The 10 Most Important Video Games

via kotaku

Henry Lowood, the curator of the Stanford University History of Science and Technology Collections, announced this past week a list of the 10 Most Important Video Games of All Time. This game canon has been created to preserve to cultural and historical significance of gaming. The list is a result of a collaboration between Lowood, Warren Spector, Steve Meretzky, academic researcher Matteo Bittani and gaming journalist Christopher Grant from Joystiq, and represents the games we must protect at all costs...our cultural artifacts.

Spacewar! (1962)
Star Raiders (1979)
Zork (1980)
Tetris (1985)
SimCity (1989)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990)
Civilization I / II (1991)
Doom (1993)
Warcraft (Series) (1994)
Sensible World of Soccer (1994)

The games all represent firsts for lasting genres, such as adventure games, multiplayer, FPS, story-driven RTS, et cetera. Each gamer is required to save these titles to a microchip embedded in the base of their skull in order to preserve our gaming heritage.

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Pong?

myst?

wolfenstein 3d , space invaders , asteroids, pong, grandstand lightgun game on the home console, outrun....way more important than the list above...first full 3d game, first lightgun game , racing game with multiple routes , the other 3 had the biggest worldwide impact of any arcade machine......then again what doe's a professor know that a old gamer doesn't..lol

There are no graphic adventures there....

Nobody likes 'em now? I guess there should be a place for at least one of LucasArts' classic ones. Like Sam N' Max, Monkey Island. Maybe even one Broken Sword. Anyway I loved zork :) one of my favorite txt games (after The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, of course :D). Doom. What can I say? There's almost no console with a port of it. Good list, you're, i'm gonna buy that chip u say now :rofl:.

seriously: Zelda OOT. It set the standard of adventure games. I'd also say that Oblivion is a standout title, purely for the sheer size. FFVII. Castlevania.

Loz : oot

Lists like this are useless, because no one will ever agree to the "best of" or "most influencial" video games. I am certainly not going to ever think "Sensible Soccer" as a very influencial game.

Heh, are they serious with the microchip thing?
Anywho, I'd have to say I completely agree with that, except for the games that I'm not familiar with so I can't say anything about them.
I might argue against the "Doom" thing, as Wolfenstein 3D came before Doom, though Doom was a lot more popular than Wolfenstein 3D by my recollection, especially with its multi-layered environments.