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#100 - NHL Hitz 20-02 (Gamecube, 2001)

Best hockey game ever made (sorry Nick, never played NHL94). In a lot of sports, it makes a lot of sense to make a realistic simulation of how the sport works. This makes sense for tennis, soccer, baseball, stuff like that. It sorta makes sense for hockey, but why would you even when one of the main perks of the sport is people deliberately smashing into each other? Why don't we focus on that for a game?

Well, Midway figured out that if they bring the same attitude they had with NFL Blitz over to hockey, they had a true winner on their hands. My friends had an absolute blast making a team full of our classmates and playing 3-on-3 vs the CPU, in that game mode where you had to beat every team in the league consecutively.

#99 - Earthbound (Xbox, 1995)

No, that is not a typo. For real, I am counting this game as a SNES title, but I had to make this joke. Let me explain. I never played this game on the SNES. I bet hardly any of us did. But we should've, because this game is ridiculously charmingly weird. For one Christmas in the mid-2000s, my mom got me a modded Xbox that could play pretty much any SNES game known to man for a present. I figured this would be my chance to play some games I was too young to care about growing up, including Earthbound. After my first hour-long session with it, I was hooked already. Which is good, because there was something weird about the emulating system the Xbox used that didn't hold save files once it was turned off, and if I wasn't hooked, that would probably have ended my Earthbound playthrough right then and there.

So I waited for a weekend, started the game up, and powered through it all in a matter of 2 1/2 days. And it was incredible. It's so ahead of its time that it's truly sad that it never got the following it deserved until years upon years later.

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