The 50 best video games of all time, according to critics

The 50 best games of all time are a surprisingly diverse list of games spanning decades of consoles.There are iconic household names, cult classics, and forgotten gems.Did your favorite game make the list？ Let's find out.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.There are dozens of ways you could put together a list of the best video games ever made. You could look to classics, like “Super Mario Bros.”You could look at impact on the medium, or highest sales. You could write down your personal favorites on pieces of paper, then throw them into the air. Where the pieces land？ That's your list!But what we've got here is something slightly more scientific. Reviews aggregation site Metacritic compiles all reviews of games, then it averages those scores into an overall average. What you'll find below is the top 50 highest-rated games of all time, based on the averages obtained by Metacritic.