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The Ten Most Important Games
Taking a page from the National Film Preservation Board, the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University and a group of five prestigious games industry figures have inducted ten games into a sort of 'canon'. The New York Times reports that some of these titles represent the start of weighty gaming genres, while all are laudable for their place in gaming history. "[Henry] Lowood and the four members of his committee -- the game designers Warren Spector and Steve Meretzky; Matteo Bittanti, an academic researcher; and Christopher Grant, a game journalist -- announced their list of the 10 most important video games of all time: Spacewar! (1962), Star Raiders (1979), Zork (1980), Tetris (1985), SimCity (1989), Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990), Civilization I/II (1991), Doom (1993), Warcraft series (beginning 1994) and Sensible World of Soccer (1994)." Most likely, future years will see additional titles inducted into this game canon.
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"Sensible World of Soccer"?
The cake is a pie
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
There's information about it in the internet. Use a "search engine" such as Google (www.google.com) and find out.
> TYPE ZORK INTO WWW.GOOGLE.COM
Google suggests that the original poster try the Zork Wikipedia Entry.
It is almost 5:00 pm in your office. You are feeling a mite peckish.
> TRY THE NEXT LINK
Google's second link points to the Infocom-IF page on the history of Interactive Fiction.
It is almost 5:30 pm in your office. You are hungry. Because Congress fucked up Daylight Saving Time, it is not yet dark.
> TRY THE THIRD LINK.
Google's third link points to a live PHP-based implementation Zork, cleverly disguised as a 404 page.
By the time you're done with that, you will have either starved to death, or despite Congress' fucking up Daylight Saving Time, it will be sufficiently dark that you will have been eaten by a grue.
*** You have died ***
Your score is 2 out of a possible (+5, Funny)
"Where's Hunt the Wumpus? "
My girlfriend and I play that all the time, and just after I hide the wumpus, she finds it. After she finds it, I always acknowledge with a "Nice Hunt" kind of thing.
This is the worst euphemism for sex I've ever read.
What about Duke Nukem Forever?
DNF is a very important game.. If it ever gets released, hell will instantly freeze over.
Someone needs to fix the Wikipedia bit.
Does anyone know the editor over there?
+&x
"Does anyone know the editor over there?"
I "wiki-know" him.
He says he's a tenured professor of religion at a private university somewhere.
Yes, a it's bit like Citizen Kane that way
Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
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That entry got lost, otherwise it'd have to be on there. Maybe it's blind.
Thanks to the nested comment structure, I thought you were talking about "Crowther and Woods' Colossal Cave Adventure"...
Which works just as well.
Don't waste time envying the children of today -- look forward to your retirement. Our generation will settle for nothing less than top of the line gaming rigs and fat connections whilst enjoying our golden years. It's gonna make childhood seem boring!
Empire pretty much invented the strategy type computer game back in 1977, and was selected as Computer Gaming World's 1987 game of the year.
:-)
http://www.classicempire.com/
Yes, I wrote it
SimCity 2000: build high-density commercial zones right next to the airport. Laugh evilly as planes repeatedly crash into the big white skyscrapers causing mass havoc. Rebuild. Repeat.
SimCity 2001: suddenly start to feel a little bit guilty about that.
But why would you want to pay homage to the yearly vomit of dull, repetitive sports games? And why not acknowledge the full vision, infinite fps massively multiplayer version that's been available since the invention of the ball?
Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge
http://carvallo.ytmnd.com/