1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die (Both Editions)

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Exile
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Midwinter
Hunter
Mega-Lo-Mania
Gravity Power
Monster Max
International Track & Field
Final Furlong
X-COM: Apocalypse
Shining Force III
Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now
Grand Prix Legends
Bangai-O
Faselei!
Tribes 2
IL-2 Sturmovik
Grow
Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town
Geometry Wars
Mojib Ribbon
Ninja Five-O
Pool Paradise
Torus Trooper
Golden Tee Live
Facade
Fire Pro Wrestling Returns
Rebelstar: Tactical Command
Armadillo Run
Line Rider
Exit 2
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Naked War
Slitherlink
Gottlieb Pinball Classics
Virtua Tennis 3
Crush
Free Running
Flatout: Ultimate Carnage
Flywrench
Desktop Tower Defense
Everyday Shooter
Mercury Meltdown Revolution
Planet Puzzle League
Quadradius
Audiosurf
Auditorium
Bejeweled Twist
Critter Crunch
Galcon
Cursor*10
Fantastic Contraption
Bangai-O Spirits
MaBoShi: The Three Shape Arcade
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2
Let's Tap
Pure
Rez HD
Top Spin 3
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite
Reset Generation
Trism
Drop7
Trackmania: United Forever
Fieldrunners
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Bonsai Barber
Geodefense Swarm
Captain Forever
Boom Blox Bash Party
Canabalt
Bit.Trip Core
Grand Slam Tennis
Demigod
Fat Princess
Eliss
Death Tank
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Noby Noby Boy
Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure
Little King's Story
Race Pro
One-Dot Enemies
Rolando 2
Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor
Starship Patrol
The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai
You, Me and the Cubes
Zen Bound
Reflect Missile
Mighty Flip Champs
Cogs
PixelJunk Shooter
Max and the Magic Marker
Neptune's Pride
Alien Zombie Death
Year Walk

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1. The Oregon Trail
1971Video Game
7.6 (206)
The player takes on the role of a wagon leader guiding a group of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley on the Oregon Trail via a covered wagon in the year 1848.
StarRichard Ellman Kennedy
2. Pong
1972EVideo Game
7.5 (1K)
Two players play a video version of table tennis. The first to score 11 points wins.
3. Breakout
1976Video Game
7.2 (160)
You must use a horizontally-sliding paddle to bounce a ball against colorful bars at the top of the screen. Each segment of the bars touched by the ball disappears. The object is to keep the ball ricocheting between your paddle and the bars above until the bars are completely gone and you "break out". You get points for each bar segment you get rid of. If the ball drops below your paddle, you lose a life.
4. Boot Hill
1977Video Game
5.7 (25)
Western shooter arcade game released by Midway in 1977 and a sequel to Gun Fight.
5. Combat
1977UnratedVideo Game
6.0 (74)
Combat features 27 games in one, each are all variations on the tank, biplane, and jet gameplay.
6. Space Invaders
1978K-AVideo Game
7.5 (978)
Commonly considered as one of the most influential video games of all time, the goal is to defeat wave after wave of descending aliens with a horizontally moving laser cannon to earn as many points as possible.
7. Adventure
1979Video Game
7.1 (107)
The player controls a square avatar whose quest is to explore an open-ended environment to find a magical chalice and return it to the golden castle. Three dragons and an item-stealing bat roam the castle as well.
8. Asteroids
1979UnratedVideo Game
7.1 (604)
Your spaceship is trapped in an asteroid belt. Watch out for enemy spacecraft and maneuver your way out.
DirectorEd Logg
9. Galaxian
1979UnratedVideo Game
7.1 (292)
Face waves of aliens descending on your spaceship and clear the screen to achieve victory.
10. Lunar Lander
1979Not RatedVideo Game
5.8 (73)
The player controls a lunar landing module, with the goal of landing safely on the Moon.
11. Battlezone
1980Video Game
6.3 (64)
Featured game.
12. Defender
1980UnratedVideo Game
7.3 (196)
Defend the human population from swarms of attacking aliens.
13. Phoenix
1980UnratedVideo Game
7.0 (44)
Players control a spaceship, shooting at a variety of alien birds of different sizes and attack patterns.
14. Eamon
1980Video Game
6.4 (20)
An adventurer undertakes dangerous quests against numerous enemies to earn riches and experience
15. Missile Command
1980UnratedVideo Game
7.0 (188)
Missiles from the sky are attacking the cities, you, as the player, must defend the 6 cities as long as you can.
16. Rogue
1980Video Game
6.0 (31)
Embark on a quest for the amulet of Yendor in the Dungeons of Doom! Magical items help you, the hero, to overcome the increasingly powerful monsters. Find the amulet to break the spell to enable an ascend to freedom.
17. Tempest
1981UnratedVideo Game
7.2 (89)
You control a yellow crab-shaped shooter that travels along the outside rim of a 3-dimensional tunnel, shooting enemies down the alleys of the tunnel while avoiding any coming down the alleys. The tunnel takes on many different forms, and the shooter has a special "superzapper" that enables it to kill all enemies present in the tunnel.
18. Multi-User Dungeon: MUD1
1978Video Game
A multi-user dungeon (MUD) is both a style of role-playing game and the name of one of the original text-based multiplayer online role-playing games of this genre. MUD was created by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle in 1980. MUD was modeled after earlier text-based adventure games and became a popular game to play over Telenet, an early commercial Internet. Multi-user dungeons are sometimes referred to as multi-user dimensions or multi-user domains.
19. Pac-Man
1980EVideo Game
7.8 (2.5K)
Navigate Pac-Man through a maze escaping ghosts and eating Pac-Dots.
20. Zork I: The Great Underground Empire
1980Video Game
7.6 (84)
Told in second person, you play an AFGNCAAP (an Ageless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Culturally-Ambiguous Adventure Person) who begins in a serene setting, a house nestled in a thick forest. But your adventure really begins when you discover that the house leads to an expansive dungeon of forgotten lore and you must recover it's treasures from a tricky thief.
21. Warlords
1981UnratedVideo Game
6.6 (47)
The players use shields to defend their castle walls from the fireballs that ricochet around the playfield. Players can capture and catapult the fireballs at opposing castles. Fireballs destroy pieces of the castle walls they hit.
22. Centipede
1981Video Game
7.2 (296)
The player controls a gun that can only move in the bottom fifth of the screen. The object is to shoot a centipede that works its way down to the player area through a field of mushrooms. Other attacking enemies are fleas, spiders, and scorpions.
23. Galaga
1981UnratedVideo Game
7.8 (765)
The sequel to Galaxian (1979), the player controls a spaceship and faces waves of enemy aliens that try to destroy, capture, or collide with the spaceship.
24. Donkey Kong
1981EVideo Game
7.3 (2.3K)
Arcade video game and the first in the "Donkey Kong" series in which Jumpman (later retconned to be Mario) runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site and rescue Pauline from a giant gorilla, Donkey Kong.
DirectorShigeru Miyamoto
25. Qix
1981Video Game
6.5 (64)