Nintendo's most influential games

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I'd pretty much agree, though I'd be inclined to drop SMB or Zelda for SM64.

As far as influence goes, a Nintendo with no Super Mario Bros would still have seen platformers at some point. It was the first and was quite well executed, but the basic idea was Donkey Kong spread out horizontally.

No doubt Zelda did a great deal for the adventure game genre, but, again, I'm not sure that it did much to birth the genre or to set standards. Pen and paper D&D would have inevitably crossed over, and you really don't see many games like Zelda. It's a great series, of course, but it's not one that gets copied all that much. I tend to agree that Zelda II was more influential in the long run.

SM64, though, was the definitive 3D platformer. Mechanisms from it are still showing up in modern games, and it is high praise to say that a game feels at all similar to it. I don't know that the genre would be anything like as advanced as it is now without that game.

Wii Sports I agree on. This was out of left field and it was a huge hit. No matter what happens to the Wii from here on out, it's definitely begun a new era of casual games.