Lists are my favourite, and a recent thread on my favourite gaming forum at Cane and Rinse inspired a new one that I’m sharing below for no other reason than I want to record it somewhere. And it’s a good checklist for important stuff I haven’t covered here yet! Join in for fun if you like though!
This is your favourite games by system. Mine is based mostly on what I owned but also what I played just as much of at the time – brother’s / best mate’s / son’s / etc. Roughly in the order owned. And exclusives where it works or where they even existed…
- Interstate 1160 – Hockey / Football (genuinely what it was called!)
- Atari 2600 – Seaquest
- Game & Watch – Snoopy Tennis (more here)
- Handheld – Grandstand Mini Munchman
- VIC-20 – The Perils of Willy (more here)
- BBC – Elite
- Spectrum +2 – Feud (favourite game on any system ever)
- C64 – Winter Games
- Amstrad CPC – Chuckie Egg (yeah, I know, Spectrum one better)
- Atari ST – Kick Off
- Mega Drive – Virtua Racer
- Game Boy – Tetris
- Atari Lynx – California Games (more here)
- Game Gear – G-LOC
- PlayStation – Destruction Derby 2 (sorry, Symphony of the Night!)
- Game Boy Colour – Pokemon Gold (more here)
- PlayStation 2 – SSX 3
- Game Boy Advance – V-Rally 3 (more here)
- GameCube – Wave Race
- PSP – Pro Evolution Soccer 2008
- PlayStation 3 – Batman Arkham Asylum
- Wii – The House of the Dead: Overkill
- PlayStation 4 – Destiny
- iOS – Alto’s Adventure
- 3DS – Pokemon Ultra Moon
- Xbox One – Demon’s Tilt (almost by default as I’ve not played much else but love this)
- Switch – Gris
And stuff I didn’t have access to at the time but have played a lot of more recently…
- Master System – Road Rash
- NES – Mega Man 2
- SNES – Super Mario World
- PC Engine – Devil’s Crush
I’m throwing in the Shaolin’s Road arcade machine too as I probably spent enough on that to own it!
And there we go. As always, thanks for indulging me!