I’m not going to be annoying and say “Oh shit, you never played Mega Man!?!!1!!”.
Instead, I’m just going to go through your list and say…
It’s a shame you missed out on Pitfall. It had great sound effects and colors. Another good Atari sidescroller was H.E.R.O.
I do think it is pretty crazy you haven’t played the Megaman series. That was the first game I remember really being obsessed with. Wait… naw, maybe Super Mario was, but Megaman was a bigger influence on my artistically than any other video game. The style of the figures was so different, considering I was used to reading Marvel comics, and so fresh. More inspired from modern design than manga or other video games, the designers somehow gave Megaman that cute/sad look with just a few pixels.
Earthworm Jim wasn’t that great of a game, but it was one of the first games that sort of had that “straight from a comic book” look to it that games like Sam and Max would later adopt. A fantastically animated game (for the time) whose game cartridge contained a whopping 24 megs.
It looks like our gaming history’s are a little different. I’ve always been a generation or two behind in terms of gaming, even when I was young. I was rocking my atari for a couple of years after the NES came out, since there were hardly any games being made anymore, I picked up hella games from yard sales. Eventually, my parents “splurged” and bought a used NES family set (with Rob the Robot and the light gun), but of course the Turbografx had been out for a while and the Genesis had just been released. Anyways, I recently got a modded xbox on ebay and I burned through a ton of games from about 3 years ago. there was some great stuff, like Psychonauts! Man I loved that game.
Anyways… are you sure you haven’t played Megaman?

Posted by Doctor Popular on 5 April 2008 @ 11pm

btw, if you are interested, feel free to come talk about games at the next Game Theory. http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/467714/
It’s just an informal get together, sometimes we play games, sometimes we talk about making new games, mostly we talk about pr0n.

Posted by Doctor Popular on 6 April 2008 @ 12am

Ha! I haven’t tallied what games I’ve played to get a count yet, but Doc, Game Theory sounds totally up my alley and I’m going to try and make it out for it.

Posted by Jason on 6 April 2008 @ 7pm

That's a nice list of games. Some of my classic games that are on the list are: Rayman, Pokemon, Myst and Donkey Kong Country.

Posted by gamer review on 15 February 2009 @ 11pm

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Posted by VideoGames Radar on 25 March 2009 @ 7pm