Unpopular opinion: I never liked Zelda. I tried. I never understood the hype behind this game. Unpopular opinion 2: Super Mario 64 is so frustrating to play.
@BlueCollaredGrit No, I'm 16, and I love retro games! I've played MGS, OOT, MM, FF7, Chrono Trigger, and more! and guess what? I enjoyed playing those games. It's not the fact that people had to grow up in an era to enjoy it it's the fact that people have something called -PERSONAL PREFERENCE- No offence I'm just saying that you are 100 percent wrong.
@BlueCollaredGrit It does it's called -PERSONAL PREFERENCE - maybe he likes different categories. Maybe he prefers Tetris, Terraria, etc. Maybe he likes games that are short because he is busy. It's literally called PERSONAL PREFERENCE. And yes, I knew you were referring to the original comment. Making my point quite relevant.
I love this list of top 10 games😎 Well I may not play all these games everyday now, These games definitely define my childhood introduction to videogames from ages like 6-12 perfectly 👌
In my personal opinion, the best and most influential Final Fantasy game ever was Final Fantasy 6. It was originally called Final Fantasy 3 on the SNES. This was my first ever JRPG when I was a kid, and so it is my favorite JRPG ever today as an adult. Every year, I make at least 1 full playthrough of Final Fantasy 6. It is that good.
My top 10 N64 games would be: Mario Kart WWF No Mercy Zelda Ocarina of Time Goldeneye Mario 64 Diddy Kong racing Super smash bros Body Harvest Resident Evil 2 Tony Hawks pro skater (I didn’t have a PS)
Cool video 🙂 couple others I wish were in the list. Tmnt turtles in time Super Mario maker Gun star heroes Super castlevania Nfs Underground The first "Destiny" Crash Bandicoot
Your argument about FF 7 is very good, even though i dont think is the best of the Series or Jrpg at all, is a point that i can't argue about, the impact of the game is timeless.
I really feel like GoldenEye is voted because of nostalgia. I find it very hard to beleive that people wanting to play retrogames today put in in their top 10 of games they want to play to this day. The multiplayer was the main attraction which tbh you dont play anymore today on a retro device.
I would’ve changed Goldeneye with Doom, changed Mario 64 with Mario 3, replaced Sonic 2 with 3 & Knuckles, Zelda with the original, and FF7 with Streets of Rage 2
Oh! And I forgot. Switch out Pokémon withStreet Fighter 2, and if I really need to pin one down, it’ll have to be either Super Turbo or SF2 hyper fighting. I have my preferences and biases, but i think Doom is criminally omitted
This is definitely a pre 2000s retro list. Idk who voted for this list but it feels more like popular instead of "best". Should be Sonic 3 & Knucles (or one of them if you don't want to count the pack) instead of 2 and Pokemon Gold/Silver instead of Red/Blue. Also to have Packman, Tetris and GoldenEye Instead of Super Metroid, Castlevania: SotN or Chrono Trigger feels like a crime. All still great games, just feels wrong to have a best list with no Castlevania or Metroid.
This really misses out on some critical games. No Resident Evil? It spawned an entire genre. Sonic Adventure, Master Blaster...you can tell the age of the participants based on the choices.
There is already a token sonic game on the list. The oldest game on this list is from 1980 and the second oldest is from 1989. Those are some fairly old games.
Resident Evil 2 is always on my mind when I think of best classic retro games. That having said, I appreciate different opinions. Not all lists have to be the same.
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I play Tetris regularly, but I prefer Wario's Woods on the NES. MGS is really impressive but the universe didn't transcend me. I prefer Echo Night, made by FromSoftWare. I'm not a big RPG fan, but Majora's Mask really hooked me, with its clockwork gameplay that makes time management more digestible. Mario 64 and Super Mario Wolrd are great games, but I prefer Donkey Kong GB, which transposes Mario 64 into 2D, introducing and sublimating acrobatics and puzzles, and adding the original arcade timer to add depth to the gameplay.
Bingo, cheers to that! Before all fps games played the same, we ol timers were olympic figure skaters on golden eye controls. It's hard to go back to without remapping controls because of modern conditioning but that takes nothing away from that ancient concept called "fun"!
Super Mario world should be number 1, goldeneye should not be on the list, Tetris should be higher and Pokémon gold/silver should be there instead of red/blue
I need to remind you that Ocarina of Time was released in 1998 and Daggerfall in 1996. nothing like that you say? Ultima had open world and stuff in 1981
No computer games, of course. That means no "Lemmings", "Civilization", "Syndicate", "Sim City" or "Turrican" and so on. Without the computer segment the list is incomplete., sorry!
The lack of DKC2 on the polls is outrageous. Better than DKC1 in every way, and yet you don’t include it? I also noticed a surprising lack of 2D platformers. I think your biases played a heavy roll in this ranking.
Gran Turismo 1 at spot 21 in the article was a mistake. It’s the sole representative of the franchise in the list, and inferior to all its subsequent titles in every way. Gran Turismo 2 was an objective upgrade of the first game, and the pinnacle of racing games in that generation; pushing the PS1 to its hardware limit. Gran Turismo 4 later did the same on PS2. Either title deserved the spot over the first IMO.
Absolutely. And it didn't take long to get there either. The moment Halo popularized dual-analogue controls as the standard for console FPSs, the only reason to go back and play Goldeneye was to see how clunky it felt now.
Castlevania Symphony of the Night Resident Evil 2 Super Metroid (or Prime, if it qualifies as "retro") Street Fighter II THPS 2 DKC 2 The Sims ...to name a few
@@brev653 If "clunkiness" was the objective measure of quality for a game, then every single console FPS (even modern ones) would be automatically ruled out for being objectively more clunky than PC FPS games controlled with mouse and keyboard.
Ugh. Final Fantasy 7 and Ocarina Of Time are both SO overrated. And what the actual hell is Goldeneye and Pac-Man doing on this list? FF6 easily beats FF7, there's no Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, no Link To The Past, no Super Mario Bros 3, Street Fighter II, Earthbound, Kingdom Hearts II, Super Castlevania IV or anything else that should be here.... This list is like what an AI like ChatGPT would auto-generate. What a load of garbage.
@@the-NightStar FF7 for the hype alone and the fact that it introduced a lot of western audiences to the jrpg genre including audiences outside of the U.S. and Japan and influenced a lot of games that came after it and the fact it is a landmark title in the jrpg genre. pac man because it was literally one of the first video games to have demonstrated the potential of the medium. Its title character was literally the first original gaming mascot, it increased the appeal of video games with female audiences and was gamings first broad licensing success. goldeneye yes the controls haven’t aged well. But it is one of the most important first person shooters in history establishing a lot of features and approaches that would be considered vital to game design in future fps games and others including varied mission objectives, zoomable weapons, stealth elements and literally popularised local 4 player split screen multiplayer. ocarina is up there is because ocarina of time was the blueprint for future 3d adventure games at that time and there was was nothing else like it in the same vein That is why they are up there
Nice list, except Goldeneye. That game does NOT hold up imo. I think it was only good because it was the only way to play split screen fps on a TV using a home console. The single-player campaign was cheap and poorly designed (and I did 100% it on 007 difficulty). There just have to be dozens of more important retro games than Goldeneye.
@@maxducoudray doesn’t matter if it doesn’t hold up, it’s one of the most important first person shooters in history that introduced a lot of approaches and features modern fps games use including varied mission objectives, stealth elements and local multiplayer
No Crono Trigger? Blasphemy!
Street fighter 2 in the arcades was an insane moment in time.
Street Fighter 2, Turtles Arcade or in Time, SMB 3, Megaman 2, Advance Wars, Chrono Trigger, Tekken 3, Metal Slug, Metroid Zero Mission
Interesting how this list morphs and changes through the decades based on each new generation of gamers involved in the medium
Pacman keeps getting in these lists for some reason. Does anybody still play that for more than two minutes?
Not the old one. The DX, DX+, and DX demake are very entertaining time wasters
It's not "best games of the last twenty years."
More than 30 secs even
is more like a culture thing...
I thought as a society we all agree that Ms. Pac-Man is the better version.
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5:17 was just playing Tetris on my gameboy the other day lol
As soon as I saw the video in my feed I thought "if MGS ain't there I'm not watching it" - you didn't disappoint 😂👍
Unpopular opinion: I never liked Zelda. I tried. I never understood the hype behind this game. Unpopular opinion 2: Super Mario 64 is so frustrating to play.
2nd one is something I will agree kinda 😅
@BlueCollaredGrit No, I'm 16, and I love retro games! I've played MGS, OOT, MM, FF7, Chrono Trigger, and more! and guess what? I enjoyed playing those games. It's not the fact that people had to grow up in an era to enjoy it it's the fact that people have something called -PERSONAL PREFERENCE- No offence I'm just saying that you are 100 percent wrong.
@BlueCollaredGrit It does it's called -PERSONAL PREFERENCE - maybe he likes different categories. Maybe he prefers Tetris, Terraria, etc. Maybe he likes games that are short because he is busy. It's literally called PERSONAL PREFERENCE. And yes, I knew you were referring to the original comment. Making my point quite relevant.
@@BlueCollaredGrit To understand? What? How good a game was? Because you are completely wrong
@@BlueCollaredGritZelda is meh 😂
Super Metroid makes my top 10
I love this list of top 10 games😎 Well I may not play all these games everyday now, These games definitely define my childhood introduction to videogames from ages like 6-12 perfectly 👌
What? No 'Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy?' I demand a recount! 😉
Mario kart on the snes and Zelda links awakening on the gb. Happy memories!!
All these games are some of my best childhood memories. Thanks for the video!
How is castlevania not here? Symphony basically defined an entire genre of games
Probably voted out by people voting outdated generic shit like Pac-Man
Super Metroid is better.
Old castlevania is better than modern ones and better than Metroid also
@@SoberJokR there are no modern castlevanias
@@antonisgkikas66 i meant sotn and after
I saw the thumbnail and immediately thought ah yes my favourite retro games. Modern warfare 2 and Skyrim
They’re 2 generations back now it’s basically retro
@ I say give it another 5 - 10 years then it can possibly be considered retro
Me at number 6 : “this is probably gonna be one of those lists where ocarina of time is number one”
Me at number 1 : “yep”
In my personal opinion, the best and most influential Final Fantasy game ever was Final Fantasy 6. It was originally called Final Fantasy 3 on the SNES. This was my first ever JRPG when I was a kid, and so it is my favorite JRPG ever today as an adult. Every year, I make at least 1 full playthrough of Final Fantasy 6. It is that good.
Oregon Trail! Basically the original Video Game franchise that's been around since the early 70's.
I need Conker’s Bad Fur Day on the list 😃
My top 10 N64 games would be:
Mario Kart
WWF No Mercy
Zelda Ocarina of Time
Goldeneye
Mario 64
Diddy Kong racing
Super smash bros
Body Harvest
Resident Evil 2
Tony Hawks pro skater (I didn’t have a PS)
MGS, FF7 and RE2 are the trinity of my childhood
Cool video 🙂 couple others I wish were in the list.
Tmnt turtles in time
Super Mario maker
Gun star heroes
Super castlevania
Nfs Underground
The first "Destiny"
Crash Bandicoot
Your argument about FF 7 is very good, even though i dont think is the best of the Series or Jrpg at all, is a point that i can't argue about, the impact of the game is timeless.
I really feel like GoldenEye is voted because of nostalgia.
I find it very hard to beleive that people wanting to play retrogames today put in in their top 10 of games they want to play to this day.
The multiplayer was the main attraction which tbh you dont play anymore today on a retro device.
I would’ve changed Goldeneye with Doom, changed Mario 64 with Mario 3, replaced Sonic 2 with 3 & Knuckles, Zelda with the original, and FF7 with Streets of Rage 2
Streets of rage 2 was peak gaming back then!
Oh! And I forgot. Switch out Pokémon withStreet Fighter 2, and if I really need to pin one down, it’ll have to be either Super Turbo or SF2 hyper fighting.
I have my preferences and biases, but i think Doom is criminally omitted
@@Metal-Josh nothing beats the hype that surrounded FFVII
No Tomb Raider??? OMG. No Res Evil. No Silent Hill. No Oddworld. All top tens for me
This is definitely a pre 2000s retro list.
Idk who voted for this list but it feels more like popular instead of "best".
Should be Sonic 3 & Knucles (or one of them if you don't want to count the pack) instead of 2 and Pokemon Gold/Silver instead of Red/Blue.
Also to have Packman, Tetris and GoldenEye Instead of Super Metroid, Castlevania: SotN or Chrono Trigger feels like a crime.
All still great games, just feels wrong to have a best list with no Castlevania or Metroid.
This really misses out on some critical games. No Resident Evil? It spawned an entire genre. Sonic Adventure, Master Blaster...you can tell the age of the participants based on the choices.
There is already a token sonic game on the list. The oldest game on this list is from 1980 and the second oldest is from 1989. Those are some fairly old games.
Perhaps it would have made more sense to have a "10 Best Classic Retro Games of All Time" with games 16Bit and below
@@HYDRAdude that's two games. From the 64 era, which is five years or so, there's the rest of them. Halo isn't even on this list. It's comical.
Resident Evil 2 is always on my mind when I think of best classic retro games. That having said, I appreciate different opinions. Not all lists have to be the same.
thanx Baldie, great video as usual
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An excellent video and a likeable host.
I’m calling the police on whoever was playing Tetris!
I play Tetris regularly, but I prefer Wario's Woods on the NES.
MGS is really impressive but the universe didn't transcend me. I prefer Echo Night, made by FromSoftWare.
I'm not a big RPG fan, but Majora's Mask really hooked me, with its clockwork gameplay that makes time management more digestible.
Mario 64 and Super Mario Wolrd are great games, but I prefer Donkey Kong GB, which transposes Mario 64 into 2D, introducing and sublimating acrobatics and puzzles, and adding the original arcade timer to add depth to the gameplay.
As a man of culture, I still play tetris on my original GBC once a month.
I’m not sure any of these games would make my personal top 10. Possibly Tetris but that’d be it.
Small point, but if it's voted on, its a 10 top most popular games not the best. And best is very subjective. :)
my 2 favourites of all time are - arcade defender and pro evolution soccer
Why does he say Ocarinerr of time instead of Ocarina?
SF2, ms pacman better than pacman, asteroids...
Missing out THPS series!!!
Goldeneye might have had bad controls but they were good enough for my dad to be one of the only games he would play with me haha
Bingo, cheers to that! Before all fps games played the same, we ol timers were olympic figure skaters on golden eye controls. It's hard to go back to without remapping controls because of modern conditioning but that takes nothing away from that ancient concept called "fun"!
The controls were fine, the game was just designed differently. I don’t mind them at all.
@@nunyabusiness896 the problem mainly was the controller itself
@@LumbyMcGumby also just remember multiplayer was literally added last minute
Perfect Dark >>>>> Goldeneye
For me:
Mario 3 over Mario World
Street Fighter 2 over Goldeneye
no Donkey Kong Country games at all? Chrono Trigger? Castlevania?
Super Mario world should be number 1, goldeneye should not be on the list, Tetris should be higher and Pokémon gold/silver should be there instead of red/blue
I need to remind you that Ocarina of Time was released in 1998 and Daggerfall in 1996. nothing like that you say? Ultima had open world and stuff in 1981
Metroid & Castlevania created an entire sub genre…so where are they on your list? 🧐
But…Banjo?!
top 10 is too little, it should be top 100 to include Chrono trigger, super Metroid, grand theft auto san andrea, and etc.
*Chrono Trigger Has Entered The Chat*
No computer games, of course.
That means no "Lemmings", "Civilization", "Syndicate", "Sim City" or "Turrican" and so on.
Without the computer segment the list is incomplete., sorry!
The lack of DKC2 on the polls is outrageous. Better than DKC1 in every way, and yet you don’t include it? I also noticed a surprising lack of 2D platformers. I think your biases played a heavy roll in this ranking.
So retro games always means retro console games?
Gran Turismo 1 at spot 21 in the article was a mistake. It’s the sole representative of the franchise in the list, and inferior to all its subsequent titles in every way.
Gran Turismo 2 was an objective upgrade of the first game, and the pinnacle of racing games in that generation; pushing the PS1 to its hardware limit. Gran Turismo 4 later did the same on PS2. Either title deserved the spot over the first IMO.
SSBM. No game can possibly compare.
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time is THE BEST N64 game. It's so much fun compared to other LOZ games, especially the new ones. I still play it today 😅
Best games are on Sega Genesis and Playstation 2
People who played zelda, praise the n64/GC always look the same 😂
Pac man, but Ms Pacman is better
Goldeneye is far too high on this list. It hasn't aged well at all. Too many rose tinted spectacled votes.
People make custom levels and other movie themed games
Absolutely. And it didn't take long to get there either. The moment Halo popularized dual-analogue controls as the standard for console FPSs, the only reason to go back and play Goldeneye was to see how clunky it felt now.
There are quite a few games I'd put ahead of Goldeneye (and Sonic 2).
Castlevania Symphony of the Night
Resident Evil 2
Super Metroid (or Prime, if it qualifies as "retro")
Street Fighter II
THPS 2
DKC 2
The Sims
...to name a few
@@brev653 If "clunkiness" was the objective measure of quality for a game, then every single console FPS (even modern ones) would be automatically ruled out for being objectively more clunky than PC FPS games controlled with mouse and keyboard.
Tetris better be number 1
a great list but where is gta!
OOT is very overrated though. ALTTP is better.
Ugh. Final Fantasy 7 and Ocarina Of Time are both SO overrated. And what the actual hell is Goldeneye and Pac-Man doing on this list?
FF6 easily beats FF7, there's no Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, no Link To The Past, no Super Mario Bros 3, Street Fighter II, Earthbound, Kingdom Hearts II, Super Castlevania IV or anything else that should be here....
This list is like what an AI like ChatGPT would auto-generate. What a load of garbage.
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FF7 for the hype alone and the fact that it introduced a lot of western audiences to the jrpg genre including audiences outside of the U.S. and Japan and influenced a lot of games that came after it and the fact it is a landmark title in the jrpg genre.
pac man because it was literally one of the first video games to have demonstrated the potential of the medium. Its title character was literally the first original gaming mascot, it increased the appeal of video games with female audiences and was gamings first broad licensing success.
goldeneye yes the controls haven’t aged well. But it is one of the most important first person shooters in history establishing a lot of features and approaches that would be considered vital to game design in future fps games and others including varied mission objectives, zoomable weapons, stealth elements and literally popularised local 4 player split screen multiplayer.
ocarina is up there is because ocarina of time was the blueprint for future 3d adventure games at that time and there was was nothing else like it in the same vein
That is why they are up there
That was some of the worst Tetris playing I've seen on a video game channel
FF VII looks so bad 😐. I love the FF games, but the VII graphics aged so badly. So I stick with FF IX
@@mddreher4628 it came out in 1997 what would you expect
PAC Man, never enjoyed it. Too basic
Honestly, Pacman shouldn't be on this this
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Nice list, except Goldeneye. That game does NOT hold up imo. I think it was only good because it was the only way to play split screen fps on a TV using a home console. The single-player campaign was cheap and poorly designed (and I did 100% it on 007 difficulty). There just have to be dozens of more important retro games than Goldeneye.
@@maxducoudray doesn’t matter if it doesn’t hold up, it’s one of the most important first person shooters in history that introduced a lot of approaches and features modern fps games use including varied mission objectives, stealth elements and local multiplayer