10 most important video games of all time...

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Hell it didn't even basically invent the save file for which almost no other game had at the time.

Ok, the battery save was a technological advance that would have occured in another Nintendo game had Zelda not existed. It is more of a cartridge advance than anything else. PC games have "save files" for years. Just because you really like a game does not make it influential. The series is nowhere near as influential as Mario.

Zelda also never made one of the best and true transitions from 2-d into 3-d.

It came well after Mario and other great 3d games......

Z-targeting camera was useless and a series that has almost every one of their games considered in someone's top list of best game ever made really has no influence what so ever.

So Nintendo influenced themselves? Z-targeting isn't really the advance you think it is, many FPS fans hate Metroid because of it. Do you think that the industry is any better financially or mainstream than it would have been if Zelda never existed? Nintendo's first 3 systems launched Mario before Zelda. Mario is more important.

I see what you did there. nice job

What he did was make a childish argument "Zelda is great and I really love it therefore it was instrumental for the industry. To hell with the fact that we are talking about the top 10 most important games across all systems and all time.!"