It's been about 5 and a half years since I did my last Top 100 list. Due to my OCD and compulsion to constantly create lists in my head I think it's time for an all new Top 100.
My first thought was to reevaluate the old top 100, but fuck it, it's easier to pick 100 new games that I didn't have on the list last time. In the past 5 and a half years I've played more than I usually have, largely due to COVID. And in that time I've played a lot of new great games.
Plus, when I made the last list, I avoided adding multiple games from the same franchises. So I can dip back into the Dragon Quest pool and a few others.
Anyway stay tuned. Starting tomorrow we're doing this shit again.
My first thought was to reevaluate the old top 100, but fuck it, it's easier to pick 100 new games that I didn't have on the list last time. In the past 5 and a half years I've played more than I usually have, largely due to COVID. And in that time I've played a lot of new great games.
Plus, when I made the last list, I avoided adding multiple games from the same franchises. So I can dip back into the Dragon Quest pool and a few others.
Anyway stay tuned. Starting tomorrow we're doing this shit again.
Recently Spotted:
*crickets*
That's the best way I think it can be described. Like Animal Crossing, it has a population of cute animal-like creatures, and in your cult's village you have to build and decorate structures and constantly pull weeds. The dungeon segments are very similar to The Binding of Isaac, as is the developers semi-fascination with feces.
I don't remember a world without Pac-Man. I was only 3 years old when it originally came out in the arcades, so I don't really remember the initial impact it had. But in the next years I remember and was a part of the wave of Pac-Man fever. Every Sunday I would get a pack of the Pac-Man trading cards, my fifth birthday had a Pac-Man theme (I still have the Pac-Man sleeping bag I got that year), and I remember when the whole thing died down which I will always blame on the god-awful Pac-Man cartoon.
The biggest memory though, was courtesy of my best friend Christopher. I've talked about him before in the past. Christopher's stepdad was in the local mafia. I'm not exactly sure what his rank or position was, but he seemed to have been a mid-level guy and as a result, their family had a lot more cool stuff and everyone else in the neighborhood. Case in point, they had an actual Ms. Pac-Man arcade unit (along with Donkey Kong, a Space Invaders pinball machine, and I think a game called Circus).
Christopher and I put in hours and hours on Ms. Pac-Man. The reality was we were around 4 or 5 years old so we were never that good at it. If we could get to the pear stage it was considered a pretty giant accomplishment. But that game fed my Pac-Man addiction far better than the Atari 2600 version of regular Pac-Man could. And truth be told, when you look at all the Pac-Man games throughout history, it's pretty hard to argue that Ms Pac-Man wasn't the best in the series. Just enough variety on the levels that it kept things interesting, but not so many that you weren't able to learn the patterns and techniques to keep going.
40-something years later, if I see Ms Pac-Man somewhere in the wild and I have a quarter in my pocket, I'm going to play the game. The phrase "timeless classic" gets tossed around a lot, but Ms Pac-Man genuinely is one of those games that lives up to it.
It was a happy day when my mom got me that 45.
Like most of my 80s songs, I recorded it from the radio.
I hadn't but I'm listening to it right now on YT.
Downloading it right now.
When I saw this onthe feed I thought you were talking about a Colt 45.
A typical gamer jump-to conclusion.