Are there guilty gaming pleasures in your life? Do you go to message boards and talk endlessly about the hip new game to be cool, but secretly you spend hours in seclusion training your Nintendog to obey your sit order? A little too addicted to Animal Crossing and don't want anyone to know it? So what are the top guilty pleasures of gaming?

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The word hardcore when applied to gamers tends to paint a picture of a person who plays games like Halo, Grand Theft Auto, and Gears of War, not someone who sits with his little Nintendo DS and plays hours of Cooking Mama or Super Princess Peach. Believe it or not though, every hardcore gamer has his or her favorite game that they would rather not admit to others that they play, or even tend to feel funny while playing.

We call these our guilty pleasure games, and though there is nothing wrong with playing them, we still feel a little goofy or bad for playing them. You can't tell me that you haven't felt a little embarrassed when a woman on the subway leans over to see what you're playing on your Nintendo DS and gives a cute smirk when she is greeted by images of little critters digging for fossils in a cartoon environment or felt bad when you've spend 10 hours straight playing Civilization when you're friend wanted you to go out with them.

Never fear though, there are thousands of other gamers out there that are playing those guilty pleasure games too and to prove it, here's a list of the top 14 guilty pleasures of gaming.

Read the full article over at destructoid.com