What is the most important game (to the gaming industry) ever made? (Poll)

I had to go with Super Mario Bros that was packaged with the NES in "86". The console and game alone revitalized the console gaming market. So without that combo. You wouldnt have your Xbox 360's or Playstations 3's.

xOMGITSJASONx

super mario brothers without question. i know pong brought it to the masses but super mario brothers saved it from collapse.

lazerface216

While Pong was the first successful video game, it was actually Space Invaders and Pac-Man that brought video games to the masses during the golden age of arcade games.

Doom was not an online game, you could only play Doom over linked PC's and closed networks. About 6 months after Doom shareware blew the roof off the BBS's, DWANGO started up and you could dial into hosted games, for a monthly fee + the phone charges (if applicable)

Quake shipped with actual internet online play. Huge difference, and Id designed Quake multiplayer for that purpose. IMO, Doom and Quake are both very huge steps, especially for the PC market. Plus the Quake engine... so much stuff was made with it, and companies like Valve were able to get started because of the way Carmack basically gave the code out to anyone that had a good idea and some tech savvy.

But I can see how it can be said that one was a direct result of the other.

evilross

Yes, but it was Doom that initiated the process that would be complete with Quake. While Quake built on Doom and certainly improved on it in many ways with its own innovations, its legacy is too heavily dependent on Doom, so I don't see how that would necessarily make it more important than, say, the likes of Wolfenstein 3D, GoldenEye 007, Half-Life or even Halo? I still think it would have been better to replace Quake with a different game from another genre, with Space Invaders or Pong being obvious examples.

Without Pong, you wouldn't have had SMB.

Ohh snapSilverbond

But then, we could go back even further and say without Spacewar, there wouldn't be Pong... but I know what you mean.

Super Mario Brothers is probably the single most influential game ever made. Doom would certainly be up there as well. I'd even say FF7 was really influential too. Super Mario 64 had a big say on how 3D design and controls would work.

But the single most important is still Super Mario Brothers.

I think Metal Gear Solid #1 changed the stealth gaming market a fair bit.

Metal Gear Solid 4 by far imo. It might just be me, but I think the best game ever made also counts as being important to the industry.

Call of duty 4.TheAcountantMan

Modern Warfare 2SamiRDuran

SMB is the first modern game and Miyamoto is the father of modern gaming so i'll go with that.

GTA III was very influential :)

Metal Gear Solid 4 by far imo. It might just be me, but I think the best game ever made also counts as being important to the industry.

Mozelleple112

We're talking about games, not interactive movies.

And since nothing ever takes any sort of influence from MGS...especially MGS4...yeaaaah.

doom with halo ce and half life continuings it legacy

[QUOTE="TheAcountantMan"]Call of duty 4.KungfuKitten

Modern Warfare 2SamiRDuran

I'm gonna guess they only started playing in this generation :|

Super Mario 64.

Ultima Underworld: Stygian Abyss kicked major ass.

Wolfenstein 3d was only a superficial revolution for those who missed true technical achievement that happened two months before it, a game which overshadowed it and surpassed it in every way possible, and I'll explain why:

Salt_The_Fries

Did you know that Wolfenstein 3D's engine was influenced by a tech demo of Ultima Underworld? Ultima Underworld had a big influence on the early FPS genre, despite the game having very little impact on the industry the way Wolfenstein and Doom did.

We're talking about games, not interactive movies.

And since nothing ever takes any sort of influence from MGS...especially MGS4...yeaaaah.

ChubbyGuy40

Most action games since the late 90s (especially ones with stealth elements, cover mechanics, cut scenes, or artistic aspirations) have been influenced by the MGS series... but certainly not MGS4, which is far too recent to have had any noticeable impact.

The first popular and classic games. Space invaders, pacman etc.LustForSoul

Interestingly, Space Invaders and Pac-Man are the highest-grossing video games of all time. In today's money, the amount of revenue they grossed from quarters dropped into arcade machines would be $2.5 billion for Space Invaders and $3.5 billion for Pac-Man, and that's not even including the additional revenue they grossed from the sales of arcade machines and home software ports. Unfortunately, a lot of gamers seem to have forgotten just how popular and mainstream video games were during the golden age of arcade games in the early 80s, probably more so than today.

I would say SMB, Legend of Zelda, Space Invaders, Ultima III, Utopia, Wolf3D (and/or Ultima Underworld if the above post is accurate) and maybe Quake.

Ultimately I think either SMB or Space Invaders had the biggest far-reaching impact of one single game.

In order:

1) Pong

2) Pacman

3) Pitfall

4) Donkey Kong

5) Supermario bros

6) Sports games:Madden, NHL, Fifa

7) Gran Tourismo

8. Steet Fighter2

9) Doom

10) COD4

Well if I have to choose out of those given, without using "other" cause I dont roll that way, I say Doom. Why? Look at gaming landscape these days. Its hard not to see that the FPS genre is at this point the most popular. So you could say an early FPS has had more of an impact than lets say Mario. Sure there are platformers around but quite frankly pure platformers are rare. I remember loving Jak and Daxter, only to see it turn into a shooter, a sad day that was.

1. Grand Theft Auto III

2. Halo: CE

3. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Lol @ anyone who said CO4, that game has basically destroyed online gaming.BigBoss255

It's super clear it's either quake or doom, fps hasn't changed much but platforming has, hell platforming hardly exists anymore but guess what does. FPS.

Super Mario Brother Shmuper Shmario Shmothers

Pong, Pac-Man, Tetris

Well if I have to choose out of those given, without using "other" cause I dont roll that way, I say Doom. Why? Look at gaming landscape these days. Its hard not to see that the FPS genre is at this point the most popular. So you could say an early FPS has had more of an impact than lets say Mario. Sure there are platformers around but quite frankly pure platformers are rare. I remember loving Jak and Daxter, only to see it turn into a shooter, a sad day that was.

rzepak

It's super clear it's either quake or doom, fps hasn't changed much but platforming has, hell platforming hardly exists anymore but guess what does. FPS.

Super Mario Brother Shmuper Shmario Shmothers

charlesdarwin55

The reason Super Mario Bros is the popular choice here is not simply because it set the template for platformers, which dominated the 2D landscape (and paved the way for run & gun shooters), but because of its impact on the console gaming industry, which it was largely responsible for reviving from the dead (after the 1983 industry crash). Without Super Mario Bros, console gaming probably wouldn't have existed anymore.

most important game ever? probably this game:

There's no question that some of these games are significant. They've all had a hand in creating or driving the industry and its genres.

But I would definitely have to say Doom. Doom is significant because, while it wasn't the first FPS game, it really opened up the genre to people. It popularized the FPS. More than that, it become a phenomena. It put video games on the world stage and out into the public eye due to its controversial nature and because of its shareware nature. It was widely available and to this day we all know what the original Doom is/was. We all remember fondly the "Doom Guy" and many of us can remember being scared poopless by it back in the day.

What a lot of people don't realize, though, is that it also pioneered "3-D" graphics and on top of that gave us network multiplayer gaming. While perhaps modding didn't become the sensation it is today until Counter Strike, it was with Doom that it started to take off.

AncientDozer