QotD: Top 5 Video Games

What's on your Top 5 video games list?
Submitted by mileena.

Galaga and Centipede both scratched a similar itch for me - a sort of speedy obsessive fiending.

We Love Katamari for the PS2 owned my brain enough to be worth mentioning.  Almost as fun to watch as to play.

Halo owned my brain - the only first person shooter to do that.

Satans Hollow in the arcade - I've logged some hours on this.

Klax on the atari lynx was probably my favorite of the tetris style games.

As a kid I used to hang out at the arcade a lot.  The aesthetics of video games drew me and there was something enticingly transhuman in the gestalt of it, seeing the rapid evolution of the releases and imagining what marvels might be down the road.  I could miser out two bucks worth of quarters for a whole afternoon.

I'm cautious about letting myself get into videogames now and play them pretty rarely.  Their consciousness altering effects are of the flavor that I prefer only in small doses and I'll avoid any game that has a steep learning curve or a too open ended landscape.