This is a list of the games I consider the best that I have played for each genre and overall. The list should be viewed as in a pound-for-pound format, so that each game is reviewed for its quality as of its time of release, not in a direct comparison. This prevents lesser games from overpowing older games simply with technology.

OVERALL BEST GAME

1. Mass Effect - Xbox 360

2. The Legend Of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time - N64

3. The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion GOTY - Xbox 360

4. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Xbox 360

5. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - Xbox

6. BioShock - Xbox 360

7. Final Fantasy VIII - Playstation

8. Final Fantasy VII - Playstation

9. Diablo II: Lord of Destruction- PC

10. Grand Theft Auto 4 - Xbox 360

BEST ADVENTURE

1. The Legend Of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time - N64

2. Assassins Creed - Xbox 360

3. The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - Xbox

4. The Legend of Zelda - NES

5. Otagi: Myth of Demons - Xbox

6. Beyond Good and Evil - Xbox

7. Tom Clancy Splinter Cell - Xbox

8. Tom Clancy Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow - Xbox

9. The Prince of Persia - Xbox 360

10. Tom Clancy Splinter Cell Chaos Theory - Xbox

BEST ACTION (includes 3rd person shooters)

1. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - Xbox

2. Super Mario 64 - N64

3. Gears of War - Xbox 360

4. Super Mario World - Super Nintendo

5. Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES

6. Super Mario Bros. 2 - NES

7. Super Mario Bros. - NES

8. Ninja Gaiden- Xbox 360

9. Gears of War 2 - Xbox 360

10. Ninja Gaiden - NES

BEST RPG

1. Mass Effect - Xbox 360

2. The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion GOTY - Xbox 360

3. Final Fantasy VIII - Playstation

4. Final Fantasy VII - Playstation

5. Diablo II: Lord of Destruction- PC

6. Fallout 3 - Xbox 360

7. Final Fantasy IX - Playstation

8. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - Xbox

9. Guild Wars - PC

10. TIE: Jade Empire - Xbox / Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind GOTY - Xbox

BEST 1st PERSON SHOOTER

1. BioShock - Xbox 360

2. Halo: Combat Evolved - Xbox

3. Goldeneye 007 - Nintendo 64

4. Halo 3 - Xbox 360

5. Perfect Dark - Nintendo 64

6. Halo 2 - Xbox

7. Half Life: The Orange Box - Xbox 360

8. Prey - Xbox 360

9. Perfect DarkZero - Xbox 360

10. FarCry - Xbox 360

BEST RACING

1. Project Gotham Racing 2 - Xbox

2. Gran Tourismo 2 - Playstation

3. Gran Tourismo - Playstation

4. Mario Kart - Super Nintendo

5. Forza Motorsport 2 - Xbox 360

6. Mario Kart 64 - N64

7. Forza Motorsport - Xbox

8. Project Gotham Racing - Xbox

9. Project Gotham Racing 4 - Xbox 360

10. TIE: Project Gotham Racing 3- Xbox 360/ F-Zero - Super Nintendo

BEST SPORTS GAME

1. Mario Tennis - Nintendo 64

2. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 - Xbox 360

3. Baseball Stars - NES

4. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out - NES

5. Top Spin 3 - Xbox 360

6. Tecmo Super Bowl - NES

7. Hot Shots Golf - Playstation

8. NCAA Football 08 - Xbox 360

9. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 - Xbox 360

10. NFL Fever 2002 - Xbox

BEST STRATEGY

1. Civilization III - PC

2. SimCity 2000 - PC

3. Sid Meirs Civilization: Revolution- Xbox 360

4. Age of Mythology - PC

5. SimCity - Super Nintendo

"I saw the angel in the marble, and carved until I set him free." - Michaelangelo

"Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled." - Count Axel Gustaffson Oxenstiern

"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself." - Archibald MacLeish

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it." - Edward R. Murrow

"I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force." - Albert Einstein

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." - Henry David Thoreau

"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth." - Aristotle

"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice." - Martin Luther King, jr