Space Invaders / Pacman / Donkey Kong / Tetris

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Space Invaders / Pacman / Donkey Kong / Tetris Anonymous Sun Jun 3 09:22:30 2018 No.4816390 [Reply] [Original]

Are these 4 the most important games of all time?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 10:18:41 2018 No.4816465 not a fan of adventure games?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 10:29:51 2018 No.4816478 Not really Donkey Kong, but I agree on other three

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 10:32:00 2018 No.4816480 >>4816478 >Not really Donkey Kong Why? What does space invaders, pacman and tetris have over it?

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 11:04:19 2018 No.4816520

>>4816480
Different anon here. Tetris is the undisputed king. Between all its dozens - if not hundreds - of different iterations it's the best-selling video game of all time. Pac-Man broke video gaming into popular culture, both in Japan and North America, in a way that simply hadn't been seen before and perhaps not since either. I personally wouldn't only exclude Donkey Kong, but I question Space Invaders' inclusion as well.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 11:07:22 2018 No.4816526 >>4816465 Zelda came to late. You kill enemies like in space invaders, you collect shit like in pacman and you solve puzzles like tetris

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 11:12:13 2018 No.4816531

>>4816520
>Between all its dozens - if not hundreds - of different iterations it's the best-selling video game of all time.
that's not really fair, it was remade over and over. by that logic pokemon should be the undisputed king, between all its dozens of different iterations it's the best-selling video game of all time

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 11:21:03 2018 No.4816549 >>4816478 >Literally the first platformer >Literally the first game in the Mario franchise >Literally one of the first videogames with a semblance of story, complete with cutscenes

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 11:23:51 2018 No.4816557

>>4816531
Objectively false. The most recent sales figures I can find, from, July 2016, had Tetris sales a 495 million units. Now that 2 year-old data dwarfs the CURRENT cumulative pokemon sales by nearly 200 million.
And it absolutely is fair because the fact that they can make Tetris again and again and again and its still a strong seller after all these decades speaks to its influence and popularity. Tetris is the king of video games.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 11:34:28 2018 No.4816576 >>4816557 Pokemon GO was downloaded 650 million times by february 2017

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 11:51:34 2018 No.4816605 >>4816478 I dunno about importance but DK is in 4th place for FUN imo

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 11:55:00 2018 No.4816609 File: 7 KB, 653x400, pong.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Why did you forget about me /vr/?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 12:01:23 2018 No.4816620 >>4816609 Because you're fucking boring after just 10 minutes. Breakout was your next progression and much more timeless.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 12:07:12 2018 No.4816628 >>4816576 >a free download is a sale! The official Tetris mobile version (which is not free) has 425 million actual sales, so still king of video games.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 14:27:21 2018 No.4816849 >>4816520 Space Invaders basically created the Japanese video game industry. It wasn't quite as big a hit in the west, but it was fucking HUGE in Japan.

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 15:14:35 2018 No.4816919

>>4816520
>personally wouldn't only exclude Donkey Kong, but I question Space Invaders' inclusion as well.
You have no idea then.
Without Space Invaders there is no Missile Commander, there is no Defender. It's the game that introduced the shooting genre to video games.
Donkey Kong introduced proper platforming
physics and powerups.
I think the only other video game as important as the ones in the OP is Pong, and also special mention to Space Wars.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 15:15:48 2018 No.4816921 >>4816520 >implying sales equal cultural relevance and impact

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 15:18:03 2018 No.4816926

>>4816520
>Pac-Man broke video gaming into popular culture, both in Japan and North America, in a way that simply hadn't been seen before and perhaps not since either
Pacman is also (as far as I know) the first video game to star an actual character, and not just a generic vehicle or stickman.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 15:23:12 2018 No.4816932 >>4816921 Yeah, they actually do, retard.

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 15:31:38 2018 No.4816945
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>>4816932
I guess post malone is the most successful musician ever, by that logic. Tetris is by all means a groundbreaking and succesful game, but its importance in video game history ( which i believe is the point of this thread) is not as large as pong, space invaders, pac man, dk, asteroids etc... you think sales mattered at a time when home consoles were not mainstream, instead we actually rode our bikes down to the arcade or laundry mat, where ever the games were. And we played games that way. Tetris wasnt around at the time to make as a significant impact as the others listed.

Let me put it this way, no donkey kong, no sm64!

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 15:32:54 2018 No.4816948

>>4816390
These are the four games you have been indoctrinated to think are the most important, but they are nowhere close to being the four which have had the greatest impact on the world. I won't narrow it down to a top four, but these games have had lasting impacts on the world culture.

Starcraft
Doom
Mortal Kombat II
Street Fighter II
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Skyrim
Half-Life
Final Fantasy (series)
Dragon Quest (series)
Minecraft
Super Mario Kart
The Legend of Zelda (series)
World of Warcraft
Tekken 2
Resident Evil 2

You'll note a couple of games were not pioneers in their genres, but represent times of peak cultural relevance and impact. Mortal Kombat II was actually bigger than Mortal Kombat 1. Ultima Online and Everquest did MMORPG before WoW, but WoW is the peak of the genre in public interest.

Some games created a lasting effect on people that carried forward into many years. Super Mario Kart was a game that introduced a lot of people to multiplayer "party" Nintendo games. Some games actually had a huge world impact that continues today, but do not get much of an interest from gaming "historians" who actually lack personal history with gaming or have narrow mindsets, Tekken 2 is a great example of this. Tekken was a huge, huge game from the days of Tekken 2 through 3, and still persists in massive popularity in Korea.

Gun to my head the 4 most important games of all time are.

Starcraft: first game to become a national sport
Doom: Made FPS go mainstream, poster child for the violent video game concept
Legend of Zelda OOT: the definitive Ninten-bro game that sent millions of men down the path of lifelong arrested development
Minecraft: the most popular game of all time now by some measurements, and the game that brought video games back from the pop culture identity of everything is either Mario or sex and violence.

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 15:40:59 2018 No.4816960

>>4816948
The only games of actual importance in there are Starcraft, Doom (although I'd argue Wolf3D is the one), SFII, Dragon Quest, Minecraft (as much as I'm indifferent to it personally), SMK, Zelda, WoW. That's it, the rest weren't groundbreaking unless you want to count Mortal Kombat's violence gimmick as a reason, but check out games like Chiller that was released a decade before.

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 15:48:56 2018 No.4816979

>>4816960
Was there a movie version of Chiller that became a summer blockbuster? Did Chiller have stories on the nightly news asking if video games were too violent.

Just because a game does something first does not make it greater. This is not a question of what is "groundbreaking".

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 15:51:08 2018 No.4816983 >>4816979 Alright fine, have your mortal kombat in there, I admit it was a social phenomenon despite just being a gimmick. I'm still right though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 15:51:50 2018 No.4816984 >>4816945 >I guess post malone is the most successful musician ever >thinking Post Malone is the world's best-selling musician You can show yourself out, you've been wrong about literally everything else you've said in this thread.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 15:52:47 2018 No.4816986 >>4816983 No, you're not if you think Tekken 2 and Resident Evil 2 were not games that massively shifted the video game genre and popular culture as a whole.

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 15:54:33 2018 No.4816992

>>4816979
Although i agree with you, groundbreaking is not a criteria here. Elite frontier was groundbreaking, but it was never given much thought outside the pc/amiga world. The most important historically is the criteria. Mortal combat is historically important, due to the craze it caused. It brought video game ethics into the forefront as videogames were becoming increasingly more mainstream. Is it not the reason for esrb ratings. That important in video game history.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 15:57:04 2018 No.4816995 >>4816984 You havent said anything that could resemble a rebuttle. Intellectually lazy at best, I think you can do better. Lets have a good disscussion!

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 15:58:38 2018 No.4817000

>>4816986
I won't say they didn't have their impact, but to say they are amongs the most important of all time? I dunno.
Tekken 2, a sequel to Tekken, which was developed by the team who did Virtua Fighter.
Resident Evil 2, a sequel to RE1 (I know they are different in their approach although still the same genre), inspired by Alone in the Dark.
Like, there are priorities in "most important of all time" list. I don't even think any of these games are as important as the games in the OP anyway. Without those, you don't get the others.

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 15:59:05 2018 No.4817001
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>>4816948
I would add Dead or Alive to this list. I can't think of a game that is more emblematic of the idea of cute girls with big boobs jiggling around as the primary selling point of the game. Something that is now a massive chunk of the video game genre.

Dating sims probably need a representative, but I can't say what. Sports games too.

Also: Pokemon should be on there.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 15:59:15 2018 No.4817002 >>4816948 Bad list is bad.

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 16:02:48 2018 No.4817017
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>>4817001
>Sports games too
Thinking some more about it, I would go with Madden as a series in general. I would maybe even go so far as to remove Zelda from my top 4 and put Madden in its place. Sports games are extremely popular far beyond their popularity on places like /v/ would suggest.

Mobile gaming is a huge thing too. I wouldn't know where its would have a representative. It should perhaps as well be on the "count on one hand" list of important titles.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 16:03:54 2018 No.4817020 >>4817002 >tautology is a tautology Literally not an argument.

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 16:55:59 2018 No.4817110

>>4816478
Nintendo once had a deal with Atari for them to be the North American distributors for the Famicom and Atari pulled out at the last second when an executive saw the Coleco port running in a booth and threw a royal bitchfit. Guess who was responsible for the crash and would have mishandled the release if the deal went through?

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 17:17:59 2018 No.4817140

>>4816948
Minecraft and Doom absolutely had massive impacts on gaming as we know it, yes. Minecraft basically spread gaming as a hobby to include literally everybody with a pulse, whereas Doom spearheaded fast-paced arcade action and multiplayer carnage when computers were only known for advanced excel spreadsheets.

I'd swap out OOT with Super Mario Bros. only because that franchise is FAR more popular across the world. Like you said, pop culture identity of everything being either Mario or sex and violence.

Starcraft is a HUGE stretch. Yes it became a huge game but really only in fucking Korea up until like 7-8 years ago. Even then, those pro gamers are a blip on the radar of gaming across the world. I'd swap this out with Everquest. Yeah WoW is more popular now, but Everquest was the first kid on the block that introduced MMO's to the general population. When WoW took over as the chief MMO king, they were just squeezing into a niche Everquest already chiseled out for them.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 17:51:17 2018 No.4817193 >>4816948 All this crap and no Pokemon Red and Blue? Lmao Pokemon is the most profitable media franchise of all time, it's bigger than Star Wars

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 17:52:23 2018 No.4817194 >>4817193 This. Pokemon demolished FF as the most profitable series in the west, and while FF struggles to stay relevant, Pokemon company just keep dropping hit after hit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 18:16:43 2018 No.4817229 >>4817193 Most profitable media franchises of all time: 1st Pokemon 10th Call of Duty 13th Space Invaders 14th Pacman 15th Mario 21th Street Fighter 23th Warcraft

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 18:19:07 2018 No.4817234

>>4816948
>Tekken 2
Kek
Virtua Fighter was a thing. Although not a massive success, it was a success. And then we had fuckin' Virtua Fighter 2, the most popular 3D fighting game until Tekken 3.
Virtua Fighter 2 was near SF2-tier in Japan. It wa serious business.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 18:20:27 2018 No.4817237 Is Tetris even an arcade game? Afaik it was always on home consoles, right?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 18:24:43 2018 No.4817247 >>4817237 Atari/Tengen did the arcade version (which had an unlicenced port to NES). I believe it started on a russian computer, probably only used at workplaces.

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 18:26:28 2018 No.4817249
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You can arguably trace the lineage of any platformer in the past 30 years all the way back to Super Mario Bros.

>>4817237
Originally a computer game, though both home console and arcade versions were pretty big

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 18:28:13 2018 No.4817253 >>4816390 I'd agree if you switched tetris for mario or call of duty.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 18:28:26 2018 No.4817254 >>4817249 >You can arguably trace the lineage of any platformer in the past 30 years all the way back to Donkey Kong. fixed

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 18:35:51 2018 No.4817265

Tetris is huge, yes

But what did it directly influence? Puzzle Bobble? Bejewled? Candy Crush?

You can think of it as one of the first puzzle games, sure. But what space invaders did for shooters and donkey kong for platformers, Tetris didnt do for puzzle games, most puzzle games are nothing like tetris.

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 18:39:44 2018 No.4817272

>>4817265
>most puzzle games are nothing like tetris.
There's nothing closer to them than Tetris in the past. They all follow the same basic block puzzle design philosophy.
There's games with "Tetris" in their title and don't play like the original Tetris.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 18:44:30 2018 No.4817279 >>4817234 Yes, Virtua Fighter is a big deal and could possibly be counted here depending on how you think about things.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 18:45:31 2018 No.4817281 >>4817193 Pokemon should have been on there, it was simply an oversight.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 19:55:38 2018 No.4817385 >>4816390 No. Any list, no how matter how small for whatever autistic reason, has to include a fightan game.

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 19:58:37 2018 No.4817389

- Pong
- Space Invaders
- Pacman
- Tetris
- Donkey Kong
- Super Mario Bros
- Wizardry
- Ultima
- Final Fantasy
- The Legend of Zelda
- Super Metroid
- Street Fighter II
- Mortal Kombat
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Pokemon Red and Blue
- Doom
- Final Fantasy VII
- Ocarina of Time
- Super Mario 64
- Starcraft
- Tomb Raider
- The Sims
- Halo
- Call of Duty
- GTA 3
- World of Warcraft
- League of Legends
- Dark Souls
- Minecraft

Someone fill in the most important racing and sports games

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 20:43:25 2018 No.4817469 >>4817389 You'll need more than a few racing and sports games to make that list relevant to anything except another underage making another pathetic top 50 youtube video of games they watched other people on youtube play.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 21:53:13 2018 No.4817573 >>4816520 Space Invaders singlehandedly created the arcade boom, brainlet. Donkey Kong introduced platforming to the masses.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 21:55:03 2018 No.4817575 >>4816849 It was big in the US too. It was the first machine to appear on a large scale in grocery stores etc. across the country. Well before Pac-Man.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 22:21:09 2018 No.4817614 >>4817573 No space invaders tried to destroy the world. Taito made an early, but certainly not the first, hit arcade game.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 3 22:38:57 2018 No.4817637 >>4817389 >Racing Pole Position Outrun Daytona USA or maybe Virtua Racing Gran Turismo

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 23:01:46 2018 No.4817654
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According to EGM, these were the most important games of their time:

Here is the Top 200

200. The Quest for the Rings- Odyssey 2
199. Super Castlevania 4 -snes
198. Utopia- Intellivision
197. NFL 2k1- DreamCast
196. Guitar Hero-PS 2
195 The Chronices of Riddick- Xbox
194. Nam-1975 - Neo Geo
193. SSX- ps 2
192. Shadow of the Colossus-PS2
191. Devil's Crush - TG-16
190. Bushindo Blade - playstation one
189. Metal Gear-Nes
188. Chu-Chu Rocket-DreamCast
187. MArio Party-N64
186.1080 snowboarding- n64
185.Dragon's Lair-Arcade
184.Blastmaster-nes
183. Gorf-Arcade
182. Psychonauts-xbox
181.River City Ransom-Nes
180. Super Off Road-Arcade
179. Magician Lord-Neo Geo
178. Dance Dance Revolution-Arcade
177. BurgerTime-Arcade
176. FlashBack- Genesis
175. Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee-Playstation one

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 23:03:44 2018 No.4817656

>>4817654
174. Snatcher-Sega CD
173. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening-Game Boy
172. Katamri Damacy-Playstation 2
171. Beyond Good & Evil- Mulitplatform
170. Perfect Dark-N64
169. Crazy Taxi-Arcade
168. Sega Rally ChampionShip-Arcade
167. Medel of Honor- Playstation one
166. Prince of Persia- The Sands of Time-Muliplatform
165. Double Dribble-Nes
164. Bionic Commando-Nes
163. Military Madness-TG-16
162. Burn out 3: Take down-Multiplatform
161. Devil May Cry-Ps2
160. Nights into Dreams-Saturn
159. Ecco the Dolphin-genesis
158.Herzog Zwei-Genesis
157. The Legend of Zelda: The Winnd Waker-Gamecube
156. Legendary Axe-TG-16
155. The Legend of Zelda: the Wind Waker-Gamecube
154. Moon Patrol-arcade
153.Y's Book 1&2-Tg-16
152. Cybornator-snes
151.Front Line-arcade
150. Kirby's Adventure-nes
149. Ghosts' N Goblins-aracde
148. RaRappa the Rapper-Playstation one
147. Spider man- Atari 2600
146. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell-Xbox
145.Road Rash-3do

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 23:05:37 2018 No.4817659

>>4817656
144. International Super Star Soccer- snes
143. Kaboom-Atari 2600
142. Tekken 3-Playstation
141. Paper MArio-N64
140. Panzer Dragoon-Saturn
139. R.B.I. Baseball-nes
138. Wario Ware, INC.: Mega Microgame$-GBA
137. Dug Dug-Arcade
136. Phantasy Star 4-Genesis
135. Ice Hockey-Nes
134. Yar's Revenge-Atari 2600
133. Final Fantasy 10-PS 2
132. Virtua Tennis- Dream Cast
131. Sinsister-Arcade
130. Twisted Metal- Playstation one
129. Revenge of Shinobi-Genesis
128. Samurai Showdown 2- Neo Geo
127. Zaxxon-Arcade
126. Animal Crossing-Game Cube
125. Metal Gear Solid-Game Boy Color( It doesn't show the entire title name in EGM)
124. Pole Position-Arcade
123. Battle Zone-Arcade
122. Virtua Fighter 4- PS 2
121. ICO-PS2
120. OutRun-Arcade
119. Castlevania 3: Dracula's Curse-Nes
118. Pro Wrestling- Nes
117. Indy 500- Atari 2600
116. Shenmue-DreamCast
115. Star Fox-snes
114. Card Fighter's Clash- Neo Geo Pocket Color
113. Lunar: the Silver Story-Sega Cd
112. God of War- PS2
111. Dragon Force-Saturn
110. Street Fighter Alpha 2-Arcade

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 23:07:36 2018 No.4817663

>>4817659
109. Gradius-Arcade
108. Super MArio Brothers 2-Nes
107. Mrs. Pac-Man-Arcade
106. Donkey Kong-Game Boy
105. Karate Champ-Arcade
104. Wipeout-playstation one
103. Super MArio RPG- Snes
102. Landstalker- Genesis
101. Ninja Gaiden-Xbox
100. Star Wars: Kights of the old Republic-Xbox
99. Final Fight: arcade
98. Strider-Arcade
97. Phantasy Star 2-Genesis
96. Marble Madness-Arcade
95.NFL Blitz-Arcade
94. Centipede-Arcade
93. Track & Field- Arcade
92. Sper Smash Bros. Melee-Game Cube
91. After Burner-Arcade
90. Advanced Dungeon's & Dragoons- intellivision
89. Golden Axe- Arcade
88. Super Mario World- SNes
87. Missile Command-Arcade
86. Ridge Racer- PlayStation one
85. Advanced Wars-GBA

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 23:08:52 2018 No.4817667

>>4817663
84. Gunstar-Heroes- Genesis
83. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island-snes
82. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty-PS 2
81. Ikari Wariors-Arcade
80. Panzer Dragoon Saga- Saturn
79. contra-Arcade
78. Daytona Usa-Arcade
77. Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow-Xbox
76. Halo 2-Xbox
75. Socom: U.S. Navy SEALS- PS 2
74. Chrono Triger- Snes
73. Gauntlet-Arcade
72. Spy Hunter-Arcade
71. Tempest-Arcade
70. Mortal Kombat 2
69. F-Zero- snes
68. Nfl Football-intellivision
67. Resident Evil 2-Playstation one
66. R.c. Pro-Am - Nes
65. Resident Evil- Play Station one
64. Excitebike-Nes
63. Breakout-arcade
62. Frogger-Arcade
61. Pokemon Red/Blue- Game Boy
60. Final Fantasy Tactics- PlayStation One
59. Super Bomberman- Snes
58. Baseball Stars-Nes
57. Virtua Racing-Arcade
56. Sonic The Hedgehod -Genesis
55. NBA Jam- Arcade (corrected EGM Misprint of having two 56's
54. Defender
53. Mega-Man 2-nes
52. Metriod Prime-GameCube
51. CastleVania- Nes
50. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past-Snes

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 23:10:01 2018 No.4817670

>>4817667
49. NHLPa Hockey' 93-Genesis
48. Warlords-Arcade
47. Joust-Arcade
46. Resident Evil 4- GameCube
45. Joghn Madden Football-Genesis
44. Mike-Tyson's Puncj-out!!-Nes
43.Tron-Arcade
42. R-type-Arcade
41. Double Dragon-Arcade
40. Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link
39. Combat-Atari 2600
38. Astroids-Arcade
37. Virtua Fighter 2-Arcade
36. Final Fantasy 3 - In United States - Snes
35. Tomb Raider-Playstation
34. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater-PlayStation one
33. Tecmo Bowl-Nes
32. Robotron: 2084-Arcade
31. Star Wars-Arcade
30. CastleVania: Symphony of the night-Playstation one
29. Final Fantasy 2- In United States -Snes
28. Galaga-Arcade
27. Final Fantasy 7-Playstation one
26. Phantasy Star-sms
25. Gran Turismo-Playstation one

Anonymous Sun Jun 3 23:11:29 2018 No.4817672

>>4817670
24. Tetris Attack-snes
23. Super Metroid-snes
22. Soul Calibur- DreamCast
21. Phantasy Star Online-Dream Cast
20. Virtua Fighter-Arcade
19. Super Mario Kart
18. Pitfall-Atari 2600
17. Halo: Cobat Envolved-Xbox
16. Golden Eye-N64
15.Donkey Kong-Arcade
14. Super Mario Bros.3-nes
13. Adventure-Atari 2600
12. Metal Gear Solid-PlayStation one
11. Metroid-nes
10. Pong- Arcade
9. Grand Theft Auto 3-PS 2
8. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time-n64
7. Space Invaders-arcade
6. Super MArio 64- N64
5. The Legend of Zelda- Nes
4. Tetris-Meltiplatform
3. Street Fighter 2-Arcade
2. Pac-man-Arcade
1. Super MArio Bros.-nes

Anonymous Mon Jun 4 02:56:00 2018 No.4817909

>>4817614
Space Invaders was the fist mainstream mega hit. 1978. On a totally different level than Pong.

By mid-1981, more than four billion quarters, or $1 billion, had been grossed from Space Invaders machines,[35] and it would continue to gross an average of $600 million a year[36] through to 1982, by which time it had grossed $2 billion in quarters[37][38] (equivalent to $7.5 billion in 2018),[39] with a net profit of $450 million[38] (equivalent to $1.69 billion in 2018).[39] This made it the best-selling video game and highest-grossing entertainment product of its time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 4 03:41:14 2018 No.4817951 Donkey Kong was important, but Super Mario Bros. took what it had and made it irrelevant.

Anonymous Mon Jun 4 06:19:18 2018 No.4818070

I'm sorry but Dragon Quest needs to be in there. The influence it had on Japanese developers cannot be understated. It's like when guys in early punk bands all talk about how nobody went to see The Ruts or someone but everybody who did started a band the next weekend.

If you look at the Famicom market there is almost a strict divide of pre-Dragon Quest and post-Dragon Quest. After DQ EVERYTHING became an RPG, games that otherwise would be a regular platformer suddenly became nonlinear and had EXP and leveling up for no reason (Simon's Quest, Zelda 2). It's insane.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 4 09:48:19 2018 No.4818254 >>4816948 >Final Fantasy >Dragon Quest >No Ultima >No Wizardry

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 4 15:05:52 2018 No.4818671 How come no one is talking about spacewar?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 4 15:49:10 2018 No.4818723 >>4818254 >didn't read the entire post >didn't read the specific section that mentions Ultima Wizardry is an innovative game, but it is not an important game. There is a difference.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 4 19:16:39 2018 No.4819020 >>4818671 Because it isn't important. Most people never knew about it and it had little impact on games in general.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 4 19:28:52 2018 No.4819039 Quake Half-Life Daggerfall Super Mario Brothers Ultima/Wizardry Halo Minecraft Sid Meier's Civilization Battlezone

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 4 19:54:23 2018 No.4819082 lmao the only important games are the ones that improved on the originals and made them outdated.

Anonymous Mon Jun 4 20:37:35 2018 No.4819167

http://www.worldvideogamehalloffame.org/games

Donkey Kong
Doom
Final Fantasy VII
Grand Theft Auto III
Halo: Combat Evolved
John Madden Football
The Legend of Zelda
The Oregon Trail
Pac-man
Pokémon Red and Green
Pong
The Sims
Sonic the Hedgehog
Space Invaders
Spacewar!
Street Fighter II
Super Mario Bros
Tetris
Tomb Raider
World of Warcraft

/thread

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 4 20:43:30 2018 No.4819185 >>4816526 >collect shit wow great. zelda was the first to have you utilize the shit you collected

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 4 21:40:27 2018 No.4819260 File: 26 KB, 220x195, IMG_4031.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Where is "Tennis for Two"?

Anonymous Mon Jun 4 22:00:07 2018 No.4819297

>>4817663
Was Donkey Kong for Game Boy really that influential? Does it really deserve to be at 106, above Star Fox, OutRun, Pole Position, Gradius, and Mrs. Pac-Man?

I mean I love the game, but as far as I know its only legacy is the Mario vs. Donkey Kong series. Am I missing something?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 4 22:07:23 2018 No.4819315 >>4817672 Why is Tetris Attack so high on the list? What sets it apart from the countless other falling block puzzles in existence?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 4 22:41:13 2018 No.4819374 >>4816945 >I guess post malone is the most successful musician ever, by that logic. >post mallone Literally who? How is he a musician who made lots of money if I've never once heard of him until now?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 4 22:42:43 2018 No.4819375 >>4819260 It's only noteworthy for happening to fill an inevitable role.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 4 23:00:29 2018 No.4819410 >>4819260 In the thread with the subject "Are these 4 the most irrelevant games of all time that tards posted in the most important games of all time because they can't into reading comprehension"

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 5 01:55:53 2018 No.4819651 >>4819167 >halo >no goldeneye pleb list

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 5 07:18:06 2018 No.4819887 >Lists with legend of zelda >No Adventure Im triggered

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 5 17:36:28 2018 No.4820706 >>4817193 I think Gold & Silver had a much bigger impact on the west

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 5 21:22:55 2018 No.4821083 >>4820706 lol no, not at all you may argue that gold and silver are better games sure, I disagree but totally get and accept why someone would have that opinion, but as far as impact red and blue were simply miles ahead

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 5 21:27:09 2018 No.4821091 >>4819887 Because Zelda is more important than Adventure.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 5 21:28:12 2018 No.4821092 >>4819651 Because Halo is more important than Goldeneye.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 5 21:31:26 2018 No.4821097 PUBG Minecraft Overwatch Fortnite Kill me

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 5 23:01:17 2018 No.4821219 >>4816549 >>Literally the first platformer what is pitfall? sidescrolling no less

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 6 07:36:55 2018 No.4821748 How is tetris important for gaming as a whole? Name great games that were derived from tetris

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 6 07:43:16 2018 No.4821753 >>4821748 Oh so, it's not important because you don't like it, is that it? It's the best selling video game of all time and spawned the entire puzzle genre.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 6 08:22:54 2018 No.4821782 >>4821753 >spawned the entire puzzle genre. it didnt you werent even capable to name any great games derivative from tetris

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 6 08:47:10 2018 No.4821798 >>4816390 Pac-Man, Mario, and Ultima are probably the top 3. The last 1 on the top 4 is debatable.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 6 08:48:12 2018 No.4821801 >>4816948 I genuinely hope this is a troll post.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 6 08:54:07 2018 No.4821817 what's more important, a game that created a genre or the one that popularized it among the masses?

Anonymous Wed Jun 6 08:58:53 2018 No.4821820

>>4821817
The trope codifier

You have before you three series. The first, Series A, was the first known use of a trope, but it may or may not have been intentional. The second, Series B, was the first intentional use of the trope. The third, Series C, does not claim originality, and may in fact have ripped off series B, but was much more popular than Series A or B and is the template that all later uses of this trope follow.

Series A is the Ur-Example.

Series B is the Trope Maker.

Series C is the Trope Codifier.

In other words, if in tracing the history of a trope, one example stands out as the template that many, many other examples follow, that's the Trope Codifier.

Important: "Trope Codifier" does not mean Most Triumphant Example. It means "Example that has fingerprints of influence on all later examples of the trope".

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 7 08:15:10 2018 No.4823584 pacman and tetris were huge but not necessarily influential as far other games carrying over and building onto their mechanics

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