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The Top Three Rpg Series Ever Created

From Nintendo to Playstation 2, Here Are Five One-of-a-Kind Games that Slipped Through the Cracks

The average fighting game features a somewhat unknown cast of characters only seen in that particular series. On occasion a game company will try to generate higher sales by including well known characters. The addition of video game super star sometimes makes for very interesting results.

I love RPGs, also known as role-playing games. No, I'm not talking about those games where you put on a makeshift wizard hat and are over-excited over the fact that your tin figurine just defeated Blorgon the Great. No, what I'm talking about are the videogames where you can explore a world to almost no end, where the storyline keeps you guessing at every turn (not always the case, sadly. I mean, how many times do we have to find the seven crystals, or fight and kill the last of an ancient race, etc.?), where your enemy kindly waits while you power up your Rain of Ultimate and Total Annihilation final move, the one where you summon thousands of swords from the sky to fall on one opponent, while lifting a boulder from the ground with your bare hands and throwing it on top of him, then to finish it up, call down the moon from the heavens to fall on his exact spot...which then only ends up doing 450 damage HP (about 1/20 of his damage meter) because your opponent was in a defensive stance during all of that. THOSE are the RPGs that I'm talking about.

Though there are certainly many, many great strategy video games, below is a lot of outstanding ones. Here you will find classic and newer games, many of them in the exciting Real Time Strategy (RTS) genre. To me, these are the top ten greatest strategy video games of all time...

Japanese Role-Playing Games are often considered the hardest games to find out there. The games in the genre are rare because they cater to such a niche market. Prices can often rise to several hundred dollars. So which rare RPG is worth every penny? Here are the top five best RPGs that are hard to find (please note: games that have ports, remakes, re-releases on American shores are automatically disqualified from the list).

In the 1980s, video arcades were a major part of the existence of teens and preteens. Many a weekly allowance would be converted to quarters and fed into machines in order to play the latest game. Although business has slowed for arcades in recent years, the effect of arcades on the video game industry still can't be ignored. The following is a list of the top five arcade games of all time in chronological order.

The fighting game genre has spawned many classics- I know that for myself and many other gamers, some of our earliest or fondest arcade memories are set to countless games of Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat. I begged my mom for a video game console after playing Mortal Kombat in the arcade, and probably wouldn't have ever ended up a gamer at all if not for those (at the time) wonderful graphics and enthralling shouts of "Finish him!". Here, in no particular order, are five classic fighters that this reviewer thinks stand at the top of the heap.

If you have read any of my articles, you will notice that I enjoy video games. Of course I am not the only one; millions of others enjoy them as well.

This is simply a list of my top 20 video games of all time. These are some of the games that I grew up on and/or kept me engaged for extended periods of time. And though some of the charm and fun of these games have faded over time, I recommend you give these titles a try if you have not.

When video game consoles leaped into the 16 bit age my friend and I each got a different console. My friend decided to go with boring old Mario and the Super Nintendo. I decided to go with the much cooler Sega Genesis. For the next several years we debated which one was better, but there was no debate. The video game sales said it all. Much to my chagrin Super Nintendo was king. These are the 10 highest selling video games on the Super Nintendo.

When it comes to video games, the choices are almost innumerable. Even within a certain genre, many great games vie for your dollar. All of these choices make picking a top game extremely difficult, even from within a genre.

These Games Lived Up to the Standards of Their Predecessors

Video games have made incredible strides over the past decade. Improvements were made in game play, controls, story telling, graphics, and of course multiplayer modes. While the Internet has changed video games, mostly for the better, the big three home consoles, Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, and X Box 360 offer some horsepower for video gamers of all ages. The two biggest handhelds on the market namely the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS offer convenience and portability as well as power that easily equals last generations home consoles. But video games are not strictly a console-based commodity any more. The home computer has seen its share of video games as well, and just might be the gaming machine of the future. While looking ahead is fine and necessary, taking a step back to grade the top ten video games of the decade is difficult for many gamers. Of course, the decade was driven by many franchises; so many franchise games make appearances on the top ten video games of the decade.

Game Editor is the open source game design software that gives you the power to create the games of your dreams, and, unlike other game creation tools, gives you the chance to get and change the source code of the game creator and design and develop 2D games for personal computers as well as mobile devices.

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Homebrew games for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance.