Well this might be good forgotten console games article (dont know myself since only console I owned was Atart 2600) but its shitty forgotten PC games article.
Your failure is assuming that the PC is the be-all and end-all of gaming. It isn't. As a piece that covers the entire gaming spectrum, this article is very good, and doubly so because it comes from mainstream media.
# 3D Deathrace is one of the highest-rated Spectrum games of all time by reviewers, mostly because it's a programming marvel on a tiny system. The article doesn't mention it, but pretty much everyone who played it back in the day imagined themselves re-enacting the speederbike chase from
Return of the Jedi while playing.
# That the article not only names Aliens: The Computer Game (and not the strangely named U.S. Aliens) is interesting, and I find it outright amazing that it claims that it is superior to Colonial Marines. But it IS a very fascinating game, if primitive. But the article is spot on about one thing - this game was the scariest video game experience you could get that involved the Xenomorphs for 13 years running. It wasn't until Rebellion's Alien vs Predator in 1999 that a successor could be named. If anyone's interested in giving it a try, there's a nice
remake available, with some extra features added.
# For those wondering about FreQuency, one of the people working at Harmonix is Eric Brosius, of Looking Glass Studios fame. That should help sate those looking for PC gaming connections in this list.
# I only own two games on this list, and Oni is one of them. I haven't touched that game in about 13 years, but I remember liking it because it was a 3D take on the standard arcade beat-em'up. IIRC, the story and plot wasn't too bad but the game was overly challenging by my tastes. Clearly a console title first and foremost.
# I love when The Neverhood gets some respect, it deserves so much more of it. It was a brave and bold attempt in game design, from an era when people weren't afraid to experiment.
# Another fact that the article doesn't mention is that Pyjamarama is part of a series, so to say. The main character starred in at least one other game, Everyone's A Wally, and possibly in 3 Weeks in Paradise as well. There was a lot of that on the 8-bit computers back in the day, the same protagonist popping up in several (and sometimes unrelated) titles.
# But of the 30 titles named, I only recognize half of them. I'm never going to proclaim that I'm an expert on gaming, but when you've been gaming for close to 30 years, you tend to pick up a few things. Some of the unfamiliar titles sound very fascinating, which is more than can be said for 95% of games released nowadays.