Influential Games
February 27, 2009 9:18 pmAwards handed out recently include Consumer’s Digest naming The Prius the best car you can buy, the Academy Awards naming Slumdog Millionaire the best movie you could have seen last year and The Guiness Book of World’s Records naming these the 10 most influential games ever:
1. Super Mario Kart
2. Tetris
3. Grand Theft Auto
4. Super Mario World
5. Zelda Ocarina of Time
6. Halo
7. Resident Evil IV
8. Final Fantasy XII
9. Street Fighter II
10. GoldenEye
This is a ridiculous list.
At the top should be, I think:
1) Super Mario Bros.
2) Ultima
3) Wolfenstein 3D
4) The Legend of Zelda
5) Tetris
6) Alone In the Dark
7) Test Drive
Madden Series
9) Street Fighter II
10) Bomberman
11) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
12) The Romance of the three Kingdoms
2 Responses to “Influential Games”
I like Tetris!
What about Pong? they don’t consider it influential?
I remember I could never get the hang of the controls in GoldenEye – pretty much anything that requires more than A and the arrows/joystick, or the occasional B to jump (or Z to fire) is beyond my co-ordination level ^_^ . . . Super Smash Bros is completely out of the question! XD I do like Rock Band and Guitar Hero, though.
Most of my favourite video games apparently weren’t the most influential . . . Loved Super Mario Bros for NES, though.
Pong was awesome!
Did you ever play Combat on the Atari 2600? That game was amazing too, it was like the first great death match game (Mario Kart was kind of like a modern update in a way.
Tetris is great too. But kind of too simple, though I guess that’s the source of its elegance.
My favourite game ever (Half-Life) I didn’t even put on my list, it’s the greatest, but just not what I’d consider revolutionary.
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