Games that changed the industry:
Half Life.
Diablo II.
Operation Flashpoint.
Freelancer.
Eve Online.
Games that are thought to've changed the industry, but really didn't:
Sonic.
Pac Man.
Quake.
Doom.
Counter Strike.
HALO.
Battlefield 1942.
Oddworld.
Starcraft.
Very few games (as you can see) set any kind of standards for future games. Some of them weren't even the first of their kind, they were just so revolutionary that they changed the direction of that genre. But most other games didn't revolutionise anything, they merely made certain platforms and genres more popular.
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