25 Best Sega Games Of All Time - RANKED

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If you didn't sing that out loud in your head, you're probably too old to remember the glory days of Sega. 'Twas a joyful time; a period when Sega found great success in the hardware and software landscape of gaming.

In more modern times, Sega has shifted focus away from console development, instead focusing on the development of their software and arcade machines. You'd probably think that Sega's best days are long behind them, but it is, in fact, still a giant of a company and still the world's largest producer of arcade cabinets.

Throughout its long and storied history since it was first founded in 1960, Sega has been responsible for countless games across generations and generations of video game hardware. Whether they were producing their own games for the Mega Drive/Genesis back in the day, or producing them in modern times for their former rivals, there's been a huge library of fantastic Sega games.

In honour of these exceptional titles, it's time to break down exactly which of the bunch are worth of being in the top 25 ever created. We're looking at games which have been either developed directly by Sega here, or one of the subsidiaries it owns (so no games where Sega was just listed as the publisher!).

You ready? Lace up your red shoes, polish off your bare knuckles, jump in a taxi that's slightly out of control (or a forklift, your choice) and get ready to slay some zombies with your lightgun as we rank the top 25 Sega games of all time!

Look, Super Monkey Ball shouldn't work. It's a ridiculous concept. It's about a monkey, trapped in a hamster ball, across a selection of platforms to reach a goal. It's a bit mad.

Although originally released in the arcades, its the GameCube version, released in 2001, that really made the series as popular as it is.

It's incredibly addictive stuff. Using the analogue stick, you tilt the actual level, not the ball, and the ball reacts accordingly to these movements based on physics. It's a simple concept, but an incredibly difficult one to master when you throw in more difficult levels, and trying to collect all the bananas that are sprinkled throughout the stages.

It's one of those games that you'll likely get so frustrated at, you'll sit there for six hours until you beat the level that's been driving you absolutely crazy.

The arcade version even had an analogue stick controller that's shaped like a banana. If that doesn't entice you to play a game about rolling a monkey around in a ball, nothing will.