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I made a list of my favorite games, and it's so darn long I have to break it into 8 parts, roughly following console generations. This, the first part, is about the Golden Age of video games: arcades, consoles by Atari, Intellivison, and ColecoVision and PC. 

I had an unexpected afternoon to play on Sunday since my work schedule suddenly switched to Saturday. I was in a casual mood and so, to the tunes of bucolic flute music, managed a crew of Gnomes around a pre-industrial town of mines, mills and mage towers. 

This list’s games are chosen from IGN’s Top 100 Games of All Time, published in 2019. These fill in some gaps in my now 141 game list.

I played a lot of different games the last two days, mainly for rewards points, but also for fun. I would start a game for rewards points and then stay with it until it started to not be fun anymore. My real goal was to get to my legacy game, Bioshock, and delete all these Game Pass games so I would have enough memory to install Bioshock: The Collection. So here are all the games played.

This time I found a list of Wikipedia. This one takes 45 different all-time greatest game lists and notes the ones mentioned the most. From this I made a list of games I’d like to enter my personal library. Here are they:

Okey dokey. Here are the last titles I’m grabbing from Metacritic. These cover all the games I want to play (or play again) with a 90 rating.

I just can’t stop. I’ve got 49 games in my all-time list to build my library from, and I go another page on Metacritic to get more. What’s up with that? It's listomania. I think I’ll stop at games with a score of 90 and then search some other lists to get older games. This current list includes games rated at 91, so I’m almost done.

I played as much of Half-Life 2 as I care to this month. After that I tried out Pillars of Eternity and then went back to chasing rewards points, which let me to playing several other games; all this over a couple of days I call my weekend: Thursday evening and all day Friday. This will change (to what I’m not sure) next week as I switch to a M-F work schedule. So on to details.

Here’s a continuation of my list chosen using Metacritic’s "All Time Games" as a rough guide. I went through page two and made the list below. One failing in the Metacritic list is that it only goes back as far as 1996. I’ll need a list that includes 80s and early 90s games eventually. For this list, I’ve put my preferred console(s) next to each entry.

I forgot to mention the other day I also played some Forza Horizon 4. I found they added a few things and went about doing them.