Favourite Video Games by Year

Commonly considered as one of the most influential video games of all time, the goal is to defeat wave after wave of descending aliens with a horizontally moving laser cannon to earn as many points as possible.

Face waves of aliens descending on your spaceship and clear the screen to achieve victory.

Navigate Pac-Man through a maze escaping ghosts and eating Pac-Dots.

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.

Players navigate an airplane through several time periods while battling enemies.

Two plumber brothers, Mario and Luigi, come across unearthly creatures while searching sewer pipes, so they must do their job and clear the pipes.

Bronx kid Little Mac is trained by ex-boxer "Doc" Louis so he may gain a name for himself in the World Video Boxing Association, in hopes he can fight the legendary Mr. Dream.

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.

The Ninja children of the Iga clan were kidnapped by Zeed, a syndication of evil Ninjas and outlaws. Joe Musashi, a master of Ninjutsu amd other martial arts must penetrate single-handedly into the opponent's territory on a mission to rescue the little ones and wipe out the villains.

Martial arts siblings Billy and Jimmy Lee must battle a tough gang known as the Black Warriors in order to rescue Billy's girlfriend, Marian.

Metro City is the most dangerous place in the world. When Mayor Mike Haggar's daughter, Jessica, is kidnapped by the Mad Gear gang, it is up to Haggar, Cody, and Guy to rescue her.

Solid Snake has retired from FOX-HOUND, but is called back to active duty to infiltrate the heavily armed nation "Zanzibar Land" and rescue a kidnapped inventor.

A horizontal side-scrolling beat-em-up. You fight your way through hordes of enemies, collecting weapons along the way.

Sega Genesis version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Sonic teams up with Miles "Tails" Prower to stop Dr. Robotnik from taking over the world with his new space fortress, the Death Egg.

The story of a boy who pulls out a rusty sword and is banished from Potos. He meets a girl and a Sprite. Together, they journey to gather 8 Mana seeds to save the Mana tree and stop Thanatos and his empire from taking over the world.

When long-time friends Hiro and Ruby discover a strange visitor from another world, they find themselves on a long journey to find the goddess Althena and stop the mad godlike Zophar from rebirth. Many other characters with their own stories to tell join the party throughout the adventure. In the end it comes to one question: can Hiro save Lunar or will Zophar bring the tiny world into darkness for ever?

Crono, a young boy, is thrust to adventure by destiny to destroy an oncoming threat that will destroy the world in 1999.

The RPD are investigating strange cannibalized corpses on the outskirts of the city. The Alpha squad, Jill and Chris, are sent to locate missing team members. While there, mutated dogs cause them to flee into a supposedly abandoned mansion.

A former soldier from an evil company joins a mercenary clan to fight the company he once served.

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.

Ryo, a respected Japanese student sees his father killed in front of his own eyes. He sets out to find the man in charge of his fathers death and the mystery of who and why?

The first WWF game on the PlayStation to be published by THQ, SmackDown! marked the start of a long running series of WWE video games from THQ, then continued by 2K Sports and rebranded as WWE 2K.

Two years after the death of Solid Snake, a rookie FOX-HOUND agent, on his first mission, infiltrates an offshore decontamination facility to rescue the President.

Enhanced version of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001) in which two years after the death of Snake, a rookie FOX-HOUND agent infiltrates an offshore facility. It adds VR missions, 5 short-story missions with Snake at the helm, a "Skater Mode" and more.