Jerry Whorebach wrote:

I also want to know if anyone here is following the Top 25 countdown going on at Twat Central. Spoiler: Minesweeper can't not be number one.

I decided to wait until the end of the feature to post this, and I have been eagerly waiting for the moment. I have been waiting more and more eagerly as I read on as a matter of fact.

Actionbutton.net is the Best Writing on Games I Have Ever Read. I’m clearly no expert and only a novice in the craft, but it feels as though Actionbutton.net has a living yet crystalline view of the entire history of gaming, and that view is instantly translatable into text. Just the perspectives on your given views are far and away greater in depth and meaning than the words written anywhere else. There are some clear signposts for your ideas; SMB, Portal etc, but you never fail to take us out the game you are reviewing to help us understand how other games helped to create it or helped to harm it by comparison.

I also agree with your use of the term “Manifesto”. You are certainly after a particular type of game, and these are great games, but it is only one view. Rather than rest on a blithe assumption that you are the end all and be all in judging video games (as all other review sites tend to do, without any intention or baseline for their views), you give us this list to let us know where your ideas come from. This site and this “25 best” feature you’ve put here represents some of the best time I’ve ever spent avoiding my work.