Researchers list most important games...

[Carolus Rex]

A list of the most important computer games (compiled by researchers at Stanford). Here it goes:

1. Spacewar (1962)
2. Star Raiders (1979)
3. Zork (1980)
4. Tetris (1985)
5. Sim City (1989)
6. Super Mario Bros III (1990)
7. Civilization I och II (1991, 1996)
8. Doom (1993)
9. Warcraft (1994)
10. Sensible World of Soccer (1994)

Found the list at a swedish business site...

A bit strange that Super Mario Bros III is included (and not the first game in the series), no?

Edit: I added 1996 for Civ 2...

Carolus

[Carolus Rex]

A New York Times piece on the list:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/arts/design/12vide.html?ex=1331352000&en=380fc9bb18694da5&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Edit: Well, the man behind the list is at Stanford...

Carolus

[DrSpike]

Not a bad list, but not having SMB is strange, as is the lack of early text based RPGs.

[Gamecube64]

I believe that SMB III may have been the best-selling game of all time.

And Tetris is clearly commie propaganda.

[DrSpike]

It's not. Ironically enough SMB is!

[Gamecube64]

I think that may have depended on whether or not you count to copy bundled with the NES.

[Quillan]

Originally posted by DrSpike
as is the lack of early text based RPGs.

Zork is on the list, but then that really wasn't a RPG either. I don't recall text based RPGs, to be honest. I had big gaps in my computer ownership in those days.

[LordShiva]

This list is better than IGN's

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Quillan


Zork is on the list, but then that really wasn't a RPG either. I don't recall text based RPGs, to be honest. I had big gaps in my computer ownership in those days.

Yeah I wasn't thinking of Zork, something like Adventure or Rogue. Before my time too!

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by LordShiva
This list is better than IGN's

Well it's a list of important games not best so is meant to be different.

[Dis]

spacewar 1962? wtf is this thing? What was it played on?

[Skanky Burns]

The first three Warcraft games represent the introduction of real-time strategy overlaid on a narrative

Dune?

[Carolus Rex]

Dis,

According to a collegue of mine, it is the first computer game ever created...

My guess is that it was played on a 5 ton mainframe by five men in white lab coats...

Carolus

[Adagio]

Mentioning Warcraft while ignoring Dune

[DrSpike]

You guys mean Dune 2.

It is kind of debatable which game to put on lists like this. Dune 2 got in first and influenced the later games, but Warcraft captured the imagination of gamers everywhere and sold far more copies. Along with C&C they popularised the genre.

I'm ok with either Dune 2 or Warcraft - at least it didn't go to C&C.