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swyggi on 20 February 2009

The list discusses games that changed "the world". Not ones that changed the vg industry, so most of those make sense. Pong was like the first game most people can actually remember the farthest back



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Vetteman94 on 20 February 2009

Take out 5, 6 & 7 and put in Super Mario Bros., Tetris, and The Legend of Zelda.



CDiablo on 20 February 2009

That list sucks. No GTA 3, Mortal Kombat 1, Tetris, Street Fighter 2. But all the things on the list are pretty big games.



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Theo on 20 February 2009

I really think Unreal Tournament should be up there, or counter strike, or golden eye, or Halo CE. Also Tetris, sim city, transport tycoon, and tons of others I can't think of right now. I don't see how wii sports has changed the world,



Johann on 20 February 2009

That list is ridiculous.
WoW was a copy of a copy of a copy of an already existing genre.
Super Mario Bros basicaly invented platforming and didn't make the list?
Doom?
I can almost get DDR but Guitar Hero? Guitar Freaks was already in its 12th version or something when Guitar Hero launched.
This list reeks of western bias.



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smallflyingtaco on 21 February 2009

Actually it strikes me as a pretty good list. If I had any complaint I think it is that Sim City is a more world changing game than Guitar Hero, which is in my mind a continuation of what DDR is. Sim City may not have been a console game but it kicked off the open ended ungame craze.



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taomaster06 on 21 February 2009

LOZ:OoT should be on there, i think that was the first game to have lock on targeting



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kutasek on 21 February 2009

They should put, super mario bros, it revived video games market, also Final Fantasy 7, they created(expanded) JRPG market, outside Japan.



soccerdrew17 on 21 February 2009

i would say take out ddr and doom and add smb and tetris. ddr was popular, but it didnt really change to much. doom was a game for gamers. tetris is still played and remade and even had a disease. smb is probably the most famous game ever and has affected so many people directly through friends.



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RVDondaPC on 21 February 2009

This list is pretty good. It's about video games that changed the world. Not video games that changed the video landscape for video gamers. How did Mario 64 change anything other than the Mario game itself? Same with Final Fantasy VII. It brought a whole new genre to a new region but I don't think it really did much to change the "world" outside of those already in the world of gaming.

This is one of the few lists I agree with. Though the original SMB maybe should have been on it.