NatGeo's "The Evolution of Video Games" The 80's: The Decade that Made US

[Michael-5]

kain_kusanagi said:

Michael-5 said:

Yea, I know, I'm just saying it's not a good timeline in particular.

Yea, Super Mario was 1985, but Mario was around before that, and Donkey Kong was a big arcade game before Super Mario Bros. Giving credit to Super Mario Bros. as Mario's origin is like giving credit to Final Fantasy as the first JRPG, or giving credit to Halo as the first major FPS....

wait... they gave Halo credit for that too!!!

I have had to explain this so many times, but everyone seems to be looking at this timeline wrong. It's not a list to give credit to the best of gaming stuff. It's a timeline.

Super Mario Bros is on the timeline because it was a major turning point. If it was my timeline I would have at least included Donkey Kong as a bullet point in an entry for Arcade games.

Halo is not being give credit as the first major FPS. I think it's on the timeline to show where MS jumped in and made a big splash. It's bullet points don't claim it is the first, best, or most important FPS. It is just a landmark on the road of video game evolution. If I made a timeline for FPS games I would have made room for Wolfienstin 3D  and Doom and Quake and Half-Life and Goldeneye and Perfect Dark and so on. But as this is a short overview of the broad history of video games I think I can forgive NatGeo for trying to do something other than print pictures of Lions and Tigers and Bears.

I get that, but the timeline is missing so many major moments. Final Fantasy saving Square-Soft being a big one, Sony entering the market in 1994, the death of Sega, etc.