Some video games have become legendary because they have changed the history of the medium forever.
You all have in mind video games that you will never forget because of their quality. Whatever your generation is, there is a good chance that several works will come back to you just by reading these few words. We won’t go so far as to say that excellent games are rare, they are less rare than the games that spoiled a saga, but they still enter a very closed circle, the one of the outstanding works.
We won’t talk about them in this article, at least not for their intrinsic quality. The games we’re going to talk about belong to another category, this time reserved for a small handful of them: those that have changed video games forever. You will understand why.
The most influential video games of all time
Most, if not all of you will be familiar with the games and their saga that we are going to talk about here. However, we are not talking about them because they are beloved by the public or because their quality commands respect, but because these works have shaped the world of video games as we know it today.
Many of them have actually invented a genre and all of them have seen many games inspired more or less strongly by them. So don’t be surprised if you don’t find a PS4 game, even if the console offers some of the most beautiful games in history. More than the licenses themselves, any enthusiast should know why these games are cult. Here are the 8 works that have revolutionized the history of video games.
Super Mario Bros. (1985)
How can we not mention the mythical license created by Shigeru Miyamoto? Mario is one of the most popular sagas in the history of video games and it owes this in part to its first episode. Even today, the game is one of the best-selling in history with more than 40 million copies sold worldwide. Many, many works have tried to copy Super Mario Bros. and the Mario license as a whole, but have never succeeded in doing so well.
Dragon Quest (1986)
We don’t want to start a war between Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest fans here. The reason why the first episode of Dragon Quest is included in this ranking is because it is considered to be the first great representative of role-playing games on consoles. In Dragon Quest, battles take place in a turn-based first-person shooter. The player earns experience points after each battle to upgrade his heroes and goes from city to city through the world map. Obviously, said like that, it may seem classic, but this game system is a first for its time. 35 years later, Dragon Quest is still one of the most popular licenses in video games and its formula has not changed much.
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Metroid (1986-1987)
You have probably heard the term Metroid-like. The history of this word starts with Metroid, released in 1986 on Famicom and one year later on NES. Metroid revolutionized the history of video games. Its gameplay mixes platform, adventure and shoot’em up games in an “open world”. Where Metroid is revolutionary is in its progression. The player unlocks equipment that will allow him to access more and more areas of the game previously blocked, a first. Metroid is also the first game to offer movement to the right but also to the left, precisely to return to previously inaccessible places.
The Legend of Zelda (1986-1987)
Breath of the Wild is still talked about 4 years after its release, but let’s go back even further in the past, to the genesis of the series. The Legend of Zelda, released in 1986 on the NES, is remarkable in many ways. The action-adventure game, one of the first of its kind, offers a universe of a rarely seen size, music of an exceptional quality, but is also a precursor of the role-playing game and the A-RPG, although it is not one itself. The Legend of Zelda was also sold with a lithium battery, which allowed for the first time to… save.
Doom (1993)
Doom is not the first FPS in history. The inventor of the genre, Wolfenstein 3D, also developed by id Software, does not appear in this ranking simply because the aura of Doom is incomparable with the one left by Wolfenstein 3D, although it is also huge. It is not for nothing that Doom gave birth to a genre, the Doom-like. With its first-person view, the game features fast-paced (and bloody) action, revolutionary 3D graphics for its time and a networked multiplayer mode, which was also rare at the time. Gamers loved Doom in 1993 and they still do in 2021, as evidenced by the sales of Doom and Doom Eternal released recently. Simply cult.
Resident Evil (1996)
You might have imagined that Metal Gear Solid released on PS1 would be included in this list. It would have made sense, because it marked the history of video games, as much in its gameplay as in its cinematographic aspect. But we chose to leave out the PS1 opus for Metal Gear, released on MSX in 1987. Although it is not as well known as MGS 1, it is the first game of a mythical saga and above all, the inventor of a genre, the infiltration. The technology of the time obviously didn’t allow to reach the heights of the following episodes, but everything was already there: clever gameplay, dense scenario and enjoyable soundtrack.
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997)
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, a platformer and action game, gave birth to a new genre: the metroidvania. This PS1 episode has for the first time RPG elements and is inspired by the structure of Metroid, namely to go back in time once you have acquired the necessary techniques or objects to access certain areas.
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The most influential video games of all time
