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What's the Most Enduring Video Game of All Time?
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2011/02/11 20:00:00
SLIDESHOW: What's the Most Enduring Video Game?
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"Super Mario Bros."
We wasted hours with Mario and Luigi as a kid. Last year, the "Super Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary Edition" was released, after the title spent two decades as the best-selling video game of all time.
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"Super Mario Bros."
We wasted hours with Mario and Luigi as a kid. Last year, the "Super Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary Edition" was released, after the title spent two decades as the best-selling video game of all time.
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"Tetris"
The challenging puzzle game was released in 1984, and it's still going strong. Last year, it was announced that Tetris had sold more than 100 million copies for cell phones since 2005.
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"Pac-Man"
The 1980s arcade game is still popular today, and it's one of only three video games on display at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.
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"World of Warcraft"
"World of Warcraft" was launched in 1994. Today, WoW is known as the world's most-subscribed MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game).
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"Call of Duty"
"Call of Duty: Black Ops" became the biggest entertainment launch of all time last year, making $650 million in its first five days. A freemium version is rumored to be coming soon.
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"Madden NFL"
As of last year, EA Sports had sold more than 85 million copies of the game, raking in sales of $3 billion.
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"Grand Theft Auto IV"
Despite being criticized for being too violent, "Grand Theft Auto" is still hugely popular, with "Grand Theft Auto IV" selling 17 million copies since its debut.
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"The Sims"
In 2002, the life-simulation game became the best-selling PC game in history.
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Bad news, "Guitar Hero" fans. Activision announced on Thursday that it will stop manufacturing the game that once gave you an excuse to pretend you were Slash.
"Guitar Hero" -- which originally was only available on Sony's PlayStation consoles -- became a big hit soon after its launch in 2005, earning a rockin' $1.7 billion in just three years, NPR reports.
Activision produced many versions of the game, including Metallica, Aerosmith and Van Halen. But sales peaked in 2008, and the fad appears to be fizzling out.
Meanwhile, "Rock Band" sales are also down, while "Call of Duty and" "World of Warcraft" are still raking in the dough -- implying, sadly, that music is out -- and war is in.
From "World of Warcraft" to "Super Mario Bros." to "Grand Theft Auto," click through our slideshow and let us know: What's the most enduring video game of all time?
"Guitar Hero" -- which originally was only available on Sony's PlayStation consoles -- became a big hit soon after its launch in 2005, earning a rockin' $1.7 billion in just three years, NPR reports.
Activision produced many versions of the game, including Metallica, Aerosmith and Van Halen. But sales peaked in 2008, and the fad appears to be fizzling out.
Meanwhile, "Rock Band" sales are also down, while "Call of Duty and" "World of Warcraft" are still raking in the dough -- implying, sadly, that music is out -- and war is in.
From "World of Warcraft" to "Super Mario Bros." to "Grand Theft Auto," click through our slideshow and let us know: What's the most enduring video game of all time?
Read More: http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/02/11/1336...
Top Opinion
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Lily247 2011/02/12 15:34:16"Super Mario Bros"
But right now it's anything sims. I don't play "Call of Duty", "WOW" or "GTA". I play this game for countless hours trying to get my kid in private school, my wife a promotion, and trying to keep my husband from cheating on my wife with some floozy down the street! Let's just say that I have played Sims for 12 hours straight....SMH that game is AMAZING!
Normally I wouldn't vote for such a new game, but WoW has 12 million subscribers...and they don't even expand into consoles -- that's purely PC Gaming which normally falls behind the PS3, the Wii, etc. And, with the intricacies of the game, they can pretty much do whatever they want and continue expanding for quite a long time. Plus, it's addictiveness is legendary. People have died playing WoW because they couldn't get off the game...hard to beat that!
Even at age 6 I was glued to the screen for hours at a time. World of Warcraft is not only enduring, it is addictive and influential. Although even I have to find it amusing when people correct my knowledge of Zandalar with their own superior knowledge... lol.
Well, let's look at birthdates: Mario has been around since the primal days of Donkey Kong, back in 1981; the first GTA didn't come about until 1997; and Guitar Hero is practically a baby born in 2005
Mario is 30 years old. GTA is 14. Guitar Hero is 6
(That being said, I'm a big fan of Link from the Zelda series, but come what may.)