10 most important video games of all time...

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stewacide said: No Zelda games?!?

No title in the Zelda series is deserving. In terms of "importance", Zelda is probably the most overrated. No Zelda was pivotal for the success of the videogame industry, or even the success of Nintendo. Think of it, until just recently with Okami, no company has really imitated the Zelda series in a successful way. Great series, but it just isn't as influential as Mario, FF, Warcraft, Doom etc. I think Donkey Kong Country (though not worthy of top 10 status either) was more important to Nintendo than any individual Zelda game. Other Nintendo games that would come before Zelda are .... Pokemon - Top 20 potential - think of how it made the handheld platform mainstream SMB - Top 15 potential - should be ahead of SMB3, but you have to factor in the movie "Wizard" which makes things closer than they appear at first glance. I remember no game before it which had that level of mainstream hype. Donkey Kong - Top 5 potential - IMO the biggest omission from this list. If the game was a financial flop and Nintendo exited the arcade business who knows what would have happened.