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One of the most influential games ever created.
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Breakout is another game that uses physics and turns it into a fun game.
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Space Invaders was a fun and exciting game where you would defend planet earth from the space invaders.
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You play as a space ship trying to destroy other space ships and avoid asteroids at the same time.
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Pac-Man is a classic arcade game still used today in close to the same format as the original.
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In Galaga you play as a space ship trying to dodge and destroy alian space ships as they move and attack you.
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Donkey Kong introduced a fun and quick game to play. The elements of the game were simple yet they seemed very hard to get past.
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You play as a centipede that eats things to grow, but it soon encounters the problem of being so large it could accidentally consume part of itself.
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Tetris was mind game. It reminds me of a puzzle, except puzzles dont move.
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Super Mario Bros. paved the way for platform games. It used new unused elements to bring it out as a very important game in history.
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The Legend of Zelda allows you do adventure through a giant world and battle creates with many different mechanics.
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Metroid was another platform game that transformed plateform games. It uses long range attacks as well as other moves to get past certain obstacles.
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Street Fighter is a button mashing beat the opponent to a pulp game.
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Mega Man was yet another important platformer game introducing even more game mechanics to the field.
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Street Fighter II was a fighter game and uses a similar layout as todays Street Fighter games use.
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Sonic the Hedgehog was a platformer that used speed mechanics to get through the level as quickly as possible.
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Mario Kart is a racing game that features the characters from the Super Mario Bros. series racing head to head on Super Mario Bros. inspired race tracks.
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Mortal Kombat is another fighter game. Mortal kombat uses elements of magic and other worldly gods as characters to use in the game.
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This was a platform shooter developed for the Sega.
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In this game you look down on the city and the person you control, and you can basically do whatever you want.
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