Guinness World Records top 50 Influential Video Games in History

[7th lutz]

http://kotaku.com/5160745/super-mari...ame-in-history

1. Super Mario Kart
2. Tetris
3. Grand Theft Auto
4. Super Mario World
5. Zelda Ocarina of Time
6. Halo
7. Resident Evil IV
8. Final Fantasy XII
9. Street Fighter II
10. GoldenEye
11. Super Mario 64
12. Tomb Raider
13. Metal Gear Solid
14. Call of Duty 4
15. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
16. GTA San Andreas
17. Super Mario Bros
18. Zelda: A Link to the Past
19. Gran Turismo
20. Final Fantasy VII
21. Pro Evolution Soccer 4
22. The Orange Box
23. Lego Star Wars Complete Saga
24. Tekken 2
25. Wii Sports
26. Pokemon Red/Blue
27. Guitar Hero
28. Project Gotham Racing 4
29. Super Mario Galaxy
30. Resident Evil
31. Ico
32. Chrono Trigger
33. Gunstar Heroes
34. Soul Calibur
35. Advance Wars
36. Ridge Racer
37. Super Metroid
38. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
39. GTA Vice City
40. BioShock
41. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
42. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
43. God of War
44. Sega Rally Championship
45. Starfox 64
46. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
47. WarioWare Inc
48. Saturn Bomberman
49. Crash Bandicoot
50. Outrun

That list is from the Guinness World Records 2009 Gamer's Edition. That list is terrible imo.

[Solertia]

This list fails so hard...

Edit: I'm raging so hard right now that FFXII and VII are up there but not VI. VI >>>>>>>>>>>> VII > XII

[TonyTheTiger]

I love how Super Mario Bros. is in the middle of the pack. And a few spots beneath Tomb Raider of all things. Scratch that. Beneath Super Mario World. What color is the sky in the world in which this list makes any sense?

[Flippy8490]

This list is completely retarted. HALO???...#6, HAH. Goldeneye 007 definately deserves that spot way over Halo. and how in all the hell is Super Mario Bros. in the middle!? It's like the chief reason games even exist anymore. And Super Metroid should be WAYY further up on the list.... - _ - this dissappoints me.

[thom_m]

And Super Metroid should be WAYY further up on the list.... - _ - this dissappoints me.

That, and it's just ONE spot above SOTN...which is influenced by Super Metroid rather than an influential game, IMO.

[eugenek]

Reason #1,824 that the Guinness World Records are meaningless today.

[Press_Start]

It's like they took a list of popular games and went ini mini miny moe.

I would love to hear the reasoning behind their "expertise" decisions but I fear the sear stupidity of their logic will melt my brain into pudding.

[TonyTheTiger]

A big problem is that this isn't really a topic that could work considering the nature of the Guinness Book. Guinness records should be more concrete than this. A list of best selling games is one thing. A list of most influential requires at least a little bit of subjectivity.

[Superman]

With the lack of games from the 80s and 70s, this list looks like it was made by someone who either: 1. Started playing games in the 90s (or later) or 2. Doesn't play games at all and just did some internet 'research'

[Sonicwolf]

Let me get this straight... Super Mario Kart was the most influential game in history? What in the hell were THEY smoking?

[carlcarlson]

No Doom? No Wolfenstein 3D? Seriously? I don't think I've ever seen a "professional" compile something so utterly wrong.

And how exactly do you measure influence?

[Porksta]

Other than other Mario Kart games, what has been influenced by Super Mario Kart? PocketBike Racer?

[AB Positive]

Where do I even begin?

First how can you have three games from one series - copy pasta releases no less - in the TOP 25?. How do you justify Vice City and San Andreas as two 'influential' releases? They're the same game - different settings. How do they even stand out in their own series, let alone a "Top 50 of all time" anything list. Really?

*sigh*

Not that the GTA games are evil, or bad - they're fun. I won't deny that. But really, when you've played one you've played them all. It's like having Tony Hawk 3 and 4 both be on the list. Arghrargh

[Famidrive-16]

Other than other Mario Kart games, what has been influenced by Super Mario Kart? PocketBike Racer?

Crash Team Racing, Diddy Kong Racing, etc...

I don't think the list is that bad but there really shouldn't be three GTAs there. And Goldeneye needs to be there somewhere too.

edit: darn you AB

[TimeLady]

this list is stupid

If we're going by "most influential", where's Night Trap? E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial?

Wouldn't the original Final Fantasy be more influential than 7 or 12?

Gah *head explodes*

[PSerge]

It's official Guinness World Records are STUPID!!!

[ButtonMasher123]

I got a lot of problems with this list

1. Forget the rankings of these games, does someone want to explain to me why Crash Bandicoot, Super Mario World, Saturn Bomberman, and Sonic 2 belong on the list at all. All these games were nothing but updates to previously established formulas.

2. Does GTA really deserve to be on there three freaking times, one time is just fine.

3. It really gets on my nerves how skewed this list is to modern games. I counted a grand total of 3 games before the 16 bit era on the list(Super Mario, Tetris, and Outrun). Where the hell is Pac-Man, Space Invaders, the original Zelda, and tons of others I can't even think of right now. There is a lot of video game history that happened before 1990 and the list has nothing to show for it.

Anyways its pretty obvious that this list was constructed by some young kid who only got into video games after the year 2000.

[kaedesdisciple]

Um, there's a yellow, round, hungry little fellow here that wants to have a word with those Guinness folks...

[coreys429]

Weird no one has said....Pong? Computer Space? or just as a side note to the list Tennis for Two?

[TonyTheTiger]

Ah well. No use crying over spilled milk. We all know that if the list included random deli meats it wouldn't make it any less accurate. But it's still amusing to see something like the Guinness Book lay this claim.