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Qix did not make the Top 100 list. It did, however, make Dean Hager’s list of games he wants to have a love affair with.

Dean "Afro manager" Hager wants to have a love affair with:

Test Drive Le mans (Dreamcast), Excitebike 64 (Nincendo 64), Road Rash (3D0) Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (PlayStation), and Qix (Game Boy)

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Sadly, Barkley Shut and Jam 2 was disqualified to make the fight for top spot more dramatic. The closest is Shaq Fu being declared the worst game concept ever by Seanbaby in the same issue.

A basketball player in a fighting game? Sounds like a third-degree blackbelt in crap.

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#60: Super Mario RPG “One of the finest RPGs to grace the Super NES. Its clever story and hilarious in-jokes will have you giggling like a schoolgirl, while the involving gameplay and excellent battle system will keep you entertained to the very end.”

The result of a dream collaboration between Nintendo and Square, Super Mario RPG is one of the finest RPGs to grace the Super NES. Its clever story and hilarious in-jokes will have you giggling like a schoolgirl, while the involving gameplay and excellent battle system will keep you entertained to the very end.

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#3: A Link to the Past “Link's finest hour? We think so. It's tough to pick a best Zelda when they're all so darn good, but on the whole, A Link to the Past offers the best overall pack-age.“

Link's finest hour? We think so. It's
tough to pick a best Zelda when they're all so darn good, but on the whole, A Link to the Past offers the best overall pack-age. Two overworlds, fantastic dungeons, incredible gameplay-this baby has it all.
Heck, even the music is wonderful. This one's got "GBA port" written all over it.

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That’s issue 100! Tetris comes in at *drumroll* #2!

EGM’s write up about Tetris in their top 100 games of all time list.

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#75: Lunar Silver Star Story Complete “Classic, hand-drawn animation and wonderful voice acting combine with a great story to make Lunar one of the best RPGs without the words "Final" or "Fantasy" in the title.”

Classic, hand-drawn animation and wonderful voice acting combine with a great story to make Lunar one of the best RPGs without the words "Final" or "Fantasy" in the title. Guide young Alex as he fulfills his dream of becoming a Dragonmaster and learns how important his girlfriend is to Lunar's future.

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#17: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 “Store shelves creak under the weight of wannabes … but don't hold that against this master of the Mountain Dew-sponsored genre. Its easy-to-learn free-form gameplay drops you into a Zen zone the second you pick it up.”

Store shelves creak under the weight of wannabes (Tony Hawk-style snowboard-ing, Tony Hawk-style surfing, Tony Hawk-style lumberjack log tossing, etc.), but don't hold that against this master of the Mountain Dew-sponsored genre. Its easy-to-learn free-form gameplay drops you into a Zen zone the second you pick it up.

NO PAIN, NO GAME
You think something like THPS2 happens by accident? Well, it does-lots of acci-dents. "I dislocated my shoulder," says Neversoft Prez Joel Jewett, listing the injuries his team suffered while boning up to make the world's sickest skate series.
"But that doesn't really stand up to associate producer Jeremy Anderson's broken humerus he got trying to air out of a vert ramp. And designer Junki Saita blew out his posterior cruciate ligament from skating too agro at our Christmas party." Let's hope they all survive to make THPS4.

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#45: Phantasy Star Online (Ver. 2) “The unwashed gaming masses gather in PSO's lobbies, creating a console watering hole devoid of linguistic barriers. Sure, dungeon exploration gets old after a while, but the quest for rare items keeps you going.”

PSO does for consoles what PCs have been doing for years: bring people together, online. The unwashed gaming masses gather in PSO's lobbies, creating a console watering hole devoid of linguistic barriers. Sure, dungeon exploration gets old after a while, but the quest for rare items keeps you going.

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This issue of EGM is one of the most fondly remembered games magazines of all time—largely due to its comprehensive (and divisive!) 100 Best Games Ever list. Reply here with a console game released before 2002, and I’ll post a photo of EGM’s ranking and blurb!

The cover of EGM 150 with a huge, bold yellow title reading “TOO MANY GAMES!”

The opening spread for EGM 150’s 100 Best Games Ever list.

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FunFactor Podcast @funfactorpod.com · 04/05/2026

Hey, hey! Aidan is going live on Twitch and YouTube at 12PM PST to play a bunch of games from EGM’s 20 Worst Games Ever list from this issue! Bible Adventures! Rap Jam: Volume 1! Gilligan’s Island! ET! Captain Novolin! Come join the fun(?)! twitch.tv/funfactorpod

My hand holding a magazine with EGM’s 20 Worst Games Ever feature. It’s got a 70s porn guy with luscious shag carpet chest hair and a huge gold dragon necklace.

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Look at this sick fall animation in Extreme Sports with the Berenstain Bears for Game Boy Color.

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FunFactor Podcast @funfactorpod.com · 29/04/2026

Making some magic*! *the next episode of FunFactor

My work station with many monitors and various doodads.

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FunFactor Podcast @funfactorpod.com · 23/04/2026

Guillermo del Toro, is that you?

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FunFactor Podcast @funfactorpod.com · 22/04/2026

Hey, hey! @aidanmoher.com is going to go live at 12PM PST to continue his playthrough of the Illusion of Gaia retranslation patch! Twitch.tv/funfactorpod and Youtube.com/@funfactorpod to follow along!

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FunFactor Podcast @funfactorpod.com · 22/04/2026

Remember when Treasure made a McDonald's game and it actually kinda slapped?

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FunFactor Podcast @funfactorpod.com · 09/04/2026

Aidan couldn't believe his luck when Ty and the @mylifeingaming.bsky.social crew let Final Fantasy VII fall to him in Round 2:

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FunFactor Podcast @funfactorpod.com · 05/04/2026

Never forget Chu Chu’s sacrifice

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FunFactor Podcast @funfactorpod.com · 13/03/2026

We know it's small beans in YouTube world, but hitting 1,000 subs is a huge FunFactor milestone, and we just wanna thank everyone who's supported the show since its launch almost a year ago! If you're not one of those 1,001 subscribers, come find us on YouTube! youtube.com/@funfactorpod

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FunFactor Podcast @funfactorpod.com · 08/03/2026

📺 Final Fantasy VII // PlayStation // PVM-1354Q via component

A photograph of Final Fantasy VII on a CRT. Blonde haired himbo Cloud stands outside his childhood home in the quiet village of Nibelheim.

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FunFactor Podcast @funfactorpod.com · 23/02/2026

Pretty sure this is the oldest mag in my collection.

My hand holding a copy of Electronic Games from April, 1993. It’s got a bunch of floating Sega consoles.

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FunFactor Podcast @funfactorpod.com · 23/02/2026

This is what the kids mean when they say "vibes."

A screenshot of the title screen for a Sega Saturn game called Death Crimson. 3D text of the title sits on a navy blue background to either side of a weird grey dragon demon thing.

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FunFactor Podcast @funfactorpod.com · 20/02/2026

Making good progress on sorted and filing away the collection after it sat in bankers boxes for two decades.

A photograph of tidily organized magazines on a dark grey metal rack.

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Love how almost all the screenshots in the Ultra Gameplayers 102 review of Final Fantasy are of the last battle and the final dungeon.

A two-page 9.7 review of Final Fantasy 7.

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How do y’all think @johntv.bsky.social’s top 10 SNES games list from EGM 146 holds up?

John Ricciardi’s top ten SNES games from EGM 146:

10. Contra 3
9. Chrono Trigger
8. Tetris Attack
7. Castlevania 4
6. Yoshi’s Island
5. Street Fighter 2 Turbo
4. Super Mario World
3. Final Fantasy 3
2. Link to the Past
1. Super Metroid

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EGM 146 reporting on why Phalanx had that weird old guy banjo cover. “We wanted to create some shock value so someone would have to pick the game up,” said art director Keith Campbell. “I’d used him before as Santa Claus.”

A photo of an EGM article called Ever Wondered…? featuring the box art from Phalanx, which has an old guy with a banjo.

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Always upvote Lufia 2. (EGM 67 🤷 - February, 1995)

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#1 Video Game Babes #2 Damsels in Distress (EGM 67 🤷 - February, 1995)

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