{"id":28,"date":"2008-02-14T11:20:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T19:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2008\/02\/bestest-evars\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T11:20:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T19:20:22","slug":"bestest-evars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2008\/02\/bestest-evars\/","title":{"rendered":"Bestest evars."},"content":{"rendered":"

For the record, my Personal Top 20 Games, from the F13 thread<\/a> that didn’t become an article.<\/p>\n

1. Warlords<\/strong> – Atari – Atari 2600 – 1981
\n2. Star Raiders<\/strong> – Atari – Atari 8-bit – 1979
\n3. Mail Order Monsters<\/strong> – Electronic Arts, Inc – Atari 8-bit – 1986
\n4. Eastern Front 1941<\/strong> – Atari – Atari 8-bit – 1982
\n5. Archon: The Light and the Dark<\/strong> – Free Fall Assoc – Atari 8-bit – 1983
\n6. Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar<\/strong> – ORIGIN Systems, Inc – Atari 8-bit – 1986
\n7. TRON<\/strong> – Bally Midway – Arcade – 1982
\n8. Sinistar<\/strong> – Williams – Arcade – 1982
\n9. Cyberball<\/strong> – Atari Games – Arcade – 1988
\n10. The Ninja Warriors<\/strong> – Taito – Arcade – 1988
\n11. Herzog Zwei<\/strong> – TecnoSoft – Genesis – 1990
\n12. Space Empire Elite<\/strong> – Jon Radoff – Atari ST BBS – ?
\n13. Warlords<\/strong> – SSG Strategic Studies Group Pty Ltd. – Amiga – 1990
\n14. Myth: The Fallen Lords<\/strong> – Bungie Software Products – Mac- 1997
\n15. Fallout<\/strong> – Interplay Productions – Mac – 1997
\n16. Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos<\/strong> – Blizzard Entertainment – Mac – 2002
\n17. Halo: Combat Evolved<\/strong> – Bungie Studios – Xbox – 2001
\n18. Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem<\/strong> – Silicon Knights – GC – 2002
\n19. EverQuest<\/strong> – 989 Studios – Windows – 1999
\n20. Starcraft<\/strong> – Blizzard Entertainment – Windows – 1998<\/p>\n

No particular order, generally grouped by system…these are all games that at one time or another really struck a nerve. Due to the improving effects of nostalgia and my impressionable youth, most of the titles are from the old days. Sorry Madden ’93, no room for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the record, my Personal Top 20 Games, from the F13 thread that didn’t become an article. 1. Warlords – Atari – Atari 2600 – 1981 2. Star Raiders – Atari – Atari 8-bit – 1979 3. Mail Order Monsters – Electronic Arts, Inc – Atari 8-bit – 1986 4. Eastern Front 1941 – Atari […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}