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Donkey Kong
PAC-Man
Pong
Angry Birds
Minecraft
Pokemon Red/Green/Blue
The Legend Of Zelda
3D Super Mario Bros.
Super Smash Bros.
Sims
Pokemon Stadium
Metroid
F-Zero
Star Fox
Spongebob: Creature From The Krusty Krab(That ones only special to me  )

They're all for certain reasons that I'll post later.

Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario 64
Super Mario Galaxy
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Pokemon Red & Blue/Green
Pokemon Gold & Silver (and Crystal)
Minecraft
Portal
Tetris
Rayman

I can't think of any more 

Okay, here are my reasons for the games:

haxcharsol wrote:

Donkey Kong: Started the Nintendo rise to fame and the Mario series.
PAC-Man: One of the first arcade games.
Pong: One of the first home console games.
Angry Birds: One of the apps that made iPhone/Pod/Android games rise to fame.
Minecraft: One of the most popular computer games.
Pokemon Red/Green/Blue: Started the Pokemon series, which is also Nintendo's 2nd most popuar series.
The Legend Of Zelda: The beginning of the Zelda series, another popular series.
3D Super Mario Bros.: One of the first 3D games on the 3DS, another revolutionary step for Nintendo.
Super Smash Bros.: One of the best crossover games I've ever seen, and one of the best fighting games as well, spawning 2 sequels.
Sims: One of the first popular life simulators.
Pokemon Stadium: Pokemon's first home console game.
Metroid: Started the Metroid series.
F-Zero: Started the F-Zero series.
Star Fox: Started the Star Fox series.
Tetris: The most popular Game Boy game to date.

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Pong - Almost singlehandedly started the video game craze
Donkey Kong - Nintendo's first step into video games
Pacman - This is why people went to the arcade
Super Mario Bros - Saved the video game industry, and launched the most popular video game series ever
Doom - did to PC gaming what Pong and SMB did to the whole video game market
Tetris - One reason handhelds became popular
Pokemon The other reason handhelds became popular

Can't think of any more at the moment 

Half Life - among my favorite games ever, and really if you hate FPS games, this game will prove you wrong. It's nowhere near other FPSes. It's not mindless shooting and killing. It redesigned and reinvented the FPS genre with its story-driven gameplay and groundbreaking graphics.

Super Mario Bros. - this game really did save the video game industry. Video games were going to * and this game literally wrote the future. I still find it fun to play today.

Quake - another FPS that is actually a lot more important to the video game industry than most people may think. Personally, and contrary to popular belief, I actually hate Doom, think it's one of the most overrated games of all time, but Quake is plain awesome. It's important because it was (I think) the first FPS with an online multiplayer, which was revolutionary at that time. Plus Quake is just awesome.

Pong - The video game that pretty much invented video games.

Space Invaders - the original space shooter. Timeless.

Pokemon - The game that made RPGs and handhelds worth playing. No, seriously, I love this series to death. It revolutionized and made the RPG genre fun and new and enjoyable.

The Legend of Zelda - Talking about the original NES version here. I think it's great because it made adventure games fun again and provided us with something fun and fresh. It's also a great counterpart to Super Mario Bros. Also, just a note here, Ocarina of Time is overrated and I hate it to death. Just my opinion.

Metroid - Another game in a trio I like to call the "NES Big Three". I actually don't like the original game too much, actually, but I love the other ones, especially Prime and Fusion. (Fusion holds up among one of my favorite video games of all time, actually the first handheld game I ever played).

GoldenEye 007 - Another fantastic FPS that revolutionized the genre.

Tetris - The best puzzle game ever.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - No, I'm serious. Though it holds up as the worst video game ever made it's also one of the most significant. So yeah.

Team Fortress 2 - It's probably the greatest FPS game ever made. It's just fun! I really don't know what else to say.

Super Mario Kart - Made racing games awesome again (tied with F-Zero).

Killer Instinct - A fighting game that not many people actually know about. It's great, miles better than Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat combined.

Angry Birds - Okay, I really hate to say it, because I hate this game to DEATH I want this game to go die a painful death in a fire in a hole in the DEPTHS OF THE EARTH--okay I'm going insane. It's overrated, but I must say, it really did make mobile smartphone gaming popular.


So yeah, uh, that's the verdict.

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soupoftomato wrote:

resistance wrote:

assassin's creed III
halo 4
far cry 3
half life 2
team fortress 2
hitman: absolution
borderlands 2
garry's mod
minecraft
miasmata
rocksmith
counterstrike: global offensive
amnesia: the dark descent
portal 2
fable 3

Those are all pretty much "fun, recent games" than they are important ones.

I guess you could make a case for Half Life 2, and Minecraft as an indie hit.

I put mostly retro games on my list, some modern games.

But yes, this isn't your favorites list.

haxcharsol wrote:

banana500 wrote:

I put mostly retro games on my list, some modern games.

I just put retro games.

Yes but judging by your list a lot of the stuff on there really aren't that important games at all. (Super Mario 3D Land, F-Zero, SSB, Pokemon Stadium). You should replace those with FPS such as Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Quake or Goldeneye, or perhaps, oh what was that game again--HALF LIFE.

Plus you shouldn't care if you hate that genre, those games were really really important. Especially Wolfenstein and Quake and Half Life.

mythbusteranimator wrote:

Galaxa: Popularized arcade games and space games.
Pong: Obviously. 
Pole Position: The beginning of racing games.
Mario: Beginning of the great RPG games.
Mario 3D Land: An example of the ways 3D can totally rock. Most knew already.
Angry Birds: Pioneer of iOS/Android games. Also terrible
Halo: My mom hates it, but you have to admit. It's epic, and one of the first multiplayer games to take off like that.
Wii Sports: Shows off the Wii.
Kinect Sports: Pwns WII and totally shows off abilities. No

haxcharsol wrote:

banana500 wrote:

(Super Mario 3D Land, F-Zero, SSB, Pokemon Stadium).

Super Mario 3D Land shows one of the 1st examples of 3D gaming.
F-Zero began a series.
SSB is an important Nintendo francise.
Pokemon Stadium I admit is not that important. :P

It does not show one of the first examples of 3D gaming.

Just because it began a series does not mean it's important.

SSB is a bit important, made fighting games cool.

banana500 wrote:

It does not show one of the first examples of 3D gaming.

Just because it began a series does not mean it's important.

It's the first game I could think of that was realeased on the 3DS.

I just added that one because I ran out of ideas. :p