Gaming RedCafe's Greatest Video Games Of All Time Contest (ROUND 1)

[Dirty Schwein]

So we all saw the IGN Greatest Games contest a while back and safe to say, most people thought the system was a bit of a joke and not really representative of the best games of all time. A few of us in that thread thought we should do our own. I'm not the biggest gamer in here but as no one else has stepped up, here I am!

Here's how it will work:

Each Monday, I will set up a new round for the contest.
Each round will represent a different generation of gaming.
We will be starting with the Third Generation as this is when gaming became mainstream. I doubt many of you would have voted for a game from Magnavix Odyssey or Mattel Intellivision so stop your whining now!

The generations are below (BOLDED IS THE CURRENT ROUND FOR THIS THREAD):

Round 1 - Third Gen - NES, Master System, Atari 7800
Round 2 - Fourth Gen - Mega Drive, Neo Geo, SNES
Round 3 - Fifth Gen - Saturn, PS1, N64
Round 4 - Sixth Gen - Dreamcast, PS2, GameCube, Xbox
Round 5 - Seventh Gen - Xbox 360, PS3, Wii
Round 6 - Eighth Gen - Wii U, PS4, Xbox One
Round 7 - Ninth Gen - Xbox Series X/S, PS5, Switch
Round 8 - Special Round 1 - PC Gaming
Round 9 - Special Round 2 - Handheld & Mobile Gaming
Round 10 - Bonus Round - (TBA)

For each round, please list your top 5 games for that generation in list view.
Please do this by Friday 11:59pm GMT
5th = 2 pts, 4th = 4 pts, 3rd = 6 pts, 2nd = 8 pts, 1st = 10 pts.
The top 2 games from each round will go through to the final round.
In the event of a tie, I will need to run a poll for 24hrs.
If you have voted, then changed your vote, please let me know, otherwise I may miss your vote by accident.
I will try to start each new round on the Monday after a vote round has finished.
At the opening post of each round, I will put in the results from the previous round and start the voting of the current round.
Once we have gone through the 10 rounds, I will make a FINAL Round thread where you all can vote for the final 20 nominees.
Then once that voting is done, I will post the top 20 in order from last to first and crown the overall winner.

I know this is probably not the BEST way but I doubt there is a BEST way to do this!

Remember, I have 2 kids, a full time job and in the middle of a house move so there may be times where I miss deadlines or post later than anticipated. Apologies in advance.

I hope this is fun and you guys enjoy it

 

[Dirty Schwein]

1. Alex Kidd In Miracle World
2. Double Dragon
3. Sonic The Hedgehog 2
4. Cyber Shinobi
5. Altered Beast

 

[OleBoiii]

Great initiative!

While I did play NES as a kid, I only remember a handful of games. I'll come back stronger in round 2, 3, 4 and 8.

 

[Vidyoyo]

Here you go @esmufc07. Me and Dutty Schwein spent the whole weekend putting this together

 

[Bosws87]

1. Super Mario Bros 3
2. Legend of Zelda
3. Alex the Kid in Miracle World
4. Road Rash
5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 (Arcade Version)

 

[esmufc07]

Here you go @esmufc07. Me and Dutty Schwein spent the whole weekend putting this together

Great work! I shall submit my list later. I was actually thinking about this yesterday aswell and how you’d let me down

 

[Vidyoyo]

Difficult one to start with as a lot of Master System games were better on the Mega Drive so I'm saving those for the next round.

1. Tetris (NES)
2. Super Mario Bros 2 (NES)
3. Super Mario Bros 3 (NES)
4. Metroid (NES)
5. Pinball (NES)

Also @Dirty Schwein please consider adding more than one category for handhold games.

 

[The Cat]

How is Sonic The Hedgehog 2 in this week and not next week then?

Don't get it

 

[Vidyoyo]

How is Sonic The Hedgehog 2 in this week and not next week then?

Don't get it

It was technically on the Master System but that one was nowhere near as good.

 

[The Cat]

It was technically on the Master System but that one was nowhere near as good.

Ah cheers I never knew that.

 

[Vidyoyo]

Ah cheers I never knew that.

No worries. I'm a professional gamer so if you ever need any more info just shoot me a DM

Damo and Elvis ask me for tips all the time.

 

[TMDaines]

So in rounds 1-7 you can only vote for console games of that generation, and not PC games of the same period? I think nine of my top ten would all be PC!

As for third gen, all I've really played is the original Super Mario, so I will give this a pass and wait for future rounds!

 

[esmufc07]

Would it be wise to create a separate thread for the chat? And just leave this one for the votes, would make collating it easier?

 

[The Cat]

Would have loved to have been able to pick some Spectrum games nevermind. I didn't start with consoles until next week's picks so will join in then.

 

[b82REZ]

1. Super Mario Bros 3.
2. Sonic the Hedgehog.
3. The Legend of Zelda.
4. Tetris.
5. Alex Kidd.

 

[OleBoiii]

as should PC itself because there's just so many games

Yeah, PC games are hard to slot into this format. Maybe it should be a separate thread with 5 year intervals: 85-89, 90-94, 95-99, 00-04, 05-09, 10-14, 15-today

That way we have 7 console generations and 7 PC generations. Alternatively, we mash them together so that every round we have a console vote and a PC vote. So for this round it would be PC games released between 1985 and 1989.

 

[DavelinaJolie]

1. Super Mario Bros 3
2. Tetris
3. Super Mario Bros
4. Maniac Mansion
5. Duck Tales

 

[Stobzilla]

1. Super Mario Bros 3
2. Zelda
3. Zelda 2
4. Alex Kidd in Miracle World
5. Wonderboy 3: The Dragon's Trap

 

[TrustInJanuzaj]

A lot of your showing your ages. I’ll see you In round 3!

 

[Vidyoyo]

A lot of your showing your ages. I’ll see you In round 3!

Old men running the world.

Old men are the future.

 

[Dirty Schwein]

Difficult one to start with as a lot of Master System games were better on the Mega Drive. As such I'm saving those for the next round.

1. Tetris (NES)
2. Super Mario Bros 2 (NES)
3. Super Mario Bros 3 (NES)
4. Metroid (NES)
5. Contra (NES)

Also @Dirty Schwein please consider adding more than one category for handhold games.

Game Boy Original + Colour + Advance + Neogeo Pocket + GameGear
DS + PSP + PS Vita + 3DS

Should have separate categories I think, as should PC itself because there's just so many games

P.s. If you need any help collating the points or setting up threads etc then shoot me a DM and I'll be happy to help. It's a great idea!

Yeah, PC games are hard to slot into this format. Maybe it should be a separate thread with 5 year intervals: 85-89, 90-94, 95-99, 00-04, 05-09, 10-14, 15-today

That way we have 7 console generations and 7 PC generations. Alternatively, we mash them together so that every round we have a console vote and a PC vote. So for this round it would be PC games released between 1985 and 1989.

So in rounds 1-7 you can only vote for console games of that generation, and not PC games of the same period? I think nine of my top ten would all be PC!

As for third gen, all I've really played is the original Super Mario, so I will give this a pass and wait for future rounds!

Made updates to the opening post to give PC, Handheld and Mobile more love. It's too difficult to integrate these into the console generations, especially PC. Hopefully the change will appease you guys and girls who are into PC gaming.

 

[Vidyoyo]

Made updates to the opening post to give PC, Handheld and Mobile more love. It's too difficult to integrate these into the console generations, especially PC. Hopefully the change will appease you guys and girls who are into PC gaming.

Looks good my dude. 10 rounds is a nice even number.

 

[Volumiza]

1. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
2. Double Dragon
3. Super Mario Bros 3
4. R-Type
5. California Games

 

[b82REZ]

PC wankers ruining another gaming chat. Get a life nerds.

 

[Vidyoyo]

@Volumiza I was tempted to add California Games. Great choice

 

[Dirty Schwein]

Looks good my dude. 10 rounds is a nice even number.

Thanks bud. I know I would ideally love to give PC and Handheld games the same treatment as console but then it would require double the work to count and the final will be 40 games, which feels too high where as the Top 20 greatest games of all time has a better ring to it

 

[Massive Spanner]

Sounds awesome @Dirty Schwein but I think you'd be better doing it by years than by console generation otherwise you are really limiting PC games of which there are a massive amount in a GOAT list.

 

[AaronRedDevil]

I’ll see you guys in R3. Sega was the earliest but can’t remember any game on it. PS1 onwards.

 

[amolbhatia50k]

The problem is that it's an impossible task. Don't really remember which games were on which console/from which generation.

 

[V.O.]

Don't have anything for this round, but actually would have if it was the Amstrad CPC/Commodore 64 generation.

I agree with the folks saying that PC should be split into eras as well (or just rolled in with the console ones). Seems a bit odd having Theme Hospital and Starcraft in the same round as games that have come out in the past couple of years.

 

[Maxii]

1. Super Mario Bros 3
2. Mega Man 2
3. Sonic the Hedgehog
4. R-Type
5. Metroid

 

[Volumiza]

@Volumiza I was tempted to add California Games. Great choice

Man, I loved it. I was keen on rollerskating, skateboarding and bmx'ing at that time. California Games was a gift! I can't remember a game before that where me and my mates got so competitive

 

[paulscholes18]

1: Sonic 2
2: Sonic chaos
3: Wonder boy 3
4: Streets of rage
5: Alex Kidd in miracle world

 

[Volumiza]

Would have loved to have been able to pick some Spectrum games nevermind. I didn't start with consoles until next week's picks so will join in then.

Spectrum 128, C64 and Amiga had all the greatest games of that era between them.

 

[Lebowski]

1. Super Mario Brothers 3
2. Kid Icarus
3. Castlevania 3
4. Contra
5. Mega Man 2

 

[BusbyMalone]

Great idea. I'll jump in on Round 2. Never really played much NES unfortunately.

Some absolute bangers in Round 2 though!

 

[esmufc07]

Also was there any need to include Xbox?

 

[Vidyoyo]

Also was there any need to include Xbox?

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[Ainu]

I appreciate WiiU and Switch are kinda hard to fit into the usual gen cycles, but the way it's presented here doesn't sit well. Switch as a PS5/Series X generation console? I'd just add Wii and WiiU to the PS360 era, even if the WiiU was very late, and put Switch in with PS4 and Xbox One. Intuitively, looking at the games, that seems like a better fit.

 

[Vidyoyo]

I appreciate WiiU and Switch are kinda hard to fit into the usual gen cycles, but the way it's presented here doesn't sit well. Switch as a PS5/Series X generation console? I'd just add Wii and WiiU to the PS360 era, even if the WiiU was very late, and put Switch in with PS4 and Xbox One. Intuitively, looking at the games, that seems like a better fit.

Let's be fair, any choice for Wii U is basically a choice for Switch