Hydroelectric power has killed far more people than nuclear ever has:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

This was a worse disaster than Chernobyl but hydroelectric power is "green" so people forget about it.

Marathon had a superior engine and a real story, but that's missing the point of FPSs. Doom II is the correct choice because it had the most intense and exciting action of any game of its time. A good FPS is about fast paced relentless violence. Any breaks for story only water that down.

Marathon should be compared to System Shock and Deus Ex (which are more adventure games than FPSs), and it's inferior to both of them.

And despite the good choice of Doom II, most of this list is terrible. Flower and Flow aren't even games.

No >60Hz TV support true high frame rate input, they only interpolate slower inputs. It's possible that your BluRay player is outputting 24fps but your TV only supports interpolating 60fps. It's also possible your BluRay player is converting the 24fps to 30fps before it reaches the TV, which will add its own motion artifacts.

I'm using a ViewSonic VX2268wm, but if I was buying a 120Hz LCD for the first time now I'd probably get a LG W2363D.

It has everything to do with latency. Most software takes more than one frame to react to input, so halving frame time noticeably reduces latency. I'm also an "old school quake head", and I'm just as sensitive to latency. I stuck with a CRT until true 120Hz LCDs became available, because they are the first LCDs that aren't an obvious step down from CRTs. Even so, in a side by side comparison the CRT has slightly better motion quality, so we really do need 240Hz LCDs.

Note also that CRT flicker is a good thing if you're displaying fixed framerate 60Hz content (and there's a lot of that out there), because it's the only way to avoid sample-and-hold blur without adding more latency and motion artifacts with interpolation.

If you care about quality you should care about arcades. Arcades force ruthless competition between games. Only the best earn enough to be worth their floor space. Developers are forced to innovate, and good ideas spread to the rest of the industry.

This essay explains the greatness of arcades:
http://insomnia.ac/commentary/arcade_culture/