what would you vote most important computer game in the history of gaming?

Sensible soccer !!!! then SWOS… playing that against mates in tournaments for hours and hours…

If you’re claiming Sensi, the groundbreaking title there is Kick Off.

(I walked down the aisle to Aerith’s theme)

I can see why he married you. That’s brilliant.

(Wasn’t it “Aeris”?)

the groundbreaking title there is Kick Off.

I forgot all about Kick-Off! Although Sensible Soccer was better..

Doom was THE turning point in my book.

For multiplayer FPS yes. But that’s only one style of game.

Did no-one mention Tetris?

Kick Off 2 then Goal!

Dino Dini from Bristol I think.

(Wasn’t it “Aeris”?)

interchangeable I think presumably mis/phonetic translation type thing. IIRC it was called aeriths theme on the OST CDs, not that I’m am ff7 nerd or owt

It’s a slightly new genre of game and one which I quite like

It’s a stretch to call a linear FPS even a slightly new genre. In any case the thread is about the most important computer game in history, not games molgrips quite likes.

Yeah, that’s why I didn’t nominate Half Life 🙂

I have no idea about the most important game but I don`t think you can beat Mario kart.
My uni days were largely spent on this and Super tennis – Amy was awesome. Of course there were the odd marathon sessions of bomber man as well. (4 player of course).
3 years of education for £20 from cash converters. Legendary.
Now we have a Wii and I simply cant get over how good Mario Galaxy is. What a game!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can see why he married you. That’s brilliant.
(Wasn’t it “Aeris”?)

She was called Aeris in the English translation of FFVII, but Aerith in Kingdom Hearts and later games.
He wasn’t actually sure about my choice of music – we compromised. I got to walk down the aisle to that, he got to name the reception tables after famous dogs.

She was called Aeris in the English translation of FFVII, but Aerith in Kingdom Hearts and later games.

Aaah! I Did Not Know That.

I got to walk down the aisle to that, he got to name the reception tables after famous dogs.

I can see why he married you. The reverse I’m less sure about. (-:

How can anyone here NOT have said Deus Ex? Legendary game.

The first one

DandY

Amiga version was slightly better IMO.

Now, where is that emulator ?:-)

Elite for me, I still have my Elite pinbadge that you got if you sent your cassette back to the publishers once you got to elite status on the game.

MrSynthpop

Braben’s pet 😉

To my mind (as someone who isn’t really a gamer) an important game is Turbo Esprit. Sort of by accident. Up til then games played like arcade games and had the same time pressure / stay alive or go back to the beginning (put another 10p in) format. In other words you had to be winning to continue playing. In Turbo Esprit if it was all going wrong, even if you ignored the goal of the game the game carried on running and you could just play – explore the game world, dick about, slalom between the lampposts, mow down pedestrians, cause pile ups. Before then hitting a ped would be game over, go back to the start, but with that game you had the first element of go anywhere, do anything that you now have in games like GTA

Not quake, but quakeworld, the addon that made it multiplayer.

There were a few lan games before that but QW changed everything and put games on the internet.

Battle cars
Jet Pac
Elite
Gunship 2000
F19/F117
Loved Gaunlet

First online multiplayer game I played Delta Force, spent way to many hours playing that all on 56k 🙂

I couldn’t see what the fuss was about with Kick Off/KO2.

I did once play a full length 90 minute game though just for a laugh. My god, that was awful. Ended up losing something like 89-3, I wasn’t very good at it.

Carmaggedon

Have to be another vote for Doom and Quake here, or rather Quakeworld. I spent waaay too much time playing Quakeworld, competitively, in the late 90s 😳

I still play Quake Live now and have a bash on Doom 2 now and again.

Mario 64.

Proof that free-roaming 3D could actually work properly and provide wonderful gameplay.

Everything since owes a huge debt to this.

Crysis series, and the one where you kept hearing the little girls voice whispering “help me” used to put the fear of god into me when playing in the dark!

ATM and for a no of decades, Max Payne and the Punisher.

Descent.

manic miner

the one where you kept hearing the little girls voice whispering “help me”

Silent Hill?

Silent Hill?

not SH1, is it F.E.A.R.? Never played it but seem to recall something about a girl and it being scary

RE scared me but SH freaked me out big time, never played that in the dark.

Proper 3D freedom of movement and the possibility(likelihood) of completely losing yourself. Descent was also the first computer game I played against a mate over a modem connection 🙂

RE scared me but SH freaked me out big time, never played that in the dark.

IMO RE got you all kind of jumpy whereas SH messed with your head and made you want to finish that last can (of Stella) and go to bed with the lights on.

Half Life might not have been a technical move forward but it had more atmosphere than anything I’d played previously. The section where Freeman is climbing the outside of the Mesa was realistic enough that I had nightmares about slipping off to my death!

Half-life. I love that game, everything was just right for its time, the graphics and animation were spot on, the character design was different Freeman being a scientist not a macho hero, multiplayer was great I loved the ‘crossfire’ map and the sounds were good, even on the menu the sound effects were good clicking from menu to menu. Superb game I spent hours enjoying. I used to lead scientists to their deaths, that was funny edging someone down a lift shaft. Really great for its time and hugely influential in the ‘playable tutorial’ aspect. It had time scale too the story went from morning to night then day again.

But as said before no doom/quake no half life, so its gotta be one of those two. Half-Life was the perfect evolution of what they started.

Great thread again race face

As lots of others have said, Doom. although I have a soft spot for Conflict: Desert Strom, the first game I ever bothered to finish.

HL just didn’t do it for me despite all the hype etc. HL 2 on the other hand was proper bo; the expansive (albeit linear) world, the moody Combine, the awesome next-gen physics, the myriad ways in which you could confront/escape situations … friggin’ awesome.

In the F1 genre, for me it has to be GP2 by Geoff Crammond.

Back in the day…

DOOM – a leap forward and a bridge to the modern equivalents
Gauntlet – I still quote “Warrior needs food badly” when hungry

In the F1 genre, for me it has to be Pitstop 2 on the C64 (as a successor to Atari’s early 80’s classic Pitstop).

Frogger, I’m showing my age right?

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