3Games That Changed Everything

The video game industry is an ever-changing landscape. It has its times of soaring peaks and its times of horrid valleys. But no matter the state of it, the video game industry is always changing, and with that change comes innovation and invention and sometimes even re-invention. Certain games set the kafetaria for all others that will follow. Those are the games that will be remembered as the titles that gave birth to some of the best ideas in gaming. So in no particular order (and realize that this is by no means an all-inclusive list) here are ten of the games we thought were innovative in their own right and in some way changed how we play games.

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Duck Hunt

Before the Nintendo Entertainment System hit the shelves people were still enjoying the hell out of their Atari 2600’s and playing Pong and having a merry old time. Then people started seeing commercials for a new home gaming system that looked so vastly better than the Atari that it literally captivated the world. For the first time, gamers were given tons of choices of games to play. From the Super Mario titles to Adventure Island. But the game that changed everything even more than these was Duck Hunt. Though a simple title on its own, it brought the awesomeness of the light gun into our homes so we didn’t have to spend twenty dollars at a time to play shooting games at the arcade.

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The Sims

The Sims gave gamers something that they had never had before. It gave them complete control over everything. Literally everything. Gamers could control the character that they created and named. They could arrange and rearrange the scenery to suit them. They could build and decorate and outfit their own virtual houses. The possibilities were limited only by the boundaries of the gamer’s imagination. Oh, and their bank roll. Gamers would need the disposable income to be able to purchase numerous expansion packs to further their virtual life experiences. Then the Sims introduced the ability to play with other people online. It was like a giant international meet and greet…but without all the pesky honesty about who gamers really were or what they really looked like.

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