Top Ten First Games

Some games stick out in my mind as the best games I have played, but it is a certain few games that really addicted me to gaming. This is the list of the ten best games/ most addicting games out of my first games.
(For clarity I mean these are my favorites out of all the games I originally started playing.)

Number Ten: Paperboy



It was simple, yet nearly impossible to beat. I loved watching the crazy things that were on the road. I also loved trying my best at delivering papers. The gameplay was simple, but for a six-year-old it was a challenging game to beat. It was fun yet annoying, but I found myself coming back again and again until I was able to beat the first level.

Number Nine: Starcraft



The original Starcraft was amazing and I was hooked to this sci-fi action RTS immediately. Though I was unable to beat many campaign levels without cheats it was amazing. I loved the storyline and the graphics. I also loved the idea of an RTS (Starcraft was my second to Age of Empires II). I loved it, until I realized how bad I was at multiplayer and then stopped playing. I was one of those guys waiting for years for SC2.

Number Eight: Super Mario Bros 3



My first Mario game was also one of the most memorable ones. It was a fun game in which my whole family and I played. I emerged the best and logged hours in playtime. I eventually ended up fighting Bowser in the end, and I won. The first NES game I ever beat alone. This game was so much fun that I didn't care about the lame graphics or lack of a real story. (Then again I was six at the time.) This is when I married Nintendo.

Number Seven: Project S-11



A simple game in which you pilot a plane and shoot aliens that come at you. I received it for easter and had the hardest time beating the first boss. After I trudged through each level one at a time I ended up winning. I then kept playing, getting better and better. I loved it and the music. It was soon a habit to play and led to more and more addiction to games.

Number Six: Sonic the Hedgehog 2



My first Sonic game was impossibly hard. I put the right imput but never seemed to get the desired results. Wait... that was the case for all my GameGear games. Whatever. I loved it enough to play again an again. The joy I had beating the first level and even making it to the second boss was amazing. (Yes, I used to be the worst gamer ever.) I hid in my bed late at night and played, lucky for me the battery guzzling GameGear had a luminated screen. I only stopped playing when I got my Game Boy Color.

Number Five: Mario Party



Though I never owned Mario Party I always played at my friend's house. He was DK and I was Yoshi. We would play for the entire time, and I always seemed to lose. (Little did I know that he had his handicap set so high I never stood a chance.) But the game was fun, and the fun it brought made other games seem fun as well.

Number Four: Mario Kart 64



My same friend had Mario Kart 64. I was MUCH better at MK 64. The ability to actually beat other players for the first time made this game one of my favorites. Also, the comical value, entertainment, and replay value made it a great game.

Number Three: Pokemon Blue Version



Yup, the infamous Pokemon! As a game I was hooked and spent the most hours playing any game asside from Fallout 3 (which is a fairly new game in comparison). It was my second Game Boy Color game and the one I logged the most time playing. It introduced an era of addiction I have yet to overcome. This game was my drugs as a ten-year-old kid.

Number Two: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis



Though my father played most of the game FOR me (I'll admit it, I really sucked and he did all the real work) I loved it. I LOVED Indiana Jones as a kid (I dressed up as Indy for fun almost everyday) and the fact this game was based on him made it so much cooler. The storyline was exhilarating, the graphics fairly decent, and the point-and-click awesomeness was well, awesome! Tons of fun, and way better than Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull!

Number One: The Dig



I guess I was a sucker for Lucasarts at an early age. This was the first in-depth game I completed. It was complex, quite complicated, yet the controls (as a PaC adventure) were simple enough for a seven-year-old to understand. I played through for hours on end and eventually ended up winning. I tested both endings, which meant more than one playthroughs. I liked the graphics (not as good as Indy for the people but amazing backdrops) and absolutely loved the soundtrack. I still love the soundtrack, but what got me most was the sci-fi storyline by Orson Scott Keyes. Yup, he wrote it. I also loved the main character: Boston Lowe. He made the game fun. Only one problem: That Mother-F$%$ING Turtle Puzzle! DAMN YOU TURTLE PUZZLE!

Remember, these were MY first games and some of the ones that left the largest impacts on me as a gamer. What were your top ten first games? Feel free to comment below!

- Neezo

Top Ten Videogame Playtimes

This week I'm going to do something strange... I'm listing the games I have logged the most time playing. Some games are just replayable, others are time consuming, and some are addicting. Here they are, the Top Ten Videogame Playtimes... for Neezo.

Number Ten: Star Wars Battlefront II



Battlefront II was one of the most fun Playstation 2 games my family owned. I was really good when we played and got all the achievements. It was one of the first games I owned that had achievements and I was really addicted to getting them. Maybe I never played story mode and only played versus or conquest, but I really logged some serious hours fighting the Dark Side of the Force.

Number Nine: Fallout: New Vegas



I was fully addicted to Fallout 3, and when New Vegas came out I was All In. I bought the limited/collector's edition with all the special props, and then began playing for some 12 hours straight. I think I beat the game in less than 24 hours with small breaks for college classes and a few meals. The hours I logged playing Fallout 3 still hold over New Vegas, but then again there have been fewer DLCs and I have been enjoying other games as well. But I still logged enough for it to reach number nine. (With the new DLC out I should be logging a few more here soon...)

Number Eight: Sonic Adventure 2: Battle



Possibly one of my most favorite games when I was growing up and my most favorite Sonic game. I love Sonic as a videogame character and I think he gets a bad rap for all the crap games the developers have come out with. SA2 was replayable, had good versus, and had "achievements" to unlock in each level. I strove to get an "A" on all achievements, and though I failed I DID get all of them. I just had a few E and Cs thrown in. The point is, the game was fun, the characters were good, and the replay value was really high. This let me log tons of hours in on my favorite game at the time.

Number Seven: CafeWorld



How else do you make it to the top in a Facebook game? You log in hours and hours and hours to top the competition. I haven't played in almost a year, and I'm still number one among my friends. I played for ten or twenty minutes here and a few more there all day everyday. If I were addicted to any game on Facebook, this was the one. I even have had intellectual conversations about it and true dialogue regarding strategy and recipes. Yeah, I was that guy.

Number Six: Left 4 Dead



My favorite zombie game comes in at six. The FPS zombie survival game has no "real" storyline or story mode, but four distinct campaigns. Playing with my roommate and friends led to hours of playtime. We played almost every night for an entire year, until Left 4 Dead 2 came out and we stopped. I still play online here and there and am still rather badass. However, I just don't log the same hours I do for the top five games.

Number Five: The SIMS Series



I'm including all SIMS games from SIMS 1 to 3. I have found myself playing for hours and hours customizing, creating, designing, and playing with made-up people. Though I now find it rather tedious and a bit repetitive I was addicted to following my Sims through their lives. I would sit there all night, 8-5, following the marriage, child birth, and death of my Sim. It's still cool for a playthrough here and there, but I'm not all SIMS anymore.

Number Four: Modern Warfare 2



I played Call of Duty 4 a lot and enjoyed it, until I was constantly sniped and pissed at the constant annoyances. The story was interesting and fun, and I was excited to see it continue. Modern Warfare 2 brought what I was hoping. The gameplay was the same, so I didn't need to start on Recruit and went to Hardened. Though it took me longer to beat the game on Veteran, I still enjoyed it. The storyline was great and what I expected from Infinity Ward and the multiplayer/co-op was greatly improved. I can survive and even lead my team in multiplayer and the co-op has helped push the hours beyond Left 4 Dead.

Number Three: Minecraft



Minecraft is the fastest growing time-consumer in my life. Instead of studying for my senior finals, I was playing Minecraft. Instead of researching for my senior thesis I was playing Minecraft. Instead of readying for Graduation I was... sleeping. Anyhow, this game has logged so many hours in the course of a few months I am sad to say I still play it. Though it has lost the excitement it once held, I still play Minecraft almost daily. I'd play for seven or more hours a day for months, and that has made it the fastest growing on this list.

Number 2: Pokemon Blue Version



Pokemon Blue was the only game I liked when I was a kid. It was also one of the only games I owned. I loved Pokemon and played it for hours and hours at a time. I beat the game 100% legitimately, all 150, no cheats, I beat the Elite Four, had almost all Lv100s, and never used a cheat. It took about 215 hours to do it. There was no quick use of the bike, no organiztion of items, and no running. Travel was slow and deliberate, and the rival was popping up all over. The race to Lv100 among my friends and I led me to hours of fighting the Elite Four. I was the best, like no one ever was.

Number One: Fallout 3



Oh, my, GOODNESS! I played for hours my first sitting. I was instantly addicted to Fallout 3. I loved it so much I couldn't stop. I kept playing and playing. I beat the game so many times in all different ways with such different characters. I would make a unique character each time, changing one or more choices each time. Then I downloaded some DLCs and beat them many times over. When my brother got Game of the Year Edition, I borrowed all the DLCs. I was stoked and played more. I kept playing and playing. The amount of time I logged literally overheated the XBox console many times over. My second XBox 360 may have been destroyed due to Fallout 3, but I'm not entirely sure. I bought the XBox for Halo 3, but kept it for Fallout 3. I still play it from time to time (it has been replaced with Fallout: New Vegas) and I still have ways to be unique. Oh, and I got 100% of the achievements after a year.

Which games have you spent the most time playing? Which ones really light up your scoreboard? Comment it up!!!

- Neezo