Pinback’s Top Ten Games of All-Time: #0
Pinback #0: Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor (2008) As I said before, this list is “genre based”, in that I tried to make sure that no basic gaming genre…
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Pinback’s Top Ten Games of All-Time: #1
#1: Civilization IV (2005) My history with the Civilization games is checkered at best. I remember when the original first came out. I was right there in line to buy…
Pinback’s Top Ten Games of All-Time: #2
#2: Rollercoaster Tycoon (1999) Before there was Mall Tycoon, and Zoo Tycoon, and Crackhouse Tycoon, and Auschwitz Tycoon, there was Rollercoaster Tycoon. Let me start the review with the end…
Pinback’s Top Ten Games of All-Time: #3
NOTE: The game originally scheduled for this slot was CounterStrike. But then I thought, well, that’s not really fair to Half-Life, which could also be right in the same spot.…
Pinback’s Top Ten Games of All-Time: #4
#4: ASTEROIDS Asteroids is one of those games which gets exponentially better the better you get at it. I know this for a fact because it is one of only…
Pinback’s Top Ten Games of All-Time: #5
#5: WARCRAFT III I felt almost ashamed, picking up my box of WarCraft III and heading to the checkout aisle that fateful day. I had many reasons for this shame,…
Pinback’s Top Ten Games of All-Time: #6
#6: INFOCOM GAME (1980-) You can get all righteous and indignant about the state of gaming, our children, and our society as a whole by going on a rant about…
Pinback’s Top Ten Games of All-Time: #7
#7: GRAND THEFT AUTO III Perhaps the greatest testament to this game’s greatness, if you can get past the astonishing technical achievement it represented, is the fact that it might…
Pinback’s Top Ten Games of All-Time: #8
Ice Cream Jonsey #8: SUPER MARIO 64 (1996) Â I can count on two (2) fingers the number of times I’ve fired up a game and had an instant sense of being overwhelmed,…
Pinback’s Top Ten Games of All-Time: #9
#9: NETHACK (1987) Most of the entries in this list are of the “best of genre” variety. For instance, if all you like are text adventures, your top ten are…