Researchers list most important games...

[Adagio]

Originally posted by DrSpike
You guys mean Dune 2.

I was more looking at it at the series in general, not that there was much difference between Dune 2 and Dune 2000 except for the graphics...

But you're right, when looking at each game separately, then Dune 2 is much more important than the other Dune games

I spent more time with Dune 2 than with all C&C games combined

[CapTVK]

I think as a general concept 70/80´s MUD (i have no idea which MUD was there first) should have been put on the list. In those days that was as close as you could get to online RPG´s.

[Quillan]

Originally posted by Dis
spacewar 1962? wtf is this thing? What was it played on?

A quick Wiki search gives this result:
Spacewar!
and it was played on a PDP-1

[DrSpike]

Interesting read on wikipedia.

[Stuie]

Star Raiders

But I'm sorry, Incunabula totally pwns the Civ series. 7 years earlier and incorporating some concepts that didn't make it into Civ.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Quillan


A quick Wiki search gives this result:
Spacewar!
and it was played on a PDP-1

hmm, interesting about the pdp, though it doesn't list all who bought one. What was the price of one? Did businesses buy it? universities?

spacewar is kind of impressive in the phsyics they incorporated into the game. Though missiles were not affected by the sun's gravity. But it is interesting the missiles were affected by the ship's velocity.

[Spaced Cowboy]

They had so many orders that they could not even fill them all.

[Grandpa Troll]

Re: Researchers list most important games...

Originally posted by 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

I found Tetris at Babbages back in 1986, for Nintendo

Love it

I really got hooked on Tetrisphere for N64, multilayers and could do all these layers and such

My hats off to the Inventor

Gramps

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Spaced Cowboy
They had so many orders that they could not even fill them all.

Yeah I saw the $120K figure on a few wiki links from the other page. That's one hell of a pricey game, especially in real terms.