Everyone likes to make top 10 lists. Even here at MTV, we've been known to make a top 10 or two ourselves. Lists come in all shapes and forms ?- the good, the bad, the jiggly. There have even been lists of lists. Some lists are better then others. However, when a the curator of the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University publishes his list in the New York Times? it?s probably a list worth checking out.Henry Lowood (the aforementioned fancy pants curator) and his band of merry
gamers, has put together a list of games that are so culturally
significant that they are being considered for submission to the Library of Congress
for preservation. Together, the list is quantifiable by the number of
dateless Friday nights by
the billions of people that have played them. (These numbers can only be
measured using scientific notation.)
These
are the games you need to know, and if there's any that you've never
heard of (Spacewar! I?m looking at you) you really need to educate
yourself. Measured against today?s games, most of this list might
only hold up in the gameplay department, but the games of today wouldn?t
exist if no one ever played these games. Best advice for young gamers: Know your roots. For the full list, make the jump.
The Best Games... Ever:
Spacewar! (1962)
Star Raiders (1979)
Zork (1980)
Tetris (1985)
SimCity (1989)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990)
Civilization I / II (1991)
Doom (1993)
Warcraft (Series) (1994)
Sensible World of Soccer (1994)