IGN’s Top 100 Nintendo Games LIVE REACTION - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: IGN's Top 100 Nintendo Games Live Reaction

Date: November 21, 2025
Hosts: Blessing Adeoye Jr., Barrett Courtney, Tim Gettys

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Episode Overview

This episode is a special, high-energy live reaction to IGN and Nintendo Life’s massive "Top 100 Nintendo Games of All Time" list. Blessing, Barrett, and Tim dissect the logic, selections, placement, and snubs of the ranking, bringing in years of gaming passion, inside industry knowledge, and their signature blend of hype and playful outrage. The cast predicts the top 10, debates essential Nintendo staples, pulls in live chat commentary, and gets deeply emotional over beloved titles—culminating in cathartic responses to the final choices.

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Main Topics & Discussion Points

Predictions and Criteria for the Top 10

[05:26–26:23]

• Split between classic Nintendo-published games and influential third-party titles, since IGN and Nintendo Life allowed third-party games that were “synonymous with Nintendo consoles.”
• Early concern: “Are they just playing the hits? Are they trying to be too cute?” (Barrett, [03:23])
• Awareness that Nintendo Life’s input would “spice things up” and potentially boost more niche or cult classics.
• Deliberate listing and eliminations to predict the top 10—debating which Mario, Zelda, Metroid, and Pokémon would make it, and if classic games like Tetris, Smash, or Resident Evil 4 would sneak in.

Notable Quote:
"Let’s not get cute. We’re talking top 10 here. What are the fucking best? Mario World? Mario 3? Tears of the Kingdom, Breath of the Wild? Ocarina?”
—Barrett ([07:30])

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Franchise Representation and Heavy Debates

[13:42–26:26]

• The conversation keeps returning to franchise balance: Is it acceptable to have multiple entries from one series in the top ten?
• The group agrees Mario and Zelda are allowed more than one entry, while the likes of Pokémon or Metroid should have just one.
• Recurring debates:
  • Mario World vs. Mario 3—which is superior, can both make the top ten?
  • Tears of the Kingdom vs. Breath of the Wild—should both be there, or do they split the vote?
  • Metroid Prime vs. Super Metroid—which represents the franchise?
  • Wildcards like Tetris and Resident Evil 4 (because of historic Nintendo association).
• They struggle to narrow the list and laugh at having “21 games for 10 spots”—most from Mario, Zelda, Metroid, and Pokémon.

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Unexpected Entries & Cult Classics

[26:23–27:10]

• Panelists nominate what offbeat picks might make the list:
  • Barrett: Elite Beat Agents (DS) as a “cult favorite.”
  • Tim: Donkey Kong 64—hoping for Rare nostalgia.
  • Blessing: Nintendogs—banking on Nintendo Life love for unconventional games.

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Reading Super Chats: Community Guesses & Grievances

[30:51–36:48]

• The chat fuels heated sidebar debates:
  • Should Wii Sports be top 30 or top 50?
  • Is Earthbound top 10 or maybe only top 30?
  • Which console will be most represented (likely Switch and SNES)?
  • Pokémon remake frames (HeartGold/SoulSilver vs. Red/Blue vs. FireRed/LeafGreen)
  • Nods to games like Star Fox 64, Mario Golf, Banjo-Kazooie, and Xenoblade.
  • A recurring push for “quality AND influence” as the real test for placement.

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Reaction & Commentary: Entries 100–51

[38:11–82:39]

• The crew rapidly cycles through highlights, respecting the inclusion of cult favorites (“Eternal Darkness" as a strong #100), DS/handheld gems (Phoenix Wright, Professor Layton, 999), and explosive disagreements over placements.
• First major outrage:
  • Fire Emblem: Three Houses at #95 (“The fuck? That’s crazy low!” – Barrett, [41:10])
  • Donkey Kong Country 2 at #78, with Super Mario Sunshine above it:
    “This is unacceptable, Tim… This one’s personal for me. That’s crazy.” —Barrett ([55:57])
  • Banger zone: Frustration grows as clear classics (Yoshi’s Island, Street Fighter II Turbo, Twilight Princess) show up in the 60s range.
• Recognizes the list as well-balanced so far—shows love to both obvious Nintendo flagships and “deep cuts”/third-party titles key to Nintendo’s legacy.

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Reaction & Commentary: Entries 50–26

[82:39–103:21]

• “Bangers only” mode is declared ([69:22])—the team expects strictly heavy hitters from this point down.
• Charting franchise representation:
  • Mario Kart: Multiple entries, with debate over the necessity (“Double Dash is the Mario Sunshine of the series”—Barrett, [83:50])
  • Luigi’s Mansion 3: Well-regarded but “could have been higher” ([84:55])
  • Remake inclusion: Some entries lump originals and remakes (Link's Awakening), which is called “cheating.”
  • Handheld love: Animal Crossing: New Leaf, F-Zero X, Metroid Dread, and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door get due spotlight.
  • “We’re in a good place here,” is the vibe—even as some personal favorites are considered too low.

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Reaction & Commentary: Entries 25–1 – The Final Stretch

[103:21–120:23]

Top 25–11 Highlights

• Mario 64 at #25: Mixed feelings—can be argued as high as #1, but respectable.
• Majora’s Mask, Mario Galaxy, Donkey Kong Bonanza (Returns), Link Between Worlds—love for their unique spins but some surprise at their relative placements.
• Resident Evil 4 (#20), FFVI (#19), Fire Emblem Awakening (#18):
  • Acknowledged as pure 10/10 “tens only” territory, but controversy remains about which entries represent their franchise best.
• Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver at #15: “I called it,” Barrett says, relieved the remake gets its due.
• Super Mario Galaxy 2 at #14: Happy it lands above Galaxy 1.
• “Bangers only is an understatement… this is tens only” — Blessing ([107:01])

Top 10 (w/timestamps)

| Placement | Game Title | Panel Reaction / Notable Quotes | |-----------|-----------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------| | 10 | Mario Kart 8 Deluxe ([115:02]) | “Perfect #10. Love that.” | | 9 | The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past ([115:10])| “That hurts… but hey, there’s competition out there.” | | 8 | Super Metroid ([115:18]) | “So far we’re batting a thousand.” | | 7 | Chrono Trigger ([115:41]) | “Give the bottom half to the old people!” — Barrett | | 6 | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time ([116:01])| “Top five is about to get wild…” | | 5 | Tetris ([116:08]) | “We made this list.” | | 4 | Super Mario Odyssey ([116:29]) | “Yep. That tracks.” | | 3 | Super Mario World ([116:33]) | “That’s… okay, wow!” | | 2 | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild ([118:07])| “Oh my god, they’re doing it…” | | 1 | The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom ([118:28])| “Salute. Three salutes from me. That’s a fucking insane thing to do.”|

Memorable Moment:
"If they have those games at number one and two—oh, this is so funny that I'm saying this, but I stand fucking by it—I'm gonna be hella mad if Breath of the Wild's over Tears. I want Tears number one. Commit to the bit. Say something. Okay?"
—Barrett ([117:04])

IGN’s Explanation [118:41]:
"Ign Breath of the Wild may be the more important game, but we firmly believe the legend of Tears of the Kingdom is the better one."

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Major Emotional Peaks & List Outrage

• Barrett’s devastation over Donkey Kong Country 2’s low placement (“My soul just left my body,” [55:42]), followed by shock as 3D Mario games get higher ranks.
• Broad consensus on Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Street Fighter II Turbo, Yoshi’s Island being “egregiously” low [70:20].
• Nostalgic reminiscence about formative games like Wave Race 64 (“Still some of the best-looking water in games,” [61:37]); chat and hosts pepper the debate with personal stories.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (w/ Timestamps)

• “Let’s not get cute. What are the fucking best?” – Barrett ([07:30])
• On Donkey Kong Country 2’s placement:
  “This is unacceptable, Tim… This one’s personal for me. That’s crazy.” – Barrett ([55:57])
• On Yoshi's Island at #62:
  “It just is. No argument. It just is [top 25],” – Barrett ([70:10])
• On Smash Ultimate at #11:
  "Sniper. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at number 11… That was some crazy shit. Good for you, Barrett. I hate this." ([112:20–112:33])
• On the Zelda one-two punch:
  “If they have those games at number one and two…I’m gonna be hella mad if Breath of the Wild’s over Tears. I want Tears number one. Commit to the bit.” – Barrett ([117:04])
• IGN’s rationale for #1:
  “Breath of the Wild may be the more important game, but we firmly believe the legend of Tears of the Kingdom is the better one.” ([118:41])

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Final Thoughts & Reactions

Banger List, But Not Without Flaws ([119:28–119:50])
Though rife with debate (some games are “criminally low”), the panel largely respects IGN/Nintendo Life for making bold, defendable choices and not just “playing the hits.” Some placements are universally loved, while others ensure the panel (and the chat) feel every possible emotion—exactly what a great “shit list” should accomplish, per the hosts.

“They had something to say… These two games [Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild] are so damn special that they are that good… above Mario World and Odyssey—oh my god.” – Barrett ([119:35])

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Useful Timestamps

• Predictions/Top 10 Debates: [05:26–26:23]
• Unexpected Entries & Super Chats: [26:23–36:48]
• First Sign of Controversy (Fire Emblem Three Houses): [41:06]
• DKC2 Breakdown & Sunshine Outrage: [55:01–57:21]
• Bangers Only Block (60–51): [69:22–82:17]
• True Top 25 Begins: [103:21]
• Top 10 Countdown: [115:02–118:28]
• Final Reactions & Acknowledgments: [119:28–121:22]

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Conclusion

This episode is must-listen content for Nintendo enthusiasts, ranking nerds, and anyone who loves passionate, authentic, and occasionally riotous internet gaming debate. Whether you agree with the list or not, you’ll finish the episode feeling equal parts validated, triggered, and hyped for another round of “list wars.”

Transcript

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[Blessing]

Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games cast for Friday November 21, 2025. A jam packed two hour games cast coming at you. I'm one of your host BLESSING Addie Oye Jr joining me is little Croix, Poppy, Tim Yetis.

[Barrett]

I had to dress up for this event.

[Blessing]

You got to.

[Barrett]

I had to. Not true. Bless and I and Joey dressed up for our Wicked review. Wicked for good review that you can check out now on YouTube.com kind of funny games.

[Blessing]

What a good time. What a good time. Talking about that movie.

[Barrett]

This is about to be a great time.

[Blessing]

Oh this about to be a fantastic.

[Barrett]

I've been looking forward to this for weeks at this point.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

IGN's top hundred Nintendo games of all time. We've done many shit list together. Bless. But this feels like maybe the best biggest one of them all.

[Blessing]

This is. I love this too because the IGN folks who work on this on this list, on these lists, plural, it's gotten to the point now where they'll hit me up individually. They'll be like, hey, a list is going to hit. A list is coming.

[Barrett]

List is coming.

[Blessing]

Just so you know, there's a list. There's a list coming up next week that you're going to want to make content for. And so like everybody's in on it. This I'm excited for because me and you, we're the Nintendo brothers. Oh yeah, the Mario Brothers as some people might call us. The Smash Brothers. Yeah, the Smash Brothers. And we love talking about lists.

[Barrett]

Oh yeah.

[Blessing]

And so this is a perfect one for us.

[Barrett]

Perfect.

[Blessing]

How you feeling about this?

[Barrett]

I'm feeling really good. And again, I think that a big part of that you're talking about it. We know these IGN people. We know them well.

[Blessing]

Yes.

[Barrett]

And I, I know how these lists are made there and I know the, the scrutiny and the work and the effort put into making a good list and making a list that, that matters, that can carry the IGN name for whatever that means. Like more is put on that than just, hey, we're just something out. We're just putting a list out there, right?

[Blessing]

Yep.

[Barrett]

Does that mean they're gonna get it right? No, not necessarily. But we always say going into a shit list like we're looking for, are they trying to say something? Do we like what they're trying to say? Are they trying to be too cute? Are they just playing the hits? What's this list gonna look like? I don't know. I really truly don't know.

[Blessing]

Well, I'm excited to see because remember, this is Kind of Funny gamescast. Each and every weekday we get together and talk about the biggest reviews, previews and topics and even video games live on YouTube, Twitch and all podcast services around the globe. If you love what you do, support us with the Kind of Funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcasts to get all of our shows ad free and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be a part of the show. Some of your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. Some housekeeping for you. We're an 11 person business all about live talk shows. We just did a review of Wicked for Good that you can find on YouTube or in the in review podcast feed. And after this is a sponsored Demeo Cross D and D stream. If you're a Kind of Funny member, you can get today's Greg Way coming at you from Mike. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining for now. Let's start with topic of the show.

[Barrett]

Tots, Tots, Tots, Tots, Tots, Tots.

[Blessing]

Tots, Tots. Today we're doing a jam packed shit list. We put KD for the to the side. Today we're like, we ain't got time. We got a thing to talk about. We got to talk about these top 1.

[Tim]

We don't care what you're up to.

[Barrett]

You. Besides, I do think it's funny that, like, there was the looming threat of Half Life 3 and, oh, man, is the Ubisoft news going to drop? And is. Is. Are we going to have to change our entire plans? And it turns out, no, no, Half

[Blessing]

Life 3, Ubisoft is actually thriving, guys. Good for you guys. Assassin's Creed overperformed. And so, hey, we're here. We got a shit list for you.

[Barrett]

We'll talk about that on Monday.

[Blessing]

Yeah, there's a lot to talk about with that because I'm a we. Me and you were going back and forth of like, did Assassin's Creed do good? And you were absolutely right.

[Barrett]

It's over performing.

[Blessing]

It's over performing.

[Barrett]

They're not saying numbers, though, which I do think is a little weird, but,

[Blessing]

you know, well, apparently they delayed it because there was a breach. We'll talk about it.

[Barrett]

Yeah, there was a.

[Blessing]

There was a contrast. It was a breach that happened. Guys, today we're doing a shit list. That's where I go online. I find a top 10 list, or in this case, a top 100 list. I'm bringing it back to Tim and Barrett on the ones and twos. We judge it for your amusement. Today's list is the 100 best Nintendo games of all time, but by the IGN staff. Tim, I want to start off by talking about two things. I want to talk about what we think is going to be in the top 10.

[Barrett]

Okay.

[Blessing]

And then I want to talk about a few of what we think are going to be unexpected entries.

[Barrett]

Oh, okay. I like that.

[Tim]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

Let's start. Normally we try to guess the whole list. Obviously we're not doing that for the whole top hundred. I would. I. I want to make these guesses without even looking at the, like, opening paragraph of, like, what the qualifiers for this list.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Barrett]

I just want to go off the headline, Top 100 Best Nintendo Games. So making the top 10 bless. Let's clear our minds.

[Blessing]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Sorry. I did look at the subtitle of this where they say IGN and Nintendo Life have teamed up.

[Barrett]

Oh, shit.

[Blessing]

For the ultimate Ranking of Nintendo console favorites.

[Barrett]

Oh, shit.

[Blessing]

I didn't know that part.

[Barrett]

That is a game changer.

[Blessing]

That's a huge game changer.

[Barrett]

That is an absolute game changer. I will say I love Nintendo Life.

[Blessing]

Nintendo Life is great.

[Barrett]

I am a very, very big fan of theirs. I listen to their podcast all the time, and I really like their takes on Nintendo games. There are some sickos.

[Blessing]

There are some sickos.

[Barrett]

There's some sickos. They love get in there. They know. They know ball when it comes to Nintendo games, so. Okay, this gets a little spicier.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Okay.

[Barrett]

Dang. I like that.

[Blessing]

That's fun. I like that they're doing that.

[Barrett]

Yeah, they.

[Blessing]

They don't usually do that. Right.

[Barrett]

Well, didn't. If Davis buy everybody?

[Blessing]

You know, I think that's just part of, like, when you frame it, like. Okay, yeah.

[Barrett]

Okay. Let's. Let's come up with the top 10. Let's write them down and try to lock it in.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Barrett]

Okay. As we do this, clear your mind. Here's my challenge for me and you.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

Let's not get cute. We're talking top 10 here.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

What are the fucking best Intention? Mario World, Mario 3.

[Blessing]

Both.

[Barrett]

I'm just saying.

[Blessing]

Oh, we're just saying.

[Barrett]

Let's just. Let's write down the games that we're, like, definitively. We are Talking about top 10. Not top hundred. Not top 20. Top 10.

[Tim]

Tears of the Kingdom, Breath of the Wild.

[Barrett]

Just write both down.

[Blessing]

But I was gonna add Ocarina.

[Barrett]

Ocarina? Yep.

[Blessing]

Metroid prime to the past link past Metroid Prime.

[Barrett]

Super Metroid.

[Blessing]

Oh, Super Metroid smash.

[Barrett]

Ultimate Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Barrett]

Pokemon Heart Gold slash soul Silver.

[Blessing]

Okay. I like these picks.

[Barrett]

Mario odyssey, Mario Galaxy 2.

[Tim]

Donkey Kong 64.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I'm surprised nobody said Mario 64.

[Barrett]

Mars 64. I don't think that one's gonna make the cut at the end of the day, but you're right. So I do think that, like, it might.

[Blessing]

For the record, we've written down 14 video games.

[Tim]

God damn it.

[Barrett]

Okay. Yeah, but, like.

[Blessing]

And they've all been within, like, three franchises. Yeah.

[Barrett]

Are we missing any? Just slam dunks. Because, like, this is what we're talking about. This is top slam 10, dude. Like, I don't see an animal crossing at the wall.

[Blessing]

Yeah, you don't. Hold on. No Animal crossing. New horizons.

[Barrett]

You think so?

[Blessing]

I think has a chance.

[Tim]

Yeah, I see that.

[Barrett]

Best.

[Tim]

Yeah. Best.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

I don't know about top 10, but write it down if you all believe. I don't believe I.

[Blessing]

Again, I don't. I know you said don't get cute, but, like, they're going to have more franchises than like the four we listed in that top 10, I think, because right now we have Mario, Zelda, Metroid, and Pokemon.

[Barrett]

Well, we'll prune. I just think that I'm just. Right now we're just saying what even could be there because, like, I just want it clear we're talking about an upper tier elite level that, like, 10 is not that big of a number. Like, we're going to quickly dwindle. I. We must be missing some of the crazy banger heavy hitters.

[Blessing]

Think about consoles, starting at nes. I mean, the one from the NES I would say would be some Mario Brothers three.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Is there anything else that were like, top 10 of all time from the NES? I mean, there's Zeldas, but I wouldn't say top 10 necessarily. There's. I mean, no, not Metroid. No Kid Icarus. Guys. All right, then jumping to snes. We got Link to the Past. We got Mario World, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6.

[Barrett]

That I just don't know as Nintendo games or not. But those. Those. I. That's there.

[Blessing]

Oh, Resident Evil 4.

[Barrett]

Resident Evil 4. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Again, weird one we're getting.

[Barrett]

It's not weird if they're counting third party. If this isn't Nintendo published.

[Blessing]

Do you.

[Tim]

Do you guys want to know that answer now?

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Tim]

There are non Nintendo games.

[Barrett]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Okay. So Resident Evil 4. Yeah, I did it.

[Tim]

You get number 100. And I was like, okay, so this is what this list is.

[Blessing]

This is tough then.

[Barrett]

I don't know that it's that tough. I don't think it adds that many when we're talking about this elite here.

[Tim]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

RE4, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6. I don't think that there's any other games that are. That am I missing. Right?

[Blessing]

Like, I mean, okay. N64.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Banjo's not top 10.

[Barrett]

Okay.

[Blessing]

I love. I love.

[Barrett]

It's not top 10.

[Blessing]

That's top 100 for sure.

[Barrett]

Might be even top 25. Potentially. Potentially not top.

[Blessing]

Not top 10.

[Barrett]

There's no Splatoon, no Pikmin top 10. No Donkey Kong for top 10. I mean, Donkey Kong Country 2 and Tropical Freeze, both should be very high.

[Tim]

They could be.

[Barrett]

Yes.

[Tim]

Top 25.

[Barrett]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Hey, this is what I'll say on our DK Bonanza conversations. We had Logan Plant here, right? And he talked about that being that's his number one. There's number one 3D platformer from Nintendo?

[Tim]

I don't think. No, it'll be. It'll be high.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I'm writing it down.

[Tim]

That'd be crazy.

[Blessing]

I think. I think it might be in there.

[Tim]

I don't. I don't even. I'm not even sure if that's top 10 best games this year.

[Blessing]

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Barrett]

We're allowed to hate. Hey.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Barrett]

I don't think it makes top 10. Even with Logan's love. I. I don't think it's top 10. I. I can see it being high on the list, but again, top 10. We're talking about elite, baby.

[Tim]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

And I think.

[Blessing]

You think Bonanza.

[Barrett]

Yeah, yeah, I know, but, like, there's levels to elite. When you're talking about best of all time, that changes the conversation.

[Blessing]

When we were. Before we started this, I was looking at chat and somebody in chat was like, as Nintendo, you made 100 good video games. And to you, sir, I say you're in the wrong video.

[Barrett]

Go somewhere else. Also, we don't have China, by the way, because we don't want to be spoiled.

[Blessing]

No, I do have super chats up, though, so super chat in if you want to talk about stuff.

[Barrett]

Luigi's Mansion doesn't make one. This.

[Tim]

I.

[Blessing]

This Melee.

[Tim]

Yeah. Tetris.

[Blessing]

Tetris, yeah. Oh, is a Nintendo Game.

[Barrett]

Game Boy. Yeah.

[Tim]

Game Boy. That's like pivotal. That's like a part of history right there, baby.

[Blessing]

Okay. You're not wrong.

[Tim]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

For.

[Tim]

For people watching live. The boys don't have chat up, but I have y' all up over here just because they don't want to be spoiled on the list.

[Blessing]

I'm going to write Melee.

[Barrett]

Melee's not top 10. It's ultimate. I mean, Melee. Melee's on the list. It has to be the top hundred. But, like, it's. Melee's not top 10.

[Blessing]

What about Wind Waker?

[Barrett]

Not top 10.

[Blessing]

Okay. Okay.

[Barrett]

Unfortunately, let's lock in this top 10, because I think that we have.

[Blessing]

We have 21 games.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Are we missing anything from Wii. Wii U era?

[Barrett]

Galaxy. We put Galaxy 2.

[Blessing]

Yeah. We got Galaxy written.

[Tim]

All right.

[Blessing]

And then Wii U ain't on the Wii U. I mean, there's a lot on the Wii. There's some good stuff on the Wii U.

[Barrett]

A lot of good stuff.

[Blessing]

Are there all timers on the Wii u?

[Barrett]

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and. Yeah, Deluxe, but yeah. No, exactly. Yeah. I don't think that any.

[Blessing]

Not the one with the Mercedes in

[Barrett]

it or whatever pure game is.

[Blessing]

Wait, did they have the Mercedes and

[Barrett]

Deluxe Simon Carney just DMs me. Don't blame me for everything about to happen in the stream. Oh, man, we need to lock the fuck in.

[Blessing]

Okay, we can start unless there's anything from Switch 2 or. Sorry, Switch Era or Switch 2 Era.

[Barrett]

I mean, smash ultimate, smash Ultimate Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Odyssey, Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom.

[Blessing]

Okay. All right, so let's pare down to 10, then. All right.

[Barrett]

I think that we need to start with the most obvious thing, which is the franchise representation. There's Mario and there's Zelda, where there's only 10 spots. How many of them are going to be Marios and Zelda's? And I think the answer is more than one. When we're doing a top 100 Nintendo games, I think that they're going to commit hard.

[Blessing]

So I'm going to say the names of these games and I think we say bold or don't Bold for bowling. If we think top 10 Mario world.

[Barrett]

Bold. Bold.

[Blessing]

That's for sure. Top 10 Mario 3.

[Barrett]

It's going to be one of the other. I think it's one of the other top 10. I think it's one of the other.

[Tim]

I think they bolt that those two go back and forth between number one on top 100 games of all time for IGN and the both of them are consistently in that time.

[Blessing]

I'm gonna italicize. I'm gonna italicize.

[Tim]

I didn't know we were italicizing italicize

[Blessing]

for like, you know, let's come back to it. Tears of the Kingdom. It's gonna be either that or Breath of the Wild. I'm gonna. I say bold. Tears of the Kingdom.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I think they're gonna go with that as like the.

[Barrett]

I get the vibe that they're on our side. That tears over breath.

[Blessing]

I mean, I'm. I'm your breath over tears. Yeah, but it's like, I think they're on your side. What's up?

[Tim]

I think they're on your side. I think they go Breath of the Wild.

[Blessing]

I'm gonna italicize Breath of the Wild because I think they go tears. Ocarina. Bold. That has to be a bold. You gotta bold that.

[Barrett]

I think you gotta bold that. I think you gotta bold.

[Blessing]

You can't have. You can't put a top 100 Nintendo list without Ocarina on it. They're not. You don't. It's on the list. It's illegal. Like, no, It's a top 10. It's not on the list. It's top 10 on the list.

[Tim]

But, like, how many Zeldas can be in the top 10?

[Barrett]

More than one, man.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I think three can be on the list.

[Tim]

If we can be in the top 10, then I could say bold.

[Blessing]

I think three can be on the top 10.

[Tim]

I think a link to the.

[Blessing]

Okay. Link to the past.

[Barrett]

Hold it.

[Blessing]

Yeah, See, I was gonna say italicize.

[Barrett]

No, no. Okay.

[Tim]

I think link to the past is more likely than Ocarina.

[Blessing]

So we have 1, 2, 3. We have four games bolded for the record.

[Barrett]

Oh, my God.

[Blessing]

Metroid Prime. Either that or Super Metroid.

[Barrett]

I don't think both make it.

[Blessing]

One of them is gonna be on

[Barrett]

the list into the top 10. To be clear, they both make the list.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Barrett]

I think they give it to Super.

[Blessing]

That hurts.

[Tim]

I think they go Prime. I feel like we have a newer generation of kids who are, you know, more into giving respect to prime than

[Blessing]

I. I think they also go Super Metroid for the influential aspect of it. The fact that we have a genre called Metroidvania, and that stems back to what Super Metroid brought to the table. I think that makes more of a case than Prime. Even though I would vote prime, but I will. I'm gonna italicize prime as a. Let's come back to it if. When we were coming back to Smash Ultimate. Oh, yeah.

[Barrett]

That's a slam dunk.

[Blessing]

See, I think it's either that or Melee.

[Barrett]

It's not melee.

[Tim]

Like, I don't know if either of them.

[Barrett]

Like, you're. You're. I. I love that you get the love for melee. Melee is. It's the test of time and the way it's Ultimate. Ultimate is the game that people are going to put on a top 10.

[Tim]

I think ultimate is the highest, and it comes in at number 11.

[Barrett]

Really? Yeah.

[Blessing]

I guess I could see a Smash game not making top 10.

[Barrett]

That would break apart.

[Blessing]

That wouldn't happen.

[Barrett]

The most Nintendo thing of all time, number 11. It just feels like such a insult under my reign.

[Blessing]

Wouldn't let that happen. I. I could. I could see it happen. When we're Talking about top 10 Nintendo games, I feel like they're the ones that are like, oh, this is a for sure. Like, we lock this. I don't know if any of the Smashes are like that immediately.

[Barrett]

Ah, man.

[Blessing]

Like, I feel like both the Smashes are italicized.

[Barrett]

That's crazy.

[Blessing]

Of, like, POS potential.

[Barrett]

That's. That's nuts.

[Blessing]

I've italicized everything that I've not bolded by the way so far, Mario, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Yes.

[Barrett]

Slam dunk.

[Blessing]

Slam dunk. That's a bold.

[Barrett]

I think it has to be.

[Blessing]

It has to be Pokemon Heart Gold slash Soulsilver.

[Tim]

No, I don't think it makes it.

[Barrett]

I don't think it makes top 10.

[Blessing]

You don't think a Pokemon makes top 10?

[Barrett]

I mean, I think just being fucking real, comparing these franchise mega heavy hitters, I think Mario and Zelda are in a different league than Pokemon. When we're talking about best.

[Blessing]

Here's what I'll say is that I think Pokemon Blue slash Red can make it. I think for. I think those get the influential points

[Barrett]

so strongly, IGN won't put those games above Hard Gold and Soul Silver.

[Blessing]

I can't see they won't do it. I think it's harder for me to see Heart Gold and Soul silver in top 10 Nintendo games, but it's way easier for me to see Pokemon Blue and red in top 10 Nintendo games.

[Barrett]

Yeah, but I think that, I think. I don't think that's the list they're making. Maybe I'm making the wrong bet, but like, I don't think they're making the most influential list. And I think when we're talking about the quality of games, the Super Metroid, it has the quality to back it up. Yeah, obviously I'm not talking shit about the quality of Gold and Silver. I fucking love it. But they're not perfect video games.

[Tim]

Just peek ahead here in like their kind of intro. They say these aren't necessarily the best games to play right now, but a ranking based on a combination of historic innovation, modern ingenuity, and the legacy each has left behind.

[Barrett]

The combination of those things.

[Blessing]

Then I'm saying, I'm gonna say it. Pokemon Blue, I think, I think you're gonna see Pokemon.

[Tim]

I. I'm with Tim.

[Barrett]

Yeah. Like that description. Targo and Soul Silver.

[Blessing]

See that description? I hear Pokemon Blue in my brain.

[Barrett]

You just listen to part of it. Then Pokemon Gen1 is broken.

[Blessing]

Gen1 changed the world.

[Barrett]

It changed the world.

[Blessing]

Part of that. Part of what they said was influence.

[Barrett]

Yeah, Hearts, Pokemon influence.

[Blessing]

Like Pokemon might have changed the world more so than any other entertainment IP in existence.

[Tim]

Yeah. And the best version of that.

[Barrett]

IGN's gonna want to prove the point that Heart Gold and Soul Silver are the best Pokemon games.

[Blessing]

But do we think, do we think Harold and Soul Silver is gonna be top 10?

[Barrett]

I don't know. I think it's gonna be top 20.

[Blessing]

It's because what are we talking about?

[Barrett]

There's Too many Zeldas. What are we talking about right now?

[Blessing]

All right, I'm skipping Pokemon then. We're not. We're not building Pokemon. Mario Odyssey.

[Barrett]

Yeah, there's no way they don't put it in there.

[Blessing]

Really?

[Barrett]

See ign. I think it's Odyssey.

[Tim]

I see it more likely than 64.

[Blessing]

It's. Well, I almost go Galaxy too.

[Barrett]

I give it to Odyssey. Everyone has an Odyssey boner.

[Blessing]

I mean, as they should. I. I mean, I put Odyssey over galaxy, you know? You know what I mean? But I.

[Barrett]

In my old age, I think everybody

[Blessing]

has a Galaxy bonus.

[Barrett]

Odyssey is my least favorite of the 3D ones, of the. The. The. The big dogs.

[Blessing]

Okay. So everything. But that's not sunshine. Yeah, say what you're saying.

[Barrett]

What I'm saying with your chest At. At this point. Mario 64, Galaxy 1, 2, and Bonanza. I put all put above Odyssey. I love Odyssey, but I put Odyssey above.

[Tim]

Odyssey is crazy.

[Blessing]

Yeah, well, I might. They're close to me. Bonanza and Odyssey are close to me.

[Tim]

Bonanza's last hour is great.

[Blessing]

I like that. I like all the other stuff going on in Bonanza. First of all, you love Donkey Kong. All right, Don't. Don't turn into a hater because the made you break things in this one.

[Tim]

And they didn't put link in forgetable middle third of that game just because they didn't put.

[Barrett]

Honestly, this is like. Feels incomplete. Oh, hey, here's a freaking dragon for one second.

[Blessing]

Hey.

[Tim]

And you know what? That dragon ate up every second it got that one.

[Blessing]

So. Okay, Mario Odyssey. You got. You two are saying bold Odyssey.

[Tim]

Yeah, yeah.

[Barrett]

Okay, I'll bold it for IGN's list. I definitely think it's Odyssey.

[Blessing]

I don't know if I'm seeing Odyssey. I hope I do, but I don't know if I'll see it. Mario Galaxy 2.

[Barrett]

No, I think. I think it's just Odyssey.

[Blessing]

Mario 64.

[Barrett]

No.

[Blessing]

Animal Crossing. New Horizons. I would say.

[Barrett]

I just don't see it. I don't know why, but I don't see it.

[Blessing]

Really. I think a bold.

[Tim]

I feel like it's gonna be a similar to Smash, where it's gonna knock on the door, but it's not gonna be quite top 10.

[Blessing]

Resident Evil 4. No, I mean, if they're including it, I think yes. If that's eligible people got a Resident Evil 4 boner. Yeah.

[Tim]

But it's also gonna be the worst I get including third party stuff on here a little bit. But I think for Nintendo, you have a list of a Hundred games. And you're gonna put one of the slots for top 10 as a non Nintendo game.

[Blessing]

They just don't have non. Non Nintendo games on the list. Because if you're gonna include them, include them. Resident Evil 4 is top 10.

[Barrett]

But I don't. I mean, it is, but it's also not top 10. I think means something different than the rest of the top hundred. Like it top Nintendo. I'm with Barrett. Like, it does get a little bit, like, kinky. Because if we're Talking about the third party ones, the Tetris FF6 and Resident Evil 4, if any of those make the top 10, which is it gonna be? It's Tetris. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Okay, okay, okay. I'm gonna italicize RE4 because I still believe in it. Chrono Trigger.

[Barrett]

I stand by what I just said. I think. No, that. I think that because there's only 10 slots, I think it'll be Tetris.

[Blessing]

Final Fantasy 6, we're saying no. Then DK Bonanza.

[Barrett]

I don't think

[Blessing]

it's. Between that and some of these other 3D Mario games. I'm gonna say no. Tetris.

[Barrett]

I think so. Yeah.

[Blessing]

All right. Bolded and then smash Melee. It sounds like no, because we bolded.

[Barrett]

Smash Melee. Not a chance.

[Blessing]

Oh, I guess we did.

[Barrett]

I'd be pissed if melee's not on this list at all. I can see Melee not on this list at all.

[Blessing]

Okay, well, now you're nuts. There's no way it's not on the. If there's two smashes on this list, it'll be ultimate in melee.

[Barrett]

Blasphemy is. I don't know that there are.

[Blessing]

There has to be.

[Barrett]

I agree.

[Blessing]

Yeah, but it's a hundred games.

[Tim]

That's so many.

[Barrett]

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, we'll see.

[Tim]

But we're also giving time to third party.

[Blessing]

If you asked me to name 100 Nintendo games, I would accidentally say melee in the first 20. You know, like, melee is something you stumble upon. You're telling me the top 100 games are gonna have melee on it? All right, so we have Mario World, Tears of the Kingdom, Ocarina, Link to the Past, super metroid, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Odyssey, Tetris. That's eight games bolded. We can bold two more for top 10. We haven't bolded. What? I have a talc sized here. Mario 3, Breath of the Wild, Metroid Prime, Smash, Ultimate Pokemon, Resident Evil 4. Those are my italics.

[Barrett]

All right, I mean, let's go one by 1. Mario 3 and World in the top 10.

[Tim]

I see it.

[Barrett]

That's my top of people.

[Blessing]

I see it.

[Barrett]

But I think. I don't. I just don't know Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom that

[Blessing]

I could do both. I don't see that.

[Barrett]

I don't either.

[Blessing]

I think there's enough differences between. Between Mario 3 and Whirlwind. I don't think there's enough differences there.

[Barrett]

Can we just have the briefest conversation? Because I know we're already running longer than I think we expected to on this segment. We need to stop saying the Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are the same game. Because they're not.

[Blessing]

Well, they're okay. They're not the same.

[Tim]

They are in the same Hyrule and that is like, like.

[Blessing]

But they have the same physics system,

[Barrett]

has the same game very expanded. But like, still, even if it's literally just so much of it is the exact same design, what they're having to do is different. The challenges are different.

[Blessing]

Yeah, but like, I think it's what they do versus what Mario 3 and Mario World do. Like, I think it's just easier to see with Mario.

[Barrett]

See, I think that there. It's like the gameplay, I think is actually more similar between Mario 3 and Mario World than the gameplay and challenges of Breath of Wilders Kingdom. The visuals and look and all that are more radically different between Mario 3 and world than they are Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. But semantics here. Do I think both are going to end up in the top 10? I don't but for either of those.

[Blessing]

So let's hop to Metroid Prime. Do you get Metroid prime and Super Metroid?

[Barrett]

I would love that.

[Blessing]

I would love that as well.

[Tim]

Bold it Bold them both.

[Blessing]

Well, here's the thing. Here's the thing before we bold. Because I want to look at two other options because I actually didn't bold. Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver. I should have italicized it because I think that's in the conversation. I think honestly, now we're talking about Smash ultimate and Pokemon Heart Gold. I think those are the two bolts.

[Barrett]

Oh, man. Yeah, I'm with you. Fuck it. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Over Metroid Prime.

[Barrett]

That would bring us to franchise representation and like, genres and all that stuff. I like that.

[Blessing]

So right now I think we're locking this in Our predicted top 10. Not in any order is Mario World, Tears of the Kingdom, Ocarina, Link to the Past, Super Metroid, Smash ultimate, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Pokemon Heart Gold slash Soul Silver, Mario Odyssey and Tetris.

[Barrett]

I feel good about it.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I feel good about that.

[Barrett]

I think that we're gonna have a high success rate there.

[Blessing]

All right, let's get into. Give me one unexpected entry so we don't linger on this for too long. Give me one of your unexpected entries here.

[Barrett]

Elite Beat agents on the Nintendo DS.

[Blessing]

Oh, that's such a good one.

[Tim]

Donkey Kong 64.

[Blessing]

You know what, I'm with you, Barrett. I think, I think in the 100 to 90 range it has a chance very low. I, I, I watched a Seth Macy video where he was talking about the analog 3D and he made a DK64 reference where he's like, it's not as bad as people say. And I'm like, that gives me hope.

[Tim]

And if it's not on the list, that's why they included third parties to have an excuse to not put it on the list. Cowards.

[Blessing]

He's right. Nintendogs. That's my unexpected. I like that Nintendo. All right, we're going to get into it. If you're watching live super, chat in with what some of your picks would be for the top 100 Nintendo games that we might not expect. We're going to get into an ad and then we're going to get into the list. Here's some ads.

[Barrett]

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[Blessing]

We got in quite a few super chats in here. I want to read real quick because I like some of what people are saying. Calvin Perez writes in and says how many of the 100 games do you think you've played?

[Barrett]

Oh, I love that.

[Blessing]

Yeah we're saying played as in I've picked up and played some of it. I'm gonna say I'm gonna highball this. I'm gonna say 70.

[Barrett]

Holy crap. That's crazy.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Well, actually, no, because I didn't. I never owned a 3Ds or a DS. I'm gonna actually, I'm gonna say 60.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

As far as played through, I'm gonna say 30.

[Barrett]

I'm gonna say played through. 50. 60.

[Blessing]

Okay. 5.

[Barrett]

Maybe. Maybe those numbers are wrong. I don't know.

[Blessing]

J man 0625 says, how mad would you be if there are third party games? Low key. I'm kind of salty about it. I'm not gonna lie. I know it's. I think I'm on the wrong side of history because we're talking about this. I think. Oh, we were talking about this yesterday. Yeah. I think that might be the expectation just based off of how other games have influenced Nintendo consoles. But I think I just want a list that is all Nintendo. Ash.

[Barrett]

I would be very interested in a Nintendo published pop list as a separate exercise. But I do think that like when we're talking about all these games, it's like they're chrono triggers. A Nintendo game. It's a super Nintendo game, you know.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

And like I. It's weird when we make the arguments for like, it's like porn.

[Blessing]

You know it when you see it. You know, let's see here. Flip the USB twice. Says Mario 64ds should be in top 10. Snow. Mike. Mike says Wii Sports. Hey, I think Wii Sports is gonna be higher than we expect. That's what I'll say.

[Barrett]

Wii Sports. If we're just being honest, it's like, That's a top 50 answer. Yes, it's cute.

[Blessing]

If it's top 30, I won't be. I'll say I won't be mad if it's top 30.

[Barrett]

No, it deserves it. It reserves it for influence. And for all that stuff like when we're talking about. We're talking about some of the goddamn best quality video games of all time. That's simply not Wii Sports. And I'm not hating on Wii Sports. Wii Sports is a great game, but like, it's not a 10.

[Blessing]

It changed the game though.

[Barrett]

But is it 10?

[Tim]

Maybe.

[Blessing]

You know what, for best. Best changes things.

[Barrett]

It does.

[Blessing]

Best does change things. So it's not a 10. But honestly, I think it's like a 9, maybe even a 9.5. I think Wii Sports is a polished ass. Good Ass game for what it did at the time. Maybe nowadays, maybe not as impressive, but in 2007, whenever that was, that was

[Barrett]

every mode equally good.

[Blessing]

Listen, I played so much boxing. Which mode? Wait, which mode are you saying isn't as good? I love boxing.

[Barrett]

I'll blend to me.

[Blessing]

Sasquatch Oni says there's got to be some high spot for Earthbound. Yeah, I was gonna mention Earthbound, but I just don't think it's top 10. But I think, yeah, I agree with that. Top 25. Mike. Mike says Mario Golf, Marco. Marco Ropez Music says. I'm so frustrated. You haven't said Earthbound at all. But that might be some of a personal favorite. I just view it as elite. Hey, I'm with you. I love her.

[Barrett]

Yo. Earthbound is. Is amazing. Yeah, but being real, it's not a top 10 best of all time Nintendo game from IGN's perspective.

[Blessing]

I agree.

[Barrett]

That's just. I. I think it's impossible Earthbound makes the top 10. I think it's very possible that it's top 30. I think it's even likely it's top 20.

[Blessing]

Yeah. J Man says cowards don't put mother three or earthbound top 25.

[Tim]

I would love if mother three was on, like, high on the list.

[Blessing]

Dude, that'd be pretty sick.

[Barrett]

Nintendo Life, they love Mother three.

[Blessing]

Resolute. Ooh, doesn't Nintendo Life also love Majora's Mask? I'm thinking of the gamer using the game. The gamer put that at like, number one on their Nintendo list. And I think Earthbound was like, number two on their list. Reg says I joined late. Don't know if it's first Party only. If not Tetris top five. We talked about that. Gadnuk says, which console do we think has the most titles?

[Barrett]

That's actually a great question, too.

[Blessing]

I mean, I'll say Switch.

[Barrett]

It's probably Switch.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

Yeah, Switch. And then Super Nintendo.

[Blessing]

Then Wii U Kebab says Fire red, Leaf green over Red blue. Better versions.

[Barrett]

Yeah, but look, you're going to hear the words I say. It's either going to make sense to you or it's not. It's Pokemon Red and Blue, and it's Heart Gold and Soul Silver. I don't make the rules. I guess I do here, but that's just the way it is. They're not putting Fire Red and Leaf green. They're not putting Gold and Silver. They're putting Heart Gold, Soul Silver, and they're putting Red and blue.

[Blessing]

You got to make maybe Yellow I think it's the. To your point, it's the historic pick and the best pick. Yeah, the quality pick. You know, wrap the face says Zelda got all the way, but no love for Star Fox. You'll see it there. Just not top 10, but you'll see Star Fox.

[Barrett]

I love Starfox. Only 64. You won't see any of it.

[Blessing]

When we were playing Kirby Air Riders yesterday on the stream, Mike mentioned, like, they don't want to have Sakurai make a Star Fox. And I thought about it dream, and I was like, oh, that would actually be perfect, wouldn't it?

[Barrett]

Oh, yeah.

[Blessing]

That's crazy.

[Barrett]

I mean, you still haven't played Kid Icarus Uprising. No, Like a third of that game is a very good Star Fox.

[Blessing]

Nice. Fawn here writes in and says, I predict a major exclusion will be a Mario 3D world.

[Barrett]

It'll be somewhere on the list. But I. I agree that it probably won't be as high as I think it should be.

[Blessing]

It's hard. It's hard to forget things on a top 100 list. Stake sticks, animation says, Banjo is number one in my heart, but it should be top 20. Banjo is gonna be top.

[Barrett]

Oh, no.

[Blessing]

40.

[Barrett]

They're not seeing it, but Video Wall is not happy with us. Oh, it's good. We're fine.

[Blessing]

And then one more from Sean Murray. He says true Nintendo Fans know xenoblade 1 or 3 should be top 10.

[Barrett]

You know what?

[Blessing]

That's a good call.

[Barrett]

That is a good call.

[Blessing]

That's a good call.

[Barrett]

I don't think so, though.

[Blessing]

You'll have a Xenoblade very high.

[Barrett]

Very high. Not top 10, though.

[Blessing]

What about a fire emblem?

[Barrett]

Not top 10. Three houses will be high, though. Top 20.

[Blessing]

All right, let's waste no more time.

[Barrett]

Get into it.

[Blessing]

The 100 best Nintendo games of all time, as decided by IGN teaming up with Nintendo Life as a nice little what a fries were.

[Barrett]

That actually makes this even more exciting.

[Blessing]

So I want to read the first paragraph of this blurb. Video games are synonymous with the name Nintendo. But which of the hundreds of incredible games that have graced the legendary Japanese company's numerous homes and handheld consoles are the best? While here at ign, we've teamed up with our friends at Nintendo Life to. To try and answer that question. What Follows is the 100 best Nintendo games of all time, based on a combination of each site's expert opinions. What qualifies to make our list? While the vast majority you'll see here were either developed and or published by Nintendo itself, But there's also room for others. Those games that are synonymous with Nintendo consoles or at least have a period of timed exclusivity on one of its many home devices and handhelds.

[Barrett]

For example, Resident Evil 4 is making the list.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, exactly. They give examples, but I'm gonna. I'm not gonna read the examples from iconic Nintendo in house. I'm not gonna even read any of this. Okay, number 100.

[Barrett]

I wonder how long it's gonna take till something pisses us off.

[Blessing]

That's another good question. We gotta. I'm gonna, like, sit down one of these days and have a criteria meeting with myself of, like, we gotta start. Time to get pissed off. Unexpected entries.

[Barrett]

I love it. I love it. All right, let's get to it.

[Blessing]

At number 100, we got eternal Darkness, Insanity's Requiem.

[Barrett]

Okay, I know it's early to say this. They're cooking this as a number 100. What a great way to kick us off where it's like, yo, you heard of it? You probably didn't play it. The people that did, they know what's up with this game. Cult Classic to the nth degree. I love that we're starting with this standard of. All right, we're talking quality here. We have 99 games better than this. Love it.

[Blessing]

I'm gonna lower the amount of games that I think I've played on this list. I'm gonna say. I forget what I said before. I'm gonna say 40. I'm gonna say I picked up 40 of these games and touched them. At number 99, we got GTA Chinatown Wars.

[Tim]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Barrett]

This was a big deal. First GTA coming to a Nintendo console.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

Or at least I got a new one. And this was on ds. People really loved it.

[Blessing]

Greg Miller really loves this game. At number 98, we got star Fox.

[Barrett]

Oh, wow.

[Blessing]

The original Star Fox.

[Barrett]

Wow. I'm very shocked.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Barrett]

I wouldn't personally put this on the list, but 100 is a lot, so we'll see.

[Blessing]

Interesting. From the days when the word Polygon was exclusively found in math textbooks comes Nintendo's 3D evolution of a mainstay arcade genre, the Shmup. Taxing the SNES hardware so much, even the super effects chip included inside the cartridge couldn't get the action to run even at a targeted 12 frames per second. Star Fox followed the linear stage setups of R Type and Co, but played from behind the ship in first person perspective.

[Barrett]

This is one of the. The games where sometimes there's, like, remakes and you're like, okay, well, the original like is still worth playing and like. Or sometimes it's like just play the remake. To me, this is one of those examples. Yeah, just play Star Fox 64. It's just the better version of this game. That's the same way I'd say play Metroid Zero Mission. You don't need to play the original Metroid.

[Blessing]

Wow. I guess that makes sense. You know, I feel that I, I love.

[Barrett]

Obviously I'm not saying burn every copy that exists.

[Tim]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

I'm just saying like. Yeah.

[Blessing]

At number 97 we got Super Castlevania 4.

[Barrett]

Again, this is the. We're talking about Super Nintendo, one of the greatest consoles with the greatest libraries of all time. And a lot of that was third party support. And Super Castlevania four rocks. This, this is one of those all time classic super Nintendo games. Lower than I'd expected, honestly.

[Blessing]

Really?

[Barrett]

Oh yeah.

[Blessing]

I guess I was going to say Castle and something tonight, but that's not a Nintendo game, so that makes sense. A number 96 we got. Wow. 999.

[Barrett]

Cute here.

[Blessing]

Nine hours, nine persons, nine doors. I mean that's that like DS3DS representation that we're talking about.

[Barrett]

First one I didn't play.

[Blessing]

Yeah. So this is the. I've heard so much about this game. I feel like we bring it up maybe like once every few months of like, yo, what's that game with the nines in the title that we always want to like? But all right, good for y'.

[Tim]

All.

[Blessing]

At number 95 we got Fire Emblem. Three houses.

[Tim]

Whoa, that is so low.

[Blessing]

That's lower than what I'd expect.

[Barrett]

The fuck? That's crazy.

[Blessing]

Huh?

[Barrett]

This is crazy.

[Blessing]

Is there an easy pick for a Fire Emblem you put above this?

[Barrett]

No, this is the pick. This is the people's pick. It's not my personal favorite, but this is the pick. So maybe Fire Emblem Awakening, maybe they have that higher. Oh my God, this is crazy low.

[Blessing]

Three Houses is a Fire emblem game that got it all so right. It's been hard to readjust the series to the series after series in its aftermath. You see, three Houses gives us the turn based strategy we're all feigning for. Yes. And it does so with Style Despair. However, the real draw here and the thing that makes one so. Makes this one so worthy of a note overall is the focus and effort that's been placed on the socializing, customization, relationships and all that good stuff that happens between scraps. It's a game you could quite happily live in for a bit. And this was Nintendo Life.

[Barrett]

It's hard to readjust to the series. There's been one game afterwards. It was like a weird crossover celebration game.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I think they just want to talk shit about that one. Fire Emblem X something. Exchange. Fire Emblem X. I had it.

[Barrett]

And then engaged. Engage, engage. Nailed it.

[Blessing]

Exchange. At number 94, we got Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.

[Barrett]

Another one I didn't play.

[Blessing]

I mean, you hear the streets talk about Professor Layton, though. Yeah, the streets have a lot to say about it.

[Barrett]

Yeah, there's a whole batch of DS games that are just not my. The Ace Academy, Ace Attorney, Professor Layton. Like, all that stuff just pass me by.

[Tim]

Shout out to the time that him and Phoenix Wright fought.

[Blessing]

I will be lowering the amount of games that I think I've played on this list to 25. 25 games I've probably played on this list.

[Barrett]

I mean. Yeah, I'm rapidly falling too.

[Blessing]

N93, we got WWF no Mercy. I like this pick again.

[Barrett]

N64. Classic.

[Blessing]

Fuck yeah, dude. All right, coming in at number 92, we got Kirby Planet Robobot.

[Barrett]

This is one of them ones. Like, if a Kirby game is going to be on the list, it's Robobot. It's Superstar and Forgotten Land. Yeah, but robobot@92. Love this. This game is a treat. There's been a lot of rumors about it being ported to the switch, and I hope that it is, because I think that this. It'd be one of those ones. I'm like, bless, you should play it.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I mean, I guess I'm becoming more and more of a Kirby guy as we go. He's getting us because between Forgotten Land Kirby Air Riders, I'm like, I kind of.

[Barrett]

With this little freak.

[Blessing]

Freak of nature. Fucking Chef Kawasaki out here hanging out with Ricky and Meta Knight God. At number 91, we got Diddy Kong Racing. Too low for my taste.

[Barrett]

Yeah, I'm a little surprised it's this low.

[Tim]

Perfect spot for it.

[Barrett]

You think?

[Blessing]

Yeah. He's a hater ass hater, though. He's a hater ass hater. Because you want Mario Kart 64 above it on this list.

[Tim]

Is that what it is? Because that's the better game.

[Blessing]

Did you call racing is better than Mario Kart 64? Guys, if you're having a real talk conversation, this isn't me with Sonic Racing. Cross worlds where, like, I want it to be better. Diddy Kong Racing is actually better than Mario Kart 64.

[Tim]

I mean, cross worlds might be better than World, though.

[Barrett]

I'm glad we're saying world, but you know what I mean? I understand that there's a lot of loud people that think differently than me on that, but that's an insane, more

[Blessing]

fun game, you know, Less fucking space in the road. I'm going at 2 mph in Mario Kart world. Sonic racing, cross worlds. I'm going so fast. Yeah, I'm going fast, but yeah, I mean, at least shout out to them acknowledging Diddy Kong Racing.

[Barrett]

Yeah, I, I do think this should be higher. Not significantly, but like 70s.

[Blessing]

I do wonder, are we spreading games out here? Is this the, like, we have so many rare games on the list we gotta put down.

[Barrett]

I don't think about rare games. I, I don't. This is not a rare game. I know it's made by rare, but it's not a rare game.

[Blessing]

Oh, it's a rare game. In my heart, I, I look at it as a rare game. I, it has that energy. It has like.

[Barrett]

I know, but like, rare games means collectathon.

[Blessing]

No. Yeah, I don't know about that because

[Barrett]

I look at like, yeah, it's like Prince of Persia, Lost Crowns, a Ubisoft game, but it's not a Ubisoft game. Ubisoft game means towers because, like, I'm

[Blessing]

thinking Gemini, which has a lot of collectibles. But I, I, I don't know, I think there's a design philosophy. Well, actually, no. This collectathon in this game.

[Barrett]

Yeah, but I like the balloons. I don't, I don't, I wouldn't put it up there in the.

[Blessing]

You collect the bananas that get spread out around the track and. Fair enough, fair enough. At number 90, we got the World ends with you.

[Barrett]

Hell yeah.

[Blessing]

That's a good one.

[Barrett]

90 is a perfect spot for this one too. What a cool game. Anybody that played this game, it was their entire personality for that time.

[Blessing]

I feel like it. This is to fans of this, to what Jet Set Radio Future is to me where, like when I play Jet Set Radio Future, there's nothing cooler than Jet Set Radio Future. And I feel like if I played the World Ends with you, it would consume me in the same way that Jet Set does.

[Barrett]

Yeah. This is a game that I, I adored when it first came out, but as it's been re released, like, I don't like the game anymore. Like the actual video game. Like, because they re released it fairly recently, but we're getting old. So it might have been like four or five years ago, but like, yeah, I didn't stick with it that time.

[Blessing]

You're like Andy with Woody, just let it go.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Fucked up. All right, that's 100 through 90. Let's get into number 89, Captain Toad Treasure Tracker.

[Barrett]

This is a weird one. Just because I think the quality of this game, I'd be like, I think it should be higher. But 89 feels like a fair spot for this one.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

But it's really good.

[Blessing]

Yeah. I think this is where we might start kicking in gear as far as like some of the quality Nintendo games. The games that aren't seen a 10 out of 10 masterpiece industry changing video game, but is damn good. Yeah. And it's made by Nintendo kind of thing.

[Barrett]

Should be higher.

[Blessing]

At number 88, we got golden sun, the Lost Age.

[Barrett]

This might be a hot take to an extent for me. I love Golden Sun. This is a perfect spot for it, though. Like, I think the golden sun is this like legendary rpg, like one of the greats. It was like, holy crap, we're getting an RPG this good on portable, like handheld. That was the novelty of it. Not necessarily. Like, man, this is an all timer. And I don't want to come off too Haiti on that because like, I. I love the game, but this feels right to me.

[Blessing]

Fair enough. At number 87, we got Mario Golf told Stool Tour. Which one is this?

[Barrett]

This is Greg's favorite.

[Blessing]

Is this the game?

[Barrett]

This is the GameCube.

[Blessing]

This is, I mean, shout out Mario Golf in general.

[Barrett]

Yeah. And I think the GameCube one was the pinnacle of the 3D Mario golf franchise so far. Yeah. Good pick.

[Blessing]

Good pick. How many other Mario Sports games do you think we see?

[Barrett]

I don't know that we see any

[Blessing]

really Super Mario Strikers.

[Barrett]

I don't know.

[Blessing]

Come on.

[Barrett]

I'd hope so, but I don't know.

[Blessing]

I want to see a tennis. I want to see. I want Mario Tennis 64.

[Barrett]

Yeah, maybe, maybe. I don't know if I. The quality of this one throws me off because like this, this is the shining star example. Mario Tennis isn't. Hasn't had a toadstool tour. Yeah. In my opinion.

[Tim]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Are you trying to say about aces?

[Tim]

Come on, man.

[Blessing]

I wish. I wish that game stuck longer, man. I like that game. For a week I returned. That's like one of the few games in the last decade that I've actually returned to GameStop. I was like, I don't want this anymore. Nobody's playing this. It was a month later. I was like, take this away from this. Let me reuse this money to buy something better. At number 86, we got Super Monkey Ball 2.

[Barrett]

Love it.

[Blessing]

Hell yeah.

[Barrett]

Absolutely love it, man. This is one of those games. This was a like GameCube launch, if not launch title, launch window game. And oh man, this the fun that we had on the N64 playing couch multiplayer games. Taking that to the GameCube monkey ball was like, it felt impossibly fun.

[Blessing]

Oh yeah.

[Barrett]

Such a good party game like smash melee. And this back to back was divine.

[Blessing]

Do you watch Smiling Friends?

[Barrett]

Not yet.

[Blessing]

There's a really funny joke in the latest couple episodes where they reference Super Monkey Ball.

[Barrett]

I've been. Andy sent me just that clip.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Barrett]

Because he knows me.

[Blessing]

Yeah, it's the funniest out of nowhere clip of like for like whatever reason they hang out their boss's lodge or whatever. And he's like, yeah, what's up man? I got, you know, Super Monkey ball on the GameCube and Pim's like, oh, you have Super Monkey Ball. I love Super Monkey Ball. And the boss is like, oh, Pim, that's what's up. And fucking dabs him up and they fucking rotoscope it. So like he looks, he goes 3D out of nowhere. It's fucking hilarious.

[Tim]

Y' all gotta watch is like people editing it, editing it to have an impact frame like an anime where like

[Blessing]

right at State Dap. It goes like black and white.

[Tim]

It's so good.

[Blessing]

Fuck yeah, dude. I knew you're. I knew you're chill man.

[Barrett]

It's so cool.

[Blessing]

And number 85, what a perfect pick

[Barrett]

for that joke too. Oh, the Gamecube.

[Blessing]

It's such a funny ass show. Oh, oh, number 85 is beautiful.

[Tim]

Now we're cooking.

[Barrett]

Love it. What a fun game. And not, not a perfect game. Not a 10. This is an 85 out of 100 top Nintendo game. I love it.

[Blessing]

I never played Beautiful Joe. I've always wanted to.

[Barrett]

I think you'd really enjoy it. It's another one that I question in modern times how it feels and in the time it was amazing. I just think that we've gotten so many 2D and 3D games, specifically with like the indie revolution, that I'm not sure the novelty and gameplay style of this game would like feel as special, but for the time before the time. And. And I also might be wrong. Like it might still really hold up.

[Blessing]

Nice. At number 84 we got F0GX. Hell yeah, dude.

[Barrett]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Lower than you want.

[Barrett]

This is the best F0 game.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

F099. I was gonna say F099 actually. I think they, they might put higher the problem with F0GX is it is impossibly hard. The story mode in this game is what Elden Ring thinks it is.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Barrett]

You know what I mean? Yeah, it's fucking.

[Blessing]

That's what people say about F0GX.

[Barrett]

But yeah, this game is amazing. Like this came out in 2003, I think. And to date a game hasn't looked faster. Like I don't know how many frames it was running at, but I'm pretty sure it was no less than 10,000.

[Blessing]

Yeah, dude, I loved as a kid just playing anything that, whether it be F0 or something that's F0 inspired. Just a fast ass racing game that's hard for no reason. I don't know why. I was addicted to those fucking games.

[Barrett]

This one's great.

[Blessing]

GX I didn't get around to until they put it out for Switch Online. And trying it out there, I'm like, man, dude, what a time to be alive that that generation of video games was.

[Barrett]

I know.

[Blessing]

And number 83, ring fit adventure. I love this inclusion. Hell yeah. I fuck with Ring Fit Adventure. Yeah, this got like a surprise. This got like maybe half a year out of me, like almost daily of me using this thing. And honestly I would credit Ring Fit Adventure with like starting my fitness journey of like wanting to work out more and be like more active and fit. It's that plus really well designed gameplay. Like gameplay that very much is one tailored toward that slow progression of being like, all right, I'm gonna level up today. Whatever. This is the thing that's gonna last me a while of trying to get through this adventure mode. But then also like fun battles, good workouts. That Ring tool insane. The amount of different things you could do with that to get so many different workouts out of it. Like shout out to the team that made Ring Fit Adventure.

[Barrett]

Yeah, very cool. Love to see it.

[Blessing]

Here at number 82, Phoenix Wright, ACE Attorney.

[Barrett]

Cool.

[Blessing]

Makes sense.

[Barrett]

Hey man. So far this list, I'm happy with it. Like not everything's exactly where I would put it, but I'm like, I like the representation of the games. I don't feel like they're pulling some of like, why is that here type stuff. It's like, all right, we're, we're in a good spot but we're very quickly about to need to pick up the pace though.

[Blessing]

I agree with that. At number 81, we got Castlevania 3, Dracula's curse.

[Barrett]

Wouldn't have put this one on the list.

[Blessing]

Yeah, this is they right here. Considered by many to be the apex of the classic Castlevania entries. Dracula's Curse remains a wonderful example of a talented group of developers pushing aging hardware to its maximum potential. This is an NES one, right?

[Barrett]

This is an NES one. Yeah. I. I thought that the Super 4 would. Was going to kind of like be the rep for old school Castlevania. Surprised to see this here.

[Blessing]

Yeah. They end the end their paragraph with indeed, many consider this to be the superior. Superior to the first 16 bit entry into the series Super Castlevania 4. And then at number 80, we have mother 3.

[Barrett]

Let's go.

[Blessing]

Come on.

[Barrett]

Hell yeah. Good for y'. All.

[Blessing]

Good for y'.

[Barrett]

All.

[Blessing]

I'm gonna pause there for a second, see what's happening in Super Chats. Dolphin Corn says three houses should be so much higher. I'm pissed and angry.

[Barrett]

I mean, I understand you being mad about that. That is, I think, probably the biggest mistake so far on the list.

[Blessing]

And then Oscar Navarro writes in and says, just let Sakurai work on all Nintendo IPs.

[Barrett]

Hell yeah.

[Tim]

No, let that man wrestle.

[Blessing]

I wish we could clone him. We got to make one arrest. If we could ever make a top 10 list. Top 10 list of developers we want to clone, we will make a bunch of clones of.

[Barrett]

Okay.

[Blessing]

All right. Kojima. I want five Kojima's.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And work. I want you to work on a full other Metal Gear franchise. But like, one of you works on the first one, the other works the second one. I don't want all that come out all the same time.

[Barrett]

Cool.

[Blessing]

I want five Sakurais. All right. One for Smash, one for Kirby, one for Kid Icarus, one for Star Fox, and then one to just mess around and have a good time.

[Barrett]

One can rest.

[Blessing]

One can rest. I want to clone only one of them though.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I want to suda five ones. All right, one of you, One of you work on the good games, work

[Barrett]

on the bad games. Keep being weird.

[Blessing]

Keep being weird. And then I want two Neil Druckmann's to fight to the death.

[Barrett]

Okay.

[Blessing]

All right. Coming in at number 79, we got elite Pet Agents. Oh yeah.

[Barrett]

I love it. What a great pick.

[Blessing]

Hell yeah.

[Barrett]

I love this game. I feel like an argument can be made from the. Well actually fucking people. That. I don't even know how to say it. Owen down. The Japanese version of the game is technically better. I disagree. I think that the fun of these makes the charm of it all come together in a way that I prefer. Love this game deeply, with all my heart.

[Blessing]

At number 78, we got Donkey Kong Country 2 Diddy's Conquest. It's low. That's low. And they want.

[Tim]

They want to spread it out.

[Blessing]

We all can.

[Tim]

They want to put the better one.

[Barrett]

I just felt my soul leave my body.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I heard your soul leave your body.

[Barrett]

This. I hate this list.

[Blessing]

No, no, no.

[Barrett]

This is. This is. This is unacceptable. This is unacceptable, Tim.

[Tim]

It's an emotional moment right now.

[Barrett]

It is.

[Tim]

I'm flashing out.

[Barrett]

I'm gonna get through it. This is fucking bullshit.

[Blessing]

What does this tell us?

[Barrett]

This tells us that there better be 77 games better than this is the first point in the list that I'm going to look at every next pick and be like, is that better? DKC2? And get mad.

[Tim]

Oh, the Chat's been doing that since Fire Emblem, by the way.

[Barrett]

And I. I. That is fair, too. That is fair, too. This one's personal, though, for me. That's crazy.

[Blessing]

What other do you think?

[Barrett]

No, world. This is in top 25.

[Blessing]

Do they put the first DKC above this?

[Barrett]

No.

[Tim]

Probably.

[Barrett]

No.

[Blessing]

But Nanza, I guess, automatically has to be above this now. Tropical Freeze.

[Barrett]

This is crazy.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

This is fucking crazy.

[Blessing]

That's crazy.

[Barrett]

People debate this against Mario World.

[Blessing]

This shit deserves a Grammy.

[Barrett]

Yes.

[Blessing]

One of the best gaming soundtracks of all time. Coming in.

[Barrett]

Fuck, I'm mad.

[Blessing]

Shout out. Sticker Bush Symphony. You know, Sticker Bush, Logan Plant, Rush.

[Barrett]

Text me. Not many DKC fans at IGN or Nintendo Life. I tried so hard.

[Blessing]

Thank you, Logan.

[Barrett]

Man.

[Blessing]

At 77, we got super Mario Sunshine. That. That's insult to injury, by the way. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's insult to injury. No, because, like, should it be long list? Yes.

[Barrett]

Oh, my God.

[Blessing]

It shouldn't be on the list. Above D. Above DKC2, though.

[Barrett]

I'm, like, the biggest defender of Mario at this company.

[Blessing]

Yeah, for sure.

[Barrett]

It deserves to be on the list. I think it might even deserve to be number 77 on the list, actually. Fuck yeah. I stand with that. It is not above Donkey Kong Country.

[Blessing]

Right? Above Donkey country. Two is kind of. That is up. That is kind of nuts.

[Barrett]

Not okay.

[Blessing]

That's. That's bonkers. Wow.

[Barrett]

Your monkey. God damn it. I don't like this. Golly, I'm being bullied.

[Blessing]

Joshy Frog in the Super Chat says Mario Sunshine is the goat.

[Tim]

It's okay to be wrong.

[Blessing]

Yeah, it's okay.

[Tim]

We all have our games.

[Barrett]

Mine's Mario Sunshine is not the goat. Mario Sunshine is not a bad game. Mario Sunshine is a good game. It is not a great game. It is what it is.

[Blessing]

Okay, I'll accept that.

[Barrett]

Actually, I'd even go as far as saying it's a great game. It's just a good Mario game.

[Blessing]

Coming in at number 76, Secret of Mana. Hell, yeah.

[Barrett]

Yep.

[Blessing]

Streets folk from Secret of Anna calming

[Barrett]

down a little bit now. Yeah, this is the type of stuff this can get me back.

[Blessing]

Yeah, we need more. More quality.

[Tim]

Secret of Mono was another one that, like, my babysitter Brian and I would play together all the time, along with, like, Chrono Trigger and stuff.

[Blessing]

You say babysitter Brian?

[Tim]

Yeah, his name was Brian.

[Blessing]

At first I heard Babysitter Bride, and I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Y' all are doing play Mary? Like, what's going on here?

[Tim]

The homie Brian was into a bunch of RPGs.

[Barrett]

Nice.

[Tim]

Very influential.

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah. Shout out, Brian, did you ever bring over Brave Fencing Musashi? I like that game. Coming in at number 75, we got Ogre Battle 64. Person of Lordly caliber.

[Barrett]

This is one of them ones. This is one of them big tactics ones. Nintendo didn't get Final Fantasy Tactics. They got ogre battle 64.

[Blessing]

I just find it hilarious that they had to pull pair Schneider. They're like, hey, we need somebody to write about this. Who do we call Pear Come down from your throne. Who's the closest old. Who's the closest old we have who can write about Ogre Battle 64?

[Barrett]

All right, we're. We're a fourth through the list.

[Blessing]

A fourth of the way through the list. How are you feeling so far?

[Barrett]

Fire Emblem and donkey Kong Country 2 are my big, like, angry points.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Barrett]

Everything else, I really fuck with it.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I'm. I mean, I'm not mad at this mostly because, like, so far we're in that territory of, like, I think, weird and varied Nintendo games that, like, you know, I don't have much stake in, like, some of these games, of course. Diddy Kong Racing. I fucking love Diddy Kong Racing. But I'm not going to sit here and be like, oh, it's better than Elite Beat Agents. I don't know. You know, Like, I don't have an opinion on that. And so, yeah, I think there are a couple of things here that jump out at me. These conquest being one of them. But for the most part, I'm not mad at this list yet. Yet. Coming in at number 74, we have wave race 64. Yo. First of all, shout out to wave race 64. Second of all, it's not better than Diddy's Comic yes, it is. It 100% is.

[Barrett]

That's.

[Blessing]

It's not, though.

[Tim]

Wave Race 64 is like one of the goated N64 games of all time. The soundtrack has the sauce.

[Blessing]

I mean, you're right about that.

[Barrett]

The soundtrack of Donkey Kong country two.

[Tim]

Yes.

[Barrett]

Barrett Insane.

[Blessing]

Me and you.

[Tim]

The vibes immaculate.

[Blessing]

Our parents, the announcer voice. Our parents kept taking us to family video to rent Wave Race. And we played it when we were four years.

[Barrett]

No, we owned that shit.

[Tim]

Wave Race 64 stayed in the house.

[Blessing]

It's, you know, we have the memories of it, but like, it's not. It's not Diddy's Kong. It's not Diddy Kong Racing.

[Barrett]

I also want this incredibly clear.

[Blessing]

I love this game.

[Barrett]

Wave race 64. I love it at 74. I love it. I'm only now mad because of the Donkey Kong.

[Blessing]

Wave race 64 might be. Might be the earliest memory I have of a video game. It's between this Mario, Mario 64 and Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hawk. It was like my three earliest video games. And yeah, I remember going to family video a lot and being like, I want Wave Race. For some reason, it kicked ass.

[Tim]

And I, I. And I get where you guys are coming from here.

[Blessing]

I think it.

[Tim]

It's a solid spot of where it is on the list. But the contextualization of everything else I get.

[Blessing]

Here's what I'll say. Why I think Wave Race still has some of the best looking water in video games. Wave Race. Look at the water real quick for an N64 game. That water looks immaculate. I still want to drink that water. That water looks amazing.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Bear, pull up some games.

[Barrett]

The water's even better on GameCube.

[Blessing]

But which one was the one on GameCube?

[Barrett]

Blue Storm, I think it's called Wild Storm. Something.

[Blessing]

I never played the GameCube one. Yeah.

[Barrett]

GameCube with water in a way that was insane.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

Water and fur. Look at. Look at Star Fox's fur and Star Fox Adventures, man.

[Blessing]

Top 10 water video games. I'm going. Wave race 64. I'm going. What's the rare game? Sea of Thieves. Sea of Thieves. Have you seen the water in Sea of Thieves?

[Barrett]

Oh, yeah. Oh, good water.

[Blessing]

My God. Real good water. I don't have any more. Besides.

[Barrett]

Yeah, that's a shit list for another time.

[Blessing]

Coming in, number 73, we got sin and Punishment. Star successor.

[Barrett]

Oh, yeah. Oh, we're cooking with that. Weird. But this is that good. Good.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

On Rail Shooter. So sick.

[Blessing]

Was this. This is the N64 game.

[Barrett]

Star successor is the sequel. I'm pretty.

[Blessing]

Oh, I played the first Sit in Punishment then. Or the previous Sin and Punishment, because they have that on Nintendo Online. Let me tell you.

[Barrett]

This is the Wii one.

[Blessing]

This the. The one I played.

[Barrett]

Yeah. I do think two is better, though.

[Blessing]

Okay, coming in at number 72, we got Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2, Rogue Leader.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Hell yeah.

[Barrett]

Amazing GameCube launch title. This is one of those games you'll look at that, you're like, oh, that's the remaster. You're like, no, that's the original in 2001.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

It's stunning. I don't know how they did it.

[Blessing]

Are we not gonna see Star Wars Racer on this list?

[Barrett]

I don't think so.

[Blessing]

Damn. I mean, I wouldn't mind put that over Diddy Kong Racing. I'm actually not that mad. Star Wars Racer. Star Wars Race is fucking great.

[Barrett]

I love Star Wars Racer, but quality is a question, though.

[Blessing]

Number 71, we got Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive edition.

[Barrett]

I imagine this will be the lowest Xenoblade Chronicles, but I think we'll get.

[Tim]

Is this the one that Nick reviewed?

[Blessing]

This is the one that.

[Barrett]

The one that Nick reviewed.

[Blessing]

Hell yeah.

[Barrett]

Not the definitive edition.

[Blessing]

I was gonna say. This is the one that Roger would say is a reimagining of Xenoblade Chronicles X. Roger, the out of here. At number 70, we got live Alive. Let's go. I think about this game way too often.

[Barrett]

I love that.

[Blessing]

I think about this game all the time. I With Live Alive, even though I assume is this the. I guess it doesn't matter if it's the remake or if it's the original. This looks like the original, though.

[Barrett]

2002022 remake.

[Blessing]

Oh, sick. Okay. Yeah. Thankfully, the 2022 remake not only spruces up the presentation, but also gives Live Alive a global release for the first time, allowing a much wider audience to. To experience its amazing qualities. God, I love this game. Even as, like, you know, I've been talking to Greg about Xenoblade or not Xenoblade about Octopath Traveler 0, because he previewed it and talking to him about it and like, me thinking, oh, do I want to play this? Part of me is like, what if I just replayed Live Alive? I liked how they framed that game. More games need to do weird like that. Coming in at number 69.

[Barrett]

Nice.

[Blessing]

Give me something nice. Mike Tyson's Punch Out.

[Barrett]

Love it.

[Blessing]

That's great.

[Barrett]

Really love it.

[Blessing]

That's a great pick. Coming at number 88. Wario land four. This do anything for you?

[Barrett]

I'm not the biggest Wario Land fan, but I appreciate it's on the list. I think that this is cool. And there are fans of this for sure.

[Blessing]

I'm trying to think Wario land 4. I gotta Google it. Yeah. Okay. I did play this one then. This is one that. Oh, I think this is Sid. Sid on the bus on the way to school in fifth grade. I'm pretty sure had this. Yeah. And I would borrow his, his. His GBA to. To play it. Blew my mind. It's like, damn, Wario's just busting through things. It's fucking crazy. 67. We got Mario and Luigi Superstar saga on the record.

[Barrett]

I'm not the biggest Mario and Luigi fan. This is the one to put on the list.

[Blessing]

I'm glad you caught it.

[Barrett]

But yeah, the. This is the first one. The one that started it all. There was such a novelty to it. I think at the time people were really mad because there was Super Mario RPG that was so amazing and square and these characters that are like, wow, we love them. And then they did Paper Mario and that was loved in a different way. But everyone's kind of like, just make Mario RPG 2. And then Nintendo's like, you, we're going to do another thing. And it was this. And it was like, oh, like everyone wanted to hate on it because it wasn't what they wanted, but they couldn't. Was really good.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Shout out to this game, you know, Watch that. Clear, obscure. Could run. Think about it, think about it, think about it. At number 66, we got donkey Kong Arcade. Nice. It's a weird one.

[Barrett]

Wouldn't put this on the list. What? Mainly because I'd put Donkey Kong 94, which is just this, but with so much more.

[Tim]

I. I get that.

[Blessing]

Would you not put Super Mario Brothers One on the list, though?

[Barrett]

No.

[Blessing]

On a top 100.

[Barrett]

Top 100, I would.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

But I mean, I don't think that Donkey Kong 94 is going to be on the list now. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Oh, really?

[Barrett]

Maybe it is.

[Blessing]

I would expect both.

[Barrett]

I wouldn't be mad if both were, but I actually, I would.

[Blessing]

I think this has to be on the list.

[Tim]

Yeah, I know it's not the full weight of how they make these decisions, but they do talk about like impact and all this stuff. And I think you can't not have original DK on this list.

[Blessing]

Like, you go to a, like, Nintendo museum and this is like a whole section, you know, like, dong is so pivotal for what Nintendo Is that like, I understand not having it high on the list because you have better versions, but.

[Barrett]

Yeah, I just think that, like, it's not just a better version. I think Don Kong 94, it's like a. Do you know Nintendo Ball?

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Barrett]

Okay, but we'll see. It might be on the list. And if it. If both are on the list, I'm fine with it.

[Blessing]

And number 65, we got Dragon Quest 11. Echoes of an elusive age.

[Barrett]

Wow.

[Blessing]

I don't think of this as a Nintendo game.

[Barrett]

I don't either.

[Blessing]

Like, didn't this come out on all platforms?

[Tim]

I think this version was specifically. Let me look.

[Blessing]

While not strictly Nintendo game, Dragon Quest 11 makes our list due to the franchise's strong ties to Nintendo and the simple fact that it's on the short list of the best PR JRPGs ever made. Announced as an early NX game. Remember that? The code name for Switch in 2016, Dragon Quest 11 made. Made its way to to Switch in 2019 and proved to be its definitive version with additional story content, a fully orchestral soundtrack, and an optional 2D mode with SNES inspired pixel art. They talk about more of the enhanced.

[Barrett]

Definite blind spot for me, but I know people love this one.

[Blessing]

That's cool. Coming in at number 64, we got Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate. See, I feel like you should put a Nintendo 64 game at number 64, but that's just me.

[Barrett]

Like Donkey Kong.

[Blessing]

Not everybody's built like me, so. But cool. Monster Hunter, Nintendo. There's the lineage there. There's the connection there.

[Barrett]

Way more of these games I haven't played than I expected.

[Blessing]

Please say that again.

[Barrett]

Way more of these I haven't played than expected.

[Blessing]

Oh, same, same. In fact, I'm lowering to 20 games now. Coming in at number 63, we got Street Fighter 2 Turbo.

[Barrett]

Oh, man. If we're including this game, I can't fathom having it this low. Either don't have it on the list or have this way, way, way higher. Yeah, this is it. This is the one.

[Blessing]

Yeah, like, this is that.

[Barrett]

This is insane. Yeah, like that's. This is top ten Super Nintendo game. And Super Nintendo is like one of the craziest libraries ever.

[Blessing]

I mean, I think we're in. We're in bangers only territory now that we're at number six at 63. Yeah. For a top 100 Nintendo games of all time for what we're starting to see here, I think. Yeah, we're in bangers only territory.

[Tim]

All right.

[Blessing]

We can't be fucking around. We can't Be fucking around from here on out. Lock in, everyone.

[Tim]

Watch Mario Tennis, the original. Be right above this. See how you feel.

[Blessing]

Then coming in at number 62, we got. Oh, that's a left turn. Barrett suggested we go right. We went left. We took a hard left. We have Super Mario World 2, Yoshi's island at number 62.

[Tim]

62.

[Blessing]

That's. That's Tim's favorite game of all time.

[Barrett]

Oh, man. This is just factually incorrect. I'm not arguing It's a top 10 Nintendo all timer for everybody.

[Blessing]

Some.

[Barrett]

Some might say it is, but like, real talk, this is a top 25 Nintendo game, and it just. It just is. It just is.

[Blessing]

It just.

[Barrett]

It's just no argument.

[Blessing]

It just is.

[Barrett]

It just fucking is. 62. Holy hell, man. Yeah. I'm gonna say it right now.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

Fire Emblem, donkey Kong country, two Street Fighter 2 Turbo, and Yoshi's Island. Those are the ones for me that I'm like, guys, what are we doing? We need to have a conversation.

[Tim]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

And we're in bangers only territory, man. Shout out. I know we say it every single time this game comes up. Shout out to the art style of this game.

[Barrett]

It's perfect.

[Blessing]

This is like the first game I think I noticed I had an art style.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

You know, like, this game stands out.

[Barrett]

I don't know if I've officially said this anywhere. I think I might have, but I'm going to officially say it now because it feels like I'm going to give some more justice than the indignities that IGN has done here. Okay.

[Blessing]

Yep.

[Barrett]

My baby nursery. Yoshi's island inspired. Oh, that's not just Yoshi inspired. Specifically this art style.

[Blessing]

Oh, that's funny.

[Barrett]

It's coming together very nicely, and I can't wait for everyone to see it.

[Blessing]

I'm dying to see that big exclusive right there. Yeah, it is as a huge exclusive. Coming in, number 61, the legend of Zelda, Twilight Princess. Again, bangers only territory.

[Barrett]

Yeah, this is. This is lower than I thought even they would put it. But there's a lot of great games.

[Blessing]

There's a lot of Zeldas to include.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

So.

[Barrett]

And I get that. Facing them out, it's. But I. I know that there's a lot of love for Twilight Princess. I love that. Kind of funny.

[Blessing]

Before I played Breath of the Wild, Twilight Princess was my favorite Zelda.

[Barrett]

I still think it has the best dungeons in the entire franchise.

[Blessing]

I agree with it.

[Barrett]

The beginning of the game sucks. It does.

[Blessing]

Yes. Yeah.

[Tim]

It's a rough first. Like Three hours.

[Barrett]

But there's so much to love in this one.

[Blessing]

Yeah. I with this game. This is like the one. Honestly if I had my personal choice of which Zelda movie to to make, I'd probably say Twilight Princess. I like the world and the story in here. I like the characters here. They would never do that.

[Tim]

But there's some like great like you know we joke so much about like how much like story heavy. What is it? The skyward sword is. Right. But this one really started to feel like them trying to get more cinematic with a bunch of stuff.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Tim]

1 Remember the fever dream he had.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Tim]

Or like the moblin that's on that huge pig horse thing that you have to fight.

[Barrett]

Oh, so epic.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Tim]

Like that's such a great moment.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

That was so cool. Snowboarding, shout out to the hotel.

[Blessing]

Yep. Was that the snow capped dungeon, whatever they called it. Oh man.

[Tim]

God.

[Blessing]

The dungeons here we're getting the two hook shots.

[Barrett]

Come on at the same time around the little like spinny top spin top thing. Dude, they're looking princess, man.

[Blessing]

This is the reason on Switch I want more.

[Tim]

I like, I want this to be on Switch.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Yeah. No, I would love this on Switch. But I, I want them to continue Zelda with like a three game approach. Right. I want the classic top down Zelda. I want the current modern, you know, open air Zelda. But I want, I want this as well.

[Tim]

I want really good design dungeons.

[Blessing]

Yeah. I want a good 3D puzzly tight design. Like so.

[Barrett]

So you've been saying bangers only.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

And I wasn't necessarily sure I was agreeing with you because we've had a bunch that I'm like these are great games but I don't know. But the three back to back here I'm like in bangers only territory.

[Blessing]

Street Fighter 2, Turbo, Super Mario World 2, Yoshi's island and the Legend of Zelda. Twilight Princess.

[Barrett]

From here on out it better just bang.

[Blessing]

You can't have something that's like a

[Tim]

straggle one slip up of like a game that you're going to say is better than these. It's going to be tough.

[Blessing]

Now that we're down to top 60, I want to get back into some of these super chats y' all been riding in with. Rocky Skies858 says Mega Man 2 should be on this list at the real Washcloth says hidden gem resistance 2 for PS3 real ones. No, I think you're on the long wrong list, buddy.

[Barrett]

That's hella funny. Yeah. Mega man there's the debate between Mega Man 2 or 3. You fall into one camp. Like, everybody has to make a choice and you fall into one or the other.

[Tim]

The correct choice is Mega Man X.

[Barrett]

Well, that's the thing. That's the separate conversation, because I think you have to choose between two and three. You don't choose between two and three and X. It's both. Yeah, it has to be. Mega Man X has to be here. And I think at the end of the day, they're gonna go Mega Man 2. I think the real ones would go 3. I think they go to.

[Blessing]

Zachary Riccabow says Mario Sunshine is the most. You had to be there. Video game of all time. It was so much better when it was released than it is years later.

[Tim]

It was so much better when we were younger and more stupid.

[Blessing]

That's how I feel about. Well, not to that. What Barry just added there. I feel that about Kingdom Hearts a bit. Where Kingdom Hearts won as a kid. Fucking adored it. I try to play Kingdom Hearts 2 for the first time as an adult and it's. It was so much tougher. And I think that's partly because I've. I've grown, but then also just like video game mechanics and aging and all that shit. But like, I regret all the time not playing Kingdom Hearts 2 as a kid because I think I'd be a different person.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

All right, let's get back into it. Bangers only is the phrase we'll see as we're in the top 60. Number 60. Pokemon, black and white two.

[Barrett]

Hey, bangers only. And yesterday we were talking on your Kirby Air Riders stream. You asked me which Pokemons I think are here. Heart, Gold, Soul, Silver, Red, Blue, Yellow, Black and White two. Where am I? They're all going to be on the list for sure. And then Emerald, I think is the. I'd like to see it here, but I don't think Black and white too. They know ball. They know ball doing here.

[Blessing]

They know ball. All right. Bangers only. Number 59. We got perfect Dark.

[Barrett]

Okay.

[Blessing]

All right. That's a banger.

[Barrett]

Yeah, I'm with it.

[Blessing]

One of the highest rated games I Metacritic of all time.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Honest. Many people I think would say better than goldeneye. One of those.

[Barrett]

And that's my thing is because of what we're kind of like talking about with what this list is. I don't want to see goldeneye on this list. They're making a choice here, and it's perfect.

[Tim]

It'll be on this.

[Blessing]

Oh, but you can't Make a list like this without goldeneye. I mean, you put dk, the arcade game in there.

[Barrett]

I have a problem with Golden Eyes.

[Blessing]

A piece.

[Barrett]

You gotta choose. You gotta choose for these.

[Blessing]

And even Here they say GoldenEye may put consoles on the map for the first person shooters, but Perfect Dark managed to take everything that delighted us in the groundbreaking Bond shooter and just ratchet it up to ridiculous levels. So to Tim's point, that's a statement right there.

[Tim]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

Don't be cowards. Stick to the statement.

[Blessing]

Coming in at number 58, Donkey Kong 94. I thought that was 64 for a second. Got real excited. But no, they're SA.

[Tim]

They're spreading them out. Bless. We'll get them. We'll get it later.

[Blessing]

But they're both on the spin.

[Barrett]

I love that this is here. I personally, I don't think the arcade one needs to be here if this one's here. But I also understand the influence and all that stuff. But, like, I don't think that influence can be the only reason the thing makes the list. Like when it's when we're talking about the top hundred and like, this exists.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I feel you. But I also think top 100 Nintendo games, there's just some games that can't leave off. There are some games that just mean too much to the company.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Even though I'm surprised, we haven't seen Super Mario Brothers 1 on the list yet, which worries me.

[Tim]

I mean, I think it's gonna be high.

[Barrett]

Here's the thing.

[Blessing]

I wouldn't put it.

[Barrett]

The thing about Mario one is that it's only, quote, unquote, not amazing compared to the best games of all time. I think Mario 1 is top 30. Yeah.

[Blessing]

Really?

[Barrett]

I stand by that. Yeah.

[Blessing]

I mean, I love that game. But I think this far into the list, I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. I don't want to start hating on Mario Brothers 1, you know, Super Mario Brothers 1 coming in at number 57. We got Splatoon 3.

[Barrett]

Cool.

[Blessing]

Cool. Not mad at it.

[Tim]

I am

[Blessing]

above. Somebody needs to be.

[Tim]

I need to be hater. Above Twilight Princess, above Yoshi's Island.

[Blessing]

We knew Platoon 3. We knew a Splatoon had to make the list.

[Barrett]

I'm not mad at it. Splatoon's a very high quality game. It's not my favorite thing. I wouldn't put this above Yoshi's island or Donkey Kongo country too. Or Fire Three Houses.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

But like, same. A lot of people wouldn't. I. I have to Respect that.

[Blessing]

But, like, would a lot of people.

[Barrett]

I think so, yes.

[Blessing]

I don't know if they would, like, now that I'm thinking about it, people love Splatoon.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

People adore Splatoon.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

But, like, is anybody out here being like, oh, yes, Platoon is better than Yoshi's Island. Twilight Princess. Black and white, too.

[Tim]

Perfect, dark, disgusting.

[Blessing]

I guess IGN is. Who wrote this? Who wrote this thing? Logan. Plant Logan. At number 56, we got super Mario Party Jamboree. I was curious what Mario party they put on here.

[Barrett]

I think that this. They're making a call here, and I. I respect it.

[Blessing]

I, I. I think there's gonna be at least one more. I think there's gonna be one more Mario party.

[Barrett]

There can't be. No.

[Blessing]

My prediction yesterday was two Mario parties. I think get a modern one and a classic one.

[Barrett]

That's the problem. No, like, no. If you're talking about best, you need to be take that shit seriously. And they're doing that here. If they put a Mario Party 2 or something above this, I think it, like, it's fucking things up. There's an equilibrium. We got to keep it.

[Blessing]

And number 55, we got Bayonetta 2.

[Barrett]

Hell, yeah.

[Tim]

Hell, yeah.

[Blessing]

Bankers over here.

[Barrett]

What a game. And it was a Nintendo game exclusive to The Wii U GameSpot.

[Blessing]

One out of ten.

[Barrett]

The fuck? Hell, yeah, though.

[Blessing]

Good for y'.

[Barrett]

All.

[Blessing]

At number 54, we got animal Crossing. New leaf. New leaf. I think we'll still see New horizons on the list. My prediction.

[Tim]

Oh, yeah. Much higher, though.

[Barrett]

But the thing is, for me is I just don't think it's top 10,

[Blessing]

but I do think it'll be high. At number 53, we got Metroid Dread.

[Tim]

Fuck.

[Blessing]

It begins.

[Barrett]

I. I want to be mad at this, you know?

[Blessing]

Oh, really?

[Barrett]

Yeah. Metroid Dread fucking rocks. Like, it fucking rocks.

[Blessing]

Oh, so you think it should be higher?

[Barrett]

I think it should be higher. Metro Dread is. I.

[Tim]

This is a 9.5 to me.

[Barrett]

Yeah, I'm with that. Like, I think that the Metro dread is so damn good and cool, and the animations are like, Samus is awesome.

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah.

[Barrett]

And, yeah, dread's incredible. I really, really think that it's a little too low here. I get the criticisms of Metro Dread overall. Like, I do understand that it doesn't have the best Metroid soundtrack, and I understand that compared to some other Metroidvanias, it might not xyz. That one I don't fully believe, though. I'm like, you know what? I think dread's up there. With the best of them here coming

[Blessing]

in at number 52. Warioware Inc. Mega Micro game.

[Tim]

Let's go.

[Blessing]

I mean, I love WarioWare.

[Barrett]

This to me would have been like an 80, you know, like, yeah, we could. I want to hear, but I don't know, we needed some of those guys.

[Blessing]

It's tough when we're in bankers only territory.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Tim]

I just love that we have representation of a warioware on here on the list.

[Blessing]

Oh, you have to. You have.

[Tim]

I don't know if I would put the, like, yeah, I get it. Or.

[Blessing]

Or bayonetta too. You know what I mean? Fucking Mario.

[Tim]

Where, though, man?

[Blessing]

DK94. Perfect dark.

[Tim]

So many games. I don't know if I would do the GBA pick. The GBA pick feels like, oh, it was the first one type of thing. But there have been better WarioWare games in my opinion.

[Blessing]

But like, which one would you choose?

[Tim]

It's cheating. But the. What is it called? Like warioware Gold on the three, that's

[Blessing]

not a bad pick. That's like.

[Tim]

That is to me the perfect package of what that series is.

[Blessing]

I guess I'm not play that one, but I know that is kind of like the, hey, everybody's here. Like, we're doing. We're pulling all this shit together.

[Tim]

That's one that I still will boot up my 2ds XL every once in a while and just play.

[Blessing]

My warioware pick would be smooth moves on the Wii, but you can never put that this high. You can only put this game this high. Or Gold, I think you could put this high, but.

[Barrett]

All right, all right.

[Blessing]

Number 51, we got advanced Wars.

[Barrett]

Cool.

[Blessing]

Cool.

[Barrett]

That feels right. I think that's actually one of the best spotted games on this list so far.

[Blessing]

But like in banger territory, though, like above all the other games that we

[Barrett]

talk about, no, those are problems. Like, I think that there's like a handful of games at this point that I'm like, those should have been higher than some of these. But I also then understand the argument of the franchising and like, it just getting too samey, samey, samey in the top. But if that's what it is, that's

[Blessing]

what it is, you know? Yeah, we can't change. You know, we can't change history.

[Barrett]

I will say we're halfway through this list and despite a literal handful of games that I'm kind of mad at their. Their quote unquote low placement, I'm into this list. I think that this is a good Representative list of the top hundred Nintendo games so far. We do have 50 more to go.

[Blessing]

Yeah, 50.

[Barrett]

They have a lot of chances to fuck up.

[Blessing]

Zach. Niche and chat in the super chat says if Donkey Konga isn't on the list, I'm going to. I'm going to get uptight. Zach, I got bad news. We're at number 50. We're in bangers only territory. I don't know if Donkey Konga is going to make the cut. All right, let's get into. Oh, sorry, we had one more. No, I read this one. Sorry. I saw it was another Mega Man 1, but I didn't realize we had said Mega Man 2 specifically from Rocky Skies here. All right, let's get into it. Number 50, Mario Kart double Dash Vindication for Greg Miller. Cool.

[Barrett]

It's weird. Like, Mario Kart's one of my favorite franchises, top to bottom, period. In my heart, I don't know that I put more than one Mario Kart game on the list total, and It's Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

[Tim]

That's crazy.

[Barrett]

But, yeah, you know, top hundred is a lot.

[Blessing]

Top 100 is a lot of 64. That's my thing is I would have gone 64 and eight deluxe. Yeah.

[Barrett]

I'm not the biggest fan of 64.

[Tim]

That's crazy.

[Barrett]

I'm also not the biggest fan of Double Dash.

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah. I was the only Double Dash, the

[Tim]

sunshine of the series.

[Barrett]

I mean, I kind of agree.

[Blessing]

I love 64. I love 64. But also it's like such a nostalgia.

[Tim]

Yeah, it's nostalgia. But also the vibes of 64 are still just immaculate.

[Barrett]

I just go back the way that 64 feels. I hate the way that it feels like you're controlling the environment instead of controlling the cartoon.

[Tim]

Yeah. This is unfortunate. Like, kind of early on.

[Blessing]

I love 3D shit.

[Tim]

Or making things feel 3D when they're not.

[Blessing]

Actually loves the wrong word. When I. Picking up Mario. Mario Kart 64. As much time has passed where I can look at games with better graphics and all that stuff, going back and picking it back up and realizing that those are JPEGs that you're controlling. Oh, those aren't 3D models, brother. Those are JPEGs.

[Barrett]

And I want to be clear. I love all these games you're talking about. I'm just, like, being critical, like, thinking about, like, best and how good it is. Like, I. These are games that I. I'd give around, like a 7.5 or something with modern lens. Looking back.

[Blessing]

Modern lens. Okay, I see. All right. At number 49, we got Luigi's Mansion 3.

[Tim]

Shout out to Gooigi.

[Barrett]

I. I think this could have been higher.

[Blessing]

Oh, okay.

[Barrett]

Yeah. I mean, Luigi's Mansion 3 is just. It's got the sauce and a half. Man, I can't wait for four. I think that four is going to be incredible on Switch two. Yeah. This. I'm happy it's here. I. I'm not too upset about it being at 49, but I do think that this could have been higher.

[Blessing]

Is this the only Luigi's Mansion on the list? Yes. At 48, we got Wii Sports. I think that's a good placement. Yeah, yeah, I'm not mad at that. Not too high, not too low. Very impactful game and also very quality games. Quality game for sure. At number 47, we got the Legend of Zelda, Link's Awakening. All versions in parentheses.

[Tim]

That's cheating.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Tim]

Pick one.

[Barrett]

That's interesting.

[Tim]

Fucking pick one and it's the original one. Come on.

[Barrett]

No, I love. I'm a remake boy for this one for sure. Yeah.

[Blessing]

I think I wouldn't want to be in the conversation for this one of like, which Link's Awakening do we use? I understand them being like, fuck, we can't decide.

[Barrett]

I. Especially now on the Switch too, where the game runs well. Like, I love the art style that they did. I think it makes it even more special. The soundtrack is so good with the instruments they use. Like, it's incredibly unique and the soundtrack originally was fantastic already. I just think it adds so much more depth. But this is lower than I'd expect. Like, this game's awesome.

[Tim]

Yeah. I don't think it's better than Twilight Princess though. I'm an uncommon hater, quote unquote of Link's Awakening, though. And that's just. I think it's a really good game. I really enjoy it, but I, I just, I don't. I'm not as in love with it as so many others are.

[Barrett]

Yeah. You know, I, I would say that I'd put the original Link's Awakening under Twilight Princess, but I'd put the remake over Twilight Princess. I think the art style really goes a long way.

[Tim]

I still can't get out of my head of like how poorly that game ran because of its art style.

[Blessing]

Oh yeah. Does it. Do they. Do they run better on Switch to.

[Barrett]

Perfectly.

[Blessing]

Perfectly. Okay. Yeah. I'm somebody who, notoriously, I'm not big into like top down 2D Zelda type stuff and that's a me problem, not, Not a game problem. This might Be the most I have gotten into one, though. When I played the remake, I was. It captured me for at least a moment in time. I never, like, beat it or anything like that, but when I was playing, I was like, oh, I'm actually pretty into this. At 46, we got F0X.

[Barrett]

Oh, wow. No, no.

[Blessing]

Which one is this?

[Tim]

N64.1.

[Barrett]

Oh, no, no. I'm just saying. No. Love this game. It's not over gx.

[Blessing]

That's surprising.

[Barrett]

Wow.

[Tim]

No, this is a Parish Snyder call.

[Barrett]

If this was F09.9 at the 46 spot, it'd be like, y' all nailed it.

[Blessing]

What was the. What was the N64? Was it GeForce? It was like a N64 game. It was G or no. Extreme G. Oh, extreme G. Extreme G. That was my F0N64. I fucked up.

[Barrett]

It was awesome. But, yeah, we don't need two of them.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I do remember playing some F0X and being like, oh, that's cool. At number 45, we got super Mario Brothers. The first one.

[Tim]

Respect.

[Barrett]

Respect. Again, I could argue it higher, but we'll see what's on list above it.

[Blessing]

And number 44, we got banjo Kazooie. Yeah, I mean, I think that's the right spot for it. It's a weird one, though. It's a weird one.

[Barrett]

After Super Mario Brothers, this seems low, right? Like, I feel like people would jump to it being.

[Tim]

Well, they. They want to spread out, you know,

[Blessing]

this, this and DK16. Yeah, I, I mean, I, I. The lens I look at Zooey through are interesting because I didn't play Banjo Zooey as a kid. I played it on Xbox One via rare replay. And I adore this game. I think it's great. But I. I don't have, like, the nostalgia lens for it to be like, oh, greatest thing of all time. Like, I look at this and I'm like, honestly, this feels right. This is kind of the highest. I would put it in my brain.

[Barrett]

Okay.

[Blessing]

But I'm also. I just don't have the. That same kind of level of thing because I also think that this game, when you talk about influence and what it did at the time and looking at where platformers went afterwards, like, you got banjo kazooie on N64 and on PS2. Think about how many games of that era were Ratcheting, Plank, Jack, and Daxter. It was always somebody and somebody, right? Everything wanted to be Banjo Kazooie. I think somewhat even more so than Mario 64.

[Tim]

Yeah. And that's the. I will be Upset. I already know. I'm upset that Mario 64 will be higher than this game.

[Blessing]

Even Mario. First of all, Mario 64 should be higher than this game. But also Mario Odyssey, I would say, even took inspiration from Banjo. When you want to talk about the format of getting a collectible and you're staying there. Right. It is about getting all the different collectibles in this world in a free open air sort of structure. Banjo did it. At number 43, we got super Mario Brothers Wonder.

[Barrett]

I like this. I think this is the right spot for this.

[Blessing]

Do we see other new Super Mario Brothers games on the list?

[Barrett]

I don't think so.

[Blessing]

Wow. Not even. Hear me out. Wii U, right?

[Tim]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

I'm a big Wii U guy.

[Blessing]

You don't think you put it above?

[Barrett]

I don't think IGN does.

[Blessing]

What about Nintendo Life?

[Barrett]

I don't think so.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Barrett]

Yeah, I think this. This feels very good to me.

[Blessing]

At number 42, we got Mario Kart World.

[Barrett]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Barrett]

No, I think the Mario Kart World hate is incredibly overblown. I am cool with this being here. I think it's above Double Dash for sure. I don't think Double Dash should have been on the list.

[Tim]

I don't think this should have been on the list either.

[Blessing]

Yeah. I'm almost like Mario Double Dash this and eight Deluxe being on. Assuming eight Deluxe on the list be a top ten. That's a bit much.

[Tim]

Yeah. Here's the thing. In terms of production quality, Mario Kart World is insane. I get that. I respect that as the design of the game, of the gameplay, of trying to make Mario Kart an open world kind of feeling vibe, but not really committing to that. I think it is a 7.5 good first attempt at that. And I think it's a disappointing follow up to Mario Kart 8, a game we have been waiting for a sequel to for 13 years.

[Barrett]

I think a lot of what he's saying is accurate. I also think that the open world stuff, we all wanted it to be better. It should have been better. Don't even worry about that stuff. Just worry about what Mario Kart is, the Grand Prix and all that stuff.

[Tim]

But even the open world stuff and how they design that going into the Grand Prix, like it gets in the way of the Grand Prix as well.

[Barrett]

I don't think so. I think the production design, the music, the elements of when you're on the straightaways, where it's their design, the open areas, and you're designed to get from course to course in the Grand Prix specifically, it's beautifully designed Rainbow road alone. That entire thing, it's like by far the best that it's ever been in market.

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah.

[Barrett]

And I just feel like that's true. Like, it's the best grand prix Mario Kart's ever had.

[Blessing]

I just like that word. A place where if Nintendo had made Sonic Racing cross worlds, it would be top 42 on the list. Think about that. Because it's better than Mario Kart World.

[Tim]

Just imagine if. If cross worlds beats Mario Kart World for best racing game.

[Blessing]

It's not going to. Oh, dude. There's a universe where it could. When I tell you I would become unstoppable. That reaction stream, you guys. Oh. Oh, you think I'm nasty now with the sonic love. Oh, shit. If you would see me in the new year. Oh, man, he's so cool. I would fucking drive into the fucking parking lot on a. In like a sonic cart. I might fucking make my own gear machine, whatever the fuck they call it. To ride, to work with. What's up, guys?

[Barrett]

Let's go.

[Blessing]

Let's go. At number 41, we got the Legend of Zelda. Just the original Legend of Zelda.

[Barrett]

Cool.

[Tim]

High. A little too high.

[Barrett]

Yeah, I'm with you too, Barrett. Like this. It has to be there on the list for top hundred for sure. But, like, if we're just being real,

[Blessing]

though, it's the weird one where in the way that I feel like Super Mario Brothers and DK Arcade need to be on the list. I don't know if I feel that as strongly for Legend of Zelda, especially if you're gonna have Link to the past and shit on the list. Like, I guess here's the thing I would argue against myself with would be to then look at what the original Zelda brought to the table as far as, like, open world exploring and dungeons and all that. Right? But, like, I don't know, you're just.

[Tim]

Your dungeons are just a bunch of. You're just fighting a bunch of dragons.

[Blessing]

I'm like, link to the Past dinosaurs.

[Barrett]

Well, linked to the past is like,

[Tim]

probably that's going to be top 15.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Tim]

It needs to be.

[Blessing]

Well, no, I know those are gonna be. But I feel like Link to the past almost overwrites this game.

[Barrett]

I mean, it's The Mario Mario 3 and world argument.

[Blessing]

So I'm not mad at you, I guess.

[Barrett]

Top hundred. I'm fine with it being here. I don't think you put it above Link's awakening, but I'm also not like, I'm not Hella mad about it.

[Tim]

I don't think you put it above Super Mario Brothers is my thing.

[Barrett]

Yeah, I agree.

[Blessing]

Oh, I agree with that.

[Tim]

Yeah. Actually, I don't think Link to the Past overwrites this one because I think Link to the Past finally gets into that, designing more of a guiding kind of thing that that series becomes. Whereas this was fully just like, get lost and figure shit out, which is like why Breath of the Wild is like, what it is today. Right.

[Blessing]

So, yeah, Alison's got beef with. With this game. Fucking put the bomb next to the wall and just pray. Get the fuck out of here.

[Tim]

You felt you.

[Blessing]

You.

[Tim]

You found the last dungeon by doing that. Here's a rock. Blow it up, baby.

[Barrett]

All right, number 40.

[Blessing]

At number 40, we got super Smash Bros. Melee.

[Barrett]

All right. I love it. I mean, yeah, but see that, to me, this is where this, like, this makes sense. And I will say it's where it belongs to. I obviously love Melee so freaking much, but there's no way IGN was going to put Melee in like, a top 15. Yeah, it's going to be ultimate.

[Blessing]

At number 39, we got Kirby in the forgotten land.

[Barrett]

Love it.

[Tim]

Respect that.

[Blessing]

Is that right?

[Barrett]

39, it does this and this next to Melee. Like, I really. I really. Yeah. Feel a good way about this.

[Blessing]

At number 38, we got Mario RPG seven stars.

[Barrett]

We're in a good place here, guys. I like it. I like it.

[Blessing]

This is like bangers only, but like a higher level now.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I mean, lock in, everybody.

[Barrett]

We're locked in.

[Blessing]

All right. No losers. At number 37, we got Metroid Zero mission in parentheses plus Metroid.

[Barrett]

I get it. Like, it's, you know, similar to the Link's awakening thing. But like I was saying this earlier. I do think that Zero Mission is one of the rare examples that it's just so much better than the first game that you. You don't need to play the first game.

[Blessing]

36, we got liberal kicks ass. Goldeneye 007.

[Tim]

Come on.

[Barrett]

Nah. Cowards. Cowards.

[Blessing]

It's definitely like, they're putting the impact over quality between this and Perfect Dark.

[Barrett]

You don't need both. And maybe for a top hundred, you do whatever. You don't need this higher than some of the games we just talked about.

[Tim]

And even with. And this is like a tough thing because I know, like, they have a bunch of different people, right? They're blurbs. But for the blurb, for Perfect Dark, they talk about, like, how Perfect Dark improved on goldeneye. And so I think it's just kind of contradictory to have goldeneye so much higher than perfect dark.

[Blessing]

They did say in the perfect dark blurb. I think they did phrase it a way where they're like, oh, it amplifies, you know, it makes everything bigger or whatever. But they don't say better. But you mean better. Yeah, I can read between the words.

[Barrett]

Yeah, you should have done better. Don't do this.

[Blessing]

At 35, we got Super Mario 3D World plus Bowser's Fury.

[Tim]

Fuck yeah.

[Barrett]

Hell yeah.

[Blessing]

Nice.

[Barrett]

Again, I. I don't even want to say I'm a defender of this game because it doesn't need defending, but I am. I do think that this game, no matter how highly it's rated, is underrated. I think 3D world is peak.

[Tim]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Do we ever get a 3D world too?

[Barrett]

I don't know. Probably not.

[Blessing]

I feel like they could do it.

[Barrett]

Like why was already too. Because 3D land.

[Blessing]

But yeah, I guess you're right. Mario's new 3D world,

[Barrett]

you know, Nintendo the new era. Let it die, please.

[Blessing]

At 34, we got star fox 64. Oh yeah, brother.

[Barrett]

Joy to my heart. I love this game so dearly. One of my most replayed games of all time. Make sure to play through it at least once a year. I love it. Nothing will ever match this. Like, I think there's energies about this game. There's things about it that are so place in time, but also timeless. It's weird and I feel like if they were. If somebody were to literally copy this exact thing and just make it better in every single way today, it wouldn't

[Tim]

be better and like being mind blown of like learning about the different paths, finding that different final boss. Right. I think it's like. Like you have to do that whole different pathway. Like that was again you unlocked like a different dimension in your brain of like. Holy. This is crazy.

[Blessing]

I. I ended up playing Star Fox 64 later in life. But if I could go back in time and like slip myself a game when I was like a young, young kid on the N64, I would have done that with Star Fox 64 because I think I would have had more of the brain and more of like the time and curiosity. Be like I'm going through every little corner. I'm like checking everything out.

[Barrett]

That was me, man.

[Tim]

That final buzz gave me nightmares.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Tim]

Freaky, huge face.

[Barrett]

So hype though.

[Tim]

What's his name?

[Barrett]

Andros. Andros. Every voice line of this game.

[Blessing]

Oh, at 33, we got donkey Kong Country. Tropical Freeze. Hell yeah, brother. This is a good game. I played this the first time. It's.

[Tim]

But

[Barrett]

yeah, it's too low, man. It's. I get it. They already said IGN aren't the big Donkey Kong country fans because they're fucking morons. This should be higher. Top 33, though. I. I can't be mad at the spot. It's like, this is very respectable. They're showing this game's love that it deserves. I think it deserves more, but I'm not going to be mad. That much higher than donkey Kong Country 2, though. Keep going. Sorry.

[Blessing]

And number 30, do you like?

[Tim]

That's what you're really upset about.

[Barrett]

I just reminded you. To me, It's a Mario 3 Mario world where, like, what day is it for me? I don't know. I'm constantly going back and forth between the two. I think there are a lot of things that Tropical Freeze does so much better than two. I do think too, though, like, overall, it is that thing of like, oh, it came first. And I usually don't care that much about that stuff. It still today holds up for the things that it did first. Like, oh, that game is.

[Tim]

And I think there's something about the personality I think of exactly. Yeah. Of that one that I get.

[Blessing]

At 32, we got earthbound, baby.

[Tim]

Nice.

[Blessing]

I feel good about this place for it. I think this is a good placement for Earthbound, especially because they had Mother three on the list as well.

[Barrett]

Yeah. I think when we were guessing earlier, we were saying around 30, so that's perfect.

[Blessing]

At 31, we got Mega Man 2.

[Barrett]

Cool.

[Blessing]

They made a choice.

[Barrett]

Yeah, they made a choice. I respect that. And this could be higher. But we're getting to a point that we can't say that about every game. Yep. Because that's how numbers.

[Blessing]

And they got to spread the love.

[Tim]

Because X has got to be on here too.

[Barrett]

You're right. And I do think that they will make the choice to put X above.

[Blessing]

Yeah. At number 30, we got Pikmin 4.

[Barrett]

Cool.

[Tim]

Hell, yeah.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Tim]

Shout out to Mike.

[Blessing]

Shout out to Mike. Shout out to Pikmin, people.

[Barrett]

Pikmin 4. Interesting choice. Like this one I feel like was a little divisive, but the shows the side that ignores falls on divisive only. Everyone agreed it was high quality. But divisive in terms of the Pikmin games of like, there were some choices they made that people online were mad about. I realized how dumb that sounds when I said it.

[Blessing]

I want to get a super chat from Sasquatch Oni now that we're in the top 30 they say paper Mario,000 year door. Re one custom robo top 30. Plus Glover. I don't think you'll see Glover, but

[Barrett]

Paper Mario Thousand Year.

[Blessing]

You'll see it. Yeah. At number 29, we got paper Mario Thousand Year Door. There you go.

[Barrett]

I think that's a very, very nice spot for the game.

[Blessing]

At number 28, we got Xenoblade Chronicles, the first one.

[Barrett]

Cool.

[Blessing]

I wonder how many more Xenoblade Chronicles games we're gonna see.

[Barrett]

I think this might be it. I think people are gonna be mad.

[Blessing]

You don't think three is gonna be on there?

[Barrett]

I don't know. Admittedly, they put on Xenoblade Die.

[Tim]

People do love three, like, a lot, a bunch.

[Barrett]

I don't know which is the one that people are like, this is the one. So maybe, maybe.

[Blessing]

I think. I think it'll be three. At number 27, we got Pokemon Yellow. I keep forgetting in this conversations to bring up yellow. Oh, and they have red and blue.

[Barrett]

Yeah. So cool. I. I love this. I love it. This, to me, makes so much sense because obviously this is one of those games where it changed everything. So you want to give it credit, but like I was saying earlier, it's like Gen 1 is broken. Gen 1 has a lot of problems with it gameplay wise. So I, I like it here, knowing that there will be our gold and soul silver.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

Okay. We already had a black and white. I think this means we don't get emeralds. I'm okay with that.

[Tim]

What about X and Y?

[Barrett]

No, no, no, no.

[Blessing]

At number 26, I don't think X

[Barrett]

and Y makes anybody's, like, top five Pokemon games that have played all of them.

[Blessing]

I got Pokemon Puzzle League above X and Y. You know what I mean? I never played.

[Barrett]

X and Y is totally fine.

[Blessing]

But number 26, we got Castlevania Aria of Sorrow.

[Barrett]

Okay, cool. I mean, yeah, one of the GBA ones had to make it. I, I, to me, those are the ones that I'm like, I've played all of them. I couldn't tell you which one's which, though.

[Blessing]

Yeah. A lot of Castlevania love on this list. You love to see it.

[Barrett]

Wait, this one. Hold on. Was this DS or is this the GBA one?

[Blessing]

This is 2003 Gameboy, Circle of the Moon.

[Barrett]

And then I got.

[Blessing]

I forgot we got. At number 25, Super Mario 64. I mean, hey, I'll take top 25.

[Barrett]

I'll take top 25. It's Mario 64. Might be the most complicated, complicated game for me to accurately Explain my thoughts on where I've heard the arguments. I understand so many things, and everyone's wrong but me and you.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

Big Mario 64. It's just the fucking.

[Blessing]

It's just the fucking magnificently designed video game.

[Barrett]

It's one of those things where I understand where people are coming from, but I also would understand if this was number one on the list.

[Blessing]

Yes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Tim]

Now, do you think they make a statement? Because still, we haven't seen DK 64. So

[Blessing]

that's good.

[Barrett]

Bear. At the end of the day, I respect this. It. It ushering in the top 25. I know we've said this for the last two hours. From here on out. From here on out, bangers only.

[Blessing]

This is really the real.

[Tim]

This is the real, like, the intro.

[Blessing]

You drew a line in the sand. All right.

[Tim]

Because now we're in the top quarter.

[Blessing]

Now we're in the top quarter.

[Barrett]

Now we're in a game that we thought might make top 10.

[Blessing]

Yes.

[Tim]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

So at number 24, we got legend of Zelda. Majora's Mask. Fuck, yeah.

[Barrett]

All right.

[Blessing]

We're cooking with Greece. We're cooking. At number 23, we got super Mario Galaxy.

[Tim]

Yo.

[Blessing]

We're chefing it up.

[Barrett]

1. Galaxy 1.

[Blessing]

Galaxy 1. Because we're gonna see higher.

[Barrett]

We're gonna see 2.

[Blessing]

We're gonna see.

[Barrett]

IGN is putting Galaxy 1 and 2 in their top 25 Nintendo games because we're cooking. I fucking love that now. I fucking love that.

[Blessing]

That's a strong assumption. I know. We're assuming.

[Barrett]

Oh, I'm going to be so mad.

[Blessing]

But, like, it's not guaranteed yet.

[Barrett]

No, IGN knows that two is better than one. I'm telling you. I know them. I know them. For this they will.

[Blessing]

But is Nintendo Life know that?

[Barrett]

Yes. They have to.

[Blessing]

And I'm getting nervous. At number 22, we got donkey Kong Bonanza.

[Barrett]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Barrett]

Dude. Hey. Okay. Oh, man. We are in good spots right now.

[Blessing]

Logan Plant lost a fight somewhere.

[Barrett]

He lost the fight. He lost the fight.

[Blessing]

At number 21, we got legend of Zelda, A link between worlds.

[Barrett]

Whoa.

[Blessing]

People love this one, right?

[Barrett]

Whoa.

[Tim]

I do.

[Barrett]

I do, too. This is not a top 25 when we're talking about the games we're talking about.

[Blessing]

I. I don't have a strong opinion on this one.

[Tim]

I could see an argument for top

[Barrett]

25 above Majora's mask.

[Tim]

I don't see it above Majora's Mask. I think that is where I kind of falter here in this placement. I probably would swap those two I do think it's like, if we don't get this game, I don't think we get back to, you know, the kind of choose your, like, playing your playground stuff that we got in Breath of the Wild. Like, I think a link between worlds was a big step into getting us back to that, like, very, like, important piece of what Zelda was from Zelda 1. Right. But it's also like, all these games are just trying to be linked to the past.

[Barrett]

That's the thing, dude. And it's like, I think it does a very. A great job. Even. This is an 8 out of 10 and I love it. But I. I don't. This is not a top 21 Nintendo game.

[Blessing]

I need them to port this to

[Tim]

the problem with it. And this is like kind of the same problem with Breath of the Wild and A Little Bit of Tears. Because once you can get into the part of the game where you choose any dungeon in any order, there is no, like, scaling and difficulty that, like, I think the other games do very well in. In really smart ways because, you know, they're designing a specific kind of trajectory for you.

[Blessing]

And number 20, we got Resident Evil 4.

[Barrett]

I can't. I can't be mad. I was saying, like, the top 10. I feel like Tetris is going to be the only non pure Nintendo game because of what this list is. This seems wild. It does seem wild.

[Blessing]

It's wild in the sense of what I said earlier of like, if you. If it's eligible, we gotta treat it like. We can't be like, oh, well, yeah, we gonna. We don't want to have too many third parties in the top 10 or whatever. And I'm saying this is somebody who, like, I don't love Resident Evil 4 as much as the world loves the Resident Evil 4. I really, really, really, really do like Resident Evil 4 a lot. But like. And I would honestly. Number 28. I don't get mad at that.

[Barrett]

Other than.

[Blessing]

Other than the fact that I know y' all love it more than that.

[Barrett]

Yeah, I mean, it's. We'll. We'll see what's above it. I also just briefly want to say link between worlds, I just realized, is above galaxy. Okay. Okay.

[Blessing]

And number 19, we got Final Fantasy 6.

[Barrett]

Man, we are. Damn. We are like, this is to say bangers only is like, yeah, understatement. Like, this is tens only.

[Blessing]

I can't wait to see what game is like, the odd one out where we're gonna get to and be like,

[Barrett]

I think it was linked between Worlds. Honestly, I think like that because we're talking About Mario Galaxy 10, Resident Evil 4, 10, Final Fantasy 6, 10, Link Between Worlds. I. I don't think even the people who love that game aren't giving it a 10.

[Blessing]

What did I bear? Let me know what IGN gave it, because I'm curious.

[Tim]

GameSpot gave it a 10, and that was the game of the year.

[Blessing]

There you go.

[Barrett]

And yeah, it was. Fucking game spot. You don't even.

[Blessing]

Yeah. At number 18, we got fire Emblem Awakening.

[Tim]

Damn.

[Barrett]

You know what? I really love and respect this. Fire Emblem is awesome. Awakening is awesome. Three houses being that low is crazy. But I love this game so much that I'm not mad.

[Blessing]

Nice. And number in theory.

[Barrett]

Just like if I just were to say something. If someone asked me, tim, is Fire Emblem Awakening in your top 10 Nintendo games? Personally, I'd be like, yeah, okay. I started doing the math on it. It wouldn't. It wouldn't be, but.

[Blessing]

But it has potential.

[Barrett]

Yeah. It's in my mind.

[Blessing]

At number 17, we got animal Crossing, New Horizons.

[Barrett]

Yeah. Outside of the top 10, I knew it was going to be top 10. I think this makes sense. You got to give it the love. But in terms of, like, the game, best game, I don't know.

[Blessing]

As we're approaching this, I want to remind people that the top 10 that we have predicted looks like this. Not in. Not in order, just of what's in the top 10. Mario World, tears of the Kingdom, Ocarina, Link to the Past, Super Metroid Smash, ultimate Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Pokemon Heart, Gold Soul Silver, Mario Odyssey, and Tetris. We've not seen any of those games yet.

[Barrett]

So good.

[Blessing]

Coming in.

[Barrett]

Love this.

[Blessing]

At number 16, we got the Legend of Zelda, Wind Waker.

[Barrett]

Love it. Love it. I think a fantastic spot for that game.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Tim]

In my heart, it's higher.

[Barrett]

That's the thing, too. Yeah. My heart, it's higher, but I. That's. We're talking about tens.

[Blessing]

At number 15, we got. Oh, Pokemon Heart, Gold Soul Silver.

[Barrett]

I called it. I can't even be mad at this. This is top three for me, for sure. But I get it. This makes sense to me, the list of games we have,

[Blessing]

man. All right. At 14, we got Super Mario Galaxy 2.

[Tim]

Damn.

[Barrett]

Damn. Okay.

[Blessing]

Did we say that one?

[Barrett]

Like I said, they're going to choose Odyssey. I don't agree with that.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Okay.

[Barrett]

But I'm giving them the claps. They have Galaxy 1, they have Galaxy 2. Both in the top 25 with Mario 64, by the way. Hell, yeah. But both of these with Galaxy 2 higher and this much higher. Oh, I love to see it.

[Blessing]

Now, can I ask a question?

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Is Pokemon Go a Nintendo game? Nintendo game?

[Barrett]

No.

[Blessing]

No. Okay.

[Barrett]

But I mean, like, because we've not

[Blessing]

seen it on this list yet, I.

[Tim]

I think they in probably in their minds, they count it. I don't think it makes their top 100, though. Even though I do think Pokemon Go was on the top 100 games of all time for IGN at one point.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Tim]

Which I felt like was an insane choice.

[Barrett]

I don't know. I. Pokemon. We'll get into a different point, but I got thoughts.

[Blessing]

Number 13, we got Metroid Prime Plus Remastered. Thirteen is good.

[Barrett]

Thirteen, that's a good spot. When we were talking about it for the top 10, the Super Metroid versus Metroid prime thing, it's like, I didn't think they're going to put both. And like, I love the energy around Metroid Prime. Like, hell yeah. Like, let's. I. This game deserves every bit of love it's gotten and 10 times more. I like it at 13, though.

[Blessing]

I like it at 13.

[Barrett]

Feels right to me. Top 10. Something's off there.

[Blessing]

Coming in at number 12, we got Mario Bros. 3.

[Barrett]

We are starting to say something. We're starting to say some things that hurt. This one we italicized. Right. We didn't bold it.

[Blessing]

We italicized because we said Mario World.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

We said Mario World's okay. But it still stings in my heart. Crazy because this is one where it's like, all right, it's always in contention for number one.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Tim]

And. And for me, Tim and I have talked about this so many times of, like, growing up really being in the world because of the art style. But, like, the older I get when I return to those games, I do think three is the better game.

[Blessing]

I've always. Listen, I've always been team three. Y' all know this.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

You all know this. At number 11, we got. Oh. Oh, I fucking call it.

[Barrett]

Oh, my God. I nailed it. Oh, my God.

[Blessing]

Number 11 knocking right on the fucking door.

[Barrett]

Barrett shot the shot. Sniper.

[Blessing]

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at number 11.

[Barrett]

He just did one of the nest bat. Home run. That's crazy.

[Blessing]

Perfect critical hit. I can't believe I fucking killed that.

[Barrett]

That was some crazy shit. Good for you, Barrett. I hate this.

[Blessing]

That's.

[Barrett]

I truly believe there's no world that Smash Brothers is in. Top 10. Smash Brothers is the most Nintendo a Nintendo game could be. I. I can't cry about 11, though. I get It. I get what they're doing.

[Tim]

It did sound like you're choking, so.

[Barrett]

Yeah. You know, it is. It is hidden.

[Blessing]

Doing the math because we missed out on two games, right? Smash ultimate and Pokemon Heart. Gold Soul Silver didn't make the top 10. The other eight bolded games haven't been said yet. However, we have one other italicize that also hasn't been said. Two other italics. Wait, no. One other italicize. Sorry. Which is Breath of the Wild. We italicized that because we said Tears of the Kingdom is gonna make top 10. But now imagine. I imagine both games.

[Barrett]

Oh, whoa, whoa.

[Tim]

Hold on.

[Barrett]

We need to have a conversation about this.

[Blessing]

Which one?

[Barrett]

They put Mario Galaxy 1 and 2.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

So they. They might put Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.

[Blessing]

Yeah, Like, I mean, that's what they have to do.

[Barrett]

That's what they have to do.

[Blessing]

They're not gonna leave out Breath of the Wild.

[Barrett]

Yeah, but they might choose. I feel like most people would just

[Blessing]

choose one on a top 100 list. Yeah, those are both. Those are top two. I mean, not in this list. They're not going to do that.

[Barrett]

I mean, I'm with you, but, like,

[Blessing]

those are the two best.

[Barrett]

I was the one making the argument earlier that they're different games.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

I just. I don't.

[Blessing]

I don't see.

[Barrett]

They're both two into top ten. That's crazy.

[Blessing]

Honestly.

[Barrett]

But I also. I can't imagine putting either one of them not in the top 10.

[Blessing]

Exactly. Oh, shit, Tim, you would be. You would love to see my top 100 video game list of all time. If you're talking about Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild and Top Tens. Oh, boy. You love my list. Now, other games we had listed not italicized or anything. We had Mario Galaxy 2, which we've seen Marc 64. We've seen animal Crossing, New Horizons. We've seen Resident Evil 4. That was Italy.

[Barrett]

Yeah. We kind of killed the top 25.

[Blessing]

Have we seen Chrono Trigger?

[Barrett]

No. Oh, no. Oh.

[Tim]

We haven't seen a Man X either.

[Barrett]

Oh, dude, one of those games isn't making it.

[Tim]

I don't think either of them.

[Blessing]

Chrono Trigger. I think Chrono Trigger is gonna make it.

[Barrett]

Chrono Trigger has to. The fact that Final Messy Six was already seen. I. I think we get Chrono Trigger.

[Blessing]

So no, Mega Man X is what?

[Barrett]

But no Mega Man X. That's up. But Mega Man X, they're not putting top 10.

[Tim]

I know.

[Barrett]

That's why it's up.

[Tim]

Like, it's not gonna be on this list.

[Barrett]

All right, let's get in.

[Blessing]

Let's get into it. At number 10, we got Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

[Barrett]

A perfect number 10. Love that.

[Blessing]

Fantastic. At number nine, we got the Legend of Zelda. Link to the past.

[Tim]

That hurts.

[Barrett]

That hurts. But, hey, this is competition out there, man. But dang, Dang.

[Blessing]

At number eight, we got Super Metroid. So far we batted a thousand.

[Barrett]

I know, man. This is crazy. I love it, though. But dang, these two are number. I get it. We're getting.

[Blessing]

Dude, are they about to have both Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom in the top five?

[Tim]

And Ocarina.

[Barrett]

Oh, my God.

[Blessing]

They can't do that, can they? I guess they can. They can. They make the rules.

[Barrett]

Holy crap.

[Blessing]

At number seven, Link to the pass. Below Ocarina, we got. Come on, Chrono Trigger. There it is.

[Barrett]

Man, I love that. They're just, like, in the top 10. Let's just give the bottom half to the old people. Here's your Super Nintendo games. Have some fun. Good for them. Ok. God.

[Blessing]

At number six, we got the Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time.

[Barrett]

Oh, my God.

[Blessing]

They're about to put Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom in the top five.

[Barrett]

Oh, my God. I love them for.

[Blessing]

I love y' all for that.

[Barrett]

Dude, real talk. I do, too. That's fucking awesome.

[Blessing]

At number five, we got Tetris.

[Barrett]

Yeah, dude, we made this list.

[Blessing]

Yeah, we. We certainly. There's not a surprise here. There's no room for a surprise with what. With what I'm seeing on our list. At number four, we have Super Mario Odyssey.

[Barrett]

Yeah. Okay.

[Blessing]

Top three.

[Barrett]

The top three.

[Blessing]

At number three, we have Super Mario World. That's fucking shit crazy. Okay, well, actually, hold on, hold on. We gotta rewind. Cause there's no way. Number one and two is Tears of the Kingdom. Breath of the Wild.

[Barrett]

I think there's no way.

[Blessing]

So what other is it? Mega Man X?

[Barrett]

No, no.

[Tim]

It's Breath of the Wild and Tears of the King.

[Barrett]

Nuts. Oh, my God.

[Blessing]

You can't do that. You can.

[Barrett]

Hey, I'm gonna say this right now. I know this is gonna be an unpopular opinion, because I know what those games do to people.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Barrett]

If they have those games at number one and two. Oh, this is so funny that I'm saying this, but I stand fucking by it. I'm gonna be hella mad if Breath of the Wild's over. Tears. I want tears in number one. Commit to the bit. Fucking say Something here. Say something. Ok.

[Blessing]

I can't wait for this.

[Barrett]

Because having both is showing love to breathe.

[Blessing]

Yeah, yeah.

[Barrett]

But it's also saying the tears is better. You get what I'm saying?

[Blessing]

You know what? I get exactly what you're saying.

[Barrett]

And I want them to say that. And if they do, I fucking commend them. Because that is the statement. That is the statement that with a list that I think, for the most part backs up those choices. Crazy. But we must be missing something. I truly. I can't fathom that they do that. The wor.

[Blessing]

Here's what I'll say. The worst possible thing they can do is for number one go Zelda. Breath of the Wild in parentheses. Plus here's the.

[Barrett]

Oh.

[Blessing]

Or vice versa.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

I just.

[Barrett]

I can't think of any other game that can slide in. Mega Man X is the. Is I think the only game that isn't on this list that comes to mind that I'm shocked we hadn't seen.

[Blessing]

I mean, we've exhausted every single thing we listed aside from Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. Yeah. So number two, we got the Legend of Zelda. Breath of the Wild.

[Barrett]

Oh my God. They're doing it. Number one. One, that would be. Hold on.

[Blessing]

Wait. What'd you say? Big Bad X.

[Barrett]

How amazing would it be if Mega Man X was number one?

[Blessing]

I'd walk out of here and go home.

[Barrett]

Dude, there.

[Blessing]

Wait, that Donkey Kong 60. Oh, man.

[Barrett]

Dude, this is crazy. I'm so excited. I hope they do this because this will be like the greatest shit list of all time.

[Blessing]

Like, there's no other way you could do this. I think. I think it has to be Tears of the Kingdom. And number one, we got Tears of the Kingdom. Salute. Three. Three salutes from me. That's a fucking insane thing to do.

[Tim]

Ign Breath of the Wild may be the more important game. But we firmly believe the legend of Tears of the Kingdom is the better one.

[Blessing]

Hey. Hey. I know the Internet is pissed off.

[Barrett]

Oh my God.

[Blessing]

I know the Internet Fucking mad about this.

[Barrett]

Oh, I love it. Dude. Stand on that shit. Have something to say and say it. I love to stop. 25 I replace on Zelda Fucking Dark world. What's it called? Link between worlds with Mega Man X. Oh, yeah.

[Tim]

Then you got a list.

[Barrett]

Then you got a fucking perfect.

[Tim]

And maybe fix Yoshi's Island. And what was the other like, really?

[Barrett]

Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong Country 2. Yoshi's island and Fire Emblem Three Houses I think are the most egregious places.

[Blessing]

Is that Street Fighter 2 and Street Fighter 2.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Tim]

And wave Race.

[Blessing]

And Wave Race. Thumbs up for me. I like this list, dude. Not definitely far from perfect. Like, we're talking far from perfect, but

[Barrett]

this can never be true. Your own list. That's what's perfect to you. But like, I. I love this. They. They had something to say. These two games are so damn special that they are that good that they will take up the 1 and 2 spot above Mario World and Odyssey. Oh, my God.

[Blessing]

That is insane. That is actually insane because of this.

[Barrett]

Like, Mario 3 didn't make top 10.

[Blessing]

Like, damn, I didn't even think about that.

[Barrett]

Holy crap, man.

[Blessing]

Hey, I stand by. All right. Those games are magnificent. A few more super chats that we got. Zachary wrote in and said even though Barrett insulted me earlier about Sunshine, I'm still with him. DK 64 over Mario 64.

[Barrett]

40.

[Blessing]

Viz says tales of Symphonia should have been considered since it was exclusive on GameCube in North America. But still a banger list. And then Uncle Death says Conker's bad Fur Day not making it in the top 100 is up, yo.

[Tim]

No, it's not, Tim.

[Blessing]

We did it.

[Barrett]

I've never. I felt emotions today that I've never felt before.

[Blessing]

Dude, that's what shitless does.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Shitless brings us to that place.

[Barrett]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Where we feel things. What's that? Wait, I know. This is decon. Wave Race. Oh, this is Wave Race. Oh, the soundtrack is so good. Ladies, gentlemen, and mbs, that's been another episode of the Kind of Funny Games Cast where each and every weekday we get together to talk about the biggest reviews, previews and topics in video games. Live on YouTube, Twitch on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the Kind of Funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad free and get a daily exclusive show catch. Today's thing that we did before this wicked review on the in review feed. Until next time. I've been Blessing. That's been Barrett, that's been Tim, and this has been Wave Race. It's been our pleasure. Serve you.

[Barrett]

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