Top 5 games

This is a trip down memory lane and makes me want to install an emulator. You can have any game on the platform of your choice, with updated graphics, but the game play must remain the same.

1. Elite

   Possibly my most fondly remembered game, I would have it as a console game now with updated graphics. I played this space based fighter / trading game for days and days, then weeks and months. It's open ended game-play allowed your imagination to turn it into a role-playing game inside your head. I, like so many others, think it should be resurrected as a modern game.

2. Ultimate Doom

   I would have this as a console game too, with updated graphics. The arcade style action made this game ultimately re playable, it's one of the few games I can still clearly remember the route through quite a lot of the levels. It also had some amazing game-play moments, I still remember the ground shaking and seeing my first Cyberdemon - awesome. It also had fantastic level design and a co-op mode.

3. World of Warcraft

   There's not much to be said about wow - it's like the heroin of addictive games, nothing else will suck down the hours quite like it. With a decent group of friends, there are few gaming experiences to match it. It is probably unrivalled in delivering memorable gaming moments, from your first epic, to seeing the Fel Reavers for the first time. I only stopped playing when world pvp become almost impossible to find.

4. Unreal Tournament 2004

   My favourite online shooter of all time, I even spent hours practising against the bots. Bombing run was one of the best game types I have played - shame no-one else agreed and it was removed from future versions.

5. Super Smash T.V.

   I wouldn't change a thing about this game, not the controls, the graphics, the console and certainly not the cheesy one liners "I'd buy that for a dollar". Way too many happy memories of both single player and 2 player mode.

Honourable Mentions

There are lots of amazing games I missed out - notably the plot driven games, which I feel lack the longevity for this type of scenario - Half Life (I didn't get into the multiplayer), System Shock 2, Assassin's Creed II, Dead Space 2. I also didn't have room for Quake 2 or Diablo - really looking forward to Diablo 3.