Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there.
â˘Namco’s Top 5 Revolutionary Firsts [Ranker] A couple of these stretch the definition a bit (I’m not sure Namco intended to create Pac-Man as a mascot; his popularity made him into one) but No. 5 I did not know until today.
â˘Top 10 Angry Birds Rip-Offs [GamePro] Since everyone likes to smarm about Angry Birds ripping off Crush the Castle here are 10 games that rip off Rovio’s pride and joy, either in name or in gameplay.
â˘The 10 Most Delayed Games (And Whether They Were Worth The Wait) [Complex] A lot of the names here are well known (such as No. 1, duh) but Complex puts them in order of the length of the delay and adds a note about their quality. Thus you get the double-smug of reading about a game that was both horridly late and shitty. Like No. 5.
â˘The 11 Longest Video Games [UGO] A look at the longest-playing singleplayer games (because mutliplayer makes a game technically infinite) spanning video gaming history. Space trading simulator Elite from 1984 is the old-school entry. Surprised not to see Red Dead Redemption on the list.
â˘Ten Worst Action/Adventure ClichĂŠs [GameRanx] This was a terrible week for top 10 lists. GamePro spammed the hell out of Digg with a list for just about everything. Someone else put together a list with “Real Steel” in a patently SEO-optimized headline, and it ended up being about favorite video game robots. And everyone did the best video game music/worst remakes fandango. Here’s a tolerable look at action/adventure tropes that I’m including simply because it didn’t say “exploding barrels.”
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