Essential Charts Q1/Q2 2005

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For the first and second quarters of 2005, I quite possibly overstretched myself and made the charts too unwieldy to continue. As well as PS2, Gamecube, Gameboy Advance, PC and Xbox games, I also included several retro consoles such as the Sega Saturn and the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Here are the bloated results.

Essential Charts Q1/Q2 2004

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Back in 2004/5, I ran this thing called The Essential Charts on Gamesradar. The jist is this: Everyone picks their five favourite games and can either rank them from 1 to 5 (the game placed first gets five points, the game placed second gets four points and so on), or just have 5 games in no particular order, each scoring 3 points. I would then compile the scores and we’d have the top 15 “Essential” games for that format.

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