Reply to: GhostToast:
Defender was the first side-scrolling game ever, released in 1980.
Anyone want to guess when the first video game was created?
Reply to: spudlyff8fan:
Street Fighter 2 was easily one of the top 5 influential games. You can't forget, KOF and Mortal Kombat were BOTH made to rival it. It was one of the games that gave the SNES a big leg-up, and was one of the most popular games on it. It was the first popular arcade fighter. It put fighting games on the map in America. It's coming up on its 15th year of games.
Another one that was missed was either Starcraft or Warcraft. Starcraft was more popular than warcraft, but it is one of the biggest online games of all times, and is still one of the most popular PC multiplayer games...but the Japan and Korean players have really taken over. Warcraft was big just because it was one of the earliest RTS games out there.
Reply to: BCampbell:
Command and Conquer was probably more influential in terms of RTS.
What about Tetris? Ultima? Tecmo Super Bowl?
Maybe interested contributing members should get together and expand this list out to 25, 50, or even 100. We can all nominate several titles and do a few rounds of voting. The resulting article could be a feature on the main page instead of just an editorial.
Reply to: spudlyff8fan:
Hey, Starcraft and Warcraft are great! Plus, like I said, they were influential in how they showed that online games really COULD work.
But it wouldn't be impossible to do the 100 most influential games thing if we all pitched in out game ideas, and did em in blocks of 10. The responsibilitY alsO doesn't doesn't have to Go to a sinGle unlucky perSon...we could all do a set or 2 of 10, and release em weekly.