First 25
26. Alien Chaos 3D (3DS)
27. Return Fire (3DO/PS1)
28. Puppeteer (PS3)
29. Giana Sisters DS (DS)
30. Street of Rage 2 (GEN)
31. Halo 2 (XBOX)
32. OutRun (ARCADE/GBA)
33. Dig Dug (ARCADE/GBA)
34. Tron (ARCADE/GBA)
35. Spider Man (2600)
36. One-on-One Basketball (7800)
37. Jak & Daxter (PS2/PS3)
38. Front Line (ARCADE/PS2)
One credit. One high score. One white flag.
In Taito's Front Line - which is included in Taito Legends 2 (PS2) - you play as a lone soldier tasked with overcoming incredible odds and destroying an enemy fort. To do so, you proceed through varied terrain from an overhead perspective, and shoot everything that crosses your path. Once you are about half-way to your goal, you can board various tanks that allow you more firepower and allow you to move a bit more rapidly. The tanks also allow you to take an extra hit before dying; so riding them is critical to survival. (Especially since the enemies in the last half of the game are also in tanks...which cannot be destroyed by your soldier's bullets.) Once you throw a grenade into the enemy's fort, it is destroyed, and an enemy soldier waves a white flag. The game then loops back to the beginning (but with a different background color).
The game's influence is undeniable, and game play elements it pioneered are present in everything from Capcom's Commando to SNK's Metal Slug and Bungie's Halo. The game has not held up very well, however, and I doubt I will spend much more time with it. (The hit detection is horrible, and the soldier shoots about as rapidly as the ship in Space Invaders.)