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Top 100 Most Well-Written Game Storylines of Their Time (1975 to 2015)

Notes

  • 1 game per year from 1975 to 1980
  • 2 games per year from 1981 to 1991
  • 3 games per year from 1992 to 2015

Showing 1-10 of 100 items

Gun Fight

1. Gun Fight

1975 Arcade Run & gun shooter Tomohiro Nishikado (Taito)

Breakout

2. Breakout

1976 Arcade Paddle & ball Nolan Bushnell & Steve Jobs (Atari)

Colossal Cave Adventure

3. Colossal Cave Adventure

1977 PDP-10 Text adventure William Crowther & Don Woods (Stanford University)

Space Invaders

4. Space Invaders

1978 Arcade Shoot 'em up Tomohiro Nishikado (Taito)

Sheriff

5. Sheriff

1979 Arcade Run & gun shoot 'em up Genyo Takeda & Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo)

Mystery House

6. Mystery House

1980 Apple II Adventure Roberta Williams (On-Line Systems)

Donkey Kong

7. Donkey Kong

1981 Arcade Platformer Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo)

Ulysses and the Golden Fleece

8. Ulysses and the Golden Fleece

1981 Apple II Adventure Roberta Williams (On-Line Systems)

Mystery House II

9. Mystery House II

1982 Fujitsu FM-7, NEC PC-8801, Sharp MZ Adventure Tsukasa Moritani (MicroCabin)

Time Zone

10. Time Zone

1982 Apple II Adventure Roberta Williams (On-Line Systems)

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