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Man, I owned and/or played SO many of those games on your list, starting with Pong ('cause I'm old like that, but Pong is older than me). Nicely done.

Despite not being a fan of the Fighting or Sports genre, I feel like Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, and NHL '94 deserve a place on a list like this as well.

With the degree that basic mechanics of platformers and old games like these have been honed in the modern day, when I want to try and get a non-gamer or someone younger in I've found it usually is an easier sale to dig deep into something that was really weird or unique, like a Toejam and Earl or Parodius. Living in the middle of nowhere I also missed out on the classic arcade games, all we ever had was bubbletop hockey or golden tee, usually next to a pinball machine of whatever the latest blockbuster was. My favorite part of travel hockey league wasn't playing hockey, but getting to go to other rinks where they had the 4-player Ninja Turtle Game or X-men game.

I just realized I had forgotten those. I would add them, but the time for editing seems to have passed.

hmm, making a list of top games is weird for me as I actively like systems that are not things I would recommend to someone who isn't already deeply familiar with games.

Since many of us are already familiar with games, I'm interested in your must-play list. Not necessarily what you think are the best games, but the games that you think all gamers should try at least once.

top games everyone should try once - grandparents edition
1990 - super mario world
1993 - NBA Jam
which ever rhythm game looks funnest to you - likely of Guitar Hero/Rock Band, ddr, or beat saber.
this list is a lot shorter due to 3d cameras not being a thing I don't know how to introduce to older people.


everyone should try once - passing familiarity.

After much consideration, here is my revised history of gaming curriculum.

I think the IGN list may be mixing up seminal games and great games.

Doom was groundbreaking, but you probably wouldn't play it today except for historical reasons. And the list admits that Halo didn't do anything radically new, but implemented what it did do incredibly well.

Answer me this : The friend that gave me the games I posted in shoutbox (Antichamber, Disco Elysium, and the Talos Principle) said that if I play for an hour a day, I'll be able to complete all three in a years time. A whole year?

Is that true? I could read War and Peace, Ulysses, all of Dickens, Dostoyevsky, and Atlas shrugged and I would have time left over.

We had lengthy discussions about gaming, and he likened it to reading novels and literature, but it's interactive. He said plots, story lines, etc, are the same with gaming. He has something like over 500 games, and was really enthusiastic to get me to "game." The last games I played recently were Dumb Ways to Die on my phone and before that asteroids and pac man. But that was a million years ago.

Games are a journey, not a destination. The true goal isn't to finish the games; it's to enjoy yourself while playing them. Finishing a game is merely an accomplishment you can be proud of.
Not all games have endings, either. Some games go on for as long as you want to play. That works because, again, it's about having fun, not completing a task. It's recreation, not work.

This. And a lot depends on what works for you.

So I guess goal oriented people shouldn't game? I understand it's about the journey, but if the journey is boring, then what's the point? And boring is subject to interpretation.

Everyone has their own tastes. If a particular game isn't fun for you, find a different one. Since you don't have a lot of gaming experience, it should be no surprise that you haven't figured out what kinds of games you like.

Since I don't know your tastes, I can't make any specific recommendations. My best advice is to try a bunch of different genres and see which ones appeal to you. For examples of games to try, both my list and the IGN list are good places to start.

All good. I understand. It's why the guy who recommended those games did so because he got to know me a bit. But I have to say I'm more open to it than I was 10 years ago.

And I couldn't sleep last night so I opened steam and played antichamber for probably an hour instead of reading a book. That's a major step.

That's good. You've taken your first step into a larger world.

See, that's part of the reason all this rubs me the wrong way. It's not a "larger" world, it's a different world. Gamers make it seem like it's the same as reading or any other activity. Or better. It's not.

I was quoting a movie. Chill.

What movie? And I'm totally chill. :)

Star Wars

I don't know if I agree with that. Major spoilers for Nier.

in a similar vein, games like The Void and and Lucha, Born of a Dream are both games meant to cause stress as part of the mechanics as you are rushing against losing time. So while the experience is still about a journey, there are games that seek to give more emotions than just having fun.

The average times each of those games takes for a completionist run of finishing every piece of content in the game is 8½, 41, & 28 hours, respectively. That falls to 6, 20½, & 16 hours for just going through the main story. That's from polls of gamers so I would add 5 hours for the worse case completionist time as a buffer and while that's an investment it's no where close to a year.

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I don’t think it is, generally, essential to understand people need video games in their life, perhaps, they do not or they just would like nothing more than a casual game to while away the minutes waiting for the bus. Maybe, it is a tad utopian to think we can make a “real gamer” out of anyone, maybe we just would like someone to play co-op with; but at least we can take comfort in the knowledge that, by picking the correct approach, we have allowed that person to see and better understand the multifaceted world of videogames.

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