My Top 100: #11 – Half-Life 2

  Gordon Freeman can’t catch a break, can he? He miraculously repels an alien invasion by himself in the first game, and all he gets is a lousy “re-assignment” after 20 years in stasis.  He comes back to life in time for the events… Read More

My Top 100: #12 – Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

  Wait…  so…  that guy you control isn’t named Zelda? Similar to me not realizing Super Mario Bros. 2 was set in a dream world, I didn’t quite grasp the fact that Link was actually the name of the young man in… Read More

My Top 100: #13 – Super Mario Bros. 2

  It could have been the look on Mario’s face on the cover, zooming through the air, ready to take on all enemies with nothing but a turnip in his hand.  It could have been the TV commercial, which… Read More

My Top 100: #14 – DuckTales

  Sorry for the delay, but I had to take a week to disconnect from the world, recharge my batteries and get stuff taken care of…  now, where the heck was I? Ah yes, DuckTales.  As I’ve said… Read More

My Top 100: #15 – Conker’s Bad Fur Day

  It wasn’t the homage to A Clockwork Orange in the intro that got me thinking Conker’s Bad Fur Day was going to be something quite different.  It wasn’t the fact that the story was about a cute,… Read More

My Top 100: #16 – Mega Man 2

  This debate will undoubtedly rage on forever; Mega Man 2 vs. Mega Man 3…  which is the better game? Video games are what you make of them, or, at least made special because of what you take… Read More

My Top 100: #17 – Super Mario World

  I wouldn’t call the Super Mario Bros. series stale, but the last few games haven’t exactly been the most revolutionary of the bunch.  The first New game was incredible, mostly because it went back to the basics of what made… Read More

My Top 100: #18 – Mortal Kombat II

  I never had time to “mentally prepare” myself for Mortal Kombat before it came out.  There were plenty of other fighting games with realistic digitized graphics, and none of them looked particularly great to me.  There was no use getting… Read More

My Top 100: #19 – Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II – Rogue Leader

  The first Rogue Squadron game definitely came around at the right time for me.  I was in the midst of reading the series of novels based on Rogue Squadron pilots beyond Episode VI, and the game actually… Read More

My Top 100: #20 – The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay

  During the Summer of 2000, there were lots of movies I wanted to see in theatres, but just never got around to it.  Mission Impossible 2, Mission to Mars and Final Destination all seemed like movies I’d enjoy, so when… Read More