Mario and Zelda must go.

[lestatdark]

It's a shame that most gamers this generation don't know the foundations and the pillars of our beloved industry.

Yeah you can argue with valid points that Zelda, Kirby, Mario, and other old series have reached a point that they just seem rehash after rehash, but that's just doing a shallow analisys of each of the games in each series.

In that way you can say that almost all FPS is just a rehash of Wolfenstein 3D, with just nifty options added and some gameplay alterations, and, likewise it would be totally wrong, because each FPS game needs it's own in-depth analisys.

Zelda and Mario were the games that saved our beloved industry, back in the video game crash of 1985, and at the same time, launched the bases for almost every game to come after them: Fun, Replayability, Difficulty, Objectives within game, Competition, and many more.

Also you can ask around everywhere, and almost everyone knows about mario, heck, even my 90 years old grandma knows about mario, and she thinks that games are what makes our generation dumb :P