Best. Games. Ever?
I found this list on fileplanet.com. Now keeping in mind that these games are the most significant games ever released, not the best games ever, do you agree or disagree with them?
The most historically and culturally important videogames of all time:
Spacewar! (1962)
Star Raiders (1979)
Zork (1980)
Tetris (1985)
SimCity (1989)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990)
Civilization I/II (1991)
Doom (1993)
Warcraft series (beginning 1994)
Sensible World of Soccer (1994)
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Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Ok, this is where I pull out my gaming wang. Sorry.
Missing from this list is Table Tennis For Two. The first video game. Developed by William Higinbotham, while working for the Department of Defense in 1958, created the game using parts he found around the base. It was put on display to the public during tours, and was quickly the most visited project there. Thankfully, the U.S. Government didn’t patent the idea, leaving the concept of interacting with objects on the screen with external devices to produce a game to the public.
Spacewar! is the single most playtested game ever made. It’s been tweaked by everyone that went to school at MIT that was part of the Model Railroad Club, where the term hacker was born.
Centipede should be on this list. It represents everything that makes arcade games both good and addictive.
Simcity and Civilization fall into the same category in my mind, actually, but I wouldn’t consider Civ a toy, as I would SimCity.
I would put Donkey Kong over Super Mario 3, though. Donkey Kong introduced storyline to the world of video games. It played out in acts, and instead of having the normal draw screen, it played the first act.
Final Fantasy should also be up there. It brought more video games into homes than almost anything else.
And…Soccer?!? What about Tecmo Bowl? The game was made by people that had NO IDEA what football was like. If that’s not culturally significant, I don’t know what is.
Super Mario 3 over plain old Super Mario? Are they daft? 40 million copies speaks for itself. I don’t even think there is a close second when it comes to anything, be it influence or popularity or whatever. They still haven’t beaten its soundtrack, and you can take that to the bank. (Although Tetris has a bitchin’ soundtrack.)
And I would have to put Ultima 3: Exodus ahead of Final Fantasy, since it was the rpg that set all subsequent standards for all later rpgs of a non-pen and pencil variety.
Where’s Pong? And Frogger?