Your Top 3 Monthly Contest Entry June 2020 - Favourite Video Games

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This months topic is Top 3 Video Games

These days I do not have too much time to play video games, mostly I just play a few games on my cellphone for several minutes at the time. As I was growing up I have seen the evolution of gaming, I have seen the graphical enhancement of games and was lucky enough to play many of them. There are many games I could talk about, but I am going to pick 3 that in my opinion were/are fun to play and have been the most influential in the history of gaming.

My Nominations are:

Nomination Number One

Quake (released in 1996)

My Reasons for the Nomination

This is probably one of my favorite games of all time and one of the most influential games ever made, it was the first ever FPS ( first person shooter) game that was completely 3D, everything in the game was made from 3D assets. There were other 3D FPS games that came before this like, Doom, Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein, but those were not actually 3D, they were just 2D designed to look like they were 3D.

What made this game awesome was the multiplayer capability, when I was a freshman in college me and my friends, we lived in the college dorms, built our own computer network just so we could play this game! We used coax cabling because ethernet was still very new and was too expensive, lol.

This game is basically the grandfather of every first person shooter game that exists today...

Another fun fact about this game is the entire soundtrack for it was created by Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails :). Also, the 3D engine for this game was created by a developer named John Carmack, who is basically a coding genius.

Here is a fun documentary about the making of this game.

Nomination Number Two

Diablo (released 1997)

My Reasons for the Nomination

This game was awesome when it was released, it was one of the first RPG ( Role Playing Game) I played that was multiplayer. During this time online gaming was not really a thing since everyone was using dialup modems, there were only about 4 or 5 MMORPG ( Massively multiplayer online role-playing game ) in existence and you had to pay a monthly fee to play them, so I never played them. This game had a free multiplayer feature, you would just connect to Blizzard's (company that made the game) Battlenet and you could play with other people (it was not a MMORPG because you could only have 4 players total in the same game). This game was lots of fun and very popular, so popular there were 3 sequels made.

Here is some game play footage if you are interested to see what the game looks like :)

Nomination Number Three

Super Mario Brothers (released 1985)

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My Reasons for the Nomination

This was one of the first console games I ever played as a kid, as I am sure is the case for most people growing up around this time. Playing this for the first time as a kid was pretty amazing so it makes it very memorable. There have been so many sequels and spin-offs that have come from this single game, too many to count... Even today people still play this game competitively to see who can beat the entire game the fastest, here is a video of a guy beating a world record.

Hope you like my selections! :)

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OMG! I am clearly from another realm if I remember pacman. A stand alone machine that guys (even really grown up ones) would hammer at for hours. That was the early 80s...

Food for thought for my post...ahem...

Clearly I have no opinion on these matters! Lol

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hehe, I remember playing the original pacman in the arcade and on the Atari, but the original Nintendo was the first console that I played.

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Your 3 choices... well I just can't argue with them.
Great choices and reasoning.

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Thanks, had some fun times playing these games :)

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I played all those games but I had forgotten about Quake and Diablo. Such good games in those days, they really did give a turning point in gameplay.

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Three very solid options. Great games!

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I never played the first two but I played Super Mario Bros many a time.

Nice picks, good luck in the polls.

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Hey, it’s Q here - the mascot of the Your Top 3 Contest - just swinging by to say thanks for these awesome suggestions for our contest this month! I've given you an upvote and logged your nominations, ready for the dpoll - keep an eye on my blog for the dpoll post!

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Fantastic post @dksart

Love the info. Quake was special, I remember thinking that it was the future at the time. I played Wolfenstein and Doom a lot and the jump was impressive. Unreal tournament was next, right?

Good luck with the contest.

Gaz

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Yeah, fun times, Actually Unreal did not come out till 1998 and Unreal Tournament not until 1999 and by that time Quake 2 and Quake 3 had already been released, so for those first few years the Quake 3d engine had no real competition... Thanks!

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