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[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Generally?

MS Solitaire

Second place WOW

Moving the industry forward?

Pong, Doom, HL are good choices

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was thinking Warcraft 3 instead of WoW, since a WC3 mod spawned the entire genre (MOBA) and that genre brought esports from backwater to front and center. & Of course WoW came from WC3.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 1 points 15 hours ago

WC3 also spawned the tower defense genre. But WOW just has a much wider and deeper influence, both in- and outside of video games.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I mean it did for esports, but be honest that's a gamer thing. Wow changed the face of mmorg gaming. It hit 12 million? 65 year old grandmas were playing, it completely broke the gamer/normie barrier.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Pong

Missile command and asteroids and space invaders were a generation soon after pong. But they were much better games that made for addictive repeated play, and dream infections. Pong was a technology breaktrhough, but not that good of a game.