Gextra Life 2022 happened back on November 12th. Now that the stream is being archived on Youtube (playlist here, one segment goes live per day until the end), here's my own personal listicle of what we played:

• Dishonorable Mention: Saturday Supercade and the Bubsy cartoon pilot. Not games, disqualified from the list. The sound quality on the rips made it very easy to lose focus when we're already trying to pay attention to the chat and donor messages as well. Highlight: ordering the sandwiches
• 13: Drake of the 99 Dragons (XBox). Not every infamously bad game makes good stream content. Please let us get to the part of the level that unlocks health pickups, come on now. Automatic end of the list as the only game we stopped early. Highlight: the booty tooch
• 12: Gex: Enter the Gecko (GBC). The twin draws of Gex, best-selling game in the history of the 3DO, were wall climbing and quips. The Gameboy color versions have neither. Bad platforming. Bad music. Not good. Highlight: Gex is silent
• 11: Superman 64 (N64): There's just so much to talk about, including my personal childhood history, that I'm not sure 30 minutes was enough. I love being able to summon ancient muscle memory to make this game kind of work, and show off at least one level. Highlight: with chat aiding my memory, saving the Dam in the final seconds
• 10: Gex 3: Deep Pocket Gecko (GBC). Mostly the same game as the previous handheld Gex, but with improved animations and fun costumes. Highlight: Gex has a forward-facing frame in his animations
• 9: Michigan: Report from Hell (PS2). This is a game about a company with the fastest onboarding process in America. Chicago is being destroyed one reporter at a time. Highlight: Brisco Boost
• 8: Mr Nutz (SNES). A platformer with no aesthetic unity, or clarity in level design, or plot before the final screen. But he's a cute scamp with a name that invites dirty jokes, so we love him. Highlight: showing the shell baby freaks to two separate stream audiences
• 7: Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Batuta: Episode 1 (PS3). A true vertical slice of Great Value Uncharted. We got platforming, one environmental puzzle, one walkthrough story segment, one chase, gunfights, people spinning historical fact into adventure fantasy. It's all here except eye contact, polish, or personality. Highlight: our hero being immune to giant boulders until he very much was not.
• 6: Lifeline (PS2): I wish our setup allowed the Gex soundboard to be live during this game, I have to see these two interact. I'd be very happy to see this one continued just because of Rio's personality. I have to think her no-nonsense attitude is a way to make the inaccurate voice recognition diegetic. You can imagine she really does hear you demand a "sexy pose", she's just ignoring you. Highlight: Rio asking her boss if he kisses his mother with that mouth.
• 5: Gex the Gecko in Sonic 1 (Romhack)(PC): The best-playing Gex game ever made. Highlight: getting directly told off by designer comments in the end credits
• 4: The Bouncer (PS2). Sometimes all you need in life is one good move to spam, and the worst fit in town. Highlight: @Voidburger's glee at kill-stealing the AI teammates before they can do it to her.
• 3: The Adventures of Gilligan's Island (NES). A dynamic dialog system in 1990? Tied to a survival/adventure/exploration game that's all built to the structure of a sitcom? AND the gag writing perfectly emulates the show??? I'm still thinking about how impressive this game is even though I never want to play it to completion. Highlight: Eating my sandwich
• 2: Assassin 2015 (PC). Full motion video killcams! And the motion has never been fuller. All these beefcake manly men made of balloon animals are here to do violence. Highlight: I wish I loved anything as much as that lady loves pushing buttons
• 1: Exodus from the Earth (PC). Fuck it, whole thing is the highlight. The sun is turning upside-down and we can break a regime with a trash can. Let's play golf with dismembered limbs in front of a rep from the children's hospital. The office politics of walking over bodies. God this game owns.

Special thanks to Big Challenges for making an imgur album of the fanart. Donations are still open at Gextra.Life until December 31st.