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Most Popular Video Games of All Time!!!

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Channel: Zero2Hero · 2018 · Education

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Most Popular Video Games of All Time!!! From crazy car races to geometric shapes, stay tuned to number 1 to find out which game is considered the most successful franchise of all time!

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Number 10: Pac-Man.
This video game is one of the biggest phenomenon of pop culture. The premise was fairly simple, but it quickly caught on and captured the attention of the whole world. Originally, the game was released in Japan, in the spring of 1980. And by October of that year, the game was licensed for the United States, after which it became a global hit. Nobody…not even the creators…could have predicted the success Pac-Man would have. 
In those days, the most popular games were the so-called “space shooters”, but this was a whole new concept. The player was in control of Pac-Man, who is trying to escape a maze with four ghosts who are enemies of Pac-Man. There are points to be collected along the way, by eating dots – but it’s also very simple, come to think of it. Maybe it’s this simplicity of gameplay that elevated Pac-Man from one more arcade game of its day, turning it into an icon of the video game world.
Number 9: Tetris.
Again, this is one of those games which changed an entire generation. We can honestly say that Tetris came out of left field and became a household name overnight. 
This video game was developed by a Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov. This was the first game to be exported from the Soviet Union to the United States, and as soon as it came to America – it skyrocketed. Its initial success came through arcade platforms, but when it was introduced to the Game Boy console – its legacy was cemented. Tetris became so popular that it was eventually voted the second greatest video game of all time, which is an amazing success story, if you think about how it was originally created. There wasn’t a team of people working on it, there was no 5-year plan for its development – it came out of one man’s mind. And let’s not even talk about the gameplay: organizing geometric pieces so that they fit perfectly and add up to each other…quite a concept! But precisely because of this, Tetris has become what it is. Sometimes, less is more, and this video game proves it – big time.
Number 8: Sonic the Hedgehog.
After the initial success of arcade games and simple PC concepts, it was time for the video game industry to change. And change it did. Rapidly. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, new consoles started entering the video game market. One of them, of course, being Sega. Sega was one of the biggest arcade game developers, but the company saw fit to enter the console market and draw in more customers. They needed a hit, and Sonic the Hedgehog was it. 
Sonic became so huge that it spawned several sequels, turning into one of the biggest franchises Sega ever had. The premise is fairly simple, but it struck a chord with the players because it harkened back to old mythological concepts, engaging the players as active participants of the “quest”. Sonic is faced with a series of problems and he, along with some of his friends, has to stop his archenemy, Eggman, from dominating the world. Sonic became so huge that, in addition to video games, it became a comic book series, a cartoon, and more! 
Number 7: The Sims.
Video games have been so appealing because they enable us to escape reality and imagine we’re in other, far-away worlds. But after decades of those “escapist” games, there came a time for a new concept. The idea was not to escape our every-day life, but to rearrange it, so that it suits our desires. It was life simulation, and The Sims became such a big hit precisely because of this concept.
The Sims is one of the best-selling franchises of all time, selling around 200 million copies worldwide. What’s even more amazing is that The Sims is not a so-called ‘goal-driven’ game, because there is no actual goal. This game belongs in the “sandbox” genre, where the only purpose is to direct the players and satisfy their needs. As a player, you create virtual people, put them in houses and direct them around. And that’s, pretty much, it. 
There is an option of constructing a house, or using an already built one. Nobody could have dreamed that this, fairly simple concept, could turn into something so big.
Number 6: Call of Duty.
It wouldn’t be a complete list of the best video games, if we didn’t mention the first-person shooters. This genre is probably among those most popular, and Call of Duty is definitely up there with the greatest.

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