I agree. I was mainly putting in Asterix because of its difficulty as well as TMNT. Not really sure about the popularity of the former, as i said before and i dont think alot of people look to it for inspiration either. TMNT n the other hand was pretty popular when i was a kid...at least in my neck o the woods. And they both have sentimental value to me lol.
Video Game Hall of Fame
#21
Posted 28 June 2015 - 05:57 PM
#22
Posted 28 June 2015 - 06:24 PM
Nethack is interesting, because it was tremendously popular inside a small group in its day, but obviously the population of people playing videogames was way smaller then compared to the millions of people playing things like GTA III and WoW now. That's also why I didn't mention Ultima IV, which absolutely dominated the market back then but, well, much smaller numbers compared to something like Quake.
Space Invaders I think gets an argument though, as does Breakout. People still play those games on phones and such.
I already had the Quake discussion in this thread, Red, pay attention. (Long story short - they put Doom in; I would either have put Wolfenstein in because it was first or Quake in because of its huge impact on gaming.)
Zork is also interesting, because although Infocom is now long gone you can still see its influence on the logic of adventure gaming.
Asterix the comic belongs in the Comic Book Hall of Fame, good god how many millions of books have they sold; however I'm not buying putting the videogame there.
Sonic the Hedgehog and Monkey Island, although I may in fact despise both of them almost as much as I hate Street Fighter, are also extremely influential. Ugh. Can I stop talking about them now?
Unreal Tournament & CounterStrike were both progressive evolutionary games from Quake II. Which, you know, isn't a bad thing; that could be said about pretty much all of our modern shooters, but eh.
Dune 2? Huh?
Civilization... same problem as the Elder Scrolls games. It sold well, and had a dedicated fanbase: but - not influential outside that group, and what's more it's basically a type of game that has completely disappeared now, so not a long-lived game either.
That said, SMAC is still one of my ten favourite games ever.
Civ II is the birth of 4X turn based stuff
Dune 2 is the first RTS.
#23
Posted 28 June 2015 - 06:39 PM
i wasnt aware there was a Dune 1? is it based of the bestselling novel? if so id play the beejesus out that SOAB
#24
Posted 28 June 2015 - 07:08 PM
Dune 1 was turn based.
Yeah, it is based on Dune. There's a remake called Dune 2000 that you might be able to get working.
There's also a spiritual successor called Emperor: Battle for Dune.
#25
Posted 29 June 2015 - 07:49 AM
Myth was the first RTS.