1up.com's excellent 50 Most Important Games Ever Made feature is still running, with a new article every Friday.
The latest addition (Ultima Online) brings it up to number 45, and fresh articles since we linked it back in August include Street Fighter II, Final Fantasy 7, Half-Life and The Macintosh gets a special mention.
The list so far:
- Spacewar (1962: PDP-1)
- Pong (1972: Arcade/Console)
- Space Invaders (1978: Arcade)
- Adventure (1979: Atari 2600)
- Battlezone (1980: Arcade)
- Pitfall! (1982: Atari 2600)
- Zork (1977-79: DEC PDP-10)
- Game & Watch (1980-88)
- Star Wars (1983: Arcade)
- Pac-Man (1980: Arcade)
- Donkey Kong (1981: Arcade)
- Rogue (1980: VAX/BSD UNIX)
- E.T. (1982: Atari 2600)
- Dragon's Lair (1983: Arcade)
- King's Quest (1983: PC)
- One-on-One (1983: C64)
- Super Mario Bros. (1985: Arcade/NES)
- Gauntlet (1985: Arcade)
- M.U.L.E. (1983: C64)
- Dragon Warrior (1986: NES)
- Ultima IV (1985: Apple II/PC)
- The Macintosh (1984)
- Tetris (1986: PC/NES/GameBoy)
- Prince of Persia (1989: PC)
- FaceBall 2000 (1990: GameBoy)
- Doom (1993: PC)
- John Madden NFL Football (1990: Genesis)
- Sonic the Hedgehog (1991: Genesis)
- Super Mario Kart (1992: Super NES)
- Populous (1989: Amiga/PC)
- Herzog Zwei (1991: Genesis)
- Street Fighter II (1991: Arcade)
- Myst (1993: Mac/PC)
- Mortal Kombat (1992: Arcade/SNES/Genesis)
- Virtua Fighter (1993: Arcade/32X)
- Super Mario 64 (1996: Nintendo 64)
- Tomb Raider (1996: PS/Saturn/PC/Mac)
- Final Fantasy VII (1997: PS/PC)
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (1999: PS)
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998: N64)
- Metal Gear Solid (1998: PS)
- Half-Life (1998: PC)
- Gran Turismo (1998: PS)
- Parappa the Rapper (1997: PS)
- Ultima Online (1997: PC)
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