I actually liked this review. Now I may not agree with all the places of the games (uhhh Tetris @ #3), I do think that all the games that need to be on there actually are. Games like River City Ransom, Dune 2 & Sonic the Hedgehog were games I really enjoyed and up on the list with full contextual detail of what made them so great.
However there are a few sore points to this. Some of the descriptions are downright misleading:
On Red Alert:
"But while the original C&C often found itself contending with Blizzard's Warcraft brand for supremacy, Red Alert really had no equal. Westwood's alternate history RTS presented unparalleled strategy that perfectly married currently-applicable RTS interface conventions with diverse units to create some utterly compelling gameplay."
Westwood had C&C and RA, Blizzard had Warcraft 2 and Starcraft, yes RA not only had an "equal" in SC, but SC was way better. Red Alert was woefully unbalanced heavily favoring the soviets and it really became a matter of who could build more war factories in order to churn out Mammoth Tanks every 3 seconds...
Oh Tecmo Super Bowl:
"In fact, Barry Saders was so fast, many tournaments actually instituted a no-Detroit rule."
You mean Bo Jackson? He was THE fastest character in the game. And when I mean fast, he could run in a strait line and people couldn't catch him (an impossibilty in TSB standards).
On Sonic the Hedgehog:
"For a while, Sonic the Hedgehog was the most recognized mascot in the entire world, bigger than Mickey Mouse and more recognized than the beloved Mario."
I'll make this brief: I am a Genesis owner, and even I say "Whatever" to this absurd statement.
+ Note: Was any copy of the Mega Man not good enough to make this list? What about Flight Sims? None of the Tycoon Series?