Monday, March 12, 2007

What do you think are the 10 most important games?

Kotaku.com did an article about the 10 most important games. After going over the list I found some that I feel should and shouldn't be there.

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)

Now I agree on some of those but I would replace Mario 3 with Mario 1 because 3 would have never existed without the success of the original Mario bros on the NES, 1985. 

Next I would eliminate Sensible World of Soccer, WTF is that game doing on the list?  I would include Street Fighter 2 because that game revitalized the coin op industry here in America not to mention the 2d fighting frenzy that lasted for over a decade. 

Next I would kick Star Raiders out because that game was horrible, so in it's place I would include Pac Man, everyone knows who Pac Man is.  Pac Man was huge in it's day and has become synonymous with video games.

Last but not least is pong, I know spacewar was an important title but pong is what got the video game industry rolling as we know it today!

For honorable mentions I would have to include the original Madden and Virtua Fighter!

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