Games I’ve Played
Welcome to my Game Experience Database
I’ve decided to document the games I’ve played in the hopes of encouraging myself to go back to old games and try to rekindle a new level of the same rich and rewarding experience I had before, as well as helping me examine my own gaming tastes and experience.
Please note: I’m not rating the quality of the games. I’m rating how much fun I had with them, and how deeply I explored them! There are some games which I will concede are high caliber, but I just couldn’t get into them, and some games which I will admit are stupid, but I still played them obsessively.
Information and Rating Scheme
Name
This is my preferred name of the game. In the case where there are multiple names to select from (For example ‘Final Fantasy III USA’ or ‘Final Fantasy VI’) I have selected which name I prefer. If you disagree with my selection, make your own database. I also do not create separate entries for game remakes for modern platforms. I include the remade games in the whole experience, and use the original title. Please bare in mind that there is no objective standard for this field.
Progress Rating
This is my progress experience with the game on a scale of zero to five check marks.
- Nothing – Haven’t Played
- No checks indicates that I haven’t played the game, but I’ve acquired it and I would like to play it.
– Played- The first check indicates that I’ve played the game.
- – Beat
- The second check indicates that I’ve beaten the game at least once.
- – Played More
- The third check indicates that I’ve given the game significant play after beating it. Including to find other endings, play again from the beginning, finish more goals, etc.
- – Completed
- The forth check indicates that I’ve completed every available challenge the game has to offer. I’ve acquired every item, completed every quest, discovered every possible ending, cinematic, and secret. This step requires a lot of careful research and a good investment of time, and the definition of completed will often vary. This level of progress is very rare.
- – Married
- The fifth check indicates that I’m practically married to this game. Not only have I completed absolutely everything this game has to offer, but I’ve also gone the extra mile, and started over again to experience more, tried hacking the game, loading custom content, created a fan site, etc. The game has achieved the status of being an inextricable a part of my life which I will occasionally pick up and it will never let me down. I would take it if I was exiled to a desert island and I had limited selections. Very few games have reached this level of progress for me.
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or – No Set Goals - In some games there are no endings or specific goals, such as puzzle games. Sometimes ‘N/A’ symbols are used to represent that type of game. A fifth check means I’m practically married to the game regardless. Tetris, for most people, has that fifth check, even though it can not be beaten.
Obsession Rating
This is the level of “grip” the game had on me, measured by the circumstances under which I finally turned it off after any given gaming session.
Please Note: Some games get a higher rating because they were a game I played during my childhood, and my tastes were less picky back then. For example, I played Zelda 1 and Super Mario 1 in adulthood long after I played Zelda 2 and Mario 2. I’m sure I would have given Zelda 1 and Mario 1 a higher rating if I played them when I was young.
- Nothing – Haven’t Played
- No stars indicates that I haven’t played the game, but I’ve acquired it and I would like to play it.
– Frustrating- Left the game feeling frustrated.
This game is the lowest of the low. It rapidly violated one of my pet peeves. See the ‘Shame Awards’ section. - – Boring
- Left the game feeling bored.
I have better things to do than play this game. It’s simply not any fun. - – Neutral
- Left the game to do something else.
Not bad, not good. A welcome diversion, but it rarely goes past one check on the completion rating. - – Fun
- Left the game only when hungry or tired.
At this point, the game becomes worth the purchase. A game will generally have to score at this level or above for me to maintain interest until the game is beaten. - – Epic
- Left the game only after seriously neglecting an important responsibility, realizing I had to go to bed 6 hours ago and the sun is rising, or realizing that I had to pee since the stone age and I’m seconds away from rupturing my kidneys.
Little else needs to be said about this game. It will be an experience I fondly remember for a long time.
Shame Awards
I feel that if I totally abandoned a game with only one check and one star, I should explain why. Here are some of the passionate condemnations I might apply to an entry. Some games will score these notes even if I played them for a while, but only if it got so bad that I literally packed up the game and never played it again as a result.
– Pointless Difficulty- It punished me for things that are humanly impossible to achieve, such as not being able to see an obstacle coming. Unless every death was due to a mistake or a lack of practice on my part, I’m going to get rapidly frustrated and give up. (also known as the I’M NOT PSYCHIC pet peeve.)
– Bad Voice Acting- If I wanted to simulate the high school theater experience, I’d pay ten bucks to sit in a plastic chair with gum on it.
– Boring Chores- The game made me do things I don’t want to do in order to proceed with the main quest, such as memorizing attack button combos, talking to everyone in town, making you take an unnecessarally lengthly trek after losing to get back to where I was before. (Such as making you restart the game if you run out of lives)
– No Point- This game makes absolutely no effort to reward you for showing skills or strategy. It throws useless challenges at you that simply involve rote obedience to the game’s instructions, without providing you with any opportunities to learn skills, solve puzzles, apply interesting strategies, or have fun of any kind. Often this award will go to games that completely sacrifice gameplay in favor of eye candy.
Todo List – 94 Games
| Name | Progress Rating | Obsession Rating |
| .hack//GU | |
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| Boom Blox: Bash Party | ||
| Deadly Premonition | ||
| Disgaea 3: Absense of Justice | ||
| Dragon Quest V | |
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| Dragon Quest VI | |
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| Dragon Quest VII | |
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| Dungeon Maker Hunting Ground | ||
| EarthBound | |
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| Everyday Shooter | ||
| Fable | ||
| Fable 2 | ||
| Fahrenheit | ||
| Final Fantasy IX | |
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| Final Fantasy Tactics: The War Of The Lions | ||
| Final Fantasy V | |
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| Final Fantasy XII | |
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| Final Fantasy XIII | ||
| Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon | ||
| Gladius | ||
| Grandia | ||
| Halo | ||
| Halo 2 | ||
| Haunting Ground | ||
| Hitman 2: Silent Assassin | ||
| House of the Dead: Overkill | ||
| ICO | |
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| Ikaruga | ||
| Jet Set Radio Future | ||
| Kameo: Elements of Power | ||
| Kingdom Hearts | ||
| Kingdom Hearts 2 | ||
| Klonoa | ||
| Lock’s Quest | ||
| Lost Odyssey | |
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| LostMagic | ||
| Megaman ZX | ||
| Mercenaries | ||
| Metal Gear Solid 2 | ||
| Metal Gear Solid 3 | ||
| Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots | ||
| Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops | ||
| Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer | ||
| N+ | ||
| Neverwinter Nights | ||
| Neverwinter Nights II: Mask of the Betrayer | ||
| Ninja Gaiden Black | ||
| Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword | ||
| Oddworld: Munches Oddysee | ||
| Odin Sphere | ||
| Otogi: Myth of Demons | ||
| Patapon | |
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| Patapon 2 | ||
| Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice For All | ||
| Pikmin | ||
| Pokemon Battle Revolution | ||
| Pokemon D/P/Pt | |
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| Pokemon HG/SS | |
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| Pokemon R/S/FR/LG/E | |
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| Pokemon: Colosseum | |
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| Pokemon: XD | ||
| Psychonauts | ||
| Radical Dreamers | ||
| Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters | ||
| Resident Evil 5 | ||
| Resident Evil: Code Veronica X | ||
| Riviera: The Promised Land | ||
| SaGa Frontier 2 | ||
| Shadow Hearts | ||
| Shadow Hearts II | ||
| Shadowrun (SNES) | |
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| Silent Hill | ||
| Silent Hill 2 | ||
| Silent Hill 3 | ||
| Space Invaders Extreme | ||
| Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic | ||
| Suikoden II | ||
| Suikoden III | ||
| System Shock 2 | ||
| Tales of Symphonia | ||
| Tales of Vesperia | ||
| The World Ends With You | ||
| Thief: Deadly Shadows | ||
| Threads of Fate | ||
| Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory | ||
| Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent | ||
| Trace Memory | ||
| Vagrant Story | |
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| Valhalla Knights | ||
| Warcraft III | ||
| Wii Gravity | ||
| Yakuza | ||
| Yakuza 2 | ||
| Zack and Wiki |
Casual Play – 4 Games
| Name | Progress Rating | Obsession Rating |
| Dance Dance Revolution | |
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| Fallout 3 | |
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| Rock Band / Guitar Hero | |
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| Super Mario World | |
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Games I Only Play Multiplayer – 4 Games
| Name | Progress Rating | Obsession Rating |
| Dungeons & Dragons Online | |
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| Guild Wars | |
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| Left 4 Dead | |
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| The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure | |
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Games I’m Done With – 237 Games
| Name | Progress Rating | Obsession Rating | Shame Awards |
| .hack | |
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| A Nightmare on Elm Street | |
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| Advance Wars: Dual Strike | |
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| Air Traffic Chaos | |
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| Alone in the Dark | |
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| American McGee’s Alice | |
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| Animal Crossing | |
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| Animal Crossing: Wild World | |
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| Arkanoid DS | |
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| Back to the Future | |
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| Baldur’s Gate | |
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| Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean | |
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| Baten Kaitos: Origins | |
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| Batman: Arkham Asylum | |
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| Beyond Good and Evil | |
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| Bio Menace | |
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| BioShock | |
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| Blood Omen 2 | |
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| Blue Dragon | |
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| Boom Blox | |
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| Braid | |
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| Brain Age | |
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| Brain Age 2 | |
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| Buzz: The Mega Quiz | |
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| Call of Duty 3 | |
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| Call of Duty 4 | |
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| Castle of the Winds | |
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| Castlevania 2: Simon’s Quest | |
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| Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow | |
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| Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles | |
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| Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia | |
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| Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin | |
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| Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay | |
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| Chrono Cross | |
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| Chrono Trigger | |
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| Commander Keen | |
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| Commander Keen 2 | |
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| Commander Keen 3 | |
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| Conker: Live and Reloaded | |
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| Contact | |
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| Contra 4 | |
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| Contra: Shattered Soldier | |
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| Crackdown | |
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| Crysis | |
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| Crysis: Warhead | |
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| Dead Rising | |
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| Descent | |
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| Deus Ex | |
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| Diablo | |
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| Diablo II | |
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| Disgaea: Hour of Darkness | |
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| Doom | |
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| Doom 2 | |
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| Dragon Age | |
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| Dragon Quest | |
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| Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime | |
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| Dragon Quest II | |
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| Dragon Quest III | |
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| Dragon Quest IV | |
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| Dragon Quest VIII | |
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| Duck Hunt | |
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| Duck Tales | |
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| Duke Nukem | |
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| Duke Nukem 2 | |
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| Duke Nukem 3D | |
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| Elite Beat Agents | |
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| Eternal Darkness | |
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| Etrian Odyssey | |
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| Excite Truck | |
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| Fallout | |
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| Fallout 2 | |
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| Fallout 3: Broken Steel | |
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| Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage | |
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| Fallout 3: The Pitt | |
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| Fallout Tactics | |
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| Final Fantasy | |
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| Final Fantasy II | |
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| Final Fantasy III | |
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| Final Fantasy IV | |
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| Final Fantasy Tactics | |
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| Final Fantasy VI | |
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| Final Fantasy VII | |
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| Final Fantasy VIII | |
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| Final Fantasy X | |
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| Final Fantasy X-2 | |
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| Final Fantasy XIII: Revenant Wings | |
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| Flashback | |
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| God of War | |
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| Grand Theft Auto | |
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| Grand Theft Auto IV | |
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| Half Life | |
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| Half Life 2 | |
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| Half Life 2: Episode 1 | |
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| Half Life 2: Episode 2 | |
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| Heavy Metal FAKK2 | |
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| Heretic | |
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| Heroes of Might and Magic II | |
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| Hexen | |
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| Hotel Dusk: Room 215 | |
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| Jetpack | |
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| Katamari Damacy | |
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| King’s Quest III | |
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| King’s Quest IV | |
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| Kingpin | |
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| Kirby: Canvas Curse | |
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| Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga | |
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| Lemmings | |
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| Loco Roco | |
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| Lost in Blue | |
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| Lost in Blue 2 | |
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| Luigi’s Mansion | |
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| Maniac Mansion | |
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| Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time | |
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| Mario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story | |
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| Mario Kart DS | |
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| Mario Paint | |
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| Mass Effect | |
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| Mechwarrior 2 | |
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| Mercury Meltdown Revolution | |
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| Metal Gear Solid | |
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| Metroid Prime | |
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| Metroid Prime 2 | |
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| Metroid Prime 3 | |
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| Metroid Prime: Hunters | |
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| Mystic Quest | |
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| New Super Mario Bros. | |
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| No More Heroes | |
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| Okami | |
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| Overlord | |
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| Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door | |
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| Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney | |
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| Pokemon G/S/C | |
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| Pokemon R/B/Y | |
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| Portal | |
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| Prince of Persia | |
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| Prince of Persia: Rival Swords | |
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| Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | |
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| Professor Layton and the Curious Village | |
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| Project Rub | |
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| Puzzle Bobble / Bust-A-Move | |
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| Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords | |
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| Quake | |
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| Quake II | |
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| Quake III: Arena | |
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| Rayman Raving Rabbids | |
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| Resident Evil | |
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| Resident Evil 2 | |
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| Resident Evil 3 | |
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| Resident Evil 4 | |
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| Resident Evil Zero | |
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| Resident Evil: Outbreak | |
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| Resistance: Fall of Man | |
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| Return to Castle Wolfenstein | |
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| Rune Factory | |
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| SaGa Frontier | |
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| Scribblenauts | |
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| Shadow of the Collossus | |
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| Shadowrun (Sega) | |
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| Sim Ant | |
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| Sim City | |
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| Sim City 2000 | |
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| Sim City 3000 | |
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| Sim Tower | |
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| Sonic & Knuckles | |
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| Sonic and the Secret Rings | |
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| Sonic the Hedgehog | |
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| Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | |
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| Sonic the Hedgehog 3 | |
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| Space Quest I | |
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| Space Quest II | |
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| Space Quest III | |
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| Space Quest IV | |
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| Space Quest V | |
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| Spy vs. Spy | |
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| Star Control 2 | |
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| Starcraft | |
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| Suikoden | |
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| Super Ghouls n’ Ghosts | |
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| Super Glove Ball | |
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| Super Mario 64 | |
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| Super Mario Bros. | |
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| Super Mario Bros. 2 | |
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| Super Mario Bros. 3 | |
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| Super Mario Galaxy | |
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| Super Mario Sunshine | |
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| Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz | |
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| Super Paper Mario | |
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| Super Princess Peach | |
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| Super Scope 6 | |
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| Super Smash Bros.: Melee | |
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| Taboo: The Sixth Sense | |
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| Terminal Velocity | |
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| Tetris | |
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| The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | |
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| The Legend of Zelda | |
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| The Legend of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link | |
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| The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past | |
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| The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening | |
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| The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask | |
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| The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | |
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| The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Seasons | |
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| The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass | |
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| The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap | |
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| The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker | |
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| The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | |
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| The New York Times Crosswords | |
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| The Rub Rabbits! | |
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| The Sims | |
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| The Sims | |
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| The Sims 3 | |
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| The Witcher | |
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| Total Recall | |
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| Trauma Center: Second Opinion | |
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| Trine | |
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| Ultimate Ghosts N’ Goblins | |
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| Viewtiful Joe | |
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| Warcraft | |
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| Warcraft II | |
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| Wario World | |
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| Warioware,Inc. | |
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| Warioware: Smooth Moves | |
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| Warioware: Touched! | |
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| Wii Play | |
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| Wii Sports | |
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| Wii Sports: Resort | |
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| Wing Commander | |
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| Wolfenstein | |
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| World In Conflict | |
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| World of Goo | |
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| X-COM: Terror from the Deep | |
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| X-COM: UFO Defense | |
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| Xenogears | |
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| Xenosaga | |
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| Xenosaga II | |
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| Xenosaga III | |
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| Yoshi’s Island | |
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| Yoshi’s Touch & Go | |
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damn dude, wonderful list