Guinness World Records Releases List Of Top 50 Most Influential Games

In case you haven’t heard, early this week Guinness World Records made public their official list of the fifty most influential games of all time. The acclaimed world record organization put together a panel of judges in order to generate the list, which spans all of the console gaming systems since Nintendo. Here’s the official rundown for you to peruse, agree with and vehemently disagree with.

1. Super Mario Kart
2. Tetris
3. Grand Theft Auto
4. Super Mario World
5. Zelda Ocarina of Time
6. Halo
7. Resident Evil IV
8. Final Fantasy XII
9. Street Fighter II
10. GoldenEye
11. Super Mario 64
12. Tomb Raider
13. Metal Gear Solid
14. Call of Duty 4
15. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
16. GTA San Andreas
17. Super Mario Bros.
18. Zelda: A Link to the Past
19. Gran Turismo
20. Final Fantasy VII
21. Pro Evolution Soccer 4
22. The Orange Box
23. Lego Star Wars Complete Saga
24. Tekken 2
25. Wii Sports
26. Pokemon Red / Blue
27. Guitar Hero
28. Project Gotham Racing 4
29. Super Mario Galaxy
30. Resident Evil
31. Ico
32. Chrono Trigger
33. Gunstar Heroes
34. Soul Calibur
35. Advance Wars
36. Ridge Racer
37. Super Metroid
38. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
39. GTA Vice City
40. BioShock
41. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
42. The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
43. God of War
44. Sega Rally Championship
45. Starfox 64
46. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
47. WarioWare Inc.
48. Saturn Bomberman
49. Crash Bandicoot
50. Outrun 2

There it is, folks. Actually, we’re very surprised that Mario Kart beat out Tetris for the number one spot, but we’re sure that the panel had a good reason for edging the paradigmatic racing game past the paradigmatic block-fitting game.

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