Now the “PC Master Race”, Amiga fans and console players are equally in demand: Which are the best video games of all time? In this edition of C: B_retro , designed as a reader survey, ten of the largest video games across all platforms are presented. There are hundreds of great titles to choose from.
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- The best-selling games of all time
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
- The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall (1996)
- Ultima IX: Ascension (1999)
- Call of Duty (2003)
- The Settlers (1993)
- Lemmings (1991)
- Far Cry (2004)
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I & amp; II (2003, 2004)
- Duke Nukem 3D (1996)
- The opinion of the computer base -Community is in demand!
- Feedback is always welcome
< li> C: B_retro Review
- An overview of the last fifteen issues
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best-selling games of all time
If only the sales figures are used, the podium is already firmly established. With the Tetris, which appeared in 1984 and has sold more than 495 million times on over sixty platforms, a real classic has secured first place. In second and third place are Minecraft, which has sold 200 million copies, and the evergreen Grand Theft Auto V.
But in the reader survey it is not necessarily about the most successful video games to date, but about the best video games of all time on the Amiga, PC and game consoles platforms from the point of view of ComputerBase readers.
Ten of the most important games to date
The ten icons presented here from the history of video games are supposed to Just recall some of the great titles as examples and stand as examples of the many countless blueprints under the games.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
Platform: Nintendo 64
On December 11, 1998, Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the first part of the series of its successful franchise in Germany 3D and thus the best rated video game of all time to this day.
From a technical point of view, the game is still considered a milestone and an absolutely groundbreaking open world. The game, which was released exclusively for the Nintendo 64, has already received its homage in C: B_retro Ausgabe_60 .
With a Metascore of 99 points as an average from a total of 22 tests and Reviews on the rating platform Metacritic, Ocarina of Time is still the best rated video game of all time.
The YouTube channel “SambZockt” describes the pioneering technology behind Ocarina of Time im Detail and makes it clear once again why this game was so groundbreaking and way ahead of its time.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
Platform: PC, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, iOS, Android
The fifth offshoot of the popular action game series, published by Rockstar Games in October 2004 and set in 1992 in the fictional cities of Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas, is considered by gamers to be one of the great milestones of its genre and far beyond p class = “p text-width”> In C: B_retro Issue_44 the editors asked the readership about their favorite Grand Theft Auto and here, too, GTA: San Andreas took first place.
- GTA (1997) 2.2%
- GTA 2 (1998) 5.5%
- GTA III (2001) 4.8%
- GTA: Vice City (2002) 26.9%
- GTA: San Andreas (2004) 29.2%
- GTA: Liberty City Stories (2005) 0.5%
- GTA: Vice City Stories (2006) 0.6%
- GTA: Chinatown Wars (2009) 0.3%
- GTA IV (2009) 8.9%
- GTA V (2013) 21.3%
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The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall (1996)
Platform: PC
15,000 villages, 750,000 NPCs, 500 books and hundreds of weapons as well as countless pieces of equipment: The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall was a kind of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (test) in hardcore mode back in 1996. In addition, there was one of the largest open-world game worlds in the history of video games.
On September 22, 1996, Bethesda published the second part of its two years earlier with The Elder Scrolls: Arena launched the series The Elder Scrolls and announced an area in the form of an open world, the area of which should be twice the size of Great Britain.
In C: B_retro Ausgabe_52 ComputerBase has already looked at the great freedom on 480,000 square kilometers.
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The number of skills in The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall was impressive 
Randomly generated dungeons provided variety Ultima IX: Ascension (1999)
Platform: PC
On 23. December 1999 EA and the development studio Origin Systems published the groundbreaking RGP Ultima IX: Ascension for PCs with Microsoft Windows.
The game not only pioneered the role-playing genre in many ways and is therefore still considered a legend among many gamers, but was also characterized by immense hardware hunger.
The extremely entertaining [Let's Play] Ultima IX Ascension on the German-speaking YouTube channel [i] kryoworld “shows once again very clearly what was the absolute measure of all things in RPG, Open World and hardware hunger over 20 years ago.
In addition, the complete article on Ultima IX from GameStar was kindly saved by a German fan project and archived for posterity. C: B_retro Ausgabe_29 is also an homage to the role-playing game.
Call of Duty (2003)
Platform: PC, PS3, Nokia N-Gage
On October 29, 2003, Activision and the studio Infinity Ward, founded in August 2001 by 22 former developers of the first-person shooter Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, released the first part of the still very successful franchise Call of Duty.
To date, Call of Duty has received a total of 15 sequels and is still up to date in 2020 with Call of Duty: Warzone (test).
The action game was released for Windows, macOS and the Nokia N-Gage and as a re-release “Call of Duty: Classic” on November 10, 2009 for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360.
Further background information on the game process and the technology behind Call of Duty is provided by the series Newly discovered classic: Call of Duty (test), which also contributes the extensive image material.
C: B_retro Issue_30 was also dedicated to the Activision classic.
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Hitler broken! The game ends symbolically but calmly. The Settlers (1993)
Platform : Amiga, PC
On June 30, 1993, “The Settlers” from Blue Byte settled down on the Amiga for the first time, and a year later they also settled the PC with MS-DOS and laid the foundation for one of the most successful German video game series. “The Settlers” earned top marks on both the Amiga and the PC.
When Volker Wertich, who is considered a veteran of the German developer scene, and the Düsseldorf-based development studio Blue Bytes published the first part of their strategy game “The Settlers” for the Amiga on June 30, 1993, no one of the people involved suspected that you Game should be a worldwide success and the cornerstone of an equally successful series.
Even today in 2020, more than 27 years after the original version was released, “The Siedler “still has relevance and a large fan base.
In Germany, the PC version was simply called “Die Siedler” and appeared on the PC for the first time in June 1994. The intro of the game, here in the DOS version, has stuck in the minds of many building strategy fans to this day.
C: B_retro Ausgabe_38 is dedicated to this pearl from the building strategy genre.
Lemmings (1991)
Platform: Amiga, PC, Atari, NES, SNES, Sega Game Gear, CD-i
In 1991, Lemmings, one of the archetypes of the puzzle game genre, was released by DMA Design – now part of Rockstar Games – developed and distributed by Psygnosis – now part of Sony Interactive Entertainment. While the first part was still made for the Amiga, the lemmings are still alive today.
In 1989, developments began on a game with the code name “Walker”, which later under the name Lemmings was to play a decisive role in founding the genre of puzzle games. The game appeared on a wide variety of platforms and was only reissued in 2019 for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems.
The YouTube channel C, which specializes in retro games : & gt; LRG provides a nice introduction to the first version of Lemmings for MS-DOS with its review.
Until today, the busy lemmings should appear on a total of 34 platforms and build a loyal fan base. The lemmings also made their way to their destination in C: B_retro Ausgabe_36 .
Far Cry (2004)
Platform: PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii, Stadia
The genre of the first person shooter has repeatedly set new standards in terms of game graphics in the past and has shown how contemporary hardware can be pushed to its limits “playfully”.
The real blueprint and reference for every “hardware killer” is still Crysis (test), which with its CryEngine 2 already assumed an absolute high-end PC in November 2007.
After Half-Life and Half-Life 2 were able to show once again in the hardware test what kind of “hardware eater” they once were, the current issue is devoted to another first-person shooter, which by using the latest technology, like DirectX 9.0c and the Shader-Model 3.0, achieved a graphic quality that had never been seen before.
We're talking about Ubisoft's Far Cry, which, based on the first CryEngine and using bump mapping, Pixel-Shader 2.0 and Vertex-Shader 2.0, was particularly characterized by its realistic water display and great visibility. If today were March 23, 2004 and C: B_retro had to make recommendations for Far Cry, the system would be based roughly on the following components:
- AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Codename Clawhammer
130 nm SOI manufacturing process
1,024 kB L2 cache with processor clock
Socket 754 - 512 MB RAM
DDR400 CL3-3-3-12
2.5 to 2.6 volts
184 pins - ATi Radeon 9800 XT
R360 in 150 nm
412 MHz chip clock
256 MB DDR with 365 MHz memory clock
256-bit memory interface
AGP 8x
Far Cry went on in the Respect like crysis. Because really recommendable hardware to exhaust the graphics splendor of the game appeared only months after the first person shooter was released. Far Cry was the big topic in C: B_retro Ausgabe_28 .
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I & amp; II (2003, 2004)
Platform: PC, Xbox, iOS, Android, Fire TV
With Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, the first fantasy role-playing game appeared in 2003 in the world-famous Star Wars universe conceived by the screenwriter, producer and director George Lucas. The game developed by BioWare is considered a classic and has a successor with Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is an action role-playing game in the fantasy setting of the film franchise, which in the context of the history of Star Wars around 4,000 years before the first film (” Star Wars ”) from 1977, which is now also known under the alternative title“ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ”.
After the Windows PC and Xbox, the game was ported worldwide between 2004 and 2015 to macOS, iOS and most recently to Amazon Fire TV.
In C: B_retro Edition_74 the ComputerBase Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic paid due respect.
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Platform: PC, PlayStation, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Atari
In January 1996, Duke Nukem 3D from 3D Realms was the first 3D offshoot of the series and became cult for up to eight players in the local network. In Germany, due to its explicit representation of violence, indexed until 2017, “the Duke” is one of the forefathers of the “killer games” together with Doom.
Indexing did not affect the spread of Duke Nukem 3D. On the contrary, the attraction of the forbidden once again accelerated the game's triumph in local networks. Even in computer science lessons at secondary schools, “the Duke” could not be found infrequently in the 1990s.
The player met police officers who had mutated into warthogs, the so-called “Pig Cops”, of the LAPD. In addition, the player was able to slip banknotes to the strippers, who often appear in the game, who undressed on what “the Duke” commented with “You wanna dance?”.
In 2017, the game was prematurely removed from the index. In C: B_retro Ausgabe_65 the Duke made its grand entrance in the retro format by ComputerBase.
Naked women as hostages … (Image: 3D Realms) 
… and Pig Cops in Duke Nukem 3D. (Image: 3D Realms) The best video games of all time?
The opinion of the ComputerBase community is required!
The titles mentioned are only intended to stimulate taste and help you think, but which title do ComputerBase readers consider the best video games of all time? The editors are looking forward to exciting discussions in the comments on this issue.
The best game of all time for the respective reader can be mentioned explicitly in a comment. Some of the most frequently mentioned titles will later find their way into this issue of C: B_retro .
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The editorial team welcomes constructive criticism, praise, but also suggestions in order to be able to align the series even more closely to the wishes of the readership in the future. The editors wish you a relaxing Sunday with this reading material in your luggage.
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The last fifteen issues in the overview
The last 15 topics of the previous editions of C: B_retro :
- C: B_retro Edition_86 : Microsoft Windows 96
- C: B_retro Issue_85 : AMD Phenom and Opteron (“K10”)
- C: B_retro Issue_84 : FIFA Soccer and other football pioneers
- C: B_retro Issue_83 : Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 with PowerVR Kyro II
- C: B_retro Issue_82 : ComputerBase builds the perfect Voodoo-2-Retro-PC
- C : B_retro Edition_81 : The first graphics cards of the ComputerBase community
- C: B_retro Edition_80 : The early history of the graphics card
- C: B_retro Edition_79 : Nokia Communicator
- C: B_retro Ausgabe_78 : The first Microsoft Xbox
- C: B_retro Ausgabe_77 : The Sinclair ZX81
- C: B_retro Issue_76 : The perfect gaming PC for 1999
- C: B_retro Issue_75 : The first MacBook Pro with Intel Core Duo
- C: B_retro Issue_74 : Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- C: B_retro Issue_72 : A look at the history of PC benchmarks
- C: B_retro Issue_71 : The Nintendo GameCube
Even more content of this kind and many more reports and anecdotes can be found in the retro corner of the ComputerBase forum as well as in subject areas C: B_retro and Retro.