It's funny, because my PC gaming experience is almost entirely the opposite - it started in 1985 or so with Infocom and Sierra adventure games, and died in 1990 with Doom.
Doom wasn't until a few years after that, but I see your point. It really was about that time that PC gaming sort of left its 1980s staples and started its move to some of the genres and conventions of the modern era. Often that transition was quite clumsy. But it was a time when PCs were delievering a distinctly different experience than what the consoles of those days were offering. If that was a formative time for your gaming tastes, playing on the PC in the early 1990s will
definitely yield a different list of favorites than if you had that same experience playing on consoles of that same era.
Anyways, there's a lot of good games on his list - but they're the sort of stuff I'd expect to see rounding out a balanced top 25, not as an exclusive top 10. Say what you will about "console" games - there should be a place for Tetris in any reasonable listing.
I didn't play Tetris until I tried out the version on a friend's Gameboy. I was never impressed with it, or its many derivatives over the years. One man's trash is another man's treasure, and by no means is any narrow top 10 best of list going to reflect anything but subjective opinions.
And Gears of War? Halo? COD4? If you're going to let Halo in on an "influence" technicality, then other missing games (GTA, Mario, Zelda) become a bit more of an oversight. Even so, I really doubt that two of the top ten games of all time are last year's Xbox 360 shooter and this year's Xbox 360 shooter.
I think those are terrible picks, but they are pretty much in line with a PC gamer flunking out of that platform and moving on to the Xbox and the 360. My whole point with my post was that formative influences matter greatly when it comes to picking out lists like this, and the lack of Japanese console games can be easily explained by looking at said influences in the article I linked and the snip I posted.
As an aside,I think that choosing stuff like Wing Commander, Civ4, Starcraft, Doom, and Sim City aren't bad picks for a top ten at all. Oddly enough, I also find
The Sims to be second most odious choice on that list behind Wii sports.
