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MikeWaters 12-03-2007 07:44 PM
10 most important video games of all time
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/ar...prod=permalink

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Spacewar! (1962), Star Raiders (1979), Zork (1980), Tetris (1985), SimCity (1989), Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990), Civilization I/II (1991), Doom (1993), Warcraft series (beginning 1994) and Sensible World of Soccer (1994).
I'm not familiar with the first 3.

I never played SimCity and have never heard of Sensible World of Soccer.

Super Mario Bros. as the archetypal "fun" scrolling adventure game. Doom as the first (?) 3D first person shooter. Civ as an important strategy/building game.

No Atari games that I played as a kid? Defender, combat, etc.?

No cyberball?

DrumNFeather 12-03-2007 07:50 PM
No Techmo Bowl?

This list is bunk.

Tex 12-03-2007 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by MikeWaters (Post 158673)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/ar...prod=permalink



I'm not familiar with the first 3.

I never played SimCity and have never heard of Sensible World of Soccer.

Super Mario Bros. as the archetypal "fun" scrolling adventure game. Doom as the first (?) 3D first person shooter. Civ as an important strategy/building game.

No Atari games that I played as a kid? Defender, combat, etc.?

No cyberball?
I don't know Spacewar!, but Star Raiders and Zork I know. The Infocom text-based games were my inspiration for finally learn to type. I can't count the number of hours I spent playing Civilization. Great game.

Tex 12-03-2007 07:55 PM
Speaking of SimCity and "god" games ... anyone remember Populous?

jay santos 12-03-2007 07:57 PM
Pong?

PacMan?

MikeWaters 12-03-2007 07:58 PM
The fact that "Oregon Trail" was left off is very startling.

In junior high I used to play a text based basketball game. yes you heard that right. It was actuall very fast paced and fun.

Indy Coug 12-03-2007 07:58 PM
There's a five part series on Discovery right now about the history of video games. Pretty good stuff.

Sleeping in EQ 12-03-2007 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by MikeWaters (Post 158673)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/ar...prod=permalink



I'm not familiar with the first 3.

I never played SimCity and have never heard of Sensible World of Soccer.

Super Mario Bros. as the archetypal "fun" scrolling adventure game. Doom as the first (?) 3D first person shooter. Civ as an important strategy/building game.

No Atari games that I played as a kid? Defender, combat, etc.?

No cyberball?
Space War! was the game that some early MIT computer programmers came up with on a lark.

myboynoah 12-03-2007 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by jay santos (Post 158680)
Pong?

PacMan?
What about Pong? That game started it all.

And Space Invaders.

MikeWaters 12-03-2007 08:14 PM
Gauntlet? The first MMORPG?


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