Jaq's Top 25 Games of All Time
by Jaq

There are about 17 million Sim games out today. Some have you in control of the entire Earth while others let you command a simple ant colony. This one is where they got the formula just right - direct the construction and development of a single city. If by some strange condition you tire of building your city up, you can blow it up with a variety of disasters put in by the gracious programmers. Much time was spent on this game in high school.

Bonus points: Economics and city planning can be fun! XD



Racing games aren't any fun. Driving isn't any fun. Racing games where you drive a speedy hovercar around minefields and exploding hazards is very fun and a tasty exception to the rule. Forget physics, I want instantaneous jumps to 900 kph. The only thing I would change about this game is to make the cars OTHER than the red car actually useful.

Bonus points: The hidden area in Silence that no one believes me about.



Not much to say here. The ninja turtles were awesome, multiplayer was awesome, multiplayer x4 was unheard of. Combine them into a game that's plenty good on its own and you have a winner. I spent way too much money on this game. Oh, the money.



A bizarre game concept borne from the lack of sophisticated graphics technology. Or perhaps a drunk game designer. Either way, the game is ridiculously simple - A single trackball is your only control mechanism to guide a virtual marble through dangerous puzzles and mazes. Ask anyone who played this game about the evil black marble and watch pure concentrated hate fill their eyes.

Bonus points: You could knock that foul thing right into a bottomless pit.
Super bonus points: Level 5, where you could crush the mini black marbles and get extra time.



WE CAN DO THAT? First and periodic midgame response to Doom.

Doom was the first truly 3D game I had ever played (Sure, it's not *mathematically* 3D, but who cares.) This being the case, it naturally followed that I would spend way too much time wandering around the maps gawking at the horridly lo-res textures close-up. This was also at a time when [violence = cool] which made Doom the number one THING for PCs at the time.

Bonus points: User maps. A novelty then, a requirement now.