Warp Zoned writes:
"Even from its earliest days, the personalities behind the video game industry looked to pro wrestling’s combination of spectacle and soap opera for tips on how to behave. This dedication to competition came to a head in the early 90s when Nintendo and Sega engaged in the first “Console War.”
Beginning with the “Genesis Does What Nintendon’t” campaign in 1990, Sega began mercilessly picking at their rival over a variety of claims, some provable and some not. But that was just a warm-up for the infamous “Blast Processing” campaign and Nintendo’s eventual reply of asking their fans to “Play It Loud.” The Genesis and Super NES used these advertisements to compete in a head-to-head contest for the love and support of gamers everywhere, but the heaviest fighting actually took place on playgrounds and lunch tables between kids that weren’t even old enough to shave.
No game better symbolized this battleground of friend-versus-friend than Super Mario Kart."
Yagmur Sevinc from NoobFeed writes - Sometimes the genre defines the game, but sometimes the game defines a genre, and it is beautiful.
My list:
1) Demon’s Souls - set a trend for Souls games
2) Amnesia - set trend for survival horror
3) Doom - set trend for arcade FPS’
4) Arkham Asylum - set trend for OW combat
5) Hitman 2 - set standards for sandbox levels
6) MGS1 - set trend for stealth mechanics
7) LoU - set trend for games not necessarily being “fun”, and for (trying to) eliminating ludonarrative dissonance from the violence in a game’s story.
8) Death Stranding: likely to be the only game in the “strand” genre ever. I love it, especially with the Dualsense, but it’s hella niche.
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Zipping around on a kart and throwing shells at other road users might sound fun, but spare a thought for the people who have to live next to it. Game Luster’s Nirav Gandhi brings us ten Mario Kart Streets you will be glad you don't live on.
"Super Mario Kart was the first Mario Kart game which is a series that still sells millions of copies so let's see how it holds up today." - Alex Legard from Video Chums
