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Fancy Fancy FMK Tagline

Posts : 227 Points : 247 Join date : 2013-01-16 Location : Vitaboro
 | Subject: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Mon 2 Dec 2013 - 11:09 | |
| This was posted over on the Retro Gamer Magazine Forum by GigaPepsiMan & is quite a fun little diversion. What's your score? - Quote :
- I'm sure many here are familiar with this book, I have just spent the last 2 days putting all the books entries into a list so you can mark off how many games in the book you have played.
1001 Video games You must Play Before You Die is a 2010 book published by Octopus Books containing a list of 1001 Video Games that the contributing authors believe should be played by everyone at least once.
How many have you played?
Notes:
There are only 999 items on this list but that is not an error. The book contains multiple games in single entries.
Due to a spelling error the game Free Running was removed from the list and re-added, however I am unable to move it back to its original place.
http://www.listchallenges.com/1001-video-games-you-must-play-before-you-die |
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The Cappuccino Kid Portrait Ghost

Posts : 6175 Points : 6328 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 103 Location : East of Mombasa
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Mon 2 Dec 2013 - 11:26 | |
| Unbelievably, we've posted this exact same thread at the same time!
I'll delete mine. I'm at a 'mere' 366. |
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beemoh Koopaling
Posts : 2007 Points : 2050 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 37 Location : Writing and arithmetic
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Mon 2 Dec 2013 - 11:30 | |
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Cube Garreg Mach Geography Teacher
Posts : 395 Points : 401 Join date : 2013-09-18
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Mon 2 Dec 2013 - 11:56 | |
| 270. Although I did notice a few terrible games that you should never play, like Far Cry 2, Fuel, Resident Evil 5, No More Heroes, Spore and some others.
I found it amusing that they used a PEGI-rated box for WarioWare: Twisted! |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS

Posts : 25144 Points : 23978 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 32 Location : Admintown
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Mon 2 Dec 2013 - 12:13 | |
| Including remakes, games I've played a few seconds of (Line Rider, Machinarium), and the Jetpac and DK minigames in DK64, I've got 96. Better than I thought, although there were some dodgy ones up there. Dead Space Extraction? And I don't remember Cappa liking Max & the Magic Marker all that much either.
Now to see whether anyone else has played The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis. What a game. |
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The Cappuccino Kid Portrait Ghost

Posts : 6175 Points : 6328 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 103 Location : East of Mombasa
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Mon 2 Dec 2013 - 12:23 | |
| I did a double-take when I saw Max & The Magic Marker on there. For me, the list sort of falls apart as we head into the mid 2000s. There's quite a bit of stuff that couldn't be viewed as essential playing from whatever way you look at it.
Max & The Magic Marker was even more boring that Ghost Recon Shadow Wars, which was unforgivably dull itself. |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova

Posts : 15470 Points : 14643 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 28 Location : The Shibuya River
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Mon 2 Dec 2013 - 13:52 | |
| 221. Not bad - although a lot of them were "played for 10 minutes" deals.
There was a lot of guff in there though. |
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Crumpy Andy Zeta Metroid

Posts : 4774 Points : 4781 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 29 Location : The South
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Mon 2 Dec 2013 - 13:59 | |
| 320 there for me, I thought there was an adequate spread of duff games in the older section as well. Resi 5 and No More Heroes definitely deserve to be in the list though! |
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masofdas The Next Reggie

Posts : 22800 Points : 23157 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 32 Location : VITA Island
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Mon 2 Dec 2013 - 16:36 | |
| 502 for me giving me 2/3 stars, there was some crap in there like resident evil 5 and i don't think i saw wind waker for instance. |
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Fancy Fancy FMK Tagline

Posts : 227 Points : 247 Join date : 2013-01-16 Location : Vitaboro
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Mon 2 Dec 2013 - 19:29 | |
| - The Cappuccino Kid wrote:
- Unbelievably, we've posted this exact same thread at the same time!
I'll delete mine. I'm at a 'mere' 366. Great minds thinking alike! Only 279, despite me being in my forties. Played hundreds of games on my Spectrum in the eighties, but not so many later on. |
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ZeroJones I'M SO LONELY

Posts : 10465 Points : 9425 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 42 Location : North Midlands, England
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Mon 2 Dec 2013 - 21:13 | |
| 166. Given my heavy Nintendo bias, that's not too bad. It's missing some cracking games, though, and includes some cacking games... but then these lists always do. |
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Buskalilly Dark Sun

Posts : 14052 Points : 14218 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 31 Location : Nagano
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Mon 2 Dec 2013 - 22:47 | |
| 237. Way better than I expected, to be honest. If it was a question of games I've finished, it would be very different, probably barely 10% of that. - Cube wrote:
- terrible games . . . No More Heroes!
woah woah woah... what? |
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The Cappuccino Kid Portrait Ghost

Posts : 6175 Points : 6328 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 103 Location : East of Mombasa
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Mon 2 Dec 2013 - 22:56 | |
| Cube is trying to out-Andyman Andyman, natch. |
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Admin Ice Climber

Posts : 3440 Points : 3000 Join date : 2008-08-19 Age : 9
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Mon 2 Dec 2013 - 23:21 | |
| 339 for me. Misspent youth, and all that. Laughed when I saw Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes on the list.  |
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Buskalilly Dark Sun

Posts : 14052 Points : 14218 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 31 Location : Nagano
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Mon 2 Dec 2013 - 23:45 | |
| Can you really call The Lost Levels a game you have to play? It's essentially just a ready hard set of levels for SMB. |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS

Posts : 25144 Points : 23978 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 32 Location : Admintown
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Tue 3 Dec 2013 - 7:28 | |
| - Buskalilly wrote:
- Cube wrote:
- terrible games . . . No More Heroes!
woah woah woah... what? I missed this one, and echo Buska's shock. I think he might have been better sticking to 500 and going for absolute classics/those that really tried something new. Just my opinion, o' course. |
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Buskalilly Dark Sun

Posts : 14052 Points : 14218 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 31 Location : Nagano
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Tue 3 Dec 2013 - 11:09 | |
| - Balladeer wrote:
I think he might have been better sticking to 500 and going for absolute classics/those that really tried something new. Just my opinion, o' course. I'd agree with that. I get the impression the title came first and they had to fill it with whatever they could, especially towards the end. |
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shanks Raging Pedant

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 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Tue 3 Dec 2013 - 12:38 | |
| 281 was my score which is more then what I expected |
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Treesmurf Snack Review

Posts : 3799 Points : 3801 Join date : 2013-01-17 Age : 32 Location : Manneh
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Tue 3 Dec 2013 - 23:43 | |
| 259 although I'm assuming I've missed a few there as there were some notable omissions and I could increase that number quite easily as there's ones I own that I've yet to play.
I got my first "bingo" at 771, that's a row of 5 that I've played for those wondering. |
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Athrun888 Sheegoth

Posts : 3618 Points : 3665 Join date : 2013-01-26 Location : Holiday Bunker
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Wed 4 Dec 2013 - 6:11 | |
| My score I shall not be disclosing. I scored that little. |
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masofdas The Next Reggie

Posts : 22800 Points : 23157 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 32 Location : VITA Island
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Wed 4 Dec 2013 - 10:52 | |
| So I've played the most then go me and my tempest 2000 playing abilities. Jimbob needs to take the test as I reckon he will be highest. |
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Jimbob Rotating Platform

Posts : 4305 Points : 4330 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 39 Location : Milton Keynes
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Wed 4 Dec 2013 - 11:29 | |
| Aw, man, only 249 - sorry masofdas, I feel like I've let you down!
It's fair to say that most of those were in the first half, where the old games were on absolutely every system. Then while I only owned Nintendo consoles and a PC, it started to decline. In fact, there were even many Wii games that we'd previously been told by a certain magazine that we "didn't need to play them before we die". |
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masofdas The Next Reggie

Posts : 22800 Points : 23157 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 32 Location : VITA Island
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Wed 4 Dec 2013 - 17:59 | |
| Yeah you have, thought as you played what seemed so many consoles in the system vote you be much more then that.
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The_Jaster Din

Posts : 11562 Points : 11654 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 38 Location : Underground Corpse Pile.
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Thu 5 Dec 2013 - 9:02 | |
| 292 for me.
I really was surprised I hadn't played quite a few games that are labeled classics & also equally surprised by a few games that are missing for example it had demon souls but not dark souls & MH freedom unite but no MH Tri. |
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Rattlecat Boo This Man .Gif

Posts : 70 Points : 71 Join date : 2013-11-01 Location : West Yorkshire
 | Subject: Re: 1001 videogames you must play before you die. Sat 7 Dec 2013 - 15:43 | |
| I got 501. I can't believe that they didn't have Sabre Wulf on that list.....or Alien 3 (megadrive version). Anyway, 501 games played...probably lived just over half of my life expectancy....sounds about right  |
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