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Title: PC Games Important to Computer History
Post by: burningdoom on August 06, 2020, 02:05:00 pm
I'm making a computers Family Feud just for my class. For one of the questions I'm trying to come up with a small list of important games to computer history. (Not that it's part of my curriculum, just throwing that one in there for fun.) Help me out here.

Some of the ones I'm using so far:

-Space War!
-Zork
-Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Wizardry 1)
-The Oregon Trail
-Sim City
-Wolfenstein 3-D
-Everquest

Good picks? Bad picks? Maybe some other picks instead? Thanks.
Title: Re: PC Games Important to Computer History
Post by: sonicfan53 on August 06, 2020, 04:38:03 pm
Doom and Quake II
Title: Re: PC Games Important to Computer History
Post by: dhaabi on August 06, 2020, 05:04:01 pm
Sid Meier's Civilization and The Secret of Monkey Island would be good considerations.
Title: Re: PC Games Important to Computer History
Post by: crazy on August 06, 2020, 05:20:15 pm
Counter-Strike
Title: Re: PC Games Important to Computer History
Post by: snyderec3 on August 06, 2020, 06:48:47 pm
King's Quest
X-Com: UFO Defense
Dune II
Rogue
Myst
Diablo
Half-Life
Baldur's Gate
The Elder Scrolls: Arena
Title: Re: PC Games Important to Computer History
Post by: SilverBow on August 06, 2020, 07:49:30 pm
Leisure Suit Larry series
Title: Re: PC Games Important to Computer History
Post by: vivigamer on August 07, 2020, 03:18:19 am
- The Sims
- World of Warcraft
- Microsoft Solitaire...
Title: Re: PC Games Important to Computer History
Post by: telly on August 07, 2020, 09:37:38 am
Age of Empires
Starcraft
Title: Re: PC Games Important to Computer History
Post by: burningdoom on August 07, 2020, 11:42:08 am
Thanks for the input, guys. :)
Title: Re: PC Games Important to Computer History
Post by: armani on August 20, 2020, 07:53:57 pm
Abuse is pretty important because it was one of the first sidescroller shooters with WASD + mouselook
Title: Re: PC Games Important to Computer History
Post by: spyrofanx on September 07, 2020, 10:07:26 am
I would say the Chex Quest games.
Title: Re: PC Games Important to Computer History
Post by: oldgamerz on September 08, 2020, 01:39:27 am
 Although I only played the demo of "Ken's Labyrinth" I heard it was one of the first games built by Ken Silverman. who later designed the build engine. In which was the map editor used in Duke Nukem 3D and other 1990's first person shooters. "Ken's Labyrinth" It was similar to Wolfenstein 3D I only had the shareware version.