1 being most favorite.

5. Counter Strike
4. Cabela's off-road adventures 1
3. X3 terran conflict
2. Need for speed (all of the classics)
1. Freelancer

1. Lode Runner
2. Just the Tip
3. Snood
4. Starcraft: Brood War
5. Red Alert series

I think it was called Xvevious? It was a game on 8 bit Nintendo, I think...or maybe Atari? You flew a plane or something and dropped bombs on buildings...it was so 80's, I loved it.
First most enjoyable computer games I played were "Hunt the Wumpus" on I think it was an Apple IIgs (elementary school). A few years later when 32bit video came into effect, and they started making the pentium processor; I enjoyed Wolfenstein 3D and especially Descent. I wasn't a huge Doom fan, but Duke Nukem 3D was pretty cool.
I probably had every game console ever made before Sony Playstation came out. I had some console that was before the first atari, I can't remember what it was called. Then I had an atari 2600? Then a 7800 I think it was? Then I had Nintendo, SNES, Sega genesis, Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguar, Playstation, PS2, and that's where I stopped. I know there was more, but I just don't remember.
Favorite Sega genessis game: Streets of Rage.
Favorite Sega Saturn game: Virtua Fighter.
Favorite Sony Playstation game: Jet Moto 2.
Favorite PS2 game: Grand Turismo 4.
I never bought a PS3 or an Xbox, and I don't play computer games anymore, so I'm out of the loop.

Fooger, you might want to give Freelancer and Black Prophecy a shot. Both are very similar to X3.

Freelancer is an online version of X3 ("Discovery 4.86" expansion pack...free to play online but you gotta buy the cd...amazon 6-7 bucks) . In my opinion even though the graphics are lower poly count, they are better as far as fog goes...and most of space is fog. Black Prophecy is a game i just started playing few days ago. Online as well. Similar controls to TC and Freelancer and better graphics than both however you're only in a fighter ship that you upgrade, you cannot do anything else.

Operation Neptune! That's been bugging me forever. God it looks horrible.

I found my old game too!! Spelled Xevious.

Castlevania on Nintendo also wasted a lot of my life.

Holy crap. I forgot about this game. I used to play it back in grade school! Nice find.

In no particular order:
- Civilization II (1996)
- GTA III (2001)
- Descent (1995)
- NFS Porsche Unleashed (2000)
- Earth & Beyond (2002) - EA, I still hate your guts for axing this!
Honorable Mention:
- Sid Meier's Pirates! (1987)
- F.E.A.R. (2005)
- EVE Online (2003)

I still play games and I'm even in the industry but for some reason very few of the newer games seem to leave a mark with me. That said, there are tons of good games coming out and I enjoy many of them - they are somehow just not Top 5 material for me :)

- Tom

Hehe on a side note did you guys know EVE Online is also known as Microsoft Excel - The Game.

Whos excited about Guild Wars 2?

Touché :)

Half Life
Just Cause 2
Supreme Commander
Doom2
Duke Nukem 3D

Half Life 1/2, cs, cs:S, TF, TF2, Ns, Ns2(beta), DoD, Sven co-op, The specialists, any other hl mods.

BF1942, desert combat mod.

Starcraft, starcraft 2, warcraft 3.

Halo(original)

Wow (not going to say its amazing, but it did have me addicted for a few years)

Unreal Tournament (original)

FF7
soul calibur
astrotit - taught me that sperm come from dicks
okami
devil may cry

-FF7 & X. Replaying through both now. I think the series may just be ruined now though.
-Warcraft 2. Literally the first program I installed on my brand new laptop. Logged so many hours its ridiculous. Nom Noms
-Breath of Fire series. Loved 3 & 4. Have over 80 hours in each one.
-Skyrim- First new game that I actually was addicted to in a LONG time.
-Legend of Zelda-A link to the past. I have probably played through this game ten times, only on SNES. No idea how many times if you count the GBA remake or all the times I played it on an emulator.

Honorable Mention-Pokemon (still whip out the old gameboy on occasion) Civilization 2, Age of Empires,

I don't think it would be possible for me to break it down to top 5 games... I can break it down by top 10 games for Consoles and Top 10 for PC

Top 10 console games in no particular order..

Ff7
FF3
Mario 3
Goldeneye
Super Mario kart
Ocarena of time
Perfect dark
Mega man x
Mario rpg
Secret of mana

PC top 10 in no particular order

Half-life (this includes cs)
Doom
Starcraft
Diablo/Diablo 2
Command and conquer red alert
Civ 3
Warcraft/Warcraft 2
Tribes
Shadowbane
WOW

I forgot Megaman. My mother took me to the Video Galaxy every tuesday where she would rent her movies for the week. Until the SNES came out the only games I ever rented where megaman, EVERY WEEK, except one in which I rented pitfall.

Total Annihilation
CS/CS:S
Metal Gear Solid
Arkham Asylum/City
Armored Core series

Honorable mention is Trine 2 which was just on sale on Steam over the weekend. Really fantastic, utterly gorgeous side-scrolling puzzle game. Reminds me a lot of Donkey Kong Country, actually

Man I remember playing Doom deathmatches here at work with 2 other guys when it first came out.

A few unmentioned.

Ultima 1 back on my Commodore 64
Ultima IV
Serious Sam (most fun single player FPS)
Dragon Age:Origins

My all time favorite video game is Defender. I built a MAME cabinet just to play it. Custom control panel and everything.

Falcon 4
Grand Prix Legends
Fallout 1
System Shock
Total Annihilation

also awesome:
IL2, XCOM, GT Legends, Borderlands, Dark Souls, Operation Flashpoint/ARMA series.

I won a race at Spa in GPL once in the Eagle. Sometimes I tell random people this on the hope that someone somewhere will realize what a massive accomplishment that was.