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Pictured are people trying to play a game before hobby gaming really got rolling sometime in the 1970s. Notice that it doesn't look like much fun and I think a guy died. Eurogamers claim that folks that play Monopoly and Risk still look like this. In the first episode of Barnes' Best, a new Cracked LCD feature series, I'm listing my favorite games released before the Beatles broke up and ended Western civilization.
I started out thinking I would do a "Best of the Decade" column in two parts of the best games from 2000-2009, but then I decided to go back further. Then I thought, "I'll make it the best games of the CENTURY" but then I realized that I don't have a lot of favorite games from, say, the 1920s. So what I've done is to compile a single list of my pre-1970 favorite games- Barnes' Best- into this article and then we'll go decade by decade once or possibly twice a month until we come up to 2000-2009. No 2010 games will be listed, because they need at least a year to cure.
Now, I do want to make it clear. This is not a list of the most important, signficant, or resounding games of all time. Granted, since they're on my list and I am the ultimate decider of what is good and bad in gaming as decreed by the Gods of Gaming, for whom I speak, they probably are those things too. And you should assume that these games qualify as Games All Gamers Should Own. I will be conducting collection audits and gamer cred points will be deducted where applicable.
So go read it there and let's talk about it here.
Oh yeah- video games this week- we've done a Most Anticipated Games of 2011 feature at Gameshark.com. I'm in it. Here it is.
