RetroGamer PCE Top10

[awbacon]

Glad bomberman 94 made the list. Second favorite behind Saturn bomberman

I feel like Rondo is too easy of a pick though. Love the game, but so many other good ones available (same with SF II)

[Nando]

I feel like Rondo is too easy of a pick though. Love the game, but so many other good ones available (same with SF II)

They define overall quality with graphics, sound and play mechanics. They stood out then and now because they are great games. They became popular and stayed relevant because of all that.

Now if they had a, top ten undiscovered gems, then that's another story.

[Otaking]

I feel like Rondo is too easy of a pick though. Love the game, but so many other good ones available

Any PCE top 10 without Dracula X in it would be a travesty.

[Black Tiger]

I feel like Rondo is too easy of a pick though. Love the game, but so many other good ones available

Any PCE top 10 without Dracula X in it would be a travesty.

It's not hard to think of a top ten or maybe even a top 20 without Drac X if you appreciate stuff like RPGs, War Sims and Shooters.

[johnnymad]

This thread is very helpful. I know all "top random number lists" are opinions but it at least points newer people to games that are highly regarded by some.

[munchiaz]

clearly some flaws in the articles for sure. Still nice to see some spot light on the PCE. They could just keep doing SNES top whatever list.

[ultrageranium]

I'd consider any article title starting with "Top something" or "Best whatever" being nothing but SEO link bait.

[TheClash603]

This top 10 games is actually included in the Videogames Hardware Handbook:

http://www.amazon.com/Retro-Gamer-Videogames-Hardware-Handbook/dp/329102334X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406857103&sr=8-1&keywords=videogame+hardware+handbook

I bought this and it is all over the map.  Some of the systems' write-ups are relatively well-written, some of the systems' write-ups are complete shit, and then some are just perplexing.  The NES article for example talks about how the system is where "Mascots such as Mario and Kirby were born."

[nosorrow]

Indeed, it's pretty bad. I have the Handbook too and while nice to have, it's generally disappointing. I much prefer the retro collecting write-ups Edge did in 2003-2004 (which were later collated in a nice dedicated one-off magazine they called Retro: the PC Engine article in there is much more thorough and interesting).

This is also a terrible quote btw:

One has to wonder just how Naxat Soft managed to do it, considering the generally average quality of its other games.

WTF Retro Gamer...

Anyways, I stopped subscribing to the magazine last year after buying every issue since 2009. I grew increasingly frustrated at its general "fluff" treatment of Japanese consoles: they were always treading the same ground and rehashing common knowledge. (Doesn't help that I couldn't care less about the computers they had in the UK nor the homebrew scene, which gets an absurd five pages or something in the mag.)