A more believable retort would have been something to the effect of "while those 20 titles picked by Apple don't correspond exactly to my top picks, they are generally excellent, and aforementioned bias notwithstanding, my own game is deserving of some praise, so I praised it here" For the record, I'm still trying to come up with 10 must-haves, which requires a little more consideration than just tossing out a list made by someone else.
