 | Shenmue (Dreamcast)
Buy used from: £69.99 Immersive like no other game before or since, emotional, complex and totally wonderful.
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 | The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - Players' Choice (GameCube)
Buy used from: £24.99 A brilliantly atmospheric and expansive game.
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 | Resident Evil 4 (GameCube)
Buy used from: £8.99 Whilst not very original, the gameplay and graphics make this essential.
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 | Shenmue II (Dreamcast)
Buy used from: £39.95 Bigger and even more ambitious than Shenmue, this is a suberb sequal to the best game ever made.
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 | Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (PSone)
Buy used from: £2.97 The most challenging and atmospheric of the series.
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 | Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future (Dreamcast)
Buy used from: £4.98 Don't be put off by the cutesy premise - this is an original, dark and very difficult game.
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 | Animal Crossing with Memory Card 59 (GameCube)
Buy used from: £24.99 Innovation and simplicity like only Nintendo can do, and the only laugh-out-loud funny video game.
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 | Wipeout 2097
Buy used from: £2.25 No two player and limited gameplay, but the best tracks ever seen in a racer.
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 | Quake III Arena
Buy used from: £3.49 Ignore the reviews, whilst difficult and needing a lot of practice this is the most skillful pre-Halo console FPS.
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 | killer7 (PS2)
Buy new: £14.98 / Used from: £1.90 Pretentious and annoying at first, Killer 7 soon makes up for it in atmosphere, gameplay and originality.
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 | Oddworld - Abe's Oddysee - Platinum (PS)
Buy used from: £9.00 One of the last great 2D platform games.
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 | Viewtiful Joe
Buy new: £39.99 / Used from: £4.99 An innovative, tongue in cheek rewrite of old school video games with fantastic graphics, spoilt only by an insane difficulty level.
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 | Metroid Prime (Player's Choice GameCube)
Buy used from: £4.85 It rewrote the console FPS rulebook and remains one of the most original games available.
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 | God of War Platinum (PS2)
Buy new: £10.48 / Used from: £5.99 Unoriginal but with amazing gameplay and great graphics, this is one of only a handful of standout PS2 games.
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 | Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (GameCube)
Buy new: £45.82 / Used from: £9.99 This unusual and innovative survival horror is a real lost classic.
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 | Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (GameCube)
Buy new: £28.98 / Used from: £6.00 Too similar to Metroid Prime to be higher up the chart, in gameplay and graphics this is the better game.
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 | Super Monkey Ball 2
Buy new: £39.98 / Used from: £6.69 Hard to say which is the better of SMB one and two, two wins out due to the brilliant Monkey Target multiplayer game.
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 | Tomb Raider 2 - Platinum
Buy used from: £4.50 Much more ambitious than the original, Tombraider 2 was a real eye-opener in its day.
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 | Halo 2 - Classics (Xbox)
Buy new: £13.95 One-player is pants, but two-player is the best around.
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