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| | (Post a comment) » The 10 Most Important Games Of All TimeThe New York Times has an article on efforts by a committee supported by Stanford University, the University of Maryland and the University of Illinois to create a way to preserve the best video games of all time in the Library of Congress. The proposal, which is similar to the National Film Registry, named the top 10 video games of all time as selected by a committee of five (including famed game developers Warren Spector and Steve Meretzky). Here is their list:
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)
Sensible World of Soccer (1994)
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 Knuckles (1330)   Mar 13, 2007 - 06:32 am
| What I like to know is what criteria do they use to evaluate importance of games.
For example, do you pick games that started a popular genre of games and as result had many clones maybe.
Then there are games that implemented new gameplay, like non-linear story, multiplayer (co-op, vs, MMO).
Another criteria would be if the game used some new technology, like the first true 3D game.
Also there is the commercial successes of games, some even made platforms popular, like Tetris (GB), Donkey Kong (NES), Sonic (SG).
Finally cultural impact of the games, like MK, Doom, GTA and WoW.» Login to reply to this  SFtheWolf (571) Mar 13, 2007 - 09:50 am
| This is how it should be done.
Alas people are just doing these sorts of shoddy lists to get quick ad revenue. I saw a "10 worst games of all time" list last week that had absolutely no research done. It was a blatant rip off of the more famous one listed somewhere else (that I don't remember) with Custer's Revenge and E.T. and such. Then it had an honourable mentions section with entries like The Typing of the Dead, which if anything would go on my "most underrated games of all time" list. They just threw in whatever they thought was a "bad" concept, and from the descriptions had clearly not played the games.
This would frustrate me less if this list wasn't government sponsored and wasn't meaning immortality in the library of congress, for a bunch of games picked by 5 people.» Login to reply to this |
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