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Gamefaqs has come up with what it considers to be the top 10 most important games ever, here they are:
#10: Super Mario 64 (N64)
#9: Space Invaders (ARC)
#8: Star Wars (ARC)
#7: Donkey Kong (ARC)
#6: Breakout (ARC)
#5: Wolfenstein 3D (PC)
#4: Tetris (GB)
#3: Pong (ARC)
#2: Pac-Man (ARC)
#1: Super Mario Bros. (NES)
Do you agree, do you not, answer via the comments
dont agree. star wars should be replaced with street fighters 2 turbo
i think mario 64 should be higher up on the list maybe in the top 4 atleast
whats the diference between snes and nes, because i want to have super mario bros on my psp and is there a good n64 emulator for super mario 64??Quote:
Originally Posted by wraggster
p.s - oh, and i agree with this except for star wars like the guy before me said
I agree!!!!
I totally disagree... In my opinion, mario (nes) is more important than any of these games... and why Zelda isn't there???
I prefer the top 100 made by ign.com few months ago.
Depends what it means by "most important" really.
No sonic? No streeet fighter? No RPGs? ...No Final Fantasy?!!! :eek:
And how could they forget frogger?! Hours of fun! :D
i dont agree with that heres my top 10 most important games
#10:metriod(what started the side scrolling shooter)(nes)
#9:street fighter 2(best fighting game)(snes)
#8: pac-man(classic)(arcade)
#7:zelda(classic)(nes,snes,n64)
#6:golden eye(came later but was the proto type for games like halo)(n64)
#5:mario 64(great game)(n64)
#4:sonic the hegdehog(loads of fun)(sega,dreamcast)
#3:super mario(classic)(nes)
#2:tetris(classic)(nes,snes,gb,gbc)
#1:kingdom hearts(came later but on my charts quickly rushed in a s one of the best and most important game in my eyes)ps2
any order really for me
1:final fantasy 7 best AND most popular rpg of all time!!!
2:STARFOX SNES THE SUPER FX CHIP!!!
chrono trigger
3:KILLER INSTINCT
4:MK TRILOGY!
mario rpg
tetris attack
contra
5:marvel vs capcom 1 and 2 OMG
6:street fighter games
tekken= gr8 inovative fighter ;)
8:metal gear solid 1 psx psycho-mantis moving your controller! taking out mem card to stop him from reading your mind!!!
sonic 3 fav sonic and reminds me of kaiser ;) :)
9sonic knuckles attachment Cart !!!! HUGE
DUCK HUNT nes ZAPPER ;)
track and feild ( running pad )
10:super scope 6 snes ;)
and i can prob go on till next year with games that made a bigger DENT so to speak but hey we all know the truth ;) ,,,,,lol
Mine would go something like this
10. Metal Gear Solid (Konami)
9. Space Harrier (Sega)
9. Original Zelda (Nintendo)
8. Space Invaders (Taito)
7. Resident Evil (Capcom)
6. Final Fantasy V (Square)
5. Virtua Fighter (Sega)
4. Pac-Man (Midway)
3. Goldeneye (Rare)
2. Sonic The Hedgehog (Sega)
1. Super Mario Brothers (Nintendo)
I think Resident eVil4 should be in that list...that game as set a new level of quality for 3d game...
but I guest, come out with just 10 game is pretty hard:o
Yeah at least for action games its a new standard. It will be pretty influential in the long run, but its too new to see the effects yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by 10shu
#1: Street Fighter 2 : The World Warrior(Arcade).
The game that defined 15 years of gaming, and yet the games that are made today.It had all (combos,high and low guard, special moves) and it was completely original. It is the most amazing and innovative piece of software ever.
#2: Super Mario Bross.(Nes):
Defined a genre too.
#3:Renegade + Double Dragon(Arcade):
The beggining of the beat 'em ups, later perfected by Final Fight.
#4:1943(Arcade):
Defined the vertical shooter genre. Many came after this one. Perhaps 1942 started it but '43 had way more defined gameplay with many different shoots.
#5:Operation Wolf(Arcade):
Started the rail shooters genre.
#6:WonderBoy2 + Black Tiger (Arcade):
Rpg + action anyone?
#7:Castlevania SOTN:
Because its the perfection itself.
#8:Resident Evil(PSX1).
#9:Tetris:
Simple and fun, the paradigm of puzzle games.
#10:Outrun:
Back on it's day no racing game looked so good.
My personal best 3 of all the times (I have mantained this for 15 years now)
#1:Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition (arcade).
Better than the best.
#2:Final Fight (arcade). Funny as hell even now, 17 years after it came out.
#3:Super Ghouls n' Ghosts (snes). Perfection in gameplay+sound+graphics.
Ridiculous...
Wheres DOOM! :cool:
Pac-Man should be Nr.1 End-of-List!!
Now I know I'm gettin on here and a lot of you have no clue about Arcades from way back when. This was when the still had Pong TV Game Systems that were in Black and White. I can tell you that little Yellow B*sterd ate more Money outa me then he did Power Pellets! :-)
As for revolutionary it's Wolfenstein 3D barnone. The Great Grandday of 'em all.
For RPG I call Ultma 3 Exile (C=64)
Where the hell is pong, without that games wouldnt be.
i totally agree mostly but uhh to answer borgamix's question... BORGAMIX IF U SEE THIS LOOK AT IT!!!! lol ummm SNES is Super Nintendo which means it would run SNES games (not Super Mario Bros. 1) NES is Nintendo Entertainment System (would play Super Mario Bros. 1,2, and 3) is u want a good emu for SNES get the latest version of UO_Snes9x and if u want NES get the latest version of NESTERJ
and wtf is zelda not there?
I disagree
Mortal Kombat for the Sega Genesis is a very good game but Donkey Kong is better
contra, 1942, and river city ransom should be up there. i guess if i had to choose ONLY 10 games......thats a difficult list to put together.
oh and ffVII(psx) should DEFINETLY be in the ten. ive never felt emotion towards a game before. ill never forget that game and i will always have it.
Still say Doom...
I play the GBA version on my DS and the PSP port everyday... I still play network games on PC, instead of Quake 4 and F.E.A.R :D
It's just the father of all FPS's, even the novels are great... But I'm still happy Wolf3D made it to the list.
Fallout is an awesome RPG, I think that deserves a spot somewhere...
What else? Sonic ofcourse! and Super Mario Bros on the NES.
Hehe, ah memories! :p
Where is the first ever FPS Wolfenstein? That game was great.
http://members.aol.com/atarijag/shots/wolf1.jpg
Err, it came in at number 5 dude... heheQuote:
Originally Posted by KriMe
Did you know that Wolf3D is one of the most violent games in history?
I mean apart from shooting up Nazi's (Caused big trouble in Germany, I think it was banned). It was also one of the first games where you kill humans, and some of the things you actually ate for health were human gibs and ofcourse dog food.... Eeeewwww..... it's true :eek:
By the way, it wasn't the first, FPS ever... ID made a coupla other games, I think one had you chasing a triangle through a maze or something...
I tell yah, without Wolfenstien 3D there would be no
Doom, Duke nukem,Quake, and maybe halo!
W3D started all FPS's! I also still have the Original floppy disk right here!
not my personal favorites but having been into videogames since they began i would have to say the most important ones would be something like this.....
1 computer space...the 1st videogame
2 pong the first popular videogame
3 space invaders...the first real arcade success
4 pac man...i hate it but it is what got the world addicted
5 donkey kong...the first mario/ platform success
6 super mario bros....redefined videogames, no longer were they just repetitive but had a point
6.5 r type/ lifeforce/ 1942/ etc created a genre
7 zelda
7.5 tetris
8 final fantasy
9 street fighter2
10 wolfenstein
11 alone in the dark...led the way to another genre
12 mario 64 and starfox 64
now my own personal faves list is drastically different
1 asteroids
2 gyruss
3 space harrier
4 ghosts and goblins
5 MK
6 doom
7 mario 64
8 diablo 2
9 GTA
10 ikaruga
not for any reasons besides i loved those games
and forbidden forest on commodore 64 :P
10.FFVII
9.DooM
8:Quake
7.SSBM
6.Pokemon Red & Blue (classic)
5.FF: Mystic Quest (SNES)
4.KH-CoM
3:KH
2:KHII
1.KHII
My top ten :D
I demand you add Starcraft! Every south korean has/played it.
Anybody ever played a King's Quest? Little campy nowdays, but I spent hours on them years ago.
Didn't exactly 'define a genre', but it's still interesting to see that others spent the same amount of time on the same games as you :D
lol @ sroon: I still have the original Wolf3D, Spear of Destiny and Doom 1 floppys too :p
4th place at least heck yeah. Just like Final Fantasy VII was the pioneer of modern day RPGs, Super Mario 64 is the pioneer of anything video game & 3D.Quote:
Originally Posted by drew4237
How is this news?
Kings Quest FTW, this list fails.
#10 Swords of Vermillion
# 9 Shinobi
# 8 Spider Fighter (Arcade)
# 7 Jr. Pacman
# 6 Wolf3D
# 5 Street Fighter
# 4 Mario 64
# 3 Contra
# 2 Wizzard & Warriors
# 1 ZELDA
Least important games of all time list should be even more fun... :D Or atleast the most disappointing.
Dakatana *Cough*...
The Top 10 Most Important Games Ever
i think they all kinda suck compared to others of there time .this is more like the top 10 games sold in america or something .i know more than a few are stolen from some japanese game.
this is so american.
I take you either hate Americans or something because this games are sold world wide and the post wasn't started by an American.Quote:
Originally Posted by MUDD
duh
legend of zelda (nes):D
Halo (xbox):D
Metroid (nes):D
Kingdom Hearts(ps2):D
mortal kombat(1)
AMEN TO THAT! DOOM was the first game that ever scared the crap out of me, or probally anyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by **1_Man_Matrix**
Ugh. Don't agree, to both this and IGN's 100.
NOT A SINGLE DAMN MEGAMAN GAME THOSE *******S!
AND WORMS/2/ARMAGEDDON/WORLD PARTY!
Here is mineQuote:
Originally Posted by wraggster
#10 Pokemon (GB)
#9 Zelda (NES)
#8 Asteroids (any)
#7 Pong (any)
#6 Final Fantasy 7 (PSX)
#5 Super Mario 64 (N64)
#4 Pacman (any)
#3 Wolfenstein 3D (PC)
#2 Tetris (any)
#1 Super mario bros (NES)
First of all we have super mario which of course changed the way we looked at games. Then tetris an amazing puzzle game that is simple but fun. Wolfenstein 3D became the roots for fps. pacman because of the impact it had in the arcades. Super mario 64 because it refined 3D gaming. Finfal fantasy 7 to show us what an RPG really was (before not many payed attention to rpgs and found them boring). Pong because well it is pong nothing else to say. Asteroids for the same reason as pong. Zelda because it was not only an impressive game but it was the first ever game to use a battery to save your game. Pokemon made the gameboy come alive again with popularity and i know it was popular already but everyone had to get this gamem, they sold millions and showed you a different kind of rpg as well. Well that's what I think and you see that most of them are old games and that's because without these we wouldnt be playing the games that we have today. These are our roots and possibly had the biggest impact in gaming.
What a load of steaming ... Gamefaq did it again.
Here's a halfway decent list that takes historical milestones into account. I'm well aware that there ought to be more.
10. Breakout
9. Final Fantasy
8. StarCraft
7. Elite
6. Wolfenstein 3D
5. System Shock
4. The Secret of Monkey Island
3. Street Fighter 2
2. Fallout
1. Grand Theft Auto
There is room for quite some more, as a list like that is hardly complete even with 10 or 20 more places. There's got to be some more room in there for games like Ultima or Wizardry, Diablo or Pac-Man alright.
But here is the deal: You can't put in 3 fracking Mario games in the top 10 list of most important games EVER and get away with it No way! The games are good, but not that good, and 1 representitive game ought to suffice for the whole series.
Now I'm aware that my top 10 are totally devoid of anything remotely related to Jump & Run games. Let's just say Mario comes in at spot 11 or switches places with Street Fighter or Breakout if you insist.
without these games the list means nothing
metal gear solid
dragon quest
elite
rez
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