Summary

• Kaboom! - A fast-paced game that tests your skills and requires a paddle controller for the best experience.
• Die Hard - A unique NES game with diverse objectives and multiple story paths, a hidden gem worth playing.
• MechWarrior 2 - A landmark mech combat game published by Activision, influential in the genre and fun to play.

It's funny to think that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Activision is seen as a huge, dominating gaming company today, when back in their roo⛦ts, they were the underdogs sticking i🅘t to Atari by making third-party games on their console when solely first-party games were the standard.

Along the way, they've created many beloved titles, including Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:plenty of spectacular Spider-꧂Man games, and, of course, Call of Duty. Any game published by Activision will count here, but these have to be pure Activision titles. Anything after the 2008 merger with Vivendi Games will not be✱ included.

10 Kaboom!

No Zombies Are Blown Up Here, But It's Still Plenty Of Fun

Many will argue that Pitfall! is the best Activision game on the Atari 2600, but it hasn't aged all that well. One game that does age well, at least if you have the right setup, is Kaboom! This game uses the paddle controller to move the bucket around.

It feels smooth as butter to control, and that matches the hectic, fast-paced action later on when the game speed gets ridiculous. Kaboom! really tests you at that point, but it's a lot of fun. Unfortunately, if you don't play with a paddle controller, you won't get the same experience.

9 Die Hard

A Very Underrated NES Licensed Game

There are a bunch of bad licensed video games on the NES, but one title that gets unfairly lumped in is Die Hard. In truth, this game's sick. The freedom offered is pretty incredible for the time, with you needing to take out 40 terrorists, among other objectives, and you can do it in any order.

There are various story paths and a bunch of optional scenes. The devs even programmed a game-over scenario if you and Hans Gruber both kill each other during the final boss. That's something you just don't see on the NES. It's a wildly unique title for the platform and a surefire hidden gem.

8 MechWarrior 2: 31st Cen🥀tury Combat♈

An All-Time Great Mech Game

When thinking of mech combat games, one title that's bound to come up has to be 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:MechWarrior. The acclaime♍d mech series has existed since the late 80s, and it might be surprising to learn that the first two installments were published by Activision. Out of the two, the second game wins hands down.

It was such a vast improvement over the original, so much so that going back to MechWarrior 1 seemed like a tough ask even at the time. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:A landmark mech combat game, it i🃏nfluenced dozens of genre titles afterward and💛 remains fun to play if you enjoy old-school PC gaming.

7 Sin

A Must-Play 90s FPS Game

Level design is a hugely important element in an FPS game, more so than most people realize. A big reason why Duke Nukem 3D still holds up all these years later is the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:master-🐽crafted and detailed level design largely by Allen Blum and Richard Gray. The latter wo🦩rked on Sin, a g♏reat 90s FPS game that any retro shooter fan needs to check out.

The level design lives up to the pedigree of the developer's past work and makes the game a blast to go through. Shooting feels solid as well, but the story and characters feel so 90s that it's quite enjoyable in a funny way. Sin could definitely use a remaster, but with Sin: Reloaded stuck in development hell, you might just want to play the original.

6 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x

The Best Way To Play The Original Two Games

If you want to play 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2, you can simply play the remake released on modern platforms and get your fill of these two classic sports games. However, if you want to play the OG games, the best way to play is via Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x on the original Xbox.

This contains both games at 🃏their best graphical presentation, with all the characters included. Yes, even Spider-Man. You also get some bonus levels, the cherry on top of this awesome package. In terms of original Xbox exclusives, 2x is a must-own for anyone even remotely interested in the Tony Hawk series.

5 Tony Hawk's Underground

A Fan Favorite

Tony Hawk's Underground is many people's favorite game in the series for a variety of reasons. First, the story was really good and surprising, considering this was the first Tony Hawk game with an actual plot. The stages here were greatness on a different level and played so smoothly that you could come back to this game after years, and it'll all click back in. It gives you that type of muscle memory.

The quality of life features were also well done, like the ability to get off your skateboard, which helped a lot with exploration and collectibles. It's frankly a shame that more Tony Hawk remasters likely won't ever come out, as these later installments are truly amazing to play.

4 True Crime: Streets Of L🐽A♊

A Landmark Open-World Title

You know a game's a real GTA competitor when GTA San Andreas has to savagely burn it like it's the 90s all over again. GTA3 and Vice City 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:were incredible open-world titles, but one elemꦕent Rockstar failed at back then was making the cities look like their real-life counterparts; not in terms of graphics but the area itself with shops, buildings, 🧜landmarks, etc.

T🔜his is where True Crime steps in because the open LA game world actually matched real life. You could walk up to the LA Convention Center, then home of E3, and that was game-changing at the time. You see the influence in games like GTA5 or LA Noire, which has so many LA landma⛄rks and locations that it ultimately makes the setting feel more real.

3 𝔍 🦋 Spider-Man 2

The Best Superhero Video Game At One Point

Nowadays, the common consensus is that Batman: Arkham City is the ♑greate🎐st superhero game of all time, but before it was released, that honor went to Spider-Man 2. A sixth-gen masterpiece, Spider-Man 2 finally nailed down Spidey's movement, which was always a little off before this game.

Swinging around felt incredible, you have a great cast of characters, with many being from the comics instead of the movie, and you even have several actors from the films reprising their roles here. Just like the Sam Raimi classic, Spider-Man 2 brought the superhero genre to higher plateaus, and current-day superhero titles wouldn't be the same without it.

2 𒐪 Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

Truly One-Of-A-Kind

One of the most beloved PC classics ever made has to be Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. It's up there with RPGs like Daggerfall or Oblivion that people continue to replay every once in a while. First, the RPG mechanics are great, as were many games of the era, but what makes Bloodlines a true all-timer has to be the writing and characters.

Like Silent Hill 2, all the narrative elements deliver a one-of-a-kind experience that will never ever be duplicated. Even thoug🍸h the graphics are dated, for sure, the gameplay and narrative will make Bloodlines a timeless gem that 🔯people will still play decades from now.

1 ဣ Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

The Start Of A Revolution

You could argue that one of the most historically significant and groundbreaking FPS games would be 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and you'd be right. The multiplayer changed FPS games forever, with it being easy to get into, the new progression system, and phenomenal maps.

Not to mention the classic, iconic campaign. Witnessing the nu🅷ke drop was a Neo dodging bullets type of moment that everyone remembers seeing for the first time and just being blown away. The game made modern military shooters the new big thing in the genre, and for that, it has to be the best Call of Duty game of the pure Activision era.