LogFAQs > #979458879

adjl posted...

Of those, SimCity and Ultima are probably the most influential, which I would say is the primary factor that should be considered in putting together a museum of gaming history.

I'd argue Asteroids and Myst would outrank both of them.

Asteroids was a huge facet of both the arcade and console booms, became sort of synonymous with gaming for years, had a huge influence on the development of later games like Defender and Cosmic Avenger (and thus the games that followed them). And it made more money for Atari at the time than any other game. It's probably tied with Pac-Man for pointing to a single game from that era that most represents the era.

Myst basically helped push the adoption of CD-ROM and CD PC gaming as a whole, and had a huge influence on a lot of games that followed.