Is That Just Some Game? No, It’s a Cultural Artifact

Mr. Lowood and the four members of his committee — the game designers Warren Spector and Steve Meretzky; Matteo Bittanti, an academic researcher; and Christopher Grant, a game journalist — announced their list of the 10 most important video games of all time: Spacewar! (1962), Star Raiders (1979), Zork (1980), Tetris (1985), SimCity (1989), Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990), Civilization I/II (1991), Doom (1993), Warcraft series (beginning 1994) and Sensible World of Soccer (1994).

Many of the choices listed here I have to agree with. Spacewar! for example was one of the first computer games, if not -the- first. Who doesn’t remember playing SMB3? These games no doubt paved the way for current and future games in some way.

Source: NY Times