I’m not exactly sure WHO made this list over there, but it’s at best, laughable in my eyes. They state that it’s a "list of games ranked both on their importance and on how fun they are to play." Everything below this sentence is from Guinness so don’t blame me.
The top three places on the winner’s podium were allotted to Super Mario Kart, Tetris and Grand Theft Auto. As the best-selling racing game on the N64 (more than 9 million units sold), Super Mario Kart is also the best-selling racer on the SNES (8 million units), the Gamecube (nearly 7 million units) and the DS (10 million units). In second place, the world’s most ported video game, Tetris, is available on at least 59 different gaming platforms receiving its high ranking because of its simplicity and devilish addictiveness. Third runner up, Grand Theft Auto holds the record for the most controversial series of games. It has received near-perfect scores in virtually every review and GTA IV has been recognised by Guinness World Records as the fastest-selling video game ever.
Number four to ten on the top list include, in ranking order, Super Mario World (#4), Zelda Ocarina of Time (#5), Halo (#6), Resident Evil IV (#7), Final Fantasy XII (#8), Street Fighter II (#9), GoldenEye (#10).
Graded in the subsequent forty spots, the list includes Super Mario 64 (# 11), Tomb Raider (#12). Metal Gear Solid (#13), Call of Duty 4 (#14), Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (#15), GTA San Andreas (#16), Super Mario Bros (#17), Zelda: A Link to the Past (#18), Gran Turismo (#19), Final Fantasy VII (#20), Pro Evolution Soccer 4 (#21), The Orange Box (#22), Lego Star Wars Complete Saga (#23), Tekken 2 (#24), Wii Sports (#25), Pokemon Red/Blue (#26), Guitar Hero (#27), Project Gotham Racing 4 (#28), Super Mario Galaxy (#29), Resident Evil (#30), Ico (#31), Chrono Trigger (#32), Gunstar Heroes (#33), Soul Calibur (#34), Advance Wars (#35), Ridge Racer (#36), Super Metroid, (#37), Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (#38), GTA Vice City (#39), BioShock (#40), Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (#41), The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (# 42), God of War (#43), Sega Rally Championship (#44), Starfox 64 (#45), Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (#46), WarioWare Inc (#47), Saturn Bomberman (#48), Crash Bandicoot (#49) and Outrun 2 (#50).
WarioWare? Lego Star Wars? Bioshock comes in at #40? Well at least Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion made the list...
I think they need to stick to world records and leave the game rankings to others. Tell us what you think.
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I don’t know. Within their hybrid criteria of ’importance and fun’, their list only has a few really glaring issues, and several good choices. If I had to revise the list, I’d do something like...
Call of Duty 4: Replaced by Doom, the first FPS that laid down a lot of the genre’s conventions today; deathmatch, for example. It was incredibly popular back in the day, and I know people who still play it even now.
WarioWare: You jump on this one too, Christophor. I think it should be replaced by Quake 1, which laid down the foundations for modern internet multiplayer over TCP/IP, and later via QuakeWorld introduced things like Client Prediction.
Saturn Bomberman: Fun? Probably. ’Important’? Someone’ll have to explain that one to me. I looked over its history and I don’t see anything ground-breaking here. If importance is a criteria, why not Spacewar or Pong or Space Invaders?
I try not to be too hard on lists like these, since personal opinion is going to play a huge part, and with only X number of slots to hand out something will be overlooked. Someone might say "Where’s Jagged Alliance or X-Com?", or "What about Star Control 2?", and so on, but that gets into opinion. Some of the titles in the above list however just don’t seem important to me, and I question why they’re mentioned.