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My Top Eleven Most Important Video Games

--- In no particular order ---

Tetris --- considered by many people to still be the greatest puzzle game ever.  Defined the puzzle genre.  This game proved puzzle games can be addictive and fun

Super Mario Bros. --- paved the way for creative 2d sidescrolling action with hidden secrets to boot...catapulted Mario to success.  First console videogame with a tune many people find catchy. 

Legend of Zelda --- 1st console game that let you save your adventure.  Non-linear gameplay.  One world with no levels.

Wolfenstein 3D --- one of the 1st FPS.  Paved way for other FPS games. One of the 1st "gory" games on the market.

Super Mario 64 --- 1st game to nail the 3D adventure traveling correctly...1st game to use true analog control

Mortal Kombat --- The game that was the major cause of the formation of the ESRB.  There was such a stir about the violence and gore in this game, that Nintendo changed the blood to green and took out the fatalities on SNES. When released in arcades, this game caused Senator Lieberman (sp?) to panic and caused much debate about game violence

Pong --- need I say more?

ET --- who says "important" games have to be "good" games?  This game stunk, but the important thing is that the arrogance of Atari for believing that just because the movie ET was a phenominal hit, that they could release a game of terrible quality and kids would buy it no matter what.  Atari released more ET cartridges than the number of Atari 2600s in existence.  The important part is that the game flopped hard and was the major cause of the videogame market crash in 1983

EverQuest --- the success of this game paved the way for developers to bring forth the MMO revolution.

Body Harvest --- paved the way for the "free-roam"  3D game genre later mastered by RockStar with the GTA series.  Because of Body Harvest, we now see games like GTA, Crackdown, Just Cause, Saints Row.  Body Harvest was a new and different genre than any other at the time of release.

Populous --- Considered by many to be the 1st true "God game".  This paved the way for SimCity, The Sims, etc.

You forgot Dragon Quest.

Without Dragon Quest, no Final Fantasy, and no Final Fantasy, gaming in Japan wouldn't be this big.
TriangleHard

Just because Body Harvest "paved the way" (it didn't really, people overrate this game) doesn't mean you shouldn't list GTAIII which really mastered and created its own genre.

Gaming would be nothing right about now without GTAIII.
the-very-best

What about MGS - Started off he whole stealth genre in a new way. Made stealth games what they are today and still is the ultimate stealth game their is.pokajabba

My Top Eleven Most Important Video Games

--- In no particular order ---

Tetris --- considered by many people to still be the greatest puzzle game ever.  Defined the puzzle genre.  This game proved puzzle games can be addictive and fun

Super Mario Bros. --- paved the way for creative 2d sidescrolling action with hidden secrets to boot...catapulted Mario to success.  First console videogame with a tune many people find catchy. 

Legend of Zelda --- 1st console game that let you save your adventure.  Non-linear gameplay.  One world with no levels.

Wolfenstein 3D --- one of the 1st FPS.  Paved way for other FPS games. One of the 1st "gory" games on the market.

Super Mario 64 --- 1st game to nail the 3D adventure traveling correctly...1st game to use true analog control

Mortal Kombat --- The game that was the major cause of the formation of the ESRB.  There was such a stir about the violence and gore in this game, that Nintendo changed the blood to green and took out the fatalities on SNES. When released in arcades, this game caused Senator Lieberman (sp?) to panic and caused much debate about game violence

Pong --- need I say more?

ET --- who says "important" games have to be "good" games?  This game stunk, but the important thing is that the arrogance of Atari for believing that just because the movie ET was a phenominal hit, that they could release a game of terrible quality and kids would buy it no matter what.  Atari released more ET cartridges than the number of Atari 2600s in existence.  The important part is that the game flopped hard and was the major cause of the videogame market crash in 1983

EverQuest --- the success of this game paved the way for developers to bring forth the MMO revolution.

Body Harvest --- paved the way for the "free-roam"  3D game genre later mastered by RockStar with the GTA series.  Because of Body Harvest, we now see games like GTA, Crackdown, Just Cause, Saints Row.  Body Harvest was a new and different genre than any other at the time of release.

Populous --- Considered by many to be the 1st true "God game".  This paved the way for SimCity, The Sims, etc.

AvIdGaMeR444

:lol: @ ET.

Tetris... Super Mario Bros..... Mortal Kombat ...... (---- I can agree with those.. Can't say I can agree with the rest though-supercharged-

Just because Body Harvest "paved the way" (it didn't really, people overrate this game) doesn't mean you shouldn't list GTAIII which really mastered and created its own genre.

Gaming would be nothing right about now without GTAIII.
the-very-best

Just because Body Harvest "paved the way" (it didn't really, people overrate this game) doesn't mean you shouldn't list GTAIII which really mastered and created its own genre.

Gaming would be nothing right about now without GTAIII.
the-very-best