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Here is the distribution by decade. Pretty even count!

1990s: 39
2000s: 35
2010s: 26

Fun fact: There is at least one game in my top 100 from each year from 1990 to 2017. But nothing from the last 3 years. You might wonder why there is no 1980s representation here. Well, I never owned the NES, and although I played plenty of Atari 2600, I do not think any of those games are particularly good. It also so happens that during the 80s I was very very young, if you can believe that.

HONORABLE MENTION: Frog Fractions (Adobe Flash, 2012)

You either know why this game is here, or you don't. Fitting that I post this here since Flash is dead as of today, but if you do not know what the game is, stop reading this and go download it for free from Steam.

Frog Fractions was a really neat subversive distraction when it was first put out on the internet, and although the concept I think is now a bit old hat, when I first tried it I was pleasantly surprised at how far the joke ended up going. It ended up being one of those online cultural moments where everyone was talking about it and you had to play it to see why. Since I am pretty cheap these days, this only really happens for me when the game is free. Fall Guys was another one of those moments for me this year, but unlike Fall Guys, I still look back fondly on Frog Fractions.

HONORABLE MENTION: Betrayal at Krondor (MS-DOS, 1993)

One of my hobbies in the mid-nineties was reading fantasy novels, and at some point my older brothers introduced me to Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar series. Betrayal at Krondor is a Western RPG set in that same world, and featured a vivid graphical interface that allowed you to explore much of that open world in first-person. Although very primitive by today's standards, the 3D-rendered landscapes made a big impression on me, and the recorded CD audio sounded incredible. The story was standard fantasy fare and I struggle to recall any of it, but the gameplay was unusually complex, and featured beautiful combat sequences on a tactical grid. I think these days I would detest a lot of the game mechanics, such as weapon/armor durability, hunger, et cetera, but this was all OK with me back when I played, and I dealt with it.

I remember the length of the game being forever long, but this might be due to my low skill level as a kid. If I went back and played it today, maybe my playtime would be much more manageable. But I probably would not have the patience to deal with it either. So it remains a fond nostalgic experience from my youth.


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