- [Henry] 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).
(A tip o' the fedora to Christopher Knight for this story.)
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I recuse myself from this debate, since Tetris is the only game on the list I've ever even played. I don't know why, for all my geekiness, I'm such a non-gamer!
Yep. That's the only one on the list I've played as well.
*sigh*
I lead such a boring life.
One of the reasons I only play mindless veg-out computer games like Tetris or Solitaire is that I don't seem to enjoy artificial complexity. I experience enough of the real thing every day! I try action games from time to time and find they raise, not lower, my stress level. After getting killed or crashing my car once or twice, I get annoyed and quit.
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