The “Most Important Games Ever Made,” is a list of fifty video/computer-based games from 1 UP.com . All fifty of the games listed, such as Pong, Zork, and Tetris, are linked to individual pages which describe game details, provide resource links, show a list of progeny descendant from the original game, and offer opinionated musings as to why each game on the list is historically important.
I don’t think that very many Apple customers would agree with this, but “The Macintosh” computer made the list as game number 22! Ironically, the linked page says that “creator Steve Jobs discouraged the development of Mac games for fear the machine would be seen as a toy.”
Whether these are or are not the most important games ever made is something I am not qualified to venture an opinion on, and of course is certainly open to debate. However, by reading the historical background of the games presented on the site one can trace the evolution of video/computer-based games, from 1962 to the present.
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Your comment about the Mac made me wonder what they were up to so I checked out the site. It is a very interesting overview of the history of gaming. Based on how their description, not all the items in their list are "good" games, in fact they state that some of them really aren't that good at all. However what I thought the best about what they were doing on the site is noting the things that moved the gaming forward. In that context, the Mac certainly is/was an innovator. Having played games on the Apple II and IIe, text based games on unix boxes of various sorts and not really liking joysticks, the introduction of the mouse was a great innovation. It really changed the not only gaming but the way that computer programs were designed.
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