Wil Wheaton is a gamer as well as an actor. Discover what classic games delight his inner and outer geek.

Not only will you see us help Wil Wheaton install a CD burner on a Linux system on our Wednesday show, but you can also find out about his gaming obsessions below.

My top five Atari 2600 Games

  1. Kaboom! -- I'd score it higher, but it's jut too damn hard on the higher levels.
  2. Combat -- One word: Invisible tank pong with maximum walls. Close your eyes and make the sounds in your head. Now just try to be unhappy.
  3. Circus Atari -- If you didn't already have a paddle controller because of "Kaboom!," you'd get it for this game.
  4. Pitfall! -- Please tell me I'm not the only person who tried to get to the "end" of this game.
  5. Yar's Revenge -- The best "giant-insects-attacking-the-base-while-trying-to-use-the-big-ass-cannon-that-you-cant-fire-from-the-neutral-zone" game EVER!


My top five role-playing games

  1. D&D Basic Rules, color-them-in-dice, The Keep on the Borderlands module
  2. GURPS Autoduel, including all the Uncle Albert's Catalogues
  3. GURPS Illuminatti, with a bit of Horror
  4. D&D 3rd Edition
  5. My friend Terry's GURPS Space adventure, circa 1989, when I got a critical success roll while trying to disguise myself as the president, who I was trying to assassinate. The critical success made my disguise perfectly match the person I was trying to kill, so I totally messed up the entire campaign by walking around firing the president's entire cabinet.


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