Toy cars around a breakfast table and a pool table, with eight players sharing two pads and the cartridge.
Licensed road cars with Mario Kart weapons bolted on; Bizarre Creations firing mines out of a Ford Focus.
The kart racer with a drift boost people still practise.
V-Triggers and a rough launch that a decade of updates repaired.
Salmon Run, Splatfests and the Octo Expansion.
Parries, hand-drawn animation and the greatest comeback in fighting-game history.
Thirty-two players, planes, tanks and Wake Island; the series starts here.
Wall-running pilots and mechs that drop from orbit; the multiplayer that made Respawn.
The reboot: Piccadilly, the embassy and night-vision raids.
Act V, the Assassin and the Druid; the expansion that made Diablo II permanent.
Bungie after Halo: the Traveler, the raids and a story assembled from grimoire cards.
Buildings that come down around you; the destruction everyone still asks for.
Five versus five, free to play, and the PvE that never arrived.
Four survivors, a Tank and the AI Director that decides how bad tonight is.
Operation Metro, jets and the Frostbite engine at full volume.
Two to four cooks in a kitchen that slides, splits and catches fire while the orders keep coming.
Waddle around, throw snowballs and tip the iceberg; Disney's children's MMO, 2005 to 2017.
The original, before the sequels: hot-seat artillery with a banana bomb.
A virtual world with its own economy since 2003; not a game, the residents insist.
Twelve-player mini-golf on absurd courses; the easiest online night.
Pixel rooms, furni and Bobba; the Finnish chat world.
Stunt tracks in an editor, restarted a thousand times to shave a hundredth; Nadeo's speedrun racer.
Split-screen racing through fog, night and desert; the Amiga two-player staple.
Play rated games, puzzles and the Play Magnus bot; where chess lives now.
A physics sandbox on the Source engine; Prop Hunt, Trouble in Terrorist Town and Gmod videos.
Harvest crops on Facebook and beg friends for nails; the social game that defined 2009.
Bikes, skis and wingsuits across seven US national parks; the multiplayer sports sandbox.
Click circles to the beat; the free rhythm game with a million maps.
The Heat system and Jin versus Kazuya; the 3D fighter's latest.
Drive Impact, modern controls and World Tour; the fighting game of the 2020s.
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