The games listed here are only representatives of their respective franchises, and do not exactly represent MY favourite entries in each of them.
These may change as I’m exposed to different games as time goes on; in any case, these are the games that shaped my taste in videogames, and myself as a gamer, throughout the ongoing course of my life.

The list consists of:
1. Mega Man (Capcom)
2. Castlevania (Konami)
3. Metal Gear Solid (Konami)
4. Metroid (Nintendo)
5. The Legend of Zelda (Nintendo)
6. Shin Megami Tensei (Atlus)
7. Shenmue (SEGA)
8. Sonic the Hedgehog (SEGA)
9. The Team ICO games (Sony / genDESIGN)
10. The “Kill the Past” series (Grasshopper Manufacture)

Honourable mentions:
11. Pokémon (Nintendo)
12. Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
13. Dragon Quest (Square Enix)
14. The Elder Scrolls (Bethesda)
15. Persona (Atlus)