The greatest game EVER is Bomb Jack on the CPC 464! It had no pause function and was for me the crack of the game playing world. I used to play it for hours as you couldn't stop.
Bomb Jack on the C64 in a joystick was the first time my (now 6 year old) actually read. a few months before his 3rd birthday, I was playing trying out Bomb Jack for the first time. He walks in, and asks me "What's Bomb Jack?" He had memorized words before that, but "Bomb Jack" was the first think I ever saw him read words he had previously never seen before.
So, while I doubt I would put Bomb Jack on the list for game play, it definitely get's high marks for being my son's first truly read words.
