That's why I think it was the 1st great NBA game. It changed the whole landscape for NBA games with it's TV style camera angles and more realistic gameplay than the arcade format of Tecmo.

Plus, it allowed the ability to perform trades/roster moves with it's battery backup in the cartridge.

I'm going to cheat on this list mainly because if I didn't 5 of them would probably be Mario games:

Super Mario series (favorite being Super Mario World)
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
Bioshock series
Mass Effect series
Flower
Mario Kart 64
Limbo
Pikmin series
Rayman Origins/Legends
Gone Home

You could hold this one week later, and half of these would change. It's the nature of the beast. I did also include a couple of honorable mentions too.

1. River City Ransom (NES)
2. Fable II (360)
3. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360)
4. Legend of Zelda (NES)
5. Wolfenstein 3d (PC and everywhere else)
6. Final Fantasy I (NES)
7. X-Com: UFO Defense/Enemy Unknown (PC/360)
8. Dracula X (PCE)
9. Phantasy Star (SMS)
10. Toukon Retsuden 3 (PSX)
HM: Tales from the Borderlands (Xbox One) - I had to include this one as I'm only through two episodes and it sports one of the best stories I have enjoyed ever.
HM: Sam & Max: Hit the Road (PC) - Even though the gameplay was extremely basic, the characters and story would stick with me until this very day. I dearly love the short lived animated show. It frustrates me to no end that they want $20 each for the games on Xbox 360 (and little chance at BC).

^ Yeah, unfortunately Sam and Max is on page 39 of the "requested BC titles". Still, Telltale may like not having to port it themselves.

- Super Mario World
- Super Metroid
- Zelda Link to the Past
- Street Fighter (series)
- Castlevania Symphony of the Night
- Borderlands 2
- Rayman Origins/Legends
- Skyrim
- Witcher 3
- Bloodborne

I like how much love Bloodborne is getting. It turned out to be pretty amazing for a game that I was apprehensive about playing.

HOMM3 is probably the most addictive game I ever played and I still never got around to beating all the expansion packs.

Here's my list:

1. Metroid
2. Final Fantasy 7
3. Fallout 3
4. Bioshock
5. Battlefield 1942
6. Uncharted 2
7. Mass Effect 2
8. Civilization 4
9. Starcraft
10. HOMM3

I logged in the most hours with Starcraft multiplayer. Played over 10,000 matches and it's the main reason why I have a massive game backlog. lol Still an amazing multiplayer experience.

it was my introduction to the Souls series and going back and playing the older ones was tough after plowing through Bloodborne for 3 months. It's just such a tightly paced game with amazing combat. I'm looking forward to Dark Souls 3, which hopefully incorporates some elements of BBs gameplay into that universe.

Holy shit DJ... That sport list is close to what I loved...

NBA live 95 was awesome
World Series Baseball (Sega) was by far the best baseball game EVER made.
NFL 2k5 (Sega) another game that was the best ever... madden blah!
Tecmo bowl and Super Tecmo (I absolutely loved).

FF7
Metal Gear Solid 1
Resident Evil 1
Xenogears
Legend of Dragoons
Street Fighter series
Mortal Kombat
Tekken

Dark Souls - #1 with a bullet.
Anarchy Online
Left 4 Dead
Tomb Raider (reboot)
Red Dead Redemption

Having a hard time coming up with another 5 that I feel strongly enough about.

No particular order :

Red Dead Redemption
Fallout 3
Doom
Quake
Links 386
KOTOR
Starcraft
Baldur's Gate
Planescape: Torment
Miner 2049er

Its awesome to see all the Red Dead Redemption love on these lists.

to Links 386. Played a ton of that back in the day.

I played a good bit of Links 386 as well. And even though it was not quite as popular, Jack Nicklaus 6 and the course editing options were pretty darn spiffy. I know a few games have rumored it (course creation) to be happening for the console. I would love to see it. It would get me into Console golfing again (I haven't played one in at least half a dozen years).

Edit: turns out, The Golf Club for Xbox One does the whole course creation thing pretty well. I ended up snagging an used copy from Gamestop for $20 and it's been quite worth it so far.

Hmm...

1. Toe Jam & Earl (Genesis)
2. Rock Band
3. Point Blank (PS1)
4. Samba De Amigo (Dreamcast)
5. Crazy Taxi (Dreamcast)
6. Contra (NES)
7. Blades of Steel (NES)
8. Seaman (Dreamcast)
9. Space Channel 5 (Dreamcast)
10. Street Fighter II (SNES)

Honorable mentions: Mortal Kombat (Genesis), Streets of Rage (Genesis), Revenge of Shinobi (Genesis)m Ninja Gaiden (NES), Ghouls N Ghosts (Genesis), Marvel Vs Capcom 2 (Dreamcast), Soul Calibur (Dreamcast).

Man, I miss the great Sega games

I stand corrected, Sam and Max Save the World was added to BC today.

Yep, I was about as amazed as you were. I hate to say it, if there isn't a sale in the next 2-3 weeks (maybe a month at the most), I might just spend the $20.

I find it difficult to narrow this down to 10 games and how to actually classify it as 10. There have been some games that at the time i thought were technical marvels and kept me engrossed through to the end, however i felt no need to return to afterwards. The God of War series was a perfect example. Plus, as i am pretty much a first generation gamer and have had countless computers and consoles over the decades it means i have played thousands of games. So to narrow it to 10 is tough. So i am going with a list where the game was excellent on first play, brought me back playing the most hours thereafter and by the end of my last play i was still perfectly happy to return to the game....and still do to some extent.

1. Unreal Tournament / Unreal Tournament 3 (PC). People chose this or Quake. For me it was no competition. This game was and i believe still is the best online multiplayer game of all time. I still play the original game on my PC and the offline play with bots is also superb. I know a free updated version of this game is being made, but would love to see a full blown release with tonnes of updates. Just more like 3 rather than the 2003/2004 version.

2. Just Cause 2 (PS3). Literally hundreds of hours spent on this game and the single best sandbox third person game ever in my opinion.

3. Skyrim (PS3). Even with lots of problems with the release when it came out on the PS3 i still stuck with it and loved it. Also loved Oblivion, but Skyrim did more with what it had.

4. GTA San Andreas (PS2). Sure GTA V is basically the same game, but San Andreas created a better world. V just made it look better.

5. Damocles (Commodore Amiga). It still amazes me that they managed to fit not just an entire world, but an entire solar system with planets and moons to explore on a single 1mb 3.5 inch floppy disk. Superb game as well.

6. Tetris (Gameboy). Such a simple game but addictive as hell.

7. Street Fighter II (Arcade). Stands the test of time and still an amazing fighting game.

8. Counter Strike Source (PC). The other online game that reigns supreme. Just an awesome game.

9. Deus Ex (PC). Simply a fantastic game that gave the player true choices for the first time.

10. Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain (PS4). I have never been into this series of games, but the open sandbox style of this last game really captured me. Its a fun game where i quickly got to the point where i can pick it up, play for 30 mins to an hour and have a blast wiping out a few bases and then move on, or i can play for several hours going through missions. Highly polished game.

I would have actually replaced MGS with the Witcher III, but as i had Skyrim on the list i wanted to only include one of those huge sandbox style fantasy games. Not taking anything away from the Witcher which i think is superb in every way.

1. World of Warcraft (pc)
2. RBI Baseball (NES and Arcade)
3. Counter Strike: Global Offensive (PC)
4. Legend of Zelda (NES)
5. Street Fighter 2 (SNES)
6. Borderlands 2 (pc)
7. Civilization 3 (pc)
8. WCW/NWO no mercy (or revenge, cant remember) (some console; N64 maybe?)
9. Ultima 3 (NES)
10. Super Metroid (SNES)

Nice list, RBI Baseball represents so many hours of fond memories for me. If nothing else, it was figuring out how many innings I get for a pitcher to strike out every single batter before he started to fade.

WCW/NWO No Mercy is the only game where I could want a horribly crappy system for one single game. I would kill for a modern day port (even using generic wrestlers).

Ultima 3, I had no idea what I was doing but I put 30-40 hours in that game no problem. Fun rpg, and very addictive.

my biggest RBI baseball achievement was on the arcade version (i had a stand up arcade game of it in my garage at one time) I was Catfish Hunter vs the greatest Yankees of all time. I got 27 strikeouts in a row only using Catfish. His ball movement was so good, you could still hit the unhittable corner of the strike zone after 8 innings (with 25 mph fastballs, lol).
On the NES version, my favorite team was the Mets but i often played as the Cardinals because they had some really fast base runners (vince Coleman, Ozzie Smith, willie mcgee).

*Update and added some obscure game that was only on the list bc I’ve only played 11 games in my life.

Major Mud
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
Zelda A Link to the Past
Marvel v Capcom 2
WWF No Mercy
Fallout New Vegas
Super Mario World
Final Fantasy 3
Animal Crossing
Fight Night Round 2

Hmm, never replied back in the day so just quick and no real thought put into it, off the top of my head:

Ms. Pac-Man
Super Mario World
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Beyond Good & Evil
Okami
Halo
Bioshock
Life is Strange
Tomb Raider (2013)
Resogun

Honorable Mentions: Metroid: Prime, Pikmin franchise, Waverace, F-Zero, Borderlands, Super Castlevania IV, & Mega Man II.