Pokémon White: No points for guessing which Pokémon I take with me absolutely everywhere - it's Swoobat. His name is Bartleby, and his strange split-down-the-middle mono-ear perplexes me, but he is awesome all the same.

La Mulana: Every few months I'll pick this game up and make surprising progress with it until I get horribly stuck again. But this every-few-months approach to the game means I've come surprisingly far without doing any cheating or looking anything up, so I can't start now.

Drakkhen: I played this a lot as a kid, but after revisiting it randomly as an adult I see all sorts of surprising things in it that I didn't really have the ability to recognise or appreciate then. It has an open world you can explore freely in first-person 3D, a story of civil war among clans of dragons, name spellings that suggest a unique phonology and language more than generic fantasy, a passive and vaguely-directed battle system strangely reminiscent of Final Fantasy XIII, and oh yeah, giant dragon tits.

The Black Cauldron: When you're given BMMPXF you're not told what it does, where to use it, or how it's pronounced. All you're told is "use it wisely!". "Use it wisely" turns out to mean "shout it on every screen until you find the one where something happens". So it's just like the book, really.