10 most important video games of all time

[jay santos]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

4. Pitfall!

Was Pitfall the one where you would go through screens from left to right and jump over quicksand and find stuff, and get bit by a snake? If so, I loved that game.

Another cool one, Joust.

Oh and the Frogger Seinfeld episode was one of the greatest.

[jay santos]

Another great, underrated game. Did anyone play Jumpman? I played it on a Commodore machine in the mid 80's. Awesome game.

[MikeWaters]

RBI Baseball for NES.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Clark Addison

I came in to mentione Wolfenstein. It didn't have the popularity of Doom, and wasn't as technically advanced, but I think it really started the FPS genre in a big way.

Plus you get to shoot Nazi dogs.

If I remember right, I believe Wolfenstein 3D was just the test run for the same guys who made Doom.

Now who can show their age by admitting they played the original Castle Wolfenstein? Good times.

Originally Posted by woot

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.

I second that. I'm trying to remember ... Starflight may have been the first graphical computer game I played on the PC (after all the Infocom stuff), and I probably own every title produced by Sierra (the "Quest" games).

Anyone ever play Below the Root?

[jay santos]

Originally Posted by jay santos

Was Pitfall the one where you would go through screens from left to right and jump over quicksand and find stuff, and get bit by a snake? If so, I loved that game.

Another cool one, Joust.

Oh and the Frogger Seinfeld episode was one of the greatest.

just wikipedia'd Pitfall, yes that's the one I was thinking. Great game. Love wikipedia.

[Indy Coug]

www.mame.net

You can download an emulator which will play arcade games. Then you can Google and find ROMs which are files created from downloading the code directly from the arcade game chips. They play, look and sound EXACTLY like they did in the arcade.

I've got 100s of them. Great stuff!

[JohnnyLingo]

Originally Posted by Tex

If I remember right, I believe Wolfenstein 3D was just the test run for the same guys who made Doom.

Now who can show their age by admitting they played the original Castle Wolfenstein? Good times.

I'm not that old, but I remember watching my aunt play the original Castle Wolfenstein back in the day. I was probably 7 or 8. Dang hard game from what I understood. Loved the implementation of sauerkraut.

[mpfunk]

Speaking of RBI baseball

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by Tex

Now who can show their age by admitting they played the original Castle Wolfenstein? Good times.

I played on keyboard, no less.

Movement

W: Up
A: Left
D: Right
X: Down
S: Stop

Gun
I: Aim Up
J: Aim Left
L: Aim right
M: Aim Down
Space: Shoot

T: throw grenade

"It will take 30 seconds to open this chest"

"You have found....Molson Golden! Burp!"

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by jay santos

just wikipedia'd Pitfall, yes that's the one I was thinking. Great game. Love wikipedia.

First, always remember that when referring to the game "Pitfall!," you need to use the exclamation point.

Harry was the main character. It was a scroller, left to right, with about 4 main obstacles:

1. Jumping across stationary alligator heads
2. Running through quicksand pools that appear and disappear
3. Jumping across water using a vine
4. Jumping over a scorpion when running underground

The main goal was to find gold and silver bars.

Beyond that, there wasnt much point to the game. For whatever reason, one of my all-time favorites.

The sister companion to this game was a follow-up called Keystone Cops, which was basically Pitfall! inside a building of cops looking to catch you.