50 Top 10 Lists of 2007

Top 10 Video Games

#4. Super Mario Galaxy

That Bowser! He really doesn't get tired of kidnapping Princess Peach, does he? The story is hoary, but everything else about this Mario game is absolutely new: the wee mustachioed plumber is now in outer space, zipping through a spinning, candy-colored, deliriously surprising universe of tiny Little Prince-like planetoids, chasing his nemesis and servicing his endless addiction to those sparkly stars.

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