It didn't make my list, but I love you for mentioning this, because I assumed no one else had ever heard of Tex Murphy (and boy am I excited about their kickstarter).
Well, here's my list, I've proven I'm the only person who deserves a ticket on the No. 9:
1.
Grim Fandango - one of the most original, beautiful, creative settings in any game, with the coolest main character of any game (in one year he turns a dumpy diner into Casino Calavera!). I am pretty sad NO ONE else had this on their list, I think it was the high point of adventure gaming.
2. Fallout 2 (41)
3. X-Com: UFO Defense (whoever included this is also my friend)
4. Baldur's Gate II (32)
5. Mass Effect (16)
6. Wing Commander 3 (seriously? no love for wing commander? are you all ****ing 20 year olds? Jesus, play a space opera for once in your life)
7. Civ IV (31)
8. Company of Heroes (biggest surprise to me not being on here)
9. Curse of Monkey Island voters (also new friends, whoever included this)
10. Brother's In Arms: Hell's Highway
The biggest surprise to me is that apparently no one else voted for Company of Heroes. In my mind it is both the best tactical RTS and best WWII game ever made, both in terms of game mechanics and art style (and how good it looks, RTS games should not have as much details as FPS games). I'm really really surprised not a single other person included this.
Also, you people need to buy computers and download stuff from GOG. I guess I'm the only person who didn't like Ocarina of Time, but I can think of at least five other games from 1998 that I enjoyed more than OoT. Also, wtf is Chrono Trigger?
I guess I'm also really surprised Fallout 3 is so high, I assumed everyone thought it was worse than New Vegas. Maybe that's a divide between people who played the originals or not, because I found Fallout 3 pretty boring (largely because there was very little of a society in that wasteland, whereas I thought New Vegas got back to the original in the number of characters with whom and locations that you had interactions). Neither were as good as 1 or 2, but NV at least felt more like it was in the same world to me. Seriously, you people who loved 3 need to go find FO2 on GOG or something...