Top 100 Most Influential Video Games of All Time

[Sipe17]

Found this really interesting article on the most influential video games of all time. Curious to hear what this RetroGamer community thinks as I suspect many folks here remember most if not all of the games on the list.

http://www.animationcareerreview.com/articles/top-100-most-influential-video-games-all-time

[The Laird]

What an utter load of tosh.

These lists usually are but part of me died when I saw what was No.1, I am guessing a Yank wrote it.

[DreamcastRIP]

Super Mario Bros. as 'the most influential video game of all time'.

EDIT: I just noticed the OP is a first time poster so there's the possibility it's yet more spam.

That said,
Super Mario Bros. as 'the most influential video game of all time'.

[nakamura]

It was also highly predicable what was at number 1 after reading your comment Jaggy and DC.

You wonder why you both get a bit of stick.

[AmigaJay]

A few decent games on there, but sadly has the usual new games...I mean it has Uncharted on there which is 2009...now forgive my ignorance, but how is a 2009 game in a list of the most influential games of ALL time!? Clearly trying to keep its readers happy by listing some XB360, PS3 games...ho hum.

Edit: WcW I've heard everything now...i suppose that's the good thing about the net, any old Tom censored or Harry can make a top 100 list....

[DreamcastRIP]

It was also highly predicable what was at number 1 after reading your comment Jaggy and DC.

Nope. Several of these daft USA-based polls list Zelda: OoT as teh best game evaaaahh and myself and Jagfest_UK just lurve that game too!

[nakamura]

Considering everything is copying Uncharted is now being copied by everything I would say it is pretty influential.

It's just a stupid list after all and just opinion.

[DreamcastRIP]

Wii Sports made the top ten!

[nakamura]

You guys are so narrow minded. Read what the critera is for the article in the first place.

[Antiriad2097]

Its more interesting than many of these lists. There's some odd stuff in there, so its worth rummaging through.

Read what's there too. I sort of see where he's coming from with the Unreal Engine, but he's wide of the mark to suggest game engines weren't readily available prior to this or to suggest that nobody else would have developed something else to fill the gap.

Wii Sports quite rightly fits in there. For its limited functionality, it really opened things up to the mass market again and brought lots of 'non-gamers' into the fold, even if only briefly.

Some novel choices from the archives too. 1970s online FPS?

[AmigaJay]

Considering everything is copying Uncharted is now being copied by everything I would say it is pretty influential.

It's just a stupid list after all and just opinion.

Are they?! Which ones?

Trouble is, most of these lists are done by young people most of whom have NO idea of what games were around before their generation, I'm not saying its their fault as they may have no idea of what inspired Uncharted in the first place, the game is certainly not original...
It's just like a book poll asking the top 100 best books ever written......and guess what book is no.1 ....Harry Potter...only because it's recent, in 30 years they will have become forgotten by most, avid book readers laugh at the polls when they come up.

As you said it is a silly poll, another one of which you can't take seriously.

Here's a reason why...
here's how he describes Sid Meiers Pirates;
A year later, Sid Meier made a name for himself by basically making an unofficial Wind Waker NES sequel to Zelda.

They list Streetfighter 2 at 59 and Mortal Kombat 2 at 20 and write on the MK2 listing even though Streetfighter 2 was more influential than Mortal Kombat!? .... Yeah nice order of your top 100 there, contradicting your own listings! I think we can stop this awful article right here!

[Misery]

Super Mario Bros. as 'the most influential video game of all time'.

EDIT: I just noticed the OP is a first time poster so there's the possibility it's yet more spam.

That said,
Super Mario Bros. as 'the most influential video game of all time'.

Despite my usual negativity and anti-Nintendo stance..... I actually have to agree with that one. The platformer genre was an important one back on consoles in those days, and this one influenced MANY designers for years to come. Not to mention being a game that got alot of people into gaming. As someone who has played a great deal of platformers on all sorts of different systems, I consider this one to be the best, period. It's not my favorite game of all time, no, but.... it's very definitely up there.

That being said.....

.....this is a strange list. It's actually NOT just filled to the brim with things like CoD, and actually has much mention of OLDER games, including many I've never heard of. At the same time, many of the choices are.... questionable? It's hard to even say.

The Touhou one bothered me though, oh yes. I think I developed an eye-twitch after reading that.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Well, besides the No.1 thing, it's possibly the least irksome of these kind of things that I've read - never heard of Catacomb 3-D, and it even has OXO and Tennis For Two.

Yeah, not a lot to complain about. If it was done in alphabetical order that'd remove the Mario balls, at least.

[The Laird]

Despite my usual negativity and anti-Nintendo stance..... I actually have to agree with that one. The platformer genre was an important one back on consoles in those days, and this one influenced MANY designers for years to come. Not to mention being a game that got alot of people into gaming.

Americans and Japs maybe, over in Europe hardly anyone even owned an NES, hell Alex Kidd was more popular!

The definative platformers for us Brits were Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy!

[Misery]

Despite my usual negativity and anti-Nintendo stance..... I actually have to agree with that one. The platformer genre was an important one back on consoles in those days, and this one influenced MANY designers for years to come. Not to mention being a game that got alot of people into gaming.

Americans and Japs maybe, over in Europe hardly anyone even owned an NES, hell Alex Kidd was more popular!

The definative platformers for us Brits were Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy!

Aye, I can understand that.

Here in the states you wont find many that even know what a Master System is, heh. Let alone some of those older computers like the Spectrum or those sorts. Here it was the 2600, NES, SNES, and the Genesis once that finally came out, as well as.... cough.... "IBM" computers as they were often called, hah. Or the Tandy machines, for some.