Icons
Posted on February 28th, 2010 by
I was sitting here thinking about the iconic games in gaming. Not the most important games, not even the pivotal games, but the most “iconic” of their era. The games you think of when you think of THAT console or THAT time period in gaming. Here’s my list, in rough order: Pong, Space Invaders, Battlezone, Donkey Kong, Zork, Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros, Dragon’s Lair, Gauntlet, Tetris, Street Fighter 2, Doom, Civilization, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mario Kart, TecmoBowl/Madden, Halo, Grand Theft Auto 3, Wii Sports…. and?
March 1st, 2010 at 1:21 pm
I always think of Pitfall when I think of the Atari.
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Halo, for the Original X-Box.
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:39 pm
modern warfare 2
March 3rd, 2010 at 2:35 am
yours are good, here are more
Atari – Tank Battle, Night Driver, Breakout, Adventure
Late Atari – Yar’s Revenge
Early PC/Mac: Karateka, D&D “Gold Box”
Mac – Shufflepuck
PC – Reach for the Stars or Master of Orion
Arcade: Space Battles, Missile Command (nearly every early arcade game seems almost iconic now…) Shoot, now I’m blanking on one of my favorites – the vector-based one where you just shoot from on top of long shaped tubes down towards the middle…
March 5th, 2010 at 12:12 am
Half life.