My 25 Most Influencial Games
Image taken on 2005-02-18 20:13:29 by Michael Heilemann.
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I can’t name very many of them, but I think this is a cool idea.
I’m not sure it would work for me, though. If I made a poster like this, it’d consist of:
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4
Tony Hawk’s Underground
Tony Hawks’ Underground 2
So in the end, I don’t think it would be that interesting,
Tony Hawk’s on my list aswell.
All that comes to my mind right now though, is Super Mario World on the SNES. What a game!
Flashback
Unreal
Half-Life 1& 2
Monkey Island
Full Throttle
Wolfenstein
Anachronox
Doom
These are the ones I recognize because I played them. Others are a combination of having read other people’s answers, so I’ve left those out.
NES classics?
SMB??
Er, I can’t see Starquake. Nice choice tho.
Doom! I see DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
BTW… having to sign up for some blogger service to comment sucks.
Tomb Raider 2. Best version ever.
3 and 4 are also nice. Then this thing is getting really bad.
I’m sorta biased in this comment, but I would have included one of the Final Fantasy games if I were making a poster like this. :]
I see,
1.1 Deus Ex, 1.2 1.3 Wing Commander (3?) 1.4 Wolfenstein 1.5 Another World
2.1 Beneath a Steel Sky? 2.2 Flashback 2.3 Doom 2.4 Beneath a Steel Sky 2? 2.5 Omikron?
3.1 Descent 3.2? 3.3 Monkey Island 3.4 Half Life2? 3.5 Half Life
4.1 Civilisation? 4.2 ? 4.3 Outcast 4.4 Halo 4.5 Bladerunner
5.1? 5.2? 5.3 Unreal 5.4 Full Throttle 5.5 Star Wars?
Heh, had it been some years ago, I would have named them all, it’s a good thing that most of them are old timers
So, are you gonna fill in the blanks Michael
1.2 Ultima 6?
2.5 Deus Ex?
4.2 Dreamweb (great !!!)
5.2 DOTT
Wow. Full Throttle! That was an amazing time for me. LucasArts blew me away with that one. Although Riven (which I don’t see there) was the only time I’ve locked myself in for a week and couldn’t stop living there.
(The link to the larger resolution image doesn’t quite work, you’ll have to remove the trailing dot.)
Nice use of picture tags! Daim! I was wrong about quite a few of them.
Thanks for the listing! Dreamweb sure sounds like a freaky game! And you are right about Outcast’s voxels, they were very impressive even in low resolution. A shame that the technique never caught on, it could really have been interesting. And we would probably have machines with 4GB of RAM by now, hehe.
WHAT? NO CS?
No, no CS. Counter Strike is where smacktards and cussing racial idiots are born.
Man, i so agree with the DIG. I wish there were more games like it. I still play it once every two years or so.
Heavy on the Lucasarts! Great to see Dreamweb, Another World (aka Out of this World), and Flashback getting their due. All were excellent games.
No Quake 3? Ok, not any LAN Games =)
You haven’t finished Flashback yet?! You’ve had 13 years for gods sake!
Flashpoint is very fun, I thought you might have added some C&C games? Red Alert was a big fav for me.
suprises me you finished some of these games i never could, and didn’t finish one of the few i did
day of the tentacle that is. finish it, it’s hella funny 
Excitebike (NES)
Sacrifice (PC)
Super Mario Brothers 3 (NES)
Gran Turismo (PS)
- They all would have to me on my list, it just wouldn’t be ‘gaming’ without them.
What a unique idea… alot of those games are equally shared by me, and its got me thinking now!
Dreamweb was a really great game!
and Id Software ones too. Nice collection.
But do you forget Maniac Mansion?
My list would include King’s Quest III. Of course, maybe you kids these days never played that one.
(God I’m only 27 an dremembring things that some on here probably too young to know)
Zelda did it for me back in the day. Mario Kart provided endless hours of wasted brain cells.
Pitfall was the shit back in ‘84 (i was only 7)
I’ve played and finished most of those, really great selection.
Personally Deus Ex made me blow chunks, I would replace it with Planescape: Torment any day, or some other black isle release
Nice list. Some definite classics. I was surprised that you included one of my all-time favorites, however I must correct the name. It was “Out Of This World,” not “Another World.” It was perhaps the most compelling story I’ve ever seen in a game. The only obvious hole in your list, in my opinion, is the all-time uber classic: Star Control 2.
Not entirely true; you see it was called both. In the US market it was sold as ‘Out of This World’ and in the European and Australian markets it was ‘Another World’.
I chose to call it Another World because a) it’s what I knew it as, b) it’s a European production and finally c) it got the title ‘Out of This World’ due to a TV show running in the US at the time of release, which was called ‘Another World’. So to avoid confusion–even though the TV show had nothing to do with the game–they renamed it. Of course they forgot to check the market properly; a sci-fi show happened to also run in the US at the time with the title ‘Out of This World’.
So yeah.
Did you ever play the sequel to this game? It was called Heart Of The Alien.
I remember playing it on the sega genesis/megadrive but I dont know if there was a pc version.
great idea. here’s some on my list:
Dragon’s Lair (arcade)
Tekken 2
Heavy Barrel (arcade)
Smash TV (arcade)
Bionic Commando
Sonic the Hedgehog
Keystone Capers
Joust
Gauntlet
Final Fantasy VII
Tony Hawk
Marble Madness
Unreal Tournament
Hot Shots Golf
Out of this World
Zork
Ghosts and Goblins
Altered Beast
I’m sure I’ll think of some more.
This is a great reference! Thanks for sharing!
This pic(s) grabbed my attention. Good idea!
here’s a few I would have included.
operation flashpoint.
Jedi Knights 2: Jedi outcast.
The Broken Sword Series.
Well Operation Flashpoint is actually present in the collage. As for Jedi 2, the single player mode sucked serious ass. But the lightsaber duelling was definitely pretty awesome.
I never did play any Broken Sword, but I’ve heard many good things.
Missed operation flashpoint! sorry, good to see it there.
System Shock 2 , Unreal and Deus Ex are my favs.
Great idea, and many of these would be on my list, too. Nice to see a little-known and neglected game like ‘DreamWeb’ on the list. That game was flawed, but certainly unique and atmospheric.
I’ve played and completed a lot of these. ‘System Shock’ and ‘Deus Ex’ are two of my all-time favourites, and of course ‘Doom’ blew me away and occupied my life for years.
‘Another World’ – beautiful. Same goes for ‘Dune’ – The art! The music! Wow…
‘Anachronox’ was great and a real labour of love for its dev team. Pity it sold so poorly
LucasArts games: Great, of course. ‘D.O.T.T.’ was their finest hour.
‘Outcast’ is a problem for me. I fell in love with it straight away, played it solidly for a couple of days and realised it actually sucked. It’s a cruel b’stard that promises joy and ultimately delivers pain. Pity.
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i miss starcraft!
much old games I have never see before^^
OUTCAST is Astonishing
Ahhh… brings back good memories.
metal gear solid……(1998) (playstation !)
YES HALO & HL1&2
Ghost and Goblins
Goldeneye
Mario Party (pick a number)
Turok sp?
FF 7
Nuff Said!!!!!