Quake 1 should be on the list. Online gaming and tournaments might have started with Dwango and Doom, and Duke Nukem might have had a short run on TEN, but Quake made it mainstream. Either Ultima Online or Everquest (moreso the latter) should be on the list. Starcraft should be on the list (it made RTS games mainstream, turned it into something everyone tried to cash in on, it also made intercountry gaming a reality). Goldeneye made FPS games a mainstream phenomenon and was the precursor to the Halo craze. Why isn't the original Zelda on the list? First game to use battery backup? How can Dragon Warrior (which honestly didn't do much had Nintendo Power not literally give it away) make this list based on its own merits? Why isn't Track and Field on this list? Ok maybe I am getting carried away....
Tomb Raider should not be on this list IMHO. Big breasts = not very influential imho. Sexual themes in video games were already coming up, Lara Croft neither shocked anyone nor did she do it in a way that influenced anyone else. The industry certainly didn't follow her lead with female leads in other games. There was no paradigm shift when Tomb Raider appeared other than the spawn of crappy and innumerable sequels. I think Sony quality control had more to do with that than Eidos cashing in.
It doesn't really seem like too much thought was put into this list. It seems more like a bunch of guys sitting around thinking, "How can we come up with an article that'll span a bunch of pages and get us some hits?" "I know, let's name random games that we thought might have done something or another, that is sure to be good!" "Yeah ok! Great"
Pretty terrible list overall. But then again, it's just a few peoples' opinions. They are entitled to publish what they think.
