Hall of Heroes™ - Top 100 Videogames Update (1971-2001)

Having a broader more curated list of replay or play meter published list would be interesting to me.

Nice compilation. I'll pick up right where it left off, January 1985: KARATE CHAMP

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^ Very true. Xevious is a cultural phenomenon in Japan. I really like the game. I own one and it was important to me then and important now. Zaxxon does deserve to be on there. It too is an important game.
 
I appreciate the thought given to the placement of certain titles, but can I simply ask why the most popular "games for women" list has only four games entered? For F sake, Is there a reason it couldn't at least be rounded to 5 or 10?

I bring it up because I try to keep my wife and daughters interested in this stuff but unfortunately the optics of this and a million other tiny things doesn't help. They may not be collectors after I'm gone but I at least want them to be able to share what the 80s, 90s culture was. My wife and daughters love video games (not necessarily the giant cabinet kinds, but they're cool with those too). Believe me when I say that I only have a collection because my wife is somewhat interested. My wife and I frequently went to a particular movie theater and played the shit out of Lethal Enforcer every time. They could each easily rattle off 15 or 20 other titles that would be in "their" top ten. But they apparently only get to vote up to 4. After that it appears we assume they can't or don't care to even suggest more titles.

I'm not trying to get into a conversation about gender bias, etc. (For example it's not my goal to get girls on every high school football team or more funding for women's soccer, etc.). But we have some badass female members here. For F sake one of them just wrote a book. But I think the issue is that we don't care to ask for titles to expand the number to a sensible informative list and not that they can't or wouldn't. I know if it were me I would find this patronizing as fuck.

Trust me, my ladies know their games (at least more than this sad list suggests) and are master ball busters that don't like to lose. I once had a weekend of silent treatment for beating ONE of my wife's ten high scores on Centipede. People won't hang where they're clearly not wanted. I would think as THE video game preservation society, it would worthy of more thoughtful consideration of AT LEAST in regard to the list of titles women prefer.
 
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