Top 5 or 10 list of most influential games on any format....

[steviebnw]

or maybe most amount of time spent on them?

mine are...

1. ISS Series - multiple formats
2. Championship Manager - PC
3. Halo 1 and 2 - X Box
4. Theme Park - multiple formats
5. Metal Gear Solid - Playstation
6. Dizzy series - multiple formats
7. Burnout series - X Box
8. Road Rash 2 - Mega Drive
9. Mortal Kombat series - multiple formats
10. Street Fighter series - multiple formats

anyone...?

[JackDanielsU]

Other candidates



the GTA series of games

Pro Evo Soccer series

Resident Evil series

The Sims series

[Llamatron]

Quake - As far as I'm concerned it's where online gaming really exploded.

Mario 64 - It introduced the world to proper 3D platformers and still no one has quite matched it for controls and playability.

[steviebnw]

ISS was the early title for the th Pro Evo series...sorry....im a bit stuck in my ways!!! lol!!

Forgot about the Sims!!! I am getting old...

[OBonio]

For amount of time spent playing, most recent first :

Guitar Hero - PS 2
Everquest Online Adventures (many a 6am crawl into bed thanks to that) - PS2
The Secret of Monkey Island - PC
Doom - PC
Hybris - Amiga
Xenon 2 - Amiga
Mega-lo-Mania - Amiga
Zany Kong Junior - Acorn Electron
Repton 3 - Acorn Electron
Plan B2 - Acorn Electron

[furrycheeky]

Has to be Elite.

[naz_nomad]

I'm with furrycheeky on Elite ... and you'll guess I'm a PC gamer from my list.

Half Life 1 & 2 - please don't let us wait too long for No.3

Counter Strike

Grand Theft Auto (in it's many forms)

Tetris - isn't every 'tile' game based loosely on this idea?

Monkey Island (all of the trilogy)

The 'Need For Speed' series

The dozens of '******' games ... especially the Zoo series

[JackDanielsU]

Ah Repton...I loved that game

I remember Repton Out of time or something.

And building your own levels was always great


Could never get to grips with Elite...used to come out of the space station, turn around and start firing at it, so it deployed the guard ships to take me out...which they did


I guess you could throw Sonic in the mix as well, hes been a SEGA mainstay for a good time.

[AlMac11]

come on man, you've got to be kidding me. by naming street fighter and mortal kombat you obviously know about older games.

Mario, Donkey Kong and Sonic were all console carrying games.

And has anyone mentioned tetris? I think everyone aged from 17- 35 has lost at least a month of their life playing that game.(probably more)

im sure ive probably forgot a whole load more

[steviebnw]

Sorry AlMac11....was never a big platform game fan although ive spent considerable time playing at both Mario n Sonic...and Rainbow Island...how cool was that back in the day?