| rocketpig said: On that note, Michael Jordan should probably deserve a mention. That man changed sports, marketing, and personality all in one fell swoop. |
Yeah, thanks a lot...
| The Ghost of RubangB said: Then I'll go with Gunpei Yokoi for creating the D-Pad, which has been on every single gaming system since he invented it, changing the world of gaming forever. And he made the Game Boy, which changed the world of gaming forever. His Beam Gun games helped start the light-gun-carnival game craze, and inspired the Nintendo Zapper. And he created Metroid, which still inspires every Castlevania and and many other games, as well as giving us the first great female protagonist of gaming. And his "Lateral Thinking of Withered Technology" philosophy was not only responsible for the success of the Game Boy (choosing battery life over color), but is now responsible for the success of the DS and the Wii. He is still an inspiration for Miyamoto and Iwata, and as far as I'm concerned his ghost still runs Nintendo. I'd let Miyamoto, Michael Jorden, Spielberg, Bowie, and Oprah round out the top 6, but I won't put them in order. That's 2 game-related people, 1 athlete, 1 filmmaker, Bowie for helping to create several genres and influencing music, fashion, music videos, music business, and PR, and 1 Oprah to rule them all and in the darkness bind them. |
Still, every single thing he did involved gaming. Do you honestly think a gamer influenced the world more than Jordan or Speilberg? On top of that, do you really think any of them even come close to Oprah?
Let's not be silly. Take a step back an realize that while gaming has impacted all of our lives heavily, it's not anywhere near the level (or at least it wasn't pre-Playstation) of many other celebs who drastically changed the way we think about our world.
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Two pages and no one mentioned chuck norris, colour me surprised!
nintendo and sega fan since i was old enough to hold a game controller.
note: my games collection on my profile is only 20ish% complete, i've got a boatload of 360,saturn and dreamcast games to add and a few ps3 games, thanks :)
| blink182 said: Two pages and no one mentioned chuck norris, colour me surprised! |
why would anyone mention a talentless homophobe who has done nothing influential and powerful?
rocketpig said:
Still, every single thing he did involved gaming. Do you honestly think a gamer influenced the world more than Jordan or Speilberg? On top of that, do you really think any of them even come close to Oprah? Let's not be silly. Take a step back an realize that while gaming has impacted all of our lives heavily, it's not anywhere near the level (or at least it wasn't pre-Playstation) of many other celebs who drastically changed the way we think about our world. |
Within the last 30 years gaming has become a bigger industry than music or movies and has inspired both music and movies and now they're on watches, phones, computers, PDAs, and dedicated gaming systems that are built into airplanes and cars. In the 70's and 80's all these new tech-savvy college kids were offered jobs at the military where they could make tons of money programming missiles, and they chose to take a huge chance on a fledgling game industry where they might not make any money, but they'd get to use their skill sets to program toys for kids, so I think they're all heroes! And now video games are being used in physical rehabilitation, curing of phobias, curing of drug addictions, military and police training, army recruitment, racist propaganda, convalescent homes, cruise ships, and the White House. So I do honestly think it's a big deal.
SciFiBoy said:
why would anyone mention a talentless homophobe who has done nothing influential and powerful? |
He was killed by Bruce Lee in a movie once, doesn't that count as doing something influential and powerful?
txrattlesnake said:
He was killed by Bruce Lee in a movie once, doesn't that count as doing something influential and powerful? |
He also beat the tar out of Joe Piscopo. I think that speaks volumes about his power and influence.
Oprah
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Oprah? What the hell has she done, isn't she just a chat show host?
OT: Stephen Hawking or Lord Robert Winston, two living legends right there.
Or Ozzy Osbourne, man I love Ozzy Osbourne, but that's just me lol
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