Top 10 Video Games that Get Way Too Much Credit for "Inventing" Their Genres
The Top Ten
1 Guitar Hero - Guitar Games
2 Conker's Bad Fur Day - Comedy Games
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, the Parappa/Lammy series, Borderlands 2, Psychonauts, the Portal series, Team Fortress 2 and Brutal Legend, just to name a few vastly funnier games
3 Uncharted - Cinematic Third-Person Cover Shooters
Gears Of War, just to name one particularly obvious example
4 Call Of Duty - Online FPS
5 Parappa The Rapper - Rhythm Games
6 Dr. Mario - Tetris Clones
Who could ever forget Bejeweled and Puzzle League
7 Cave Story - Indie Games
Technically, indie games have been around since the Atari
8 Final Fantasy - RPGs
Also invented many of the horrible cliches plaguing the genre
9 Street Fighter II - Fighting Games
Great game, but Mortal Kombat was just as important to the genre
10 Super Smash Bros - Melee Fighting Games
The Contenders
11 Mortal Kombat - Hyperviolent Games
Especially with the users that think they're cool and badass just because it's one of the only things they ever play
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