Video Games
by lechaplin | created - 10 May 2017 | updated - 6 months ago | PublicMy favourite video games in chronological order.
IMDb doesn't list the first games I played on the C64, namely Blitz and Ski:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz_(video_game)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5_0hE6_GzM
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1. Pac-Man (1980 Video Game)
E | Family, Fantasy
Navigate Pac-Man through a maze escaping ghosts and eating Pac-Dots.
Votes: 2,412
2. Donkey Kong (1981 Video Game)
E | Action
Arcade video game and the first in the "Donkey Kong" series in which Jumpman (later retconned to be Mario) runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site and rescue Pauline from a giant gorilla, Donkey Kong.
Director: Shigeru Miyamoto
Votes: 2,163
3. Tetris (1984 Video Game)
E
Differently shaped blocks descend into a 2D container. The blocks can be moved and rotated, and must be sorted into the rest of the blocks on the fly.
Director: Alexey Pazhitnov
Votes: 3,514
4. Wonder Boy (I) (1986 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Family
The tropical wonder boy himself Tom Tom must save his girlfriend Tina from demons and monsters.
Votes: 64
5. Alex Kidd in Miracle World (1986 Video Game)
E | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
On his way home from training, a young martial artist named Alex Kidd learns of a villain who has taken over his homeland and kidnapped his family, so he sets out on a quest to rescue them.
Votes: 189
6. Golden Axe (1989 Video Game)
Unrated | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Three heroes try to overthrow the evil rule of Death-Adder, who kidnapped and imprisoned the King and his daughter and stole the legendary Golden Axe.
Votes: 1,140
7. Moonwalker (1989 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Music
Sega Mega Drive game revolving around Michael Jackson's quest to save the children that have been kidnapped by Mr. Big.
Star: Michael Jackson
Votes: 323
8. SimCity (1989 Video Game)
Adventure, Family
Build and design a city, mark land as being zoned as commercial, industrial, or residential, add buildings, build a power grid, build transportation systems, and watch your metropolis come to life in SimCity.
Director: Nobuyuki Suzuki
Votes: 395
9. Columns (1990 Video Game)
Family
Columns of three different symbols such as very differently-colored jewels appear, one at a time, at the top of the well and fall to the bottom, landing either on the floor or on top of ... See full summary »
Votes: 169
12. Road Rash (1991 Video Game)
Not Rated | Action, Adventure, Sport
Third person motorcycle racer much like Super Hang-On only with loads of fighting and playing dirty.
Director: Carl Mey | Star: Scott Cronce
Votes: 200
13. Sonic the Hedgehog (I) (1991 Video Game)
K-A | Action, Adventure, Family
A blue hedgehog with supersonic speed must rescue animals from being turned into robots by a mad scientist.
Votes: 3,638
14. Streets of Rage (1991 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Crime
A horizontal side-scrolling beat-em-up. You fight your way through hordes of enemies, collecting weapons along the way.
Directors: Hiroaki Chino, Hiroshi Momota
Votes: 1,155
15. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992 Video Game)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Indiana Jones must fight the nazis again in search for Atlantis and a newly discovered mineral of unbelievable power, the Orichalcum.
Director: Hal Barwood | Stars: Denny Delk, David Gitin, Jane Jacobs, Nick Jameson
Votes: 1,723
16. Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting (1992 Video Game)
T | Action, Fantasy
Third arcade version of "Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1991)". It introduces a faster playing speed and new special moves for certain characters, as well as further refinement to the character balance. Each fighter also receives a new default color palette.
Star: Johnpaul Williams
Votes: 741
17. Ecco the Dolphin (1993 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Family
Travel through the time along with Ecco the dolphin, in the only game that could call itself a 'dolphin simulator'.
Votes: 234
18. Mutant League Football (1993 Video Game)
Action, Comedy, Fantasy
A football game with archaic rules in a post-apocalyptic world where radiation has caused humans to mutate and the dead to rise from the grave.
Directors: Alan Martin, Michael Mendheim
Votes: 21
19. NBA Jam (1993 Video Game)
GA | Sport
High energy and fast paced two on two arcade basketball featuring superstars and legends of the NBA.
Director: Mark Turmell | Stars: Sal DiVita, Kerri Hoskins, Stephen Howard, Todd McClearn
Votes: 398
20. Theme Park (1994 Video Game)
E | Action, Comedy, Family
Build your own wondrous Theme Park and fill it with thrilling rides to make it the most fun in the world.
Votes: 279
21. Chrono Trigger (1995 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Crono, a young boy, is thrust to adventure by destiny to destroy an oncoming threat that will destroy the world in 1999.
Directors: Yoshinori Kitase, Akihiko Matsui, Takashi Tokita, Nao Ito
Votes: 3,308
22. Command & Conquer (1995 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a new and powerful mineral, the Tiberium, is discovered, two organizations start a war for its control: the criminal Brotherhood of NOD and the UN derived GDI forces.
Director: Joseph D. Kucan | Stars: Eric Martin, Joseph D. Kucan, Les Collins, Eric Gooch
Votes: 1,961
23. Final Fantasy VII (1997 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Drama
A former soldier from an evil company joins a mercenary clan to fight the company he once served.
Directors: Yoshinori Kitase, Yasushi Matsumura, Masato Yagi
Votes: 11,344
24. Grand Theft Auto (1997 Video Game)
M | Action, Comedy, Crime
As a young street hustler you explore the free worlds of Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas while doing jobs and assignments.
Stars: Rhys Davis, Callum Jones, Spike Robinson, Richard Smith
Votes: 4,256
25. The Curse of Monkey Island (1997 Video Game)
K-A | Animation, Action, Adventure
After unwittingly turning his true love Elaine into solid gold with a cursed engagement ring, Guybrush Threepwood must find a map, a ship and a crew, sail to Blood Island and track down an uncursed diamond ring to reverse the curse.
Directors: Jonathan Ackley, Larry Ahern | Stars: Dominic Armato, Alexandra Boyd, Earl Boen, Denny Delk
Votes: 2,838
26. Pokémon: Yellow Version - Special Pikachu Edition (1998 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
This game draws inspiration from the Pokémon anime series. Some gameplay events and storyline aspects are added or changed, though the overall story remains the same.
Director: Satoshi Tajiri | Star: Ikue Ôtani
Votes: 1,758
27. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A young Kokiri boy discovers that his destiny is to free the Seven Sages and save the land of Hyrule from the treacherous sorcerer Ganondorf.
Directors: Eiji Aonuma, Yoichi Yamada, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Shigeru Miyamoto, Tôru Ôsawa | Stars: Nobuyuki Hiyama, Fujiko Takimoto, Jun Mizusawa, Takashi Nagasako
Votes: 10,673
28. The Sims (2000 Video Game)
T | Comedy, Drama
"The Sims" is a close up look at a family of Will Wright's critically acclaimed "Sim City" series. In this game you create a family of "Sims" and build a house for them on the lot they are put on.
Director: Will Wright | Stars: Gerri Lawlor, Stephen Kearin, Sean O'Connor, Laurel McCarl Kapros
Votes: 2,408
29. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Family
After becoming the hero of Hyrule, Link stumbles into the enchanted land of Termina, where a falling moon will crush the world in three days.
Directors: Eiji Aonuma, Yoshiaki Koizumi | Stars: Fujiko Takimoto, Sachi Matsumoto, Kôji Tobe, Mari Maruta
Votes: 4,086
30. Black & White (2001 Video Game)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
You are a god of a land known as Eden, you choose a creature, which you must train and look after. As you progress through the story, your creature will increase in size and knowledge. Your... See full summary »
Director: Peter Molyneux | Stars: Marc Silk, Shelley Blond, Hugo Myatt, Earl Boen
Votes: 372
31. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Drama
After being released from jail, Tommy Vercetti leaves Liberty City for Vice City, a city overrun by the mob. Now, Tommy is out to make Vice City his home.
Stars: Ray Liotta, William Fichtner, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper
Votes: 29,535
32. Fable (2004 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Once a young boy has obtained a gift for his sister's birthday, bandits attack his home village of Oakvale. A member of the Hero's Guild, Maze, stumbles upon the boy, saves him and takes the boy to the Guild to be raised as a hero.
Director: Peter Molyneux | Stars: Adjoa Andoh, Georg Backer, Emma Butcher, Luke Butcher
Votes: 3,096
33. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime
Carl "CJ" Johnson, a member of the Grove Street street gang, comes home after a family tragedy to find it overtaken by crime and corruption, which he must take back before things become worse.
Stars: Young Maylay, Faizon Love, Yolanda 'Yo-Yo' Whittaker, Clifton Powell
Votes: 44,537
34. The Sims 2 (2004 Video Game)
T | Adventure, Family, Romance
The sequel to one of the most successful PC games of all-time: The Sims (2000). In The Sims 2, players have a wide range of new options, socials, objects and lots more.
Director: Will Wright | Stars: David Boat, Jack Conte, Zoe Galvez, Roger Jackson
Votes: 3,386
35. Bully (2006 Video Game)
T | Action, Crime, Drama
A troubled teen is dropped off at the worst school in the country and must survive by rising through the rankings of the school system.
Stars: Gerry Rosenthal, Peter Vack, Matt Bush, John Lavelle
Votes: 6,246
36. Rûn fakutorî: Shin bokujô monogatari (2006 Video Game)
E | Adventure, Fantasy
Play as a young man who comes into possession of a dilapidated farm. Farm crops, fish, mine, fight monsters, make friends with the local villagers, fall in love and get married, and stop a powerful evil invading your new home.
Stars: Mai Aizawa, Moyu Arishima, Peter Barto, Takahiro Fujimoto
Votes: 27
37. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After being freed by the Emperor of Tamriel, the hero must prevent the gates of Oblivion from spreading throughout the Empire.
Director: Todd Howard | Stars: Sean Bean, Lynda Carter, Terence Stamp, Patrick Stewart
Votes: 13,081
38. Fable II (2008 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A peasant child finds out about the heroic past of the child's family. Once old enough, the hero decides to reclaim his or hers heritage.
Stars: Ron Glass, Julia Sawalha, Oliver Cotton, Stephen Fry
Votes: 2,939
39. Fallout 3 (2008 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Centuries following nuclear war, a teen leaves the safety of an underground vault in order to find their father, who left in hopes of creating a water purifier.
Director: Todd Howard | Stars: Liam Neeson, Malcolm McDowell, Ron Perlman, Odette Annable
Votes: 20,377
40. Minecraft (2009 Video Game)
E10+ | Action, Adventure, Family
Welcome to the world of Minecraft where you can build, brew potions, enchant your armor and tools and adventure other biomes. Visit the Nether, or even defeat the Ender Dragon in the End.
Director: Agnes Larsson | Stars: Pierre Coffin, Katie Crown, CW21, Luke Harrison
Votes: 14,109
41. Fallout: New Vegas (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After surviving a bullet to the head, Courier Six traverses the post-apocalyptic Mojave desert in search of the men who wronged him, while making an impact on thousands in the process.
Director: Josh Sawyer | Stars: Matthew Perry, Wayne Newton, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman
Votes: 13,967
42. L.A. Noire (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Drama
Cole Phelps, a war hero and rookie cop, moves up the ranks and solves dark cases in 1940s Los Angeles.
Director: Brendan McNamara | Stars: Aaron Staton, Michael McGrady, Adam J. Harrington, Sean McGowan
Votes: 16,635
43. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After escaping execution, the last living Dragonborn must grow in strength and power to defeat the dragons that have once again begun to plague the land of Skyrim.
Director: Todd Howard | Stars: Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Joan Allen, Michael Hogan
Votes: 33,676
44. Animal Crossing: New Leaf (2012 Video Game)
E | Family
Live and prosper as a mayor in a town full of animals where you can basically do anything you want while paying the loan on your house. Installment for the Nintendo 3DS.
Directors: Aya Kyogoku, Isao Moro
Votes: 1,167
45. Diablo III (2012 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Twenty years after the events of Diablo II (2000), Deckard Cain and his niece Leah are in Tristram Cathedral when a mysterious star falling from the sky strikes the Cathedral, creating a deep crater into which Deckard Cain disappears.
Directors: Nicholas S. Carpenter, Marc Messenger | Stars: Athena Karkanis, Dorian Harewood, Anna Graves, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Votes: 4,240
47. RimWorld (2013 Video Game)
M | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rimworld is story generator centered around the player's colony of Pawns. Crash landed survivors need to set up food, shelter, fight off threats and find their place in a danger filled universe.
Director: Tynan Sylvester | Star: Andrew Latheron
Votes: 86
48. ARK: Survival Evolved (2015 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
An MMO survival game. Pitting the player in a hostile environment where the goal is to forage, craft, build, hunt, and survive in a prehistoric future where players are given total freedom in a dinosaur "playground".
Directors: Jesse Rapczak, Jeremy Stieglitz | Stars: Amber Lee Connors, Jacob Craner, Camila Fitzgibbon, Tamara Ryan
Votes: 1,503
49. Fallout 4 (2015 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the post-apocalyptic Boston, Massachusetts area, you play as the "Sole Survivor" of Vault 111, recently revived from centuries of forced cryostasis, determined to find your kidnapped son.
Director: Todd Howard | Stars: Brian T. Delaney, Courtenay Taylor, Stephen Russell, Courtney Ford
Votes: 15,240
50. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
The monster slayer Geralt of Rivia must find his adoptive daughter who is being pursued by the Wild Hunt, and prevent the White Frost from bringing about the end of the world.
Director: Konrad Tomaszkiewicz | Stars: Doug Cockle, Denise Gough, Jo Wyatt, Jaimi Barbakoff
Votes: 33,301
51. Stardew Valley (2016 Video Game)
T | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Director: Eric Barone | Stars: Eric Barone, Suzie Steen
Votes: 1,657
52. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017 Video Game)
E10+ | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After a century of hibernation, Link reawakens to once again save a ruined Hyrule from a great evil.
Directors: Hidemaro Fujibayashi, Hiroki Hirano, Kentaro Tominaga | Stars: Kengo Takanashi, Yû Shimamura, Kôji Takeda, Noboru Yamaguchi
Votes: 9,883
53. Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (2018 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Set in 431 BC during the Pelopenesian War, play as either a male or female mercenary as you embark on your own epic odyssey to become a legendary Spartan hero in a world where every choice matters.
Directors: Jonathan Dumont, Scott Phillips, Sophie Ann Rooney | Stars: Melissanthi Mahut, Michael Antonakos, Leonidas Castrounis, Maria Syrgiannis
Votes: 9,713
54. Graveyard Keeper (2018 Video Game)
Horror
Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.
Votes: 48
55. Red Dead Redemption II (2018 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Crime
Amidst the decline of the Wild West at the turn of the 20th century, outlaw Arthur Morgan and his gang struggle to cope with the loss of their way of life.
Stars: Benjamin Byron Davis, Roger Clark, Rob Wiethoff, Cali Elizabeth Moore
Votes: 54,580
56. Assassin's Creed: Valhalla (2020 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
England in the age of the Vikings is a fractured nation of petty lords and warring kingdoms. Beneath the chaos lies a rich and untamed land waiting for a new conqueror. Will it be you?
Directors: Eric Baptizat, François Daubet, Benoit Richer, Stephane Boudon | Stars: Cecilie Stenspil, Magnus Bruun, Carlo Rota, Gaia Weiss
Votes: 6,487
57. Grounded (2020 Video Game)
E10+ | Adventure
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Director: Adam Brennecke | Stars: Zachary Levi, Josh Brener, Luke Youngblood, Ozioma Akagha
Votes: 282
58. Valheim (2021 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, Set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture.. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin's patronage.
Votes: 272
59. Hogwarts Legacy (2023 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Set during the late 1800s, a newly enrolled student at Hogwarts discovers that they possess the unusual ability to perceive and master Ancient Magic, becoming the key to an old secret that threatens to tear the wizarding world apart.
Directors: Natalie Gray, Nathan Hendrickson, Alan Tew | Stars: Alastair Duncan, Amy Louise Pemberton, Asif Ali, Carla Tassara
Votes: 6,486
61. Starfield (2023 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
Set 300 years in the future, the player will assume the role of a customisable character who is a member of Constellation, an organization of space explorers.
Director: Todd Howard | Stars: Sumalee Montano, Damien C. Haas, Barry Wiggins, Jake Green
Votes: 2,448
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