Editing Episode 042 - The Best Games of 2010

Released September 10, 2021 ''[https://shows.acast.com/the-back-page-a-video-games-podcast/episodes/6249ec71be92a6001320e9b0 listen]''

Show notes:<blockquote>''Two very different top 10 lists from 2010, one of the best years of gaming in modern memory. The usual mix of magazine memories and news from the time. That’s it! Enjoy.''</blockquote><blockquote>''This week’s music is from the Red Dead Redemption soundtrack by Bill Elm & Woody Jackson, the Halo Reach soundtrack by Marty O’Donnell, the Alan Wake soundtrack by Poets of the Fall and Petri Alanko, and the Super Mario Galaxy 2 soundtrack by Mahito Yokota, Ryo Nagamatsu and Koji Kondo.''</blockquote>
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Rank
!Matthew's Picks
!Samuel's Picks
|-
|10
|''Trauma Team''
|''Final Fantasy XII''
|-
|9
|''Bayonetta''
|''Fable III''
|-
|8
|''Professor Layton and the Lost Future''
|''Alan Wake''
|-
|7
|''Mass Effect 2''
|''Fallout: New Vegas''
|-
|6
|''Infinite Space''
|''Vanquish''
|-
|5
|''Castlevania: Lords of Shadow''
|''BioShock 2''
|-
|4
|''Red Dead Redemption''
|''Halo: Reach''
|-
|3
|''999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors''
|''Bayonetta''
|-
|2
|''Last Window: The Secret of Cape West''
|''Mass Effect 2''
|-
|1
|''Super Mario Galaxy''
|''Red Dead Redemption''
|-
|
!Honourable Mentions
!Honourable Mentions
|-
|
|''Metroid: Other M''
|''Heavy Rain''
|-
|
|''Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction''
|''God of War III''
|-
|
|''Donkey Kong Country Returns''
|''Just Cause 2''
|-
|
|''Picross 3D''
|''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood''
|-
|
|''Battlefield: Bad Company 2''
|''Split/Second: Velocity''
|-
|
|''Golden Sun: Dark Dawn''
|''Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit''
|-
|
|''Sin and Punishment: Successor of the Skies''
|''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''
|-
|
|''Mafia II''
|''Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver''
|-
|
|''Red Steel 2''
|''Mafia II''
|-
|
|
|''Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II''
|}

=== Lore: ===
This is the first episode in which reference is made to a comment referring to Matthew and Samuel as "gaming gammons"
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