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hey guys this is Austin and today you'll be top 5 best retro games ever with my friend Ellie from that check coming in at number five is pokemon red and blue the idea is that you capture monsters and pokeballs and fight them in turn-based battles like many good games it's a simple concept but there's a lot of depth to it you travel around in search of Pokemon while collecting gym badges one of the most unique features of the time is the ability to trade your Pokemon with friends using the Gameboy link cable you'd think this game was made for children yet it has an appeal for all age groups and maybe that's why this game was so popular I know that when I was a kid I was in love with the game and the TV show fueled my interest to play it Pokemon is the second most popular video game franchise of all time and even 15 years later their 6th generation games are the most popular games for the Nintendo 3ds I think Austin and I can agree that this is one of our favorite childhood games and even now we still love the Pokemon games and at number 4 we have Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis is a platforming game that was focused on speed and reaction time it was quite difficult to master in contrast to its competitors such as Mario it's fast paced and focus on precision Sonic was created when Sega requested a mascot character for the franchise and it is now easily the most recognizable character for their brand in the game the goal is to collect rings and defeat a boss at the end of the level Sonic was a huge hit almost single-handedly bringing success to the Sega Genesis but on top of that it still remains one of the best platforms ever still influencing games today like Super Meat Boy at number three we have pet man this is an arcade game that launched in 1980 right the height of the arcade era by the 90s it had earned over 2.5 billion dollars in quarters you play as pac-man who has to eat all the pellets to proceed to the next level while avoiding the ghosts power pellets allow you to eat enemies making you temporarily invincible one of the best things about pac-man is that it seemed simple but it had a lot going for it it was released in a time where space shooters were quite popular so pac-man brought something new to the table consider one of the classics when it comes to arcade games it was a no brainer to include pac-man in this list and at number 2 we have doom doom is considered an influential title in the gaming industry as a devote the popularity of first-person shooters also at the time of its release its relatively realistic 3d graphics were a standout for the game released in 1993 the game featured a variety of weapons and was one of the first games to support multiplayer over a network doom is a science fiction game where you play as a Marine who has been stationed on Mars the gameplay consists of shooting your way through levels while fighting off demonic enemies to give you an idea of just how popular Doom was at one point it's estimated there were more computers with doom than Windows 95 and coming in at number one is the original Super Mario Brothers so Super Mario came out in 1985 to help launch the NES not only is it a fantastic side scroller but it really helped bring the video game industry off of life support in it you play as Mario who has to jump through obstacles to save Princess Toadstool gameplay consists of jumping on blocks stomping goombahs and collecting mushrooms to get to the end of the level Super Mario Bros helped to launch Nintendo's first game console and Mario got his start in one of Donkey Kong's game back in the arcades in 1981 with the named Jumpman but later got his own game since then mario has been in over 200 games and is considered the most popular game character in the world mario has had a best-selling game for over 30 years and is still wildly popular today so what do you guys think is the best retro game of all time let us know in the comments below and be 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