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Also, here's some stats in case you want some hints - I have no idea why 2017 has 4 more games than the next most featured year other than it having a bunch of great games that hit me in the right way. I'm young enough that I did not really start playing video games until the early 2000s, so this list definitely leans more toward the last two decades. Anything before that, I had to go out of my way to play. There are also a few iterative series where I feature the most recent, but they essentially represent their entire series (Rock Band 3 and #99 both being key examples, though I think both had enough of an edge where the previous games would have fallen a bit outside)

1988: 1
1989: 0
1990: 0
1991: 1
1992: 3
1993: 1
1994: 3
1995: 2
1996: 0
1997: 3
1998: 2
1999: 2
2000: 3
2001: 5
2002: 1
2003: 1
2004: 5
2005: 6
2006: 3
2007: 6
2008: 3
2009: 3
2010: 5
2011: 5
2012: 4
2013: 2
2014: 5
2015: 4
2016: 4
2017: 10
2018: 5
2019: 1
2020: 1

I also tried to get stats by genre but realized a bunch of these either blend genres or are vague enough I don't know how to categorize them, so I put them under whichever category I thought they fit best

JRPG: 17
Action RPG: 10
Action-Adventure: 9 (most action adventure games split easily into sub-genres; these are the leftovers I couldn't place, essentially boiling down to "Legend of Zelda-likes" and "Flagship Sony")
Platformer: 9
Adventure: 9 (meaning visual novels, walking simulators, Telltale style, etc.)
Open World: 9 (most of these overlap but I feel like their open world nature overrides the others)
FPS: 6
Shooter: 5
Metroidvania: 4
Survival Horror: 4
Puzzle: 4 (...though three of these lean toward Adventure and the fourth borders on unclassifiable, so not puzzle games in the Tetris sense)
Action: 3
Stealth: 2
Strategy: 2
Simulator: 2
Fighting: 2
Racing: 1
Beat 'em Up: 1
Rhythm: 1 (and it's already out)

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