My game reviews

Game	Platform	Review	Comments
10,000,000	PC	Bad	Essentially a tile match game with a dungeon crawler theme. Boring, predictable, mobile-focused mess.
12 Labours of Hercules II: The Cretan Bull	PC	Meh	Repetitive gameplay reminiscent of mobile games. It's at least somewhat interesting, however.
1982	PC	Good	A fun, fairly decent retro-themed shooter
20XX	PC	Bad	A poor attempt to make a Rockman clone that fails absolutely and completely in fun, controls, gameplay, and, well, everything.
720°	Arcade	Bad
8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I	PC	Good
99 Levels to Hell	PC	Good	Reminds me of old Amiga/DOS era platformer games. Well done.
AaAaAA!!! - A reckless Disregard for Gravity	PC	Good	Simple but fun premise makes for a good time falling.
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAA!!! for the Awesome	PC	Good	More of the fun that AaAaAA!!! brings and adds just enough to keep your interest.
Adventure	Atari VCS	Good	A proto-action RPG that is so fun and challenging, you won't care that the dragons look like ducks.
Adventures of Shuggy	PC	Bad
Akalabeth	PC	Meh	Essentially Ultima 0, it doesn't have all the elements that put it on the level of even the original Ultima but it's still an interesting game.
Among Us	PC	Bad	GAME IS SUS. Seriously, a poor "social" game that is trivialized if people know how to work together, which no one does.
And Yet It Moves	PC	Bad	And yet it's bad. Poor gameplay and controls make this slog of a game even worse.
Animal Crossing	Gamecube	Meh	Entertaining in small bursts but incredibly dull over the long run, the only real fun part of the game is playing the NES games hidden in the game.
Another World	Genesis	Meh
Archon	Commodore 64	Good	Chess + actually fighting for a spot (instead of just watching an animation like Battle Chess) makes for a great game.
Archon Classic	PC	Meh	Almost like Archon but has enough strange, un-fun additions to make it not as good as playing the original.
Audiosurf	PC	Good
Audiosurf 2	PC	Good
Awesomenauts	PC	Bad
Baby Pac-Man	Arcade	Good	The videogame/pinball hybrid. Nothing like it. Wish I could play it again.
Balatro	PC	Good	Poker-style single player card game with a huge twist. Addicting and fun.
Baldur's Gate	PC	Meh	The beginnings of Western RPGs becoming essentially huge story-heavy JRPG-like snoozefests.
Bard's Tale (original trilogy)	Commodore 64	Good	Fantastic city/dungeon crawler games that RPGs should be, not the Final Fantasy story + grindfest games.
Basement Collection, The	PC	Meh	A couple of interesting games are contained in this collection but is mostly just half-baked Flash junk.
Bastion	PC	Bad
Batman: Arkham Asylum	PC	Good	Despite having a ton of story bogging it down, the beautiful, fluid combat done with near-perfection and the environments you have to go through make it a very good game.
Batman: Arkham City	PC	Meh	While having the same fluid combat system as Asylum, the game just seems to go through the motions unlike its well-presented predecessor.
Beat Hazard	PC	Good
Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians	PC	Bad
Beatles: Rock Band, The	Wii	Good	Play along with some of the best music ever made on this planet on a plastic guitar or fake drums.
Bejeweled 3	PC	Good	The best Bejeweled game. No ads, no bullshit, no paid content from the mobile side, tons of modes and challenges.
Beyond Gravity	PC	Good
Binding of Isaac, The	PC	Good	The best Binding of Isaac game that knows throwing everything including the kitchen sink in a game is a bad idea.
Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, The	PC	Meh	Expansions got worse and worse and now the game is just putrid. Some fun to be had but removing all expansions is best.
Bing Bong XL	PC	Good
Bionic Commando	NES	Meh
Bionic Commando Rearmed	PC	Meh
BioShock	PC	Bad	A frustratingly bad, poorly executed fancy FPS with a pretentious whocares story. I do admit the setting is unique and pretty cool, but its gameplay drags it down.
Bit Blaster XL	PC	Good
BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien	PC	Bad
BIT.TRIP Runner	PC	Meh	Essentially a rhythm game that can get frustrating at times.
Black Widow: Recharged	PC	Good	I didn't play a lot of the original game but this one keeps the interest and fun turned up to a nice level just like essentially all of the Recharged series.
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold	PC	Good	A forgotten gem of a FPS, it's a bit plain but still good.
Blake Stone: Planet Strike	PC	Good	More of the same Blake Stone. Still fun.
Bleed	PC	Bad
Blood: One Unit Whole Blood	DOS	Good	Incredibly difficult (ACTUALLY difficult, not modern "artificial difficulty"), addicting, brutal, and fun FPS. I live... again.
Borderlands	PC	Good	You know a game understands how story should work when the majority of it is in the background while it lets you keep playing. Tons of guns and fun and the best in the series.
Borderlands 2	PC	Good	More of the fun and (mostly) uninterrupted gameplay of the original with new environments and characters. Not quite as engaging as the original but still a load of fun.
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel	PC	Bad	Every single gameplay positive in the original Borderlands game is turned into a negative here with frustrating gameplay elements and other major issues.
Bot Vice	PC	Bad
Braid	PC	Bad	While it starts out as an interesting time manpulation puzzle game, it quickly descends into a pretentious, unfathomable "how does this even work" mess with terrible design.
Brotato	PC	Good	A very simple run and gun game that is very addicting, with tons of cool powerups and weapons against the forces that oppose you.
Brutal Legend	PC	Meh	Too much story and mediocre gameplay drag this one down. There's still some fun to be had here and there and the music is good.
Bubble Bobble	NES	Good	An absolutely fun game where you pop all your enemies. In bubbles. Bobble. Yeah.
Bubsy 1/2	Genesis	Meh
Call of Juarez Gunslinger	PC	Bad	Story-heavy game with bad gameplay and eye-burning shiny graphics you can't turn off no matter how low on the graphics sliders you set it. Horrible.
Carrion	PC	Meh
Castles of Dr. Creep, The	Commodore 64	Good
Castlevania	NES	Good	I can't imagine anyone not liking this classic platformer. Even as hard as it is, you feel responsible for your poor play and are motivated to play even more. Classic.
Castlevania / Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness	Nintendo 64	Bad	The Nintendo 64 games. 3d controls and gameplay is laughably horrible and should never have been attempted.
Castlevania Bloodlines	Genesis	Good	Great Genesis title with two characters to play through a fun set of levels. A bit easier than most Castlevanias, though.
Castlevania Dracula X	Super Nintendo	Meh	A game that tries to reimagine Rondo of Blood for the SNES and really falls short. Still pretty fun.
Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge	Gameboy	Meh	Controls are stiff and gameplay isn't that great. The Gameboy's limitations hurt this game.
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest	NES	Good	Underrated and underappreciated classic that proves people don't read instruction manuals when they complain about it.
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse	NES	Good	Fantastic multi-character, branching game that challenges you with actual (not modern artificial) difficulty.
Castlevania Symphony of the Night	Playstation	Great	One of the best games ever released, and it's a 2d game on the Playstation. Take that, 3d trends.
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence	Playstation 2	Bad	What is this trash? Bad controls and awkward, hard to find elements that are required to proceed make this game absolute garbage.
Castlevania: Rondo of Blood	PC-CD (TurboGrafx CD)	Good	A very good and difficult outing for the PC-CD.
Castlevania: The Adventure	Gameboy	Meh	Controls are stiff and gameplay isn't that great. The Gameboy's limitations hurt this game.
Cave Story	PC	Meh	Too much story and some really frustrating artificial difficulty sections make what should have been a good retro game into a bad one. Also, the remake ("Plus") is even worse (bad controls).
Cave Story+	PC	Meh	The remake with sloppier controls and a laughably bad translation.
Celeste	PC	Bad	Yet another one of these spike-dodger platforming pain in the butt artifiical difficulty games that only masochists like playing. Nice premise, bad execution.
Centipede	Arcade	Good	Best with a trackball but mouse works for emulators, too. Simple, fun, addicting.
Centipede: Recharged	PC	Good	A good re-imagining with some mobile game trappings that doesn't drag the game down much.
ChuChu Rocket	Dreamcast	Good	Fun little puzzle game about herding mice into spaceships? Yeah, okay.
Cities: Skylines	PC	Bad	Is it that hard to make a clone of SimCity that doesn't have horribly frustrating controls just to place items on a map? Seriously, how was this popular?
ClusterTruck	PC	Good	Fun truck hopping game. Can be frustrating but still isn't bad.
Cogs	PC	Meh
Columns	Genesis	Good	Better than Tetris, in my mind. Requires more forethought and skill.
Command & Conquer	DOS	Good	One of the original RTS games, the formula got tiring quickly but playing this back when it was fresh was a great experience.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert	PC	Meh	Just like every other RTS, I was quickly sick of the exact same formula so every RTS after the original few gets a Meh from me. Technically OK, just nothing new.
Commander Keen series	DOS	Good	Excellent platformer that showed DOS didn't need Mario to have a fun, challenging game.
Counter-Strike	PC	Bad	Too-realistic war simulator where you can't even tell one team from the other at a glance like good games do.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive	PC	Bad	Same war simulator trash as CS but with shinier graphics.
Crash Bandicoot	PC	Meh	Okay, the limited movement is a HUGE improvement over other 3d platformers, but the lack of true depth perception and cheap placement drag this game down.
Crayon Physics Deluxe	PC	Meh
Crazy Taxi	Dreamcast	Good	Drive around, drop passengers off, great controls, great environments. All around great game.
Cruis'n USA	Arcade	Meh	Not the best driving game as it is a bit repetitive and bland with no real skill involved, but can still be a fun play here and there.
Crypt of the NecroDancer	PC	Bad	Dungeon crawler based on rhythm game trappings that makes the game incredibly frustrating and unplayable.
Crysis	PC	Meh	It's a story-based FPS with semi-realistic elements to a point but the open maps concept and powerups make it pretty fun.
Cthulhu Saves the World	PC	Bad	Boring retro-style modern JRPG-wannabe quest game with way too much story and grindy combat.
Cyberball / Cyberball 2072	Arcade	Good	American football as it should be -- no humans to break their bones and get concussions. Simplified and fun.
Daikatana	PC	Good	People gave up on this game too early or was too harsh on it. I found it very fun -- maybe not best ever, but good.
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic Single Player	PC	Good	KICKING SIMULATOR. What incredibly great gameplay. Dragged down a bit by please stop with the story...
Darkest Dungeon	PC	Good	Gather your party and keep them sane through a dungeon crawl. Tons of nice strategy make this game a fun time though it can get a bit old too fast.
Darksiders	PC	Meh	Third person combat with some frustrating control elements and typical artificial difficulty sections.
Daytona USA	Arcade	Good	Absolutely fun driving game with near-perfect controls.
Dead Space	PC	Meh	Too much story, odd viewing angle and wonky controls makes the game difficult to play and even watch at times for me (motion sickness).
DEATH STRANDING	Luna	Bad	Boring literal walking simulator with waaaaaay too much story.
Deathmatch Classic	PC	Meh	It's Quake 2 multiplayer built for Half-Life. Just play Quake 2 multiplayer.
Defender	Arcade	Good	Absolutely need the original control setup for this one. Space shooter where you're caught between caution and saving humans.
Defense Grid: The Awakening	PC	Meh	Tower defense has never been my thing, but this at least is fun for a short while before you realize it's all the same boring tripe and quit the game forever.
Defy Gravity	PC	Bad
Democracy 3	PC	Good	Brought peace, prosperity, and happiness to my country. Assassinated by religious extremists for daring to not put religion on the highest pedestal. Would definitely recommend.
Deponia: The Complete Journey	PC	Bad
Descent	DOS	Good	Incredible early six degrees of freedom shooter with addicting gameplay. Hope you brought your motion sickness pills.
Descent 2	DOS	Good	Adds more stuff and a greater challenge to an already good game. Worth it.
Descent 3	PC	Meh	Next-gen Descent game with updated graphics and predictably downgraded gameplay. Not worth your time.
Destiny 2	Stadia	Bad	A who cares, pointless, soulless slog of a shooter with random encounters and uninteresting goals. Don't see the appeal.
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition	PC	Meh	The idea of being able to achieve your goal in multiple ways is appealing but the execution of the game is very flawed with some poor game design choices and way too much story.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution	PC	Bad	Just a laughable pile of trash where you have no option but to VERY SLOWLY tiptoe your way through everything because the game thinks you need to be stealthy at all times for some reason.
Diablo	PC	Good	Endless clicker with satisfying gameplay and tons of loot.
Diablo II	PC	Good	More of the same Diablo "click to kill everything" with more variety in the world.
Diamo XL	PC	Good
DIG DUG	Arcade	Good	A satisfying pump mechanic (and advanced when you figure out how to tap the pump for better control over it) in a very challenging maze chase (of your own making) game.
Ding Dong XL	PC	Good
Disc Room	PC	Meh
Divide by Sheep	PC	Meh
DLC Quest	PC	Bad
Donkey Kong	Arcade	Good	Hello, Mario! Run and jump your way over obstacles to get to the top and save not-Princess-Peach from the clutches of a large ape. Earns its classic status.
Donkey Kong	Gameboy	Good	Starts as a port of the original DK but turns into a very clever and fun puzzle/platformer game with tons of imaginative and well-designed levels.
Donkey Kong 3	Arcade	Meh	You remember Stanley, right? Poor Stanley never got Mario's fame as he fights the Kong with... um... bug spray? A really weak spin on the classic game with still some fun to be had.
Donkey Kong Country series	Super Nintendo	Bad	Frustrating, loose, imprecise controls and laughable gameplay that is a direct result of putting graphics first probably makes this one of the first big Style Over Substance games. Bad.
Donkey Kong Jr.	Arcade	Good	The tables have turned as Junior climbs and winds his way up to save his father from the clutches of Mario (and Luigi, it seems). A very good twist on the classic game.
Doom (2016)	PC	Bad	Monster pinatas, trap rooms, bad weapons, jumping puzzles, STORY? This isn't Doom. Stop calling it Doom.
DOOM 3	PC	Bad	Resident Evil: Mars, not Doom. Slow, too much story, bad gameplay.
DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil	PC	Bad	More of the same from Resident Evil: Mars.
DOOM 64	PC	Good	Fantastic conversion of the laughable N64 version that tried to force a freaking FPS onto a toy controller.
DOOM 64	Nintendo 64	Meh	Game itself is good, the controller is laughably bad for any game, let alone this. Play the PC version.
DOOM II: Hell on Earth	DOS	Great	Still not as good as the original Doom, but the same amount of absolutely perfect gameplay. Level design in a few spots drag it down a bit.
DOOM: Custom Playstation Edition	Playstation	Good	Missing quite a lot from the original, has Doom II enemies in the Doom section of the game, has weird sound effects, and boring spooky music. Still good. Original's better.
DOTA 2	PC	Bad	I should have had an "awful" category just for this game. The game should be illegal to play and wiped completely from existence. It's that bad.
Dragon Age: Origins	PC	Bad	Yet another JRPG wannabe boring, story-heavy "RPG" that has lost its way from the good CRPGs of old.
Dragon Ball FighterZ	PC	Meh	Mediocre fighting game with one-dimensional, dial-a-combo controls. Looks fantastic, though.
Dragon's Lair	Arcade	Meh	One of the original quick time event games, it still can't be excused for just being a barely interactive movie.
Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp	Arcade	Meh	The sequel to Dragon's Quick Time Events, it at least adds a treasure hunt to the game to keep you playing.
Draw Slasher	PC	Bad
Duke Nukem 3D	DOS	Good	Control and gameplay aren't up to Doom or Quake's high bar, but, really, what is? Still a good game.
Duke Nukem Forever	PC	Bad	Game should have actually taken Forever to come out instead of almost forever, so we could be spared this garbage.
Dungeon Defenders	PC	Meh
Dungeon Hearts	PC	Bad
Dungeons & Dragons: Arcade	Arcade	Good	Tower of Doom and Shadow over Mystara arcade games. Fantastic D&D-themed beat em up quarter suckers.
Dungeons of Dredmor	PC	Good
DUSK	PC	Meh	Looks and plays like one of those cheap bad Quake clones in the 90s. Still slightly enjoyable but gameplay and design has major issues.
Dynamite Jack	PC	Meh
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The	PC	Great	The perfect Elder Scrolls game where combat is actually like an RPG instead of an FPS. Does everything else better as well.
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The	PC	Good	Slightly problematic with FPS combat instead of actual randomized/stat based RPG combat. Still very fun and engaging.
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The	PC	Good	A problematic Elder Scrolls with the same FPS combat dragging it down and some strange balance issues. Still very good, though.
Electronic Super Joy	PC	Bad	Frustrating trash with bad controls.
Electronic Super Joy 2	PC	Bad	Frustrating trash with bad controls.
Electronic Super Joy: Groove City	PC	Bad	Frustrating trash with bad controls.
End is Nigh, The	PC	Meh	Incredibly frustrating platformer that is designed to test your patience. It's at least a little more fair and has better controls than most other games of its ilk, though.
Enter the Gungeon	PC	Good	A bullet hell action/roguelite that actually works to mitigate the bullet hell and make it somewhat fair. Still can be horribly unfair in places.
Escape Goat	PC	Meh	It's fun... to a point where every level is a frustrating, sloppy mess of back and forth and it becomes incredibly tedious and not worth doing.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 / American Truck Simulator	PC	Meh	Drive your truck around and... yep, that's it. It gets old but at times it's a very Zen experience just rolling down the road watching the world go by.
Everquest	PC	Good	One of the innovators of the MMO genre and still incredibly engaging and fun to play to this very day if you can deal with the dated interface.
Everquest II	PC	Bad	Tries so hard to be Everquest but really has nothing fun or innovative about it and feels like a waste of time to play.
Eversion	PC	Meh
Eye of the Beholder trilogy	DOS	Great	A real RPG/dungeon crawler with tons of secrets, great combat, fun puzzles, and tons of content.
F-19 Stealth Fighter	DOS	Good
F.E.A.R.	PC	Good	While it's a story-heavy FPS game, this one stays light on the story and really innovates with well done combat that enhances the game.
Faerie Solitaire	PC	Meh	A fancy version of Golf (the card game, not the sport) with mobile game trappings.
Faerie Solitaire Remastered	PC	Meh	See the non-Remastered version above.
Fall Guys	PC	Bad	Poor controls and frustrating gameplay for a party-style gimmick game isn't a good formula.
Fallout	DOS	Meh
Fallout 3	PC	Meh	Tons of unfair difficulty spikes and wonky combat make what should be a fun game into a major slog.
Fallout 4	PC	Meh	Same problems as 3 and NV. Would be a great game if they could fix the combat and difficulty spike issues.
Fallout: New Vegas	PC	Meh	Essentially the same problems as Fallout 3 with wonky combat and difficulty spikes that drag down the entire experience.
FEZ	PC	Bad	Starts out interesting and fun enough but quickly devolves into a pretentious, confusing mess that isn't worth playing.
Final DOOM	DOS	Great	Two 30+ level expansion packs for Doom II that surpass Doom II's level design by a huge margin and ramp up the difficulty. Legendary.
Fist of Jesus	PC	Bad	A terribly done game that fails at every single thing it tries to be.
Flashback	Genesis	Good
Flip Flop XL	PC	Good	A very simple game of flipping. Nice diversion.
Fortnite	PC	Bad	A battle royale game that lacks any sort of fairness or fun because of its oversimplification and reliance on gimmicks.
Freespace 2	PC	Good	A bit too much story going on, but is an incredible, immersive space sim with great scenarios and excellent combat mechanics.
Frogger	Arcade	Good	Getting a frog across a road and a river sounds easy, right? Just wait a few levels. Addictive and very well done.
Frozen Hearth	PC	Bad
Frozen Synapse	PC	Bad
FTL: Faster Than Light	PC	Meh	There's a lot to like here with tons of resource management and strategy, but the game's random element is far too brutal and unavoidable to overcome at times, which is unfair.
Futurama	Playstation 2	Bad	Should have been an episode. Clunky, awful, repetitive gameplay makes this one not worth trying. Watch the "episode" version from one of the Futurama DVDs.
GALAGA	Arcade	Great	No bullet hell, a simple ship upgrade that comes with a drawback, and challenging gameplay. Shooter perfection.
Galaxian	Arcade	Good	A fairly simple yet effective shooter that is worth the play time and would eventually bring us the perfection of Galaga.
Garry's Mod	PC	Bad	Frustrating unless you have infinite patience.
Gauntlet	Arcade	Good	Top down dungeon crawler with hordes of enemies? Yes, please!
Gauntlet II	Arcade	Good	Take everything good about Gauntlet, add MORE OF EVERYTHING. This is good.
Get Medieval	PC	Good	A semi-obscure "Gauntlet" clone for PC, memorable mostly for the warrior character with his Arnold Schwarzenegger-like quotes (it's a good game otherwise, still).
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams	PC	Bad	A platformer spun off from a Commodore 64 Mario Bros. clone with a poorly implemented and frustrating gimmick further hindered by poor controls.
Goat Simulator	PC	Good	Can get old after a while and there's far too much DLC for basically "new places for goat", but there's so much hilarity here it's worth it.
God of War: Chains of Olympus	PSP	Bad	Awkward controls and repetitive, doesn't give you time for anything quick time event trash make for a bad game.
Golden Axed: A Cancelled Prototype	PC	Meh
Gone Home	PC	Bad	Pointless walking simulator that goes nowhere and bores you with a story that should have been a movie or TV special.
Gorf	Arcade	Good	A fun, good evolution of Space Invaders with several different stages. HA HA HA SPACE CADET
Gran Turismo	Playstation	Meh	It's Car Pokemon (collect all the cars!) with annoyingly "accurate" and "realistic" car controls that just means no one outside of a car geek with a full wheel/gearshift/pedals setup can play it.
Gran Turismo 2	Playstation	Meh	More of the same from the annoying car geeks that made the first game and just like Pokemon this time you have more Pokemon, erm, cars, to collect.
Grand Theft Auto	Playstation	Meh	Proto-Grand Theft Auto that just doesn't work in 2d. I know, strange concept, but GTA really is meant to be in 3d.
Grand Theft Auto III	PC	Meh	Car controls are too wonky and gameplay isn't as tight as it should be. Still pretty fun.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas	PC	Meh	Laughable car controls and far too large of a game world to be practical, as well as the story taking itself far too seriously to enjoy.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City	PC	Good	Perfect vehicle controls (yes, even helicopter), great protagonist, just the right world size, and a tongue in cheek (mostly skippable) story make for the best GTA.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories	PSP	Bad	Nice to be back in Vice City but the poor PSP controls and really boring characters and plot (to the extent that I pay attention to, so very little) drag it down.
Gratuitous Space Battles	PC	Meh
Guacamelee! Gold Edition	PC	Meh
Guild Wars 2	PC	Good	Discoverable and varied quest objectives that all count toward the area quest and an excellent concentration on exploration make this one of the better MMOs available, if a bit repetitive.
Guitar Hero 2	Playstation 2	Good	Follow the colored dots with your plastic guitar and rock on. Solid mechanics but a bit outdated at this point feature-wise.
Guitar Hero 3	Wii	Meh	Not as solid as GH2 with slightly worse mechanics but still can be as much fun as you can have with a plastic guitar.
Gunfire Reborn	PC	Meh	Roguelight shooter with some iffy game mechanics and laughable system requirements to run a game that looks very dated on anything but a super system well. Thanks, Unity. You're trash.
Gunstar Heroes	Genesis	Good	Shooter/platfomer nearly perfected with the right amount of challenge and solid controls.
Gyruss	Arcade	Good	It's essentially Galaga wrapped around the screen but still a lot of fun. Sadly the ship upgrade system isn't as good as Galaga's.
Half-Life	PC	Bad	One of the first story FPS games that absolutely ruined the genre. Poorly implemented gameplay and laughable "jump puzzle" final few levels.
Half-Life 2	PC	Bad	Even more of HL's style over substance garbage that doubles down on bad gameplay with poorly implemented physics puzzles and tedious vehicle sections.
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch	PC	Bad	Something probably added as an afterthought and not worth even playing.
Half-Life 2: Episode One	PC	Bad	A short-ish snipped of even more dull HL "gameplay" to advance its brain-dead story.
Half-Life 2: Episode Two	PC	Bad	Even more HL who-cares story with absolutely nothing new except a never resolved cliff hanger ending because Valve can't count to 3.
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast	PC	Bad	A "lost episode" of HL, its only saving grace is that it's over quickly.
Half-Life: Blue Shift	PC	Bad	Half-Life from the viewpoint of a security guy. Oh good, I don't care. Same story focused "game" with bad gameplay.
Half-Life: Opposing Force	PC	Bad	Did they think that if they threw enough at the wall, something would stick? HL from the point of view of a militzzzzzzzz. Wake me when HL has good gameplay.
Halo: Combat Evolved	PC	Bad	A mind-numbing, story-heavy shooter with each level having about three corridors to travel down. With Half-Life, it's the decline of the FPS genre.
Hat In Time, A	PC	Meh
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2nd	PSP	Good	Press buttons along with some unbelievably catchy J-pop tunes sung by computers that have cute characters representing them. Pretty addicting.
Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders	DOS	Great	A medieval reskin of Doom, essentially, but that doesn't keep it from being incredible and having the most satisfying weapon in all of FPS (Gauntlets of the Necromancer).
HeXen II	PC	Good	Hexen as seen through the lens of the Quake engine rather than the Doom engine, it's still incredibly fun and varied.
HeXen: Beyond Heretic	DOS	Good	Not quite on the level of Heretic, the hub world mechanic can be a little irritating at times, but the gameplay is still just as solid as ever.
HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel	DOS	Good	Basically an expansion. See Hexen, above.
Hotline Miami	PC	Bad	Laughably bad controls, repetitive "find the right path" Dragon's Lair-like gameplay, and ear-splitting music make me wonder why this was so well receieved.
Hydrophobia: Prophecy	PC	Bad
HyperRogue	PC	Good	A roguelight with the gimmick that you are moving around on a 3d-ish sphere with hexa/heptagons and fighting a mob of enemies to survive. Very cool.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream	PC	Meh	Interesting interactive fiction (as Infocom puts them, not a "game") but overall can't compare to Infocom's quality, even with graphics.
Impossible Mission	Commodore 64	Good	Search for puzzle pieces to put together the key to the big bad's room while avoiding robots in a randomly generated maze of rooms. Incredibly innovative.
Inside a Star-filled Sky	PC	Good	A trippy little game going from large to small and maybe even back again to defeat enemies.
Intelligent Qube	Playstation	Good	A rare gem for the PSX where you destroy advancing cubes ("Qubes") to survive in this puzzle game.
Ion Fury	PC	Meh	A nice retro shooter that is unfortunately bogged down by some irritating gameplay issues. Still fun and can be played in eDuke32.
Iron Snout	PC	Meh
Jamestown	PC	Good
Jet Set Radio	Dreamcast	Bad	Poor controls and gameplay drag this thing down to such a low place that the only reason I can think of for its success is appealing to people who dream of defacing public property.
Jill of the Jungle trilogy	DOS	Good	Very good platformer that proves consoles weren't the only place to get good platformer games.
Joust	Arcade	Good	Wear your button finger out flapping your ostrich (yep) all over the board to smash down on top of enemies, and collect... their eggs? Okay. Still an amazing game.
Jr. Pac-Man	Arcade	Good	Not seeing all of the maze is problematic because you can't plan your routes as well, but probably part of the point of this incredibly difficult version of Pac-Man. Fun.
Katamari Damacy	Playstation 2	Good	One of the only two reasons to own a PS2, honestly. Such a fun and innovative -- and addicting game. The other reason is We Love Katamari, oddly.
Keen Dreams	PC	Meh
Kerbal Space Program	PC	Bad	Game is literally for rocket scientists. No matter how much instruction you get from the game, it's not going to help you. Might as well go build a real rocket, which is just as difficult.
Killer Instinct	Arcade	Meh	A dial-a-combo fighting game with great sound and music and graphics but really comes up short on depth and gameplay. Can still be fun to play.
Killer Instinct 2	Arcade	Meh	More of the same from Killer Instinct with a small graphical upgrade and more characters, but still has the same dial-a-combo system and lack of depth.
Killing Floor	PC	Meh	Tries so hard to be Left 4 Dead but comes up very short. It's still entertaining in short bursts.
Last Call BBS	PC	Good	Some interesting puzzle games available on a simulation of old dial-up BBS.
Left 4 Dead 2	PC	Good	Kill all sonsabitches, that's my official instructions. Very fun especially in co-op mode with friends. If I had friends...
Legend of Dungeon	PC	Meh
Legend of Grimrock	PC	Meh	A fairly soulless dungeon crawl that offers very little except for a custom dungeon creator, and even that doesn't have enough features to make it really good. Still fun-ish.
Legend of Zelda, The	NES	Great	The absolute classic with no overarching story, great control, great gameplay, fun exploration, and a second quest to make things even better. Near perfection.
Legend of Zelda, The: A Link to the Past	Super Nintendo	Meh	Tries to expand upon the original with more, more, more, and ends up falling short with some very aggravating gameplay and way too much story.
Legend of Zelda, The: Link's Awakening	Gameboy	Meh	Pushes hard on the story and environmental aspect of Zelda and forces a lot of annoying and problematic gameplay.
Legend of Zelda, The: Majora's Mask	Nintendo 64	Bad	Basically a cash grab rushed out after the "success" of Ocarina, forgoes any sense of exploration for an annoying time jump gimmick as well as the story and control issues from Ocarina.
Legend of Zelda, The: Ocarina of Time	Nintendo 64	Bad	Just like so many franchises, ruined by annoying 3d which creates major control and perspective issues, as well as having the growing problem of way too much story.
Legend of Zelda, The: The Wind Waker	Gamecube	Meh	Still has many of the 3d game and story issues from Ocarina but at the very least brings back a nice sense of exploration in an open, wide world.
Lisa	PC	Bad	A pretentious "RPG" with laughable (and way too much) dialog and overly simplistic gameplay.
Little Inferno	PC	Good
Little Racers STREET	PC	Good
Loaded	Saturn	Bad	Clunky gameplay and having way too many nooks and crannies to explore to progress make this something that should have been at least pretty good but is sadly not.
Lord of the Rings Online™, The	PC	Good	A fun, open MMO world that is a love letter to Tolkien fans everywhere. A lot of pay to unlock content that can fortunately be unlocked using in-game achievement points.
LUFTRAUSERS	PC	Good
LYNE	PC	Good
Magicka	PC	Bad	An incredibly confusing and irritating magic mechanic that tanks the already frustrating controls and gameplay.
Marathon	PC	Bad	Proto-Halo garbage with the same garbage map design, boring weapons, uninteresting enemies, and awkward gameplay.
Mario Bros.	Arcade	Good	Nope, not Super Mario Bros., the one where you have to flip over sewer critters and kick them off the board. A lot of fun and gets really challenging.
Mario Kart 64	Nintendo 64	Good	One of the few playable Nintendo 64 games not harmed by its laughable controller and a lot of fun to play.
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!	Gamecube	Good	Almost as good as the Nintendo 64 version with a few new tricks and cool tracks.
Mark of the Ninja	PC	Bad
Marvel Vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes	Arcade	Good	Probably the best of the Vs series of games that is just a blast to play.
Marvel Vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes	Arcade	Good	Another solid Vs. fighting game with very good gameplay.
Master Levels for DOOM II	DOS	Great	A sampler of user-made levels for Doom II presented one level at a time. Would have been nice to put all together in one episode, but it's still fun to play.
Master of Orion 1	DOS	Good	It's not the perfection that MOO2 is, but it's still really good. But the question is, why play this when MOO2 is so much better?
Master of Orion 2	DOS	Great	Let me just sit down to this incredibly detailed 4X game and just play for a little while and oops, now it's next week, where has the time gone?
MDK	Windows	Meh	Had a lot of potential but frustrating gameplay dragged this one down. Worth a look, though.
Mega Man	NES	Good	The original and still incredibly fun and (genuinely) difficult.
Mega Man 2	NES	Good	The best Rockman / Megaman game. By far. No gimmicky movesets, no crazy robot masters, top tier music, and a good challenge. This is the one to play.
Mega Man 3	NES	Good	Still top tier Rockman / Megaman that still doesn't use gimmicks because it ran out of ideas like the later games.
Mega Man 4	NES	Meh	The point where the series started to go downhill because of gimmicks and not as well designed levels and enemies.
Mega Man 5	NES	Meh	More of the same gimmicky, poorly realized levels and enemies as 4.
Mega Man X	Super Nintendo	Meh	Part of the SNES pre-mid 90s gameplay skid of games with annoying story and gimmicks outshining the gameplay, there's at least a little fun to be had here but nowhere near the original.
Mega Twins	Arcade	Meh	A colorful and inventive side scrolling hack and slash that has some collision issues and cheap enemies that drags it down some.
Metal Gear	NES	Bad	Stealth/action/something game with irritating controls and gameplay.
Metal Gear Solid	Playstation	Bad	Bad controls, bad and really annoying gameplay, and an incredibly pretentious and overdone story that should have just been a movie. Laughably bad.
METAL SLUG	Arcade	Good	Side scrolling shooter with incredible gameplay, visuals, levels, enemies, bosses, etc, etc, etc.
METAL SLUG 3	Arcade	Good	See Metal Slug. They manage to keep it fresh every single game, too.
METAL SLUG X	Arcade	Good	Again, see Metal Slug. How is this series so good?
Metroid	NES	Meh	Technically a good game but really has too much awkward gameplay and controls to make it really great. Worth playing once but that’s about it.
Metroid II: Return of Samus	Gameboy	Good	A much better game than Metroid squeezed into the tiny Gameboy. A really fun experience.
Metroid Prime	Gamecube	Bad	Essentially a console FPS with the typical bad gamepad FPS controls. Even a (glitchy) lockon doesn't help.
Millipede	Arcade	Good	A sequel to Centipede with more, more, more. Frantic, fun, addictive gameplay.
Minecraft	PC	Good	Technically good but just not my kind of thing. I defend this as a good and important game even though I don't particularly care for it personally. Difference in a "bad game" and "a good game that I don't care about".
Mirror's Edge	PC	Bad	Bad controls and overly linear, story-based gameplay makes this not even one bit of fun.
Missile Command	Arcade	Good	Yep, it's the 80s on full display with everyone afraid of nuclear annihilation. At least in this fun (as much fun as preventing nuclear death can be) game, you feel like you're helping...
Missile Command: Recharged	PC	Good	Basically a mobile game re-imagining of Missile Command, except it's actually very good.
Monument Valley	PC	Meh	A decent puzzler dragged down by a few odd issues with perspective not looking right (given its perspective-based gimmick) and tons of whocares "story".
Mortal Kombat	Arcade	Good	The original MK that still, despite its simplicity, delivers a lot of visceral fun even with its admittedly stiff gameplay.
Mortal Kombat 3	Arcade	Meh	Still a fun game but a regression from the superior MK2 with poor, laughable finishers and poorly designed new characters.
Mortal Kombat 4	Arcade	Meh	Surprisingly holding on to a lot of the same gameplay with a transition to 3d (take THAT, Street Fighter), it's still not nearly as well executed as the superior MK2.
Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance	XBox	Bad	Stiff controls, bland characters, and not very smooth gameplay, even by MK standards.
Mortal Kombat II	Arcade	Good	A great evolution of the original MK with more finishing moves, secrets, and better character movesets.
Mothergunship	PC	Meh	Pretty good controls and gameplay bogged down by a frustrating "build your gun" mechanic, repetitive gameplay, and some glitchy gameplay arenas.
Mountain	PC	Meh	You... watch a mountain grow and interact with a few things. Excitement?
Ms. PAC-MAN	Arcade	Great	A near perfect exection of the maze chase game with actual challenge (no patterns to cheat with like the original) and changing mazes.
Murder By Numbers	PC	Bad	A laughably bad interactive novel that gives you the chance to play Picross occasionally to advance the plot. The Picross puzzles aren't that hard and the rest is just boring.
Nethack	PC	Good	A well-done dungeon crawler with minimal graphics but absolutely incredible depth of gameplay and fun.
Neverwinter Nights (Bioware)	PC	Meh	A JRPG-wannabe story-heavy RPG. Decent controls and gameplay plus it does have an awesome, very powerful custom module builder, but the main game is very disappointing.
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition	PC	Bad	Game looks exactly the same as the original but it's 100 times slower and buggier. Enhanced, my butt.
New Super Mario Bros.	Nintendo DS	Meh	A game with decent enough controls and acceptable gameplay (a bit floatier than the originals) but with artificial difficulty that makes the JP Super Mario Bros. 2 child's play by comparison.
New Super Mario Bros. 2	Nintendo 3DS	Meh	Same as the DS game, it's passable enough to not be bad but has the same floaty, imprecise controls and artificial difficulty the original NSMB had.
NFL Blitz 2001	Arcade	Good	I'm not a handegg (American football) fan, but simplifiying it like this makes it incredibly fun. Just like NBA Jam with basketball. Maybe they should do that in real life. What a concept.
NiGHTS into Dreams...	Saturn	Good	An incredible game that involves scrolling through a 3d environment but with 2d controls (what a concept) with amazing flow and gameplay.
NightSky	PC	Bad
Nuclear Throne	PC	Good	Incredibly addictive top down shooter with tons of replayability.
Nyan Cat: Lost in Space	PC	Meh	A one-trick game that is interesting for a short time but has no real depth.
Okami	Playstation 2	Bad	Boring, pretentious, story-filled action/adventure/platformer/whatever with laughably bad controls and full of gimmicks.
One Finger Death Punch	PC	Good	What should be a simple mobile-style game has tons of personality and fun and addicting gameplay. It has no right to be as good as it is.
Oniken	PC	Bad
Orbt XL	PC	Good
Orcs Must Die! 2	PC	Good	A solid defense game with tons of replayability.
Organ Trail: Director's Cut	PC	Good	Just as good as the original Oregon trail. With zombies. And more dysentery.
Osmos	PC	Meh
Out of the Park Baseball 16	PC	Good
Out of the Park Baseball 21	PC	Good
OutRun	Arcade	Good	Just a nice drive with amazing tunes. Amazing how something so simple that isn't even really a serious "racing game" is one of the best racing games ever.
PAC-MAN	Arcade	Good	Not quite near-perfection as the following Ms. Pac, it's still a fun romp until you learn how to beat tons of levels memorizing patterns through the maze. Flawed yet still good.
PAC-MAN 256	PC	Good	An infinite runner game with all of the fun of Pac-Man thrown in. A lot of mobile game trappings but still more than good enough to keep you going to 100% completion.
PAC-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2	PC	Bad	A dull, repetitive, pointless Pac-Man variant. Not worth the time.
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+	PC	Good	Much better than Champion Edition 2 with actual fun and fast gameplay. Has some control issues here and there but nothing terrible.
Pac-Man Museum	PC	Good	Tons of old Pac-Man games to play and virtual trinkets to grind for. While it doesn't include several old games (Ms., Jr., Baby, Professor), I can understand the omissions. Good collection.
Painkiller Overdose	PC	Bad
Painkiller: Black Edition	PC	Good
Panzer Dragoon Zwei	Saturn	Good	A semi-on rails shooter with a fantastic feeling of motion and fluid gameplay.
Paperboy	Arcade	Meh	Frustrating controls and gameplay drag this classic down a bit but it's still a better overall game than many modern offerings.
Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition	PC	Meh	A pixelated shooter with randomly generated levels, its artificial difficulty and gameplay really hurt the experience.
Parappa the Rapper	Playstation	Good	At the low end of "good" since it is just a simple call and response rhythm game, but its charm and replayability with the improvisation (and freestyle after you beat the game) makes it fun.
Peggle (series)	PC	Good	Enjoyable little skill (really a little luck, too) based puzzler that has you coming back for more.
Pikuniku	PC	Meh	A charming little platformer/adventure game with some problematic control issues and unclear and seemingly random advancement goals that drag it down.
Pirates! Gold Plus (Classic)	DOS	Good
Pitfall 2: Lost Caverns	Atari VCS	Good	Adding an actual world to explore to Pitfall where your goal is to collect treasure and the adventurer's friends for an actual game completion makes this sequel so much more than the original.
Pitfall!	Atari VCS	Good	A fun and revolutionary platformer where your mission is to collect as many treasures as you can find. Oh, and survive. Good luck with the crocodiles.
Pivot XL	PC	Good
Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic	PC	Meh
Plants vs. Zombies: Game of the Year	PC	Good	A great little tower defense game that is very fun to play.
Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow	Gameboy	Bad	Mash up cockfighting with My First JRPG for Little Children and you have this annoying game with a billion sequels (all exactly the same) that seems to have taken over the world somehow.
Poker Night 2	PC	Meh	See Poker Night at the Inventory. More of the same with different characters.
Poker Night at the Inventory	PC	Meh	It's, um, poker. With some characters from stuff you might recognize. Funny for a while but gets very old fast.
Portal	PC	Good	An incredibly simple yet mind-expanding mechanic that puts you in a world where the story unfolds without a lot of game-stopping interruptions. Very short, though.
Portal 2	PC	Good	More of the fun from Portal with some extra elements to bend your brain in more ways. Could be a bit shorter, though, as the concept gets tiresome after playing a while.
POSTAL	PC	Meh
POSTAL 2	PC	Meh
POSTAL Redux	PC	Meh
Prey (2006)	PC	Meh	Decent enough FPS with a portal gimmick that enhances the experience a bit, but gets bogged down by very frustrating gameplay sections later in the game.
Primal Rage	Arcade	Bad	Sluggish controls and gameplay make this just a gimmicky fighting game that tried to capitalize on the success of all the other fighting games at the time.
Princess Remedy In A Heap of Trouble	PC	Good
Prison Chainball Massacre	PC	Bad
Project Heartbeat	PC	Good	A Project Diva-like game for the PC. A lot of user-made downloadable (from the game itself) songs and smooth gameplay make it fun, to a point -- skill levels seem to be set too high.
Proteus	PC	Meh
Psychonauts	PC	Bad	A very story-heavy 3d platfomer/adventure game with lousy controls and gameplay. Don't understand the massive hype over this one.
Puzzler World	PC	Meh	Simple puzzles for PC that can be beaten in no time. Interesting diversion if nothing else.
Q*Bert	Arcade	Good	Change the color of the pyramid. That's all poor little Q*Bert is trying to do. Why do so many enemies want him dead? A fun game that needs a diagonal 4-way controller for precision.
Quake	DOS	Great	The only FPS that can stand up there with the original Doom. Legendary and near-perfect example of how games are supposed to be.
Quake 4	PC	Bad	There's really nothing good here as it tries to run you through some story-based adventure with forgettable, well, everything, and not great gameplay.]
Quake II	PC	Good	Quake is supposed to be dark, Lovecraftian horror. This is a techno-nightmare gone wrong. It shouldn't be called Quake. It's still pretty damn fun, though.
Quake II: Ground Zero	PC	Meh	A semi-interesting expansion pack for Quake II that really feels tacked-on and pointless.
Quake II: The Reckoning	PC	Meh	See "Q2: Ground Zero".
Quake III Arena	PC	Good	A very tight and fun multiplayer-focused Quake game with creative and fun maps and near-perfect gameplay.
Quake III: Team Arena	PC	Good	Expansion pack that's more of the same Quake III fun.
Quake Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon	DOS	Good	Solid expansion packs for the original Quake that introduce new ideas and fun gameplay to the mix.
Quake Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity	DOS	Good	See "Scourge of Amagon."
Race The Sun	PC	Meh	A boring "dodge all the things, get powerups to win" game. It's fun for a bit but gets old very quickly.
RAGE	PC	Meh
Refunct	PC	Good
Return to Castle Wolfenstein	PC	Meh
Ricochet	PC	Bad
Ridge Racer	Arcade	Good	A very simple one-and-done racer but still has great arcade-style controls and a nice sense of speed. This is how you do racing games, GRAN FREAKING TURISMO.
Righty Tighty XL	PC	Good
Risk of Rain	PC	Good	A near perfect difficult platformer/roguelight that gets absolutely frantic while still having solid controls and gameplay.
Risk of Rain 2	PC	Bad	An embarrassment to the original game that throws out everything good about it for "LOOK WE CAN DO 3D" trash.
River Raid	Atari VCS	Good	Fly down the river to destroy enemies and keep that fuel up. One of the best games of its generation.
RoadBlasters	Arcade	Good
Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball	PC	Bad
Robotron: 2084	Arcade	Good	If you enjoy being a pixel or two away from death 99.99% of the time, you will love this game. It's almost a pixel dodger but with much better controls and concept if a bit frustrating.
Rocket League	PC	Bad	Laughably awkward controls and 3d "we don't need depth perception, oh wait, we do" gameplay makes me think everyone playing well is really a bot.
Rocksmith® 2014 Edition - Remastered	PC	Good	Learning guitar/bass and songs made fun by a simple yet effective piece of software. There are game elements to it but it's all about learning. And it's good.
Rogue Legacy	PC	Good	Action-platformer with the gimmick of collecting enough coins to upgrade your arsenal over multiple generations and each playthrough being a different "person". Fun.
Rogue Legacy 2	PC	Bad	I liked the original but this is just too limiting and restricts you from really getting anywhere organically like the original, which is what made it fun. Lost interest quickly.
ROGUE-FP	PC	Good	A simplified yet incredibly addicting 3d version of Rogue and its clones.
Rome: Total War	PC	Good
S.T.U.N. Runner	Arcade	Good	Nice sense of speed, good controls and gameplay, and just plain fun. This was a blast in the arcades.
Satan's Hollow	Arcade	Good	Build a bridge to the boss while avoiding demons. So amazingly simple yet fun and challenging.
SEGA Bass Fishing	Dreamcast	Good	Hook that bass with great, logical fishing controls that make fishing fun. Take notes, STARDEW VALLEY.
Sega Rally Championship	Saturn	Good	Rally racing that taught everyone about rally pace notes (Very Long Easy Left, Maybe!) and was way too excited when the game was over (YEAHHHH!!!). Excellent game.
Serious Sam 2	PC	Bad	A strange story-heavy Serious Sam taken to ridiculous and poorly done extremes. Just play the originals.
Serious Sam 3: BFE	PC	Bad	A poor modern FPS take on Serious Sam with poor gameplay and far too much forced story.
Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter	PC	Good	Along with The Second Encounter, a very visceral and fun FPS with hordes of enemies that doesn't fall into the same trap as other enemy horde games by allowing enemy crowd manipulation.
Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter	PC	Good	See Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter. More of the same but in a very good way.
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter	PC	Bad	Gameplay is too different from the original -- enemy patterns are cheaper and game isn't as skill based.
Shadow Warrior Classic (1997)	DOS	Good
Shadow Warrior Classic Redux	PC	Good
ShellShock Live	PC	Bad	Essentially Scorched Earth but with tons of randomness, unfairness by matching unskilled/fewer unlocks players with better ones, and an otherwise clunky and unpolished feel.
Shenzhen I/O	PC	Meh	It's a challenge, but not so much a "game" than a programming and design simulator with unreasonable restrictions and problems that would frustrate even the best embedded dev.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove	PC	Meh	Starts off a very good game that mirrors the platformers of classic games but advances to become yet another artificial difficulty modern game that betrays its roots.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (original)	PC	Good	Almost as good as Civ2 and better by far than the rest of the Civ games
Sid Meier's Civilization II	PC	Great	The best Civ game. And it's not even close.
Sid Meier's Civilization IV	PC	Good	Probably the "worst" Civ game as it is not as beginner-friendly as the rest and has some odd design choices. Still an overall good game, though.
Sid Meier's Civilization V	PC	Good	A good beginner Civ game that is also good for experienced and advanced players. Still feels dumbed down and over-simplistic compared to the superior Civ II / Alpha Centauri.
Sid Meier's Clvilization III: Complete	PC	Good	Note for all Civilization games: Civ 2 and the original Alpha Centauri are much, much, much better. III is a decent substitute if you have no other version.
Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic)	DOS	Good
Silpheed	Sega CD	Good	A straightforward shooter with smooth controls and good gameplay.
SimCity 3000 Unlimited	PC	Great	The definitive version of SimCity with the best controls, gameplay, options, ... well, everything. Basically perfect.
Simpsons, The	Arcade	Good	A hilarious and fun beat em up with the option to play as Homer and that's all because who picks Marge, Bart, or Lisa when HOMER?
Simpsons: Hit & Run, The	Gamecube	Bad	A lazy and boring knockoff of Grand Theft Auto with bad controls that would have worked better as just an episode because of all the whocares forced plot.
Simpsons: Road Rage, The	Gamecube	Good	A clone of Crazy Taxi with hilarious Simpsons one-liners and gags. Much better than the boring GTA ripoff game they did.
Sinistar	Arcade	Good	A race to collect space rock fragments for bombs to defeat a boss made with the same fragments. So much fun and love the voice!
Skullgirls 2nd Encore	PC	Good	A well designed and enjoyable beat em up with some really fun character designs. Unfortunate that some are locked behind DLC.
Slime Rancher	PC	Meh	A very repetitive and dull collect things and unlock new areas slog of a game.
Smashing Drive	XBox	Bad	Poorly executed racing game with nothing really original about it.
Sniper Elite V2	PC	Bad	Modern "realistic" whocares shooter garbage.
Sonic & Knuckles	Genesis	Good	Similar issues to the original Sonic 3, but is still fun and the additional content this add-on cartridge brings makes it an essential play.
Sonic Adventure	Dreamcast	Bad	Sega just had to copy Mario 64 by making a Sonic game with bad 3d controls and camera, didn't they? Sigh.
Sonic Adventure 2	Dreamcast	Bad	For some reason the first one was successful thanks to the brainwashing of late 90s gamers with 3d and so here's another bad game.
Sonic CD	Sega CD	Good	Well-designed levels that have alternate levels via time travel. Sonic really doesn't get any more fun than this.
Sonic Mania	PC	Meh	It tries so hard to be the original Sonic game but the new engine that causes many control glitches, cheap enemies and obstacles, and overly long levels drag it down so much.
Sonic the Hedgehog	Genesis	Good	A solid first entry in the series with amazing level design and gameplay.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2	Genesis	Good	Level design is near-perfect in this one with so much more added from the original to make it a blast (blast processing!) to play.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3	Genesis	Good	Slightly annoying level design and a bit more awkward control-wise, this game is still an absolute gem.
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 4 Episode 1	PC	Meh	An attempt to go back to 2d Sonic platforming but with far too many control and gameplay issues to make it even close to the originals.
Soul Edge	Playstation	Good	AKA Soul Blade, a very fun 3d fighting game with great characters, moves, and, well, everything.
Space Ace	Arcade	Meh	The difficulty levels, alternate paths, and Space Ace transformation tries to open up the gameplay of a QTE game, but just isn't enough.
Space Channel 5: Part 2	Dreamcast	Meh	A soulless call and response rhythm game that isn't all bad, but doesn't have the charm of something like Parappa the Rapper.
SpaceChem	PC	Good
Spelunky	PC	Good	A very good exploration game that requires tons of skill and paying attention to your environment that is incredibly satisfying, unlike its sequel.
Spelunky 2	PC	Meh	Tries to expand on the original with MORE STUFF but ends up being so involved and complex with so many new, annoying enemies that it's not nearly as fun.
Stanley Parable, The	PC	Meh	Interesting for a short time but isn't really a game so much as an interactive experience/ride and thus becomes boring quickly.
Star Wars	Arcade	Good	Vector graphics Star Wars with the movie soundtrack and voices where you have to attack and blow up the Death Star over and over? This is a true classic and the best SW game ever.
STAR WARS Dark Forces	DOS	Good	A really fun and engaging Star Wars classic FPS game.
STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords	PC	Bad	One of the absolutely dull modern story-heavy pseudo-RPG slogfest games like Mass Effect. So boring they should have made it a movie. Can't be any worse than any other modern trash SW movies.
STAR WARS The Old Republic	PC	Bad
Starcraft	PC	Meh	Technically "good" but I got wholly sick of the exact same RTS formula after the original C&C/Warcraft 1 and couldn't enjoy any more of them
Stardew Valley	PC	Bad	Daily routine is far too grindy and too easy to somehow wear you out early, and the fishing is atrocious. Who likes this trash?
Stargate	Arcade	Good	AKA Defender II. Need original controls. Just as frentic and fun as the original, maybe even more so.
Starship Titanic	PC	Meh
SteamWorld Dig	PC	Good	Surprisingly good action game about digging. Its story doesn't get in the way very much and the gameplay is satisfying.
SteamWorld Dig 2	PC	Good	Similar to the original SWD, this game has more of the same with the same quality and a few extra elements to make it fresh enough to enjoy a play through.
Steel Storm: Burning Retribution	PC	Good
Street Fighter	Arcade	Bad	The first of the Street Fighter games made before massive improvements in gameplay, this one is horribly clunky and imprecise and best avoided.
Street Fighter Alpha	Arcade	Good	A good re-imagining of the Street Fighter game with different characters and a more evolved play style.
Street Fighter Alpha 2	Arcade	Great	The best of the Alpha (Zero in JP) series, with a near-perfect control and movement feel and great characters.
Street Fighter Alpha 3	Arcade	Good	A bit of a step back from Alpha 2 in feel and gameplay with some strange character additions, it's still a high quality and fun game.
Street Fighter EX	Arcade	Meh	The controls and feel of the game are a bit off in this 3d engine offshoot of SF, but there's some interesting gameplay ideas and characters here and it's not awful.
Street Fighter EX 2	Arcade	Meh	Same as the first EX game, there's enough interesting components of this game to offshoot the slightly problematic controls and gameplay.
Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting	Arcade	Good	More speed and more tricks continue the evolution of the seminal fighing game.
Street Fighter II: Champion Edition	Arcade	Good	An evolution of the original that adds the boss characters to the mix.
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior	Arcade	Good	The "original" Street Fighter game (if we forget SF1 existed, as we should) that ushered in a new world of fighting games. Still fun and incredibly solid.
Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact - Giant Attack	Arcade	Good	Not really a huge evolution from SFIII, it still holds its own and is of high quality.
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike	Arcade	Great	The ultimate Street Fighter game with the best roster, the best feel, the best gameplay, and an absolute banger of a soundtrack.
Street Fighter III: New Generation	Arcade	Good	Capcom CAN count to three! (Now Valve can't.) The new characters and fluid animation in this game proved Capcom still had the SF formula down.
Street Fighter IV	PC	Meh	While this doesn't feel and play quite as good as the originals, it still has its own style and charm and isn't terrible.
Street Fighter The Movie	Arcade	Bad	Imagine SF with digitized characters a la Mortal Kombat and laughable, laggy, unfun controls and gameplay. This is just embarrassing.
Street Fighter V	PC	Bad	An absolute mess of a SF game with bad gameplay, way too much DLC and pay2win trash, and a brain-dead computer opponent easily defeated on the top level by spamming fireballs.
Streets of Rage 4	PC	Meh	Tries to continue the excellent tradition of the Streets of Rage series but its poor controls and gameplay drag it down a bit. Still fun to be had, but the originals are so much better.
Streets of Rogue	PC	Good	A very good open world mission-based game where the player can accomplish his missions by any means necessary. Randomness of everything make it infinitely replayable.
Strife: Veteran Edition	PC	Bad	Tries to be a combination FPS and adventure game and utterly fails at both.
Subnautica	PC	Meh	Horribly unfocused and confusing ocean romp to do... something... for... some reason... somehow. Throws you in the deep end (hah) and doesn't really help you at all.
Super 3-D Noah's Ark	DOS	Good	Even atheists love this non-violent reskin of the original Wolfenstein 3D. I sure don't know any of the bible questions, though.
Super Bit Blaster XL	PC	Good
Super Castlevania IV	Super Nintendo	Meh	Leans on the SNES tricks (Mode 7) a bit too hard and stiff controls can be frustrating. Still an okay game, though.
Super Hexagon	PC	Bad	Just laughably cheap and dull. Should be a free mobile game or something.
Super Life of Pixel	PC	Bad
Super Mario 64	Nintendo 64	Bad	What can I say? Laughably bad controls and an annoying camera make a bad game. Why haven't people figured this out?
Super Mario All-Stars	Super Nintendo	Meh	With all of the original Mario games, this should be good, but annoying gameplay bugs and glitches means play the originals.
Super Mario Bros.	NES	Great	The grandfather of platformers and absolutely stands the test of time as a great game with great controls.
Super Mario Bros. 2 (JP)	NES	Meh	Too full of cruel tricks and intentionally poorly designed levels to really be a good game, but it's still the same essential SMB gameplay.
Super Mario Bros. 2 (US)	NES	Good	A twist on the Super Mario Bros. formula crossed with an obscure Japanese game, it's still a lot of fun and high quality.
Super Mario Bros. 3	NES	Great	One of the best games of all time and a near-perfect execution of the Mario Bros. platforming formula.
Super Mario Kart	Super Nintendo	Meh	Impressive at the time but simply didn't have the power to really shine as a good kart racing game.
Super Mario Land	Gameboy	Good	An impressive bit of game design shrinking the iconic Mario platfomer onto the Gameboy with a new world to explore.
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins	Gameboy	Good	A scaled up version of the original Land with a new mission and the same solid controls and gameplay.
Super Mario Sunshine	Gamecube	Bad	More 3d platforming with the same awkward controls and camera issues that drag down the gameplay to near-unplayable.
Super Mario World	Super Nintendo	Good	An ambitious adventure featuring our favorite jumpman through a colorful new world. Not quite as tight as 3 but still good.
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island	Super Nintendo	Good	Even with the annoying crying baby, this new twist on the Mario formula works very well.
Super Meat Boy	PC	Bad	Bad controls, bad gameplay, absolutely frustrating for the sake of being frustrating.
Super Mega Baseball 3	PC	Good	A nice arcade-ish style baseball game with cool pitching and batting mechanics.
Super Metroid	Super Nintendo	Good	Unquestionably the best Metroid after you skip past the whocares story at the beginning. Great controls, music, environments, and even sequence skipping!
Super Smash Bros.	Nintendo 64	Bad	Laughably bad controls and overly simplistic "fighting game" mechanics.
Super Smash Bros. Melee	Gamecube	Bad	Laughably bad controls and overly simplistic "fighting game" mechanics taken way too seriously by its fans.
Super Space Invaders ‘91	Arcade	Good	Takes Space Invaders to the next level with different formations, attack patterns, superweapons, bosses, and so on. A lot of fun.
Super Street Fighter II Turbo	Arcade	Great	The ultimate evolution of the original SFII game with more moves and the Super combos as well as having the most solid feel of the originals.
Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers	Arcade	Good	Another evolution of the original that adds new, interesting characters to the mix.
Super Win The Game	PC	Good	Fantastic platformer with tons of areas and challenges.
SUPERHOT	PC	Bad	Leans so heavily on its "time moves when you do" gimmick it forgot to have actual good gameplay.
System Shock 2	PC	Good
System Shock Classic	PC	Good
System Shock: Enhanced Edition	PC	Good
Tabletop Simulator	PC	Meh	I suppose this would be more fun if I had friends. Sigh. Still, it's interesting to mess around with.
Tales of Maj'Eyal	PC	Good
Talisman: Digital Edition	PC	Meh	A decent board game that loses its luster in the second half of gameplay where it is incredibly frustrating to advance to a win because of so many negative random elements.
Tallowmere	PC	Good	Pretty challenging and fun gameplay make this a surprise hit.
Team Fortress 2	PC	Meh	Used to be good, now it's full of stupid hats and cheaters. Cheaters with stupid hats.
Team Fortress Classic	PC	Good	In many ways better than TF2 because TFC didn't add hats and 27,832 weapon varieties. An absolute fun classic if you can avoid cheaters.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge	PC	Meh	You would think that a fresh, updated, new version of the classic TMNT beatemup games would have new, interesting, fun stuff in it. Nope. Might as well play the originals.
Tekken	Arcade	Good	A very intense fighting game with cool characters and good controls.
Tekken 2	Arcade	Good	A good update to Tekken that adds more stuff and more fun.
Tekken 3	Playstation	Good	Again, another Tekken update that brings even more to the table while still managing to retain its charm and quality.
Teleglitch: Die More Edition	PC	Meh
Tempest	Arcade	Good	Shoot and superzapper your way down a hole full of all sorts of vector graphics baddies. Needs a paddle controller, really, but a mouse for emulation will do in a pinch.
Tempest 2000	Jaguar	Good	A very fun update of the original Tempest with power-ups and more enemies. Held back a bit by the fact that it uses digital controls rather than the paddle, but it's still very good.
Terraria	PC	Great	The best game of the last 20+ years. Not an exaggeration. Action/adventure/platformer/world builder/everything. GREAT.
Tetris	Arcade	Meh	Kind of a soulless version of Tetris with the added frustration of being a quarter sucking little bastard.
Tetris	Gameboy	Good	It was free with Gameboy and was the perfect little twitch puzzler for the innovative little handheld for on the go.
Tetris (Nintendo)	NES	Meh	A dull, soulless Tetris game that people who missed getting Atari's (Tengen) Tetris while it was still available had to settle for.
Tetris (Tengen)	NES	Good	Almost great, the best version of Tetris.
They Bleed Pixels	PC	Bad
Thief 2	PC	Good
Thief Gold	PC	Meh
Timberman	PC	Good
Time Pilot	Arcade	Good
TIS-100	PC	Meh
Tomb Raider (2013)	PC	Bad	Filled with quick time events and Lara Croft torture porn, this poorly done mess is worse than even the clunky originals.
Tomb Raider I	Playstation	Meh	A clunky game with poorly realized controls that could have been better because the core of the gameplay is at least good.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2	Playstation	Meh	Probably the best of the THPS series, it's still fun but the controls are inherently frustrating and overly stiff in general.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3	Playstation	Meh	More of the same as THPS2 with the same issues. The soundtrack is killer, though.
Torchlight	PC	Good	A new twist on Diablo made by some of the same people that's just as fun.
Torchlight II	PC	Good	Torchlight's Diablo II with a more open world and more places to explore. Still just as engaging.
Trine	PC	Meh
Trine 2	PC	Meh
TUNIC	PC	Bad	A confusing, unfocused mess of a game with same-ish areas and no clear direction to go in. It could have been so much better but failed in so many ways.
Turok	PC	Good	It's not a fantastic FPS like many of the legendary games of the genre, but it's fun enough and definitely better than the N64 version with its laughable controls.
Tutankham	Arcade	Good	Blast through ancient pyramids with this fantastic maze game.
Typing of the Dead, The	Dreamcast	Good	I never played the original House of the Dead series so I wasn't in on the "joke" but even by itself this is a phenomenal re-imagining of a lightgun shooter using typing drills as ammunition.
Typing of the Dead, The: Overkill	PC	Good	The original is a bit better with more variety, but this one still is incredibly satisfying and fun to play.
UFO 50	PC	Good	Tons of mini-games with hard but fair difficulty.
Ultima	Commodore 64	Good	Ultima back when it was a much simpler game, but still undeniably worth a play through.
Ultima II: Revenge of the Enchantress	Commodore 64	Good	The installment that begins Ultima's grand ideas and epic adventures without bogging people down into forced story.
Ultima III: Exodus	Commodore 64	Great	The first truly great Ultima game with a great "story" told organically and not through boring cutscenes.
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar	Commodore 64	Great	An almost Zen experience as the game isn't about beating some world-ending evil, but finding your path to enlightenment.
Ultima IX: Ascension	PC	Bad	Ultima should never have been 3d. Poorly done and not very well executed, this is sadly how the Ultima series ends.
Ultima Online	PC	Good	Pre-Third Dawn, this was a great experience because it had not yet met the trappings of later MMOs. Now it's just WoW: Ultima.
Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds	DOS	Good	An incredible FPS-like dungeon crawl with tons of places and interactions.
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss	DOS	Good	A groundbreaking game that gives you a FPS-like dungeon crawl adventure with all the Ultima charm.
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny	Commodore 64	Great	A game that explores good vs. evil and the futility of creating laws from virtues without beating you over the head with a story.
Ultima VI: The False Prophet	Commodore 64	Good	A small step back, this game feels smaller and less focused and a lot more straightforward with its ideas than previous games.
Ultima VII: The Black Gate	DOS	Meh	Unpopular opinion, I know, but Black Gate seemed to push this "mysterious evil" angle too far and made exploration a chore.
Ultima VIII: Pagan	DOS	Bad	Taking Ultima out of Britannia was a bold idea, but the execution and setting weren't interesting enough for it to work.
Ultima: Runes of Virtue	Gameboy	Meh	A decent enough simplified Ultima action game, but becomes too tedious too fast.
Ultimate DOOM, The	DOS	Great	The best game ever created and it's not even close.
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3	Arcade	Meh	Lame fatalities, bad characters, and simplified (even from the already simple MK) gameplay drags this one down.
Undertale	PC	Bad	It's a JRPG-like boring storygame with bullet hell "combat" and poor "find the right option every time for best ending" trash.
Universe Sandbox Legacy	PC	Meh
Unpacking	PC	Bad	Unpacking everything from boxes and organizing them everywhere is not my idea of fun, thanks, game.
Unreal Gold	PC	Good	Return to Na Pali is kind of meh, but packaged together with the original like it always is now, you have to proclaim the entire thing Good
Unreal II: The Awakening	PC	Bad	Crashes outright on many systems and is a poorly thought out rehash of the original if it does work.
Unreal Tournament (Epic Games)	PC	Bad	To be clear, the game isn't bad. In fact, it looked to be the best UT since the original. But it's laughably unfinished, all because Epic wanted $$ from suckers playing freaking FORTNITE. Pft.
Unreal Tournament 2004	PC	Good	A pretty good update of the vastly superior original UT with more modes, interesting weapons, and fun default maps.
Unreal Tournament 3: Black Edition	PC	Bad	A very poor re-imagining of Unreal Tournament with bad, well, everything.
Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition	PC	Good	The best UT with superior weapons, maps, and gameplay. A bit too easy to exploit cheap ways to win, though.
Vampire Survivors	PC	Good	A very simple game with very simple controls but has a huge amount of content and challenge with some inclusions from other games to make it even better.
Virtua Fighter	Arcade	Good	This is how you do a 3d engine fighting game, CAPCOM. Well done even for a low-poly intro to the series.
Virtua Fighter 2	Arcade	Good	Great evolution of a fantastic 3d engine fighting game with great characters, movesets, and arenas.
VVVVVV	PC	Good	Gravity flip mechanic is fun and the gameplay is tight enough for it to not be like the rest of the retro-style modern games that forgot how to do gameplay.
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness	DOS	Meh	More of the same Warcraft RTS game proving that RTS was a very short-lived phenomenon that should have died out quickly.
Warcraft: Orcs and Humans	DOS	Good	Back when Warcraft wasn't an MMO and RTS wasn't a played out, overdone, seen it all game genre that needed to die.
Warfork	PC	Meh
Wasteland	Commodore 64	Good	The ORIGINAL Fallout with actual, involved CRPG gameplay. Far and away better than even the original Fallout games and miles better than the 3d trash ones.
Waveform	PC	Meh
WazHack	PC	Meh
We <3 Katamari	Playstation 2	Good	Roll up everything, enjoy the crazy, trippy music and visuals. Good gameplay, good game. A rare decent PS2 game.
Wipeout XL	Playstation	Good	A fun futuristic racing game with great music. Controls can be a bit mushy at times but doesn’t really bring this one down.
Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings	PC	Bad	Just terrible controls and gameplay and tons of damn story. Why bother? How did this become popular? Read the books and play a real RPG, not this mess.
Witcher Enhanced Edition, The	PC	Bad	Bad controls. Bad gameplay. Story-heavy garbage. Why. Just why.
Wizardry 2: The Knight of Diamonds	Apple II	Meh	Play a later version of this where you can generate new characters instead of having to import a victory party from Wizardry 1. Still good if you can get into it.
Wizardry 3: Legacy of Llylgamyn	Apple II	Good	Still have to import characters but the quality of this one being so far ahead of the second game makes it a must play.
Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge	DOS	Good
Wizardry 7: Crusaders of the Dark Savant	DOS	Good
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord	Apple II	Good	Hey, “JRPG” fans: this is how it’s done. Not tons of story and dialog and linear trash. Good luck surviving the dungeon.
Wizorb	PC	Meh
Wolfenstein 3D	DOS	Good	A proto-FPS that would influence gaming for years to come. Remember when nazis were bad? Wolf3d does.
Wolfenstein 3D: Spear of Destiny	DOS	Good	More of the same Wolf3d. That's definitely not a bad thing.
Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap	PC	Meh
Wonderful End of the World, The	PC	Good	A reimagined Katamari Damacy for PC with nice environments and fun gameplay. A bit too short, though.
World of Goo	PC	Bad	While it seems like a good game at the beginning, the farther you get into the game, the more you realize how absolutely wonky and frustrating its "physics gameplay" is.
World of Warcraft	PC	Meh	Was GOOD with the original release and the first expansion, went to Meh and then Bad with later expansions. Averaged out to a Meh.
X-COM: UFO Defense	DOS	Bad	Frustrating and obtuse with poor controls and gameplay.
X-Men Vs. Street Fighter	Arcade	Good	Tons of characters and solid fighting game mechanics.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown	PC	Bad	"You have a 99.9999999% chance to hit. You miss." That pretty much sums up this laughable trash heap of a game that could have been good with better design.
Xevious	Arcade	Good	Satisfying vertical shooter with bomb and forward fire controls against a ton of enemies, with secrets and hidden elements abound.
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair	PC	Bad
You Have To Win the Game	PC	Good	I had to win the game and I did win the game and had a really fun time doing so.
You Suck At Parking	PC	Bad	This game sucks at controls, gameplay, and everything else.
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link	NES	Good	Very different and not quite as good as the original, this is still a fun romp that challenges you and is an absolute fun time.
Ziggurat	PC	Meh	The execution of this randomly generated FPS could have been better, but it's still pretty fun with its random roguelite-like elements.
Zookeeper	Arcade	Good	Build a wall around the animals and keep them from attacking poor little Timmy who is running for his li--what? Timmy's not in the game? Imagine it, then. Fun.
Zork Trilogy	Commodore 64	Good	"Interactive fiction", not really games, but is still significant enough to note.