Game Over Yeah – and the first 100 games

Game Over, Yeah! What a rebellious yell in the face of adversity.

So what if you didn’t yet reach the top? You keep on going. Really it is the perfect marker as we reach the first major milestone on this incredible journey of playing (and documenting) the entire list of the “1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die”.

1001 No.100: Sega Rally Championship (1994)

And what is this marker? Why, of course, it is Sega Rally on that most supreme of mid-90s era consoles, the Sega Saturn. Relive with us those memories of gloomy arcades, the ear-shattering tunes blasting from those racing chairs complete with dubiously-placed handbrakes – as we play it on our Sega Saturn version. Yes, the draw distance is awful, the graphics and sound a mere shadow of the arcade original – but the spirit is still pure Sega Rally.

So that’s 100 games down, many more to go. We’ve ran the gauntlet, twice; beat it all over the Gameboy Advance; smashed the Hanger of Tony Hawk’s 2 in 2 mins flat; had some very bad times with superweapons; splattered our house all over the place; said farewell to THQ and the genius of Tom Clancy; got Mashed; been generally shit at California Games and Theme Park; lost our heads at Micro Machines 2 (and Mario Kart); and so much more that the major server meltdown of 2012 has consigned to history.

But we still will not rest; we will not desist from buying random old games, consoles, plastic accessories and other dust-magnets. As Tony Hawk himself would say – time to do the 900(+1). Game Over, Yeah!