Origins

Name year manufacturer country h'ware designer

arcade machine
pac-man 1980 nacmo japan andlater ported toru iwatani
onto the atari

arcade machines
and later ported
donkey kong 1981 Nintendo japan onto the shigeru miyamoto
colecovision, atari
26 and the NES

super mario
bros 1985 Nintendo japan famicom and SNES miyamotot

street fighter 1987 capcom japan arcade cabnit takashi nishiyama

 sonic the
1991 sega japan NES naoto ohshima
hedgehog

Pokémon
red and 1996 nintendo japan gameboy ken sugimori
green

super smash 1999 nintendo japan nintendo 64 shigeru miyamoto

bros

gta 3 2001 dma design usa ps2 xbox ios and leslie benzies
android
 assasins 2007 ubisoft montreal xbox 360 and jade raymond
creed playstation 3

hald-life:Alyx 2020 valve washington VR valve

 Genre Why was

what kind of Playability Something

game is it? Definitive? model Something NEW WELL

very
addictive
pacman is a multi player style of
maze video with 2 4way endless levels game and
joysticks as encourajes
game. the controlls you to keep
playing with
highscores

donkey kong changed the

arcade platorming scene with some
platformer machines as a people renaming the platorming
one layer genre to kong games due to
it'shigh popularity

multiscreen
Platformer, game instead first game to use multiple screens
instead of one constant one and
action of one 2 player was also very popular as the first
adventure constant
background. of its major franchise

became a really popular fighting

fighting 2 player 1v1 ganw which would become one
of thegreatest fighting games of
all time
 sonic was one of the first
platformers to add a story telling
element and they did this by
having a subbtle hint to a
platformer single player environmental issue that was
going on in the world. Sonic also
done really well on a new style of
platformers by adding a high
speed concept

open word
platformer open wolrd Pokémon was the first game to
single player
with the abiltiy or multiplayer introduce catchable assets in
role-play to catch things game to assist with your
battles via a
and use them game link gameplay. Pokémon did a really
to your good combat mechanic aswell
advantage cable

multi player
first game with widley popular
game where 4
fighting people can characters from different games
all fight in one game fighting
play at one all eachother
in one room

open world
action single player
adventer

me which was based in cites which resembled ones in real life but slightly different making the game feel familiar if you have b
 open workd,
action- one of the first open world
adventer, single player stealth games. This format would
stealth and become really popular allowing
nonlinear the assasins creed series to thrive
gameplay

fps single player

of the first games which already had 2 games for it to be made into a fully fledged vr game. This was also the first halflife game
 Why was it important?

Sales? Awards? Connectivity?

pacman made a gross pacman is in the hall of fame

income of 12.915 billion and was also voted best 2 player, maze
videogame of all times by a
dollars dixons poll.

donkey kong made a Donkry kong obtained the

collective of 3.967 billion game of the year award, The competitive scene as people
dollars best SNES game. competed with a points system

made half a million dollars won game of the year two player platformer and action

54 million dollars 2 player fighting game which was widely popular due to its complecated game
play mehanics with its complicated button mechanics
 best selling game on sega
roughly 4303 milion usd
consoles

73.52 million copies

5.5 million copies IGN best fighting game

14.5 million copies best sellin video game in

2001
 won best action and
sold 8.8 million copies adventer game in the 2006
E3

game award for best vr

over 9 million copies game
 Extra notes
Influence on
others

pacman was a
very popular
game
popularising
themaze type
games.

changed
platformers
games for a
while

revived the
home gaming
scene and
people would
copy the games
design for a
while

to its complecated game

on mechanics
made nintemdo
feel like they
have to one up
them causing a
war for both
companies feel
like they have
to improve

showed other
games what
roleplaying
games should
be and look like.

first game to
have characters
from different
popular
franchises all in
one game

allowed the
cime games to
ppularise and
become a much
more
demanding
series
spawned a lot
of open world
stealth games
and would
popularise the
genre

popularised vr
games and
showed what
new vr
technology
could do to
suite games