I was actually a big fan of Unfinished Swan. Granted, the controls were unwieldly at times, but it had a fascinating premise and a solid message about creating things for your own sake rather than merely cultivating a legacy.

I never felt like I really understood the whole ‘what if the Russians find out!?’ issue. The gate and the Upside Down pose a serious threat to humanity, but it isn’t something that can be controlled, replicated or even really stolen. Hawkins Lab isn’t exploiting the Upside Down; it’s doing all it can to contain it,…

I love the Monster Fighters range on paper, but ironically I think the Haunted House could be a little stronger. It needs a little more furniture inside to really bring it to life.

I wish Lego would make this more of a regular thing- kind of like the Lego Legends line they released when I was a child. There’s some amazing sets in their back catalogue (like the Medieval Market Village) that have yet to receive a modern-day equivalent.

I feel like a console sequel is just right. The gameplay in Attack the Light was pretty excellent but the environments were pretty bland and boring to actually move around. Hopefully the new ones will have some more personality.

Unfortunately my first thought was teaming up Margaret Hamilton and... Margaret Hamilton.

I also recommend Loonacy (which is basically free-for-all snap), Seven Dragons (a simple colour-matching game with a surprising amount of strategy) and Blokus, which is an elegant means of screwing over three other people with brightly coloured squares.

While I think trying to improve on the current controller design is worthwhile, I also think there’s one element a lot of controllers never got right- the D-pad.

With or without giant mammary glands?

I realise it’ll never be seen as the definitive version or anything, but I’m a big fan of PS2 Half-Life. It adds in a little extra visual detail on the health and armour stations, Gordon is actually shown arriving at the training facility in the tutorial, and you can even play the game as a Vortigaunt thanks to a…

The original Red Faction looks and plays similarly to Half-Life 1, but with some added stealth and vehicular sections. Area 51 and Timesplitters are other options, but they move a little further towards the shooter end of the spectrum.

He was also the voice of Spyro in the original Spyro the Dragon game!

Yes.

I’d argue a lot of things are better than Spaceballs, to be honest.

I don’t have a horse in this race (having yet to watch either film) but I feel like there’s two things in play here. I mean, Blazing Saddles may have something more meaningful to say than Young Frankenstein, but is it funnier? And is that a distinction the BBC made when putting this list together?

I’m glad I’m not too fussed about getting a SNES classic because the idea of jumping through this many hoops for a goddamn box of emulators is ridiculous. I mean, I hope you enjoy it, but it sucks the stars had to align just so you could preorder it.

I think this was probably the best path Lego could have taken for a project like this. If The Lego Movie (and the likes of Clutch Powers) have shown us anything it’s that making a properly Lego-ified animation needs a lot of money and effort throwing at it to look halfway decent. Sidestepping that and acknowledging…

Apparently the ‘girlified’ Lego is far more popular with its target audience than the conventional stuff; it’s not a case of Lego foisting a stereotypical view of femininity on girls so much as girls preferring the design of those sets. And really, I suppose that’s all that really matters.

My starting world was a toxic planet where I died within 15 minutes because I didn’t know mining in full sight of the robots was a bad idea. Trudging across the wasteland for a good half an hour with failing life support just to fix my ship made for an interesting start.

Here in the UK, Lego rereleases last year’s Winter Village set around the same time as the new one. I was able to get the updated Winter Toy Shop last year as a result.