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I could be wrong, but I thought I read his Top Ten list to consist of those that carved out a gaming genre still relevant to today.
I'd be hard-pressed to identify a present-day genre that Pong, Space Invaders, or Pac-Man resembles. Technically those are all arcade games of a similar flavor. Oregon Trail might have a case, but I think it's summed up in Zork (adventure games). Gauntlet the first MMORPG? Heh. Do you know what that acronym means, Mike? If we're going to be fair to MMO's, I'd really have to go with Ultima Online.
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Those were two separate sentences.
Gauntlet, by itself. Then MMPORG. |
12-03-2007, 08:29 PM | #13 |
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Castle Wolfenstein. The game that taught me the word "scheisse."
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12-03-2007, 08:37 PM | #14 |
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Some of my early faves:
Home console (Atari) 1. Pong 2. Warlords 3. Circus Atari 4. Pitfall! 5. Kaboom *Honorable mention: Yar's Revenge Home Console (Nintendo) 1. Super Mario Bros. 2. Mike Tyson's Punch Out! 3. Super Mario Bros. 2 4. Double Dribble 5. Contra Apple // 1. Secret Agent 2. Karateka 3. Lode Runner 4. Zork 5. The Serpent's Star/Mask of the Sun (tie) *Honorable Mention: Law of the West Arcade 1. Shinobi 2. Crystal Castles 3. Quartet 4. Dragon's Lair 5. Kung Fu Master * Honorable Mention: Berzerk (Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert!)
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WHen in HS we used to sneak intot he UofU computer lab and go through the trash (surreptitiously) of course looking for student lab passwords so we could log on and play "Star Trek" against each other. THis worked very well until one day some schmuck tried to log on and was told that he was alreadyon. He hollered out "who's using my account?" (this was when the lab was a bunch of termianls, not PCs, in a long narrow room with a glass wall on one end) and my firends and I, not knowing which one of us was the one, all jumped up and ran. We were pursued by these really geeky looking students. THey didn't catch us, but from that point on, they all recognized us.
Star Trek was a cool, cool game.
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I get grumpy if I don't see Starflight and X-Com on lists like these. Ultima Online and something from the Space Quest/King's Quest genre should probably be on there too.
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Electronic Arts' Dr. J vs Larry Bird
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