Hello everybody, my name is Christopher Thomas Plants.

My name is Ross Farshtick and this is the Resties where the rest of the best discuss the

best of the rest.

And this week we are talking about some of the very best.

That's right, we're going back to the required reading list and ongoing editorial experiment

here at the Resties and in which we try to collect the 25 games that everyone should play

from Pac-Man to modern day, 1980 to 2020.

These are not the best games, they are not our favorite games.

This is most definitely not one of those just humongous list of like the 100 greatest games

of all time.

You know how to use Google, you can find that.

These are the games that we feel if you want to have an fundamental appreciation of video

games, how they work, what they mean culturally.

These are the ones that you should play.

And sort of how they evolved I would say.

Right.

If you're looking for the original version of what GTA, San Andreas or whatever, GTA 5 is

today looking back and figuring that out is the source of these things.

Think of it as a playable syllabus for like video games 101.

Wow, that sounds very boring.

Or about that.

Yeah, but this maybe the 25 games that a museum would build an exhibit around.

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