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106 landmark video games from Pong and Pac-Man to Minecraft and Fortnite. When they arrived, who built them, and why they changed the medium across five decades of play.
Key Games
Pong
Allan Alcorn two paddles and a bouncing square launched Atari and the commercial video game industry. Bar installations ...
Space Invaders
Tomohiro Nishikado alien march introduced the persistent high score and pulled billions of quarters worldwide, spreading...
Super Mario Bros.
The game that revived the home console industry after the 1983 crash, selling more than 40 million copies as the NES pac...
Tetris
Seven falling tetrominoes on a Soviet minicomputer became a universal cognitive itch. The Game Boy bundle ensured world ...
Doom
The shareware phenomenon of 1993 put lightning fast first person carnage on millions of PCs. Deathmatch coined a word, i...
Myst
Robyn and Rand Miller island of linking books became the killer application that sold CD-ROM drives, the best selling PC...
Half-Life
A tram ride into Black Mesa introduced seamless scripted storytelling where the scientist Gordon Freeman never speaks. T...
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Z targeting solved 3D combat, ocarina songs built time travel puzzles, and horseback Hyrule earned a 99 Metacritic score...
Minecraft
Markus Notch Persson block sandbox grew from indie forums into the best selling game in history at over 300 million copi...
Grand Theft Auto V
Three switchable protagonists, a satirical Los Santos and GTA Online became the fastest entertainment product to a billi...
Dark Souls
Hidetaka Miyazaki interlocking world, bonfire checkpoints and refusal to explain created a genre named after it. The sou...
Pokemon Red and Blue
Satoshi Tajiri collecting obsession met the Game Boy link cable and turned trading into a social phenomenon. Released in...