10 Retro Video Games The World Will Always Love
I had a happy childhood. Though my dog got run-over by a bus when I was five, my grandfather choked on a nut and died on my seventh Christmas and started haunting my house on the eighth, I can still make that statement easily. For I was brought up in the constant company of video games: they were the friends I never had, or I wish I never had. They wouldn't bully you for being small, they wouldn't steal your breakfast box every morning and they certainly wouldn't traumatize you for life by bursting your bubble about Santa at the age of nine. Video games were as inseparable as a limb for most of us as we grew up. We threw tantrums, got grounded and made our parents want rue the day they ever considered making themselves a little family. Even more than that, those delightful plastic cuboids of raw delight have made the world what it is today. Without Contra, we'd still be fighting WWII; without Mario, men would continue to languish under the illusion that facing a dragon wasn't worth it for your beloved damsel; and without Road Rash the streets would still be a lawless hinterland. As a respectful homage to these video games, here's a list of ten such that the world will always remember and love.