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Ben Bertoli
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Ben is an exceptionally tall freelance writer and author hailing from Indianapolis. He is the current co-host of the gaming history podcast Memory Card and is likely replaying Banjo-Kazooie right now.

**Edit... Just realized its by “SERIES” soo i will shut up and put my head in shame Read more

Great idea and list of games! Would love to get it for some younger family members. Read more

The only game I really think is missing and was awesome for me as a kid is super mario RPG. Maybe it is too hard to find?


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I am glad to have helped a thing! : D Read more

This looks great. I imagine if I had something like this in my youth I would have gone nuts to try everything in the list. Well done! Read more

Cities Skylines would be a better choice at this point. And also Planet Coaster over Rollercoaster Tycoon.
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I have no problems with no M-rated games (although I was playing GTA 1-2 when I was a kid in the 90's and Halo when I was like 10ish) but I have to say, why is WoW or any Warcraft game for that matter not on here? I’ve been playing WoW since very early 2005 and Warcraft before then. I was in 7th grade. Not to mention W Read more

Legend of dragoon, ff7, megaman legends, shenmue, wonderboy in monster world, digimon world.
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Kidechka didn’t like it. I have no idea how but I’m guessing it had to do with sk8r boi
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First of all, Congratulations! This is so awesome! Read more

I don’t think you could have made this book at a better time. With Nintendo making Retro consoles, granted only a select few games on there, the accessibility to a lot of that list will increase, which is a great thing. Read more

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I LOVE that Monkey Island made the list! I was worried because of it’s age (though now that I think about it 3 of the 5 games are on Steam). To bad one of my faves form the series, Curse, is nearly impossible to find. I have lots of gamer friends who have never heard of the series so it’s nice to see it get Read more

Oh got it, thanks. Well then I think the only other I loved was Return of the King on PS2 but I wouldn’t say it was good enough for this list haha. Great job though! Read more

I know you already said there’s not much Strategy... but as kid (and to this day) I loved Age of Empires II, Starcraft and later Warcraft 3. I would have included at least one of them.
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Man, this list really takes me back to a lot of the great games I’ve played over the years. I hope young kids aren’t doing all their gaming via F2P mobile games and actually have the opportunity to sit down with some of the bevy of wonderful options available on PC and consoles. Read more

This is a fantastic list. My only thoughts: Read more

Thats fair! Hopefully at worse it just gives a few kids a slightly darker sense of humour XD Read more