Classic Video Games Bucket List

Haggar, Cody and Guy clean up Metro City; the Capcom beat-em-up everyone fed coins to.

A New Orleans bookseller investigates voodoo murders; Jane Jensen's gothic adventure.

Harvest spice, build a base, click and drag; the game that defined the real-time strategy.

Cross the road, cross the river, do not drown; five lanes of 1981 traffic.

Four cyborg agents, a Persuadertron and a corporate world map to conquer.

Handball with armour and bribes; the Bitmap Brothers at their most metallic.

Split-screen racing through fog, night and desert; the Amiga two-player staple.

Yoshi carries baby Mario through a crayon world; the SNES platformer at its most inventive.

A lawyer follows a clockwork trail to a lost island of mammoths; Benoit Sokal's art.

April Ryan between Stark and Arcadia; Funcom's 1999 epic adventure.

An American in Paris and a bombed cafe; Revolution's 1996 adventure and the goat puzzle.

The Nokia 3310 game everyone played in 1999.

Inline-skating graffiti gangs in a cel-shaded Tokyo; the Dreamcast's style.

Objection! A defence lawyer cross-examines witnesses and a parrot; Capcom's courtroom visual novel.

Psynergy and Djinn on the Game Boy Advance; the handheld JRPG that looked impossible.

Vvardenfell, giant mushrooms and a world that explains nothing; the Elder Scrolls at its strangest.

Be a god with a giant creature and a village that worships you; Molyneux's ambition.

The Arbiter, dual wielding and Xbox Live multiplayer; the console shooter online.

The game that pretends to delete your save; Lovecraft across two thousand years on the GameCube.

A plastic guitar and five coloured buttons; the party game of the 2000s.

Fly for the Empire; the best space combat sim, from 1994.

Jade, a photojournalist on a planet under alien attack; Ubisoft's cult adventure.

Permadeath tactics on the Game Boy Advance; the first Fire Emblem released in the West.

Sam Fisher in the dark with three green lights; the stealth game at its most systemic.

Four thousand years before the films, a Jedi with a secret; BioWare's Star Wars and the twist.

Left click, right click, guess on the last square; the Windows game of every office.

Finish the fight; the trilogy ends with Forge and theatre mode.

Minsc, Boo and Jon Irenicus; the Infinity Engine RPG at its biggest.

108 characters to recruit, a castle to build and a war between friends; Konami's RPG peak.

Move to a village of animals, pay off a raccoon and check the shop every day, in real time.