Top 10 video games (Edge Magazine)

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Some thoughts on the comments, and the forthcoming comments:

There is no reason to think that every console should be represented, even the NES. The NES should obviously be on an "important steps in the history of video gaming" list, but the games aren't necessarily better than every other game anyone else ever put out there.

Yes, it's bizarre that they used different criteria for each game on the list, and in some sense that makes it useless. Tetris is arguably "more important" and "more catchy" than anything else there, but it's at #9. At least it's on the list at all, however it doesn't stand up as far as the criteria that they must have used to include things like Half Life 2 on there. If innovation were a primary factor, then HL2 would be replaced by earlier games that did the same things, only worse.