[oddguy]

What game do you think was the most influential game to the video-gaming biz? Also, what are some of your classic faves from back in the day.

Well...after getting Super Mario 64 off ebay, I'd have to say that game really was a groundbreaking title. I'd beaten it before after borrowing it from a friend, but having it back in my arms...err, 64 was a good feeling. Like an old friend you haven't seen in a while. Notice how that even current titles are still trying to copy the lava and snowy worlds that mario took us to. Sure, they may be better, but for the time(1996) Mario was amazing. 64 was the first home-console to give us 3D gaming freedom like that. And remember all those moves you could pull of with that nifty controller that had a built-in joystick! Before it was just jump jump jump. I could go on, but here's my point:

Don't you wish games like these could be preserved forever in time? To move with the consoles that keep changing? I'd sure love to have a cleaned up version of Mario 64 in my current console. These are our gaming roots, and they need to be remembered. Same thing goes for Oddworld.

OWI totally needs to release a "Quintology: Part One" collectors set with DVD extras and the whole works.

Here's the problem...would this sell? Gamers are so bent on having NEW NEW NEW, that they forget our roots and what brought us to where we are. I still enjoy the first side-scrolling Mario, but do others?

I'm doing a survey and would like to genuinely know what your opinion on this is. I'll start it here and if things go well, I'm going to start up a web-poll.

Your opinion is important.

-oddguy