UK based GAME asks: “Greatest Games of All Time?”

UK based games retailer, GAME, polled 100,000 customers on what they thought were the “Greatest Games of All Time“, and while I’d say that’s probably the most difficult question you could ask a gamer, their results are in:

As you can see above, the top 10 include:

1 Call of Duty 4 (Multiformat)
2 Zelda Ocarina of Time (N64)
3 Final Fantasy VII (PSone)
4 Grand Theft Auto IV (Multiformat)
5 Super Mario 64 (N64)
6 007 Goldeneye (N64)
7 Halo 3 (Xbox 360)
8 Metal Gear Solid (PSone)
9 Half Life 2 (Multiformat)
10 Gears of War (Multiformat)

That’s awesome. To know that at least 100,000 gamers greatest memory of gaming is on Call of Duty 4 really means a lot. I love the fact that our game gives people the same kind of feeling when they think back to it as I get when I remember finding the flute for the first time in Super Mario Bros. 3, or going 50 - 0 in Complex on Goldeneye. So thank you to everyone who voted us as your personal favorite greatest game, that probably means more to me on a gaming level than any GOTY award could ever.

Since this was a limited poll, I’m interested to hear what some of your personal favorite “GREATEST GAMES OF ALL TIME” are. It doesn’t haven’t be “THE GREATEST GAME EVER” list, but from your memories of gaming all throughout your life, what do you have the best memories of playing?

Leave a comment with your favorite games, and hit the jump for the full list of Top 100 Games of All time and some of my personal favorite gaming memories.

I don’t think I could ever list my personal Top 10 BEST GAMES EVER, but some of my favorite gaming memories come from:

As I said, far from the greatest games ever, but still some of my personal favorites that I still own / play to this day. If I was going to vote greatest games ever, I’d have to take much more into consideration than just “fun factor”, like gameplay, control, story, etc. etc. etc. You’d be seeing a lot more of the likes of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Diablo , Portal, etc.

Super Mario Bros. 3 - This game blew my mind when it came out. It seemed so massive, with so many new power-ups and the variety in levels. It was seriously sensory overload at the time.

Goldeneye 007 - This is at the top of a lot of people’s list, and pretty low on a lot too depending on what kind of “gamer” you were at the time period. If you were in the PC crowd playing Quake and the likes then Goldeneye really didn’t do much for you, but if you were still on the Nintendo kick then this was the mecca of gaming at the time. This was probably the game that sealed it was no longer just a hobby for me, this was a life’s passion lol. Like many of you I’m sure, I was the great Goldeneye player in my tri-state area (or so I thought) and had every inch of this memorized. I recently went back and played this when a friend was in town and whopped his ass. Still fun as hell with friends, although it has lost some of it’s charm over the years.

Crazy Taxi - This is probably higher on my list than it is for most people, but I have a lot of memories tied to this game. This was one of the first games I got with my Dreamcast (I was late on the bandwagon) and my brother and I stayed up all night playing it the first night. We had unlocked all the mini-games and were going for perfect scores on them until like 2 in the morning before my Brother went to work (graveyard shift). He didn’t sleep a wink, and ended up falling asleep at the wheel and hitting a dump truck head on, on his way home. Crazy shit. He didn’t day (thank god) but he’s more machine than man now (joking, but half his body has steel rods instead of bones). But still, that’s a pretty powerful fucking memory of a game. We had a blast playing it, and despite it pretty much being related to a horrifying memory, we still played it countless hours while he laid in casts recovering.

Rainbow Six - Both on the N64 and PC this game was the shit to me. Plotting out your assault via the map, night vision, terrorist, reducing civilian casualties. This was the real deal for me. God I love this game.

Super Mario World - This is one game I can still pick up and play for 10 hours straight today and have a blast. Everytime I re-play this game it has all the same excitement and appeal it did the first time I played it, Unlocking alternate routes and hidden levels. Fantastic game and remains to be just as fantastic today. It’s one of the few games that doesn’t lose it’s appeal over time.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Yeah, I could have abbreviated it, but it deserves it’s entire glorious name spelled out. This game is by far my favorite Zelda game and one of my favorite games of all times. I only wish I had the time to play these types of games still today, the hours upon hours I’d spend exploring Hyrule can never be replaced or duplicated by any other game. This game was THE adventure for me.

Perfect Dark - The wait for this game was unbearable! The 2nd coming of Goldeneye. I remember re-reading Nintendo Power over and over again whenever there was even a crumb of details about Perfect Dark. When it came out it was just as glorious as I’d hoped. If only Perfect Dark Zero lived up it. For shame.

Ghost Recon - This game is the single reason I continue to buy every Tom Clancy game to date. This game was AMAZING.

What’s your favorites, and why? Obviously I have many many many more favorites, I’d love to list my top 5 favorite games on every platform I own, now THAT would be one hell of a list.

So what were the other 90 games selected for the Top 100?

1 Call of Duty 4 (Multiformat)
2 Zelda Ocarina of Time (N64)
3 Final Fantasy VII (PSone)
4 Grand Theft Auto IV (Multiformat)
5 Super Mario 64 (N64)
6 007 Goldeneye (N64)
7 Halo 3 (Xbox 360)
8 Metal Gear Solid (PSone)
9 Half Life 2 (Multiformat)
10 Gears of War (Multiformat)
11 The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Multiformat)
12 World of Warcraft (PC)
13 Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo Wii)
14 Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox)
15 Tomb Raider (PSone)
16 Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
17 Tetris (GameBoy)
18 Half Life (PC)
19 Sonic the Hedgehog (SEGA Mega Drive)
20 Super Mario World (GameBoy)
21 Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo Wii)
22 Elite (BBC Micro)
23 Resident Evil 4 (Multiformat)
24 The Sims 2 (PC)
25 Shenmue (SEGA Dreamcast)
26 Crash Bandicoot (PSone)
27 Sensible Soccer (Multiformat)
28 Zelda Twilight Princess (Nintendo Wii)
29 Wii Fit (Nintendo Wii)
30 Doom (PC)
31 Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 (PC)
32 Mario Kart 64 (N64)
33 Final Fantasy X (PS2)
34 Pacman (Arcade)
35 Super Smash Bros Melee (Gamecube)
36 Assassin’s Creed (Multiformat)
37 FIFA 08 (Multiformat)
38 Pokemon Red & Blue (GameBoy)
39 Guitar Hero III (Multiformat)
40 Mario Kart SNES (Nintendo SNES)
41 Final Fantasy VIII (PSone)
42 Resident Evil 1 (PSone)
43 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
44 Pro Evo Soccer 6 (Multiformat)
45 Monkey Island 2 (Multiformat)
46 Space Invaders (Arcade)
47 Deus Ex (Multiformat)
48 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo Wii)
49 Bioshock (Xbox 360)
50 Gran Turismo 4 (PS2)
51 Wii Sports (Nintendo Wii)
52 The Sims (PC)
53 Counter Strike: Source (PC)
54 Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS2)
55 Street Fighter 2 (Multiformat)
56 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (SEGA Mega Drive)
57 Halo 2 (Multiformat)
58 Lego Star Wars: The Original Saga (Multiformat)
59 New Super Mario Bros (Nintendo DS)
60 Metal Gear Solid 2 (PS2)
61 Mario Kart DS (Nintendo DS)
62 Fable (Xbox)
63 Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction (PS3)
64 Gran Turismo 1 (PSone)
65 Civilization (PC)
66 Final Fantasy IX (PSone)
67 Battlefield 2 (PC)
68 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Multiformat)
69 Super Mario World (GameBoy)
70 Timesplitters 2 (Multiformat)
71 Football Manager 2008 (Multiformat)
72 Mass Effect (Xbox 360)
73 Resident Evil 2 (PSone)
74 Championship Manager 01/02 (PC)
75 Age of Empires II (PC)
76 Rome: Total War (PC)
77 Guitar Hero II (Multiformat)
78 God of War (PS2)
79 Kingdom Hearts (PS2)
80 Perfect Dark (N64)
81 Super Smash Bros Brawl (Nintendo Wii)
82 Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (PS3)
83 Animal Crossing (Nintendo DS)
84 Starcraft (PC)
85 Unreal Tournament (PC)
86 The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Multiformat)
87 Super Metroid Nintendo (SNES)
88 Command and Conquer: Red Alert (PC)
89 Diablo 2 (PC)
90 Kingdom Hearts 2 (PS2)
91 Final Fantasy XII (PS2)
92 Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)
93 Guild Wars (PC)
94 Gran Turismo 3 (PS2)
95 God of War 2 (PS2)
96 Street Fighter (Multiformat)
97 Civilisation 4 (PC)
98 Pokemon Diamond/Pearl (Nintendo DS)
99 Grim Fandango (PC)
100 ICO (PS2)