The Video Game Critic

[QUOTE]Adventures of Lolo better than Tetris/ Rampart/ Columns/ Klax? [/QUOTE]

The "Lolo" games are nowhere near the best games in the series. As for the falling blocks games, while I do like them, I never considered them so awesome I'd actually pay full price for them. Meh.

[QUOTE]Ice Hockey better on the 2600 than the NES?[/QUOTE]

Yes. Though they are both incredibly awesome games.

And Myst is awesome.

1) Ocarina Of Time - N64
2) Lords Of Midnight - ZX Spectrum

Big gap

3) Secret Of Monkey Island - Amiga

Big gap

4) Loads of other games.

Those top two games, for me, are just amazing. Brilliant stories, atmosphere, graphics. I still play Lords Of Midnight 23 years on, and it still blows me away.

SimCity 2000 (PC/Mac)
Tetris (all systems)

Ok, this is getting good. Guess I'll enter the topic now.

Best Maze Game- Pac-Man (The original, and I'm addicted to this day.)
Best Pre 16-Bit Shooter- Mega Mania/ Plaque Attack
Best 16-Bit Shooter/ Best Game of All-Time- Smash TV
Best 32-Bit Shooter- Omega Boost (Outstanding little-known PS1 game by the Gran Turismo guys.)
Best Puzzle Game- Columns
Best Mario Game- Super Mario 64
Best Sonic Game- Sonic the Hedgehog (The original)
Best Pinball Game- Pinball Hall of Fame
Best 2D Platformer- Castlevania: SotN
Best 3D Platformer- Conker's Bad Fur Day/Conker: Live & Reloaded or Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped
Best FPS- Halo 2 (Sue me. Gears of War is VERY close, though.)
Best RPG- Final Fantasy VII (This is the first game I ever LOVED.)
Best Old Sports Game- Tecmo Bowl
Best Recent Sports Game- Blitz: The League (Reminds me so much of one of my all-time favorite movies, Any Given Sunday.)
Best 2D Fighter/ 2nd Favorite Game of All Time- Street Fighter II
Best 3D Fighter- Super Smash Bros. Melee (Technically 2D, but it's modern, so...) (The recently released Def Jam Icon could possibly overtake this soon, though, as I am loving that game.)
Best Racer- (Don't guess I could count GTA: Vice City) Burnout Revenge (X360 Version)
Best Ninja Game- Shadow Dancer
Best Atmosphere- GTA: Vice City (Finally, I can place it somewhere.)
Best Music- Guitar Hero II (X360 Version) (It may not be out yet, but the awesome PS2 tracks, plus "Dead!" by my favorite modern rock band My Chemical Romance pretty much gurantees this for me.)
Best Story- Final Fantasy VII
Best Diolauge- Conker
Best Game I First Experienced In the Year 2007: (4 way tie between 3 amazing X360 games (I got Gears of War for X-Mas 2006, so I doesn't count.), and a PS2 game: F.E.A.R., Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Def Jam Icon, and God of War II
Game I Like Way More Than I Should: 50 Cent: Bulletproof.
 
Damn, what a list!

I think a 'best game' (for consoles, not counting PC games since VideoGameCritic doesn't) has to have the following:

-Awesome single player experience.
-Awesome multiplayer experience.
-Gameplay is intuitive (almost anyone can pick it up)
-Game is friendly to all demographics (from girls, to kids, to young males)
-Gameplay can be hard to master. Meaning you can play it forever and still get better. It is skills based.
-The game is immediately engrossing first time you play it.
-The game never ages. It is still highly playable over a decade from now.

Only one console game fits this description, the closest thing to 'perfection' as to what a console game ought to be.

Super Mario Kart (SNES)

Best Game Ever

Adventure - Atari Video Computer System (the way it should be called, not 2600)

Best Games Ever:
Tetris
PacMan
Spy Hunter
Galaga
Super Mario Bros.
Asteroids (It was going to be an Honorable Mention, but is just too good to group with those others)

Honorable Mention:
Space Invaders (Everybody loves it but me)
Pong (because it's the grand-daddy of 'em all)
Missile Command (Cold-War goodness cloaked in a sci-fi backstory)
Contra (Almost good enough to group with the "best ever."  Say it with me, now, folks: up up down down left right left right b a start!)

I like Mario Kart 64 and Double Dash tons better than the Super Mario Kart. Am I wrong for this? Probably.

Funkmaster V