Which is the most significant (important) console in history?

[Lawlight]

Kai_Mao said:

Lawlight said:

Not quite right according to the history of video games - arcades had similar games before Nintendo created those games. Check out Hydlide - came out 1.5 years before Zelda. You can see the inspiration right there.

Nevertheless, Zelda was miles away from what Hydlide was and garnered an even greater legacy than the latter could have ever achieved. I didn't say Zelda was the first open world or adventure game, but the game brought a whole new standard to the genre in the modern console world. The huge overworld map, the music, the enemies, the hidden dungeons and cavs, the items, etc. You're more likely to use Zelda as a reference to making games than Hydlide. And as I said, having characters like Link, Zelda, and Ganon become enduring characters helped.

Yeah, well, Zelda came 1.5 year after - 1.5 year back then was an eternity. And it wasn't released on a popular platform or outside of Japan at release. Imagine if PlayStation existed back then and Hydlide was released on it. Things would have been way different.