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The BAFTAs dares to ask the internet: 'What is the most influential videogame of all time?' (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 5 days ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What did you put in? I wrote an essay on how inevitable praise of Dark Souls also applies to Metroid but then deleted it as too pretentious even for BAFTA.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Metroid is too new, Contra was much more of a "git gud" game. They were released around the same time, but I think Contra is more iconic.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The question is influential though not iconic. Metroidvanias are popular. Contra doesn't have a genre named for it

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think the notion of a "git gud" game largely came from Contra. Yes, the genre didn't last, but people crowding around the arcade machine translated to people making videos of themselves beating a hard game.

It's a different kind of connection.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Git Gud started with Donkey Kong. Younger gamers have no idea how hard some of the coin driven games were