Top 10 video games (Edge Magazine)

[Soul Daddy]

I've seen all of that stuff before, yes. I had also seen it all before I just replayed OoT and it didn't lessen the enjoyment of it at all. The story was just as gripping as ever and overall the game is more challenging, even though I had previously played it and recalled many of the solutions. I'd say the same, probably even more so, for ALttP. And again, the wolf parts really detract from TP.

I think impact has to be a factor in these sort of lists, for sure. But it's surely far from the only factor. SMB was a revolution, but it's really only slightly fun now. There is a balance that every such list should find between current playability and what it represented at the time of release. The article, while not making exactly clear what its ultimate criteria was, does attempt to make this point.

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But he said the intention behind the poll was not to create a "nostalgia festival".

"These games had to stand up today. People will be surprised by the small amount of very old games that have made it through.

"Often these types of lists are full of games like Space Invaders and Pong - which we recognise as classics, as important games - but they don't necessarily stand up to play today.

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