Most Important Video Games to the Video Game Industry

The Top Ten
1 Super Mario Bros.

Without Super Mario bros we never would have had Sonic the hedgehog there would be no Halo, Grand Theft Auto, Crash Bandicoot, The Legend of Zelda or all those great games that came after.

Had this not been released, gaming would probably be pretty different today.

This game saved the gaming industry so of course it's number 1!

Hero of the video game crash of the 1983, this is sure important

2 Pong

Nothing is better than original

3 Pac-Man
4 Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)
5 Space Invaders
6 Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1991)
7 Halo Combat Evolved
8 Resident Evil (1996)
9 Mortal Kombat (1992)

This game is very important to the video game industry as with out it there would be no esrb rating system

10 Metroid (NES)
The Contenders
11 Metal Gear Solid

It was a pretty big deal when it first came out

12 The Legend of Zelda (1986)
13 Super Mario World

My favorite game of all time!

14 Super Smash Bros.
15 Pokemon Red & Blue

These games single handedly revived the 10 year old GameBoy handheld system and brought it back into popularity. If not for this game, handheld gaming would be very different today.

16 Donkey Kong (Arcade)
17 Super Mario 64
18 Wolfenstein 3D
19 Grand Theft Auto

Created the open world genre

20 Tomb Raider (1996)
21 Dance Dance Revolution
22 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

While it may have contributed to the video game crash and ruined Atari's Reputation it did however allow Nintendo to introduce Mario and helped saved the video game industry so at least some good came out of it.

23 Tetris
24 World of Warcraft
25 Assassin's Creed II

This game showed people what a good game is

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