, it is Pyro 2.
Not that it would be any better.
The goal of Pyro 2 is simple. Burn down every building you walk into. There’s a purity and nobility to that, especially when you consider that the first building you’re tasked with torching is the IRS building. You do this by pouring gasoline all over the place, or setting full gas tanks around to explode, as soon as the fuse trailing you hits them.
And the miracle of Pyro 2 is that even in 40×24 DOS mode, using nothing but ASCII characters and a few cracks and blips from the computer speaker, when the fuse hits the gas and lights the whole fucking screen on fire, you are experiencing the most visceral satisfaction you will ever experience from a video game. No 3D, shader-enhanced, high-definition, photorealistic explosion in any game ever made has come close to this moment. It is, in many ways, orgasmic.
Except you’re ready to do it again 30 seconds later.
So you do. You go around in your little pink jumpsuit and burn shit to the ground. That’s it. That’s the game.
And it’s the tenth best game of all time.
(Pyro II also happens to be the only game that my father was ever better at than I was.)
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Rob O'Hara
I am aware that long titles, titles more than like FUCK YOU, fuck up the theme. I’ll put that on my list of things to fix right after the tank leak in the bathroom and the cat that pisses on everything in this world I even possibily care about. NATCH!
Rockin’. This is obviously going to be one of those awesome lists, rather than one of those lame ones that picks the best versions of Mario, Zelda, and Grand Theft Auto.
(Mind you, Mario Galaxy is friggin’ brilliant, but I don’t need the affirmation of RANK VALUE to tell me that.)
The only other 40×24 DOS game I remember getting into was Round 42. Never could make it to 42, though.