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 Super Smash Bros - Melee Fighting Games

10 Street Fighter II - Fighting Games

Great game, but Mortal Kombat was just as important to the genre

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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