If you could go back....

You can only play 1 system for the next 20 years. You can pick any 5 games games released during that consoles life. All games are playable regardless of online components still being active or not!! What is your system of choice?

Only five games over 20 years?

Is modding allowed? If so, PC.

I'd play GameCube and play Mario Kart: Double Dash, Super Smash Bros. Melee. Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, 007: Nightfire, and Super Mario Sunshine.

so we're going back in time to play games into the future?

PC

PC, and would probably pick:

World of Warcraft

Age of empires 3

Overwatch

Everquest

Diablo 2

PS2

• Persona 3
• Persona 4
• Metal Gear Solid 3
• Ape Escape 2
• Star Wars Battlefront 2

PC

Civ V
football Manager
TW Medieval 2
Crusader Kings 2
Baldurs Gate collection

Vanilla good for those with mods they never get stale

For longevity and replay values:

PS3: GTA4, GTA5, The Last of Us, FFX, PES2010

• C&C Tiberium sun
• Doom
• Age Of Empires 2
• Ultra Street Fighter IV
• Starcraft II

Seems like an ok list of ration games.

nintendo 64

smash bros 64
mario kart 64
mario 64
mortal kombat trilogy
monopoly

i choose multiplayer games because those have infinite replay value.

and yes i love monopoly. cant wait for the switch version!

PC

Everquest

Arma III

FFVII

Civ V

Total Annihilation

One system for 20 years is unlikely let alone 5 games on it over that time period.

My friend, it's hypothetical.

@uninspiredcup: I can't even fathom.

lol

My first thought upon reading this thread was to pick the N64 since it is my favorite console of all time and it has some multiplayer games with infinite replay value, but after I thought about it some more, I decided that I would need more than just multiplayer games and the N64's single player games don't have the same infinite replay value, so I decided to go with the NES instead and my 5 games would be:

• Super Mario Bros. 3
• Mike Tyson's Punch-Out
• Contra
• Castlevania
• Tetris

Super Mario Bros. 3 is a game that I never get tired of and can pick-up-and-play at any time and have fun. Plus, it's competitive battle mode is one of my favorite multiplayer experiences to play with friends.

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, Contra, and Castlevania are three different types of games with two things in common. They are all incredibly fun and they are all incredibly hard. Thus far in my life, I have not completely beaten any of them without the help of cheat codes, but if I have 20 years to focus on replaying these games over and over again then maybe I might get good enough to beat them. Trying to master these games will surely keep me busy for a long time.

And as for Tetris... I need games with infinite replay value to last me 20 years and there is no game that has more infinite replay value than Tetris.

@KBFloYd: lol

I guess PC. I still play some games that are +20 years old like Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far and Steel Panthers.

For games, I'd pick:

Far Cry 4

Quake 2 - also one of the easiest games to make LANable

Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far

C&C: Generals with Zero Hour expansion

Flight Simulator X

My PC also runs XP as a VM in VirtualBox. That means I also play the old favorites: Space Cadet Pinball, Minesweeper, and Solitaire. ;)

Xbox 360-Halo 3 ODST; Gears 3; The Witcher 2, Skyrim, The Orange Box

What's more disturbing is that you seem to have thought there was at least a slight possibility that it could happen.

@uninspiredcup: We are part of a multiverse. Somewhere through time and space this exact scenario is playing out. God help our doppelgangers.

XBOX 360: Burnout Revenge, NHL 14, Halo 3, FIFA 14, Red Dead Redemption

I'd just take 5 fidget spinners.

Dreamcast

Le Mans 24

Skies of Arcadia

Grandia 2

Metropolis Street Racer

Toy Commander

X1X

Halo 6

Forza Horizon 4

Sea of Thieves

Crackdown 3

State of decay 2

That's serially a lifetime's worth of gaming content right there baby!!! :P

EDIT: I need to add one more.... RDR2. Now with all that I'm good for the next few decades. lol

PS4 with The Witcher 3, GTA5, Minecraft, Elite Dangerous and No Man's Sky.

I'm confused, where am I going back to.

RTCW / enemy territory

Quake 3/live

Counter Strike GO

GTA V

Civ V

If I went back 20 years, I'd be far less concerned with video games...

It's a tough question, though. For twenty years one system and only five games. That's crazy. That wouldn't work for someone with as short of an attention span as myself.

I can narrow it down to three systems:

GCN:

1. Animal Crossing
2. Super Smash Bros Melee
3. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
4. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
5. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

3DS:

1. Animal Crossing New Leaf
2. Pokemon X/Y
3. Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
4. Pokemon OR/AS
5. Hm... Pokemon Black/White? (3DS has backwards compatibility with DS)

PC:

1. The Sims 3 + All Expansion Packs and Other Content, including regularly updating mods and CC
2. The Sims 2 + Same as above
3. The Sims 1 + Same as above

The PC might win this one, if a PC could actually last twenty years. I doubt it.

NeverWinter Nights would be one of the games - the game allows user-created adventures that you can download off the Internet. That game is literally over 500 games in one.

PS4

- The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt

- Kingdom Hearts 1.5+2.5 Collection

- Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remaster

- Persona 5

- Skyrim

PS Vita Master Race

- Persona 4 Golden

- Persona 3 Portable

- Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remaster

- Freedom Wars

- Grand Theft Auto Collection(Vice City Stories, Liberty City Stories, and Chinatown Wars)

Either one works for me tbh

PS4 or Xbox One probably-

Minecraft
Dark Souls 2 SOTFS
Dark Souls 3

PS4: Bloodborne
Nioh

Xbox One: Halo MCC
Dark Souls 1 since it's BC :P

PC

Fallout NV

Diablo 3

SeGA Megadrive Collection

Street Fighter V

And I would need a rougelike endless game... like spelunky or ftl or teleglitch

I think I can get a lot of legs with this collection... but 20 yrs is really long

Great hypothetical question. It almost gave me a stroke trying to hash out an answer. Many great ones listed, and as good as so many of the titles listed across many great consoles what you have to make sure of is that you pick "20 year replayability" titles, or that you bring a console from the wired controller era so you can use it to hang yourself.

Now since online can be accomplished I'll bring a Vita for its portable nature around my lost island with WiFi. I suppose I'll have downloaded Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max for PSP (which I do on my Vita). I will also use the Internet for rescue and naughty websites until rescue arrives.

Easy. PC.

1. Everquest 2

2. Tree of Savior

3. Starbound

4. Boarderlands 2

5. Minecraft

This should be enough to keep me busy for the rest of my life and then some.

20 years is a looong time, so I'm gonna need to cover my bases.

Console- XBX

1. I'm going to need an expansive game where I can do explore for years on end. Needs a long skill curve. Elite Dangerous should do the trick here.

2. I need a deep fps. Something deep enough that I can spend years digging into. Battlefield 5 if it's allowed. I'll take BF4 if it's not.

3. GTAV is a no brainer. 20 years and I might be able to grind enough money for half the content.

4. Forza 7. I'll need a racing game, and Forza is the best. My drifting would become epic.

5. Rocket League. I never seem to tire of that game.

PC

GTAV

Skyrim

Oblivion

Morrowind

Overwatch

Dreamcast

• Toy Commander
• Fur Fighters
• Power Stone 2
• Sonic Adventure 2
• Crazy Taxi 2

PC

• Counter Strike Source
• Starcraft II
• Rocket League
• Batman Arkham City
• Team Fortress 2

SNES (It was available 20 years ago so it counts)

Super Mario World

Yoshi's Island

Super Metroid

A Link to the Past

Super Mario All Stars

If All Stars doesn't count then replace it with Chrono Trigger or FF3.