The best (most influencial) games ever

[Budd]

Tecmo Super Bowl for the NES is hands down the greatest video game ever made. graphics aren't all that great, but it made up for it in controls and fun levels. great great game.

[Fubarian]

aw now c'mon.....don't forget super mario bros!!

[Cygnus]

when it comes to driving games I would have to say pole position started that rolling big time.

with FPS it was Wolfenstien.

Im up in the air on flight sims but Wing Commander has gotta be up there for either that or adventure.

[Cygnus]

hehe, "up in the air on flight sims"...I made a funny!

[Fierce]

The all-time favorite...Pac-Man!

The original Sim City for SuperNintendo

Mario Brothers

Dune

Spy Hunter

[Imagenatas]

The seventh Guest! And Phantasmagoria!

[Darksteel]

I know that it's somewhat modern but i think fallout was a milestone for rpg gaming. I'm not sure if it was the first of its kind or not (well, wasteland, but that was so old) but it really brought a whole new genere to mainstream gaming. Think of all the games that are done in the fallout style now: fallout 2, arcanum, baldurs gate 1&2, pool of radiance, planescape torment, icewind dale, neverwinter nights, etc.

Quake I think is fairly innovative as well. The first fps I've seen that was really 3d, as opposed to doom, wolfenstein, and duke nukem's psuedo 3-d. I think that in time Deus Ex will prove to be a very important step in the blending of fps's and rpg's. Oh, I can only hope.

[Draggar]

[quote]Originally posted by Fubarian:
<strong>aw now c'mon.....don't forget super mario bros!!</strong><hr></blockquote>

Super Mario Brothers, Mario Brothers, etc.. are all spin offs from the original Donkey Kong.

[Draggar]

[quote]Originally posted by Darksteel:
<strong>I know that it's somewhat modern but i think fallout was a milestone for rpg gaming.
</strong><hr></blockquote>
I forgot about that one, good call...


[quote]<strong>
Quake I think is fairly innovative as well. The first fps I've seen that was really 3d, as opposed to doom, wolfenstein, and duke nukem's psuedo 3-d. I think that in time Deus Ex will prove to be a very important step in the blending of fps's and rpg's. Oh, I can only hope.</strong><hr></blockquote>

True, Q3 is a real 3D 1st person shooter, but Doom / Catacomb etc.. were first, and pioneered the 1st person shooter style game to a new leel.
As for Deuces Ex, I've heard that was incredible, we'll see. Maybe we could give Thief an honorable mention (similar setting I've heard)?

[Sowulo]

Just thought of another one....

Populous by Electronic Arts.

This one is the first of all the SIMS games.....

[TrackMan]

[quote]Originally posted by Buddy Holly:
<strong>Tecmo Super Bowl for the NES is hands down the greatest video game ever made. graphics aren't all that great, but it made up for it in controls and fun levels. great great game.</strong><hr></blockquote>

I agree, the SNES version just isn't the same.

[Darksteel]

Actually I meant original Quake, not quake 3. but then as I think about it again I suppose it really wasn't that influential itself. It was more of a stepping stone rather than a driving force.

[Spaceman Spiff]

[quote]Originally posted by Darksteel:
<strong>Actually I meant original Quake, not quake 3. but then as I think about it again I suppose it really wasn't that influential itself. It was more of a stepping stone rather than a driving force.</strong><hr></blockquote>

I disagree about Quake not being a driving force. Up until then, the better games were "2½-D", using sprites to represent objects. Quake showed that true 3-D could be done, although it was very rough. It wasn't until Quake2 that game producers started switching over to true 3-D, and now everybody uses true 3-D.

Of course, it took Wolfenstein 3-D to demonstrate a player could move through a three-dimensional world. So, it too was a pioneer in gaming.

Isn't it interesting that id remains at the cutting edge of the gaming world? Keep up the good work, id...

[DSTech]

Ah, the memories.......I used to love to go grocery shopping with my mom cause Jewel/Osco had the first stand-up arcade game that I had seen, the original Space Wars, not the Atari2600 one (kinda looked like what Adept linked to only the ships where the triangle-like thingy from asteroids and a StarTrek looking thingy). After that, the computers that got me into computers in the first place, Radio-Shack TRS-80 Models 1 & 3, with Lunar Lander. Then of course Pac-Man, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Galaga, Star Wars, and eventually Donkey Kong, Pole Position, and Dragon's Lair, and the slew of other Stand-up/Sit-down arcade games (Hell, I even ended up working at Showbiz as a gameroom Technician for a year.)

Okay, to return to the topic after stretching it a bit......How about Intellivision Dungeons & Dragons? Or Loderunner on the AppleIIc and HardHat Mac on C-64? Getting a bit more modern, I'd hafta include Total Annihilation for strategy games, Might and Magic games for role playing, and definately X-Wing/Tie fighter series of games as well as Wing Commander and Privateer for space sims. Also Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe for flight sims. Oh how I could go on......

Jeeees, I'd hafta agree with EvilCabbage about time spent gaming

Oh, also about Quake, who else remembers when QuakeGL came out and really revved things up with the 3D world of gaming?

Hehe, I still have a Magnavox Oddessey console packed away somewhere.....

[confus-ed]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by EvilCabbage:
<strong>Its a little scary when I add up all the time Ive spent playing games over the years... heh..</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">LOL. Me too

But no-one said C&C though I guess Sid Meyer gave them the idea, and what about Ping! didn't that start it all.....