by Wayne Leon Learmond

Created on: October 23, 2009   Last Updated: October 25, 2009

When I think back to the best video games ever, well this is a hard one to judge. This is simply because people will naturally go for the games that they have the fondest memories off, so obviously their choice will always be personal to them. But let us take a deeper look into the title, Best Video Games Ever and let us try to be objective. It is very hard to be objective when trying to decide on which games would make an all-time greats list, but we can only try.

Over the years there have been many many video games out on the market that have quite literally raised the bar in terms of graphics, gameplay, music and sales. There have also been those games that have fallen by the wayside, that have flopped dramatically for whatever reason. With this article I will look at a whole plethora of games that are in the market now, that have been in the market in the past, and those games that are not available now. To all intents and purposes I will try to be as fair-minded and objective in this as I can. I will not put the games into any specific order, ie: 1, 2, 3 etc, but just name them as I go along. Obviously the choices that I have picked might not necessarily be the choices that you would have picked, but I do think that the following games are those that everyone enjoyed, at some point or other.

Pacman {1980 Namco}

In terms of gameplay {not so much graphics} Pacman {produced by Namco, 1980} was and still is the most successful video game of all time. During this game's debut year it has to be said that over 100,000 machines were made and sold all around the world. Namco, the makers of the game, stated that they had worked out that the game had been played over TEN BILLION TIMES during its history. The revenue {income} that this game made for the company worked out to something like $100 MILLION DOLLARS NET making it the most played and most successful game in history.

The plot of the game was so simple yet so addictive. The player controlled a small yellow ball, with a piece cut out of it. This ball was within a maze which was filled with tiny white dots. The simple plot was to guide the ball {Pacman as it was so named} around the maze gobbling up the dots. Each dot represented points. Now this would have been simple but for the fact that within the maze also, where Pacman's enemies {ghosts}. Each ghost would be coloured differently to each other, orange, light blue, pink, yelow and red {red being the fastest moving ghost}. They would chase the Pacman around

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