Seeing as it’s that time of year, the gaming site F13 is putting together a list of the top games as suggested by the registered members of the forums. People are simply being asked to nominate their top 20 games as they see them and the lists will be collated and random hypotheses will be deduced from the results.

I’m nowhere near as hardcore a gamer as some of the people on the site (some of whom are actual game developers so it’s fairly reputable) as I’ve always had multiple hobbies and interests on the go at once. Plus I’m obviously more of a film whore than gamer slut although I doubt I could do the same task (and nowhere near as quickly) for a top 20 list of movies although that would be a challenge. There weren’t many rules to the process: any format was allowed, including arcade, but you were only allowed to choose one game from a series. Fortunately that wasn’t too much of a hinderance.

I’m not going to publish the list here though - well, not yet anyway. I’ve decided that, seeing as we’re now in Advent, the list will make a suitable series of posts to cover the next few weeks (which I can also write in advance, leaving me time to concentrate on some other things without feeling like I’m neglecting the post count here!) wherein I can count down my list and talk about the game in question. The only disclaimer I make in advance is that it won’t be a countdown to the best game as I see it but a chronological list.

If you do play games, feel free to think about your own list (although a post a day is not necessary) and blog it if you like.