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A Surprising Game Tops BAFTA's Most Influential Of All Time Poll Ahead Of Super Mario Bros. And Doom

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Josh Coulson

Published Apr 2, 2025

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BAFTA ran a poll to determine the 21 most influential video games of all time.
Shenmue has taken the top spot with Doom right behind it, and then Super Mario Bros. rounding out the top three.
Two Grand Theft Auto games, Half-Life and Half-Life 2, and Minecraft have also made the list.

BAFTA caused quite a stir when a poll it ran resulted in Tomb Ra༺ider's Lara Croft ꦅbeing crowned the most iconic video game character of all time, and it may be about to do the same again. To celebrate its 21st Game Awards, BAFTA ran a poll to determine what is the most influential game of all time, and Shenmue has topped the list.

If you run down all 21 games that made BAFTA's influential list, which you can find below, pretty much every game on there is a well-known title with clear influence (apart from number seven, more on that in a second). However, to see Shenmue rise above them all might be something that irks quite a few people, especially when the likes of Doom, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Grand Theft Auto, and the original 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Super Mario Bros. have been forced to settle for lowe🎶r spots in BAFTA's influential rankings.

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While placing Shenmue at the top of the list will undoubtedly rub quite a few people the wrong way, the influence the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dreamcast classic has had on games to this day is undeniable. It c💞hanged the way developers approached open worlds, and perhaps more importantly, how players could interact with those worlds and everything in them.

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How Do We Feel About Shenmue At Number One?

Those elements were clearly a direct influence on the 3D GTA games that started to arrive just two years after the original Shenmue launched on Dreamcast, not to mention most other games that feature an explorable op🍰en world. Between that, its NPCs, and how it handled the in-game flow of time, Shenmue was inarguably the foundation for so much we see in video games to this day.

Moving on down BAFTA's list, you'll find the aforementioned Super Mario Bros. Without that first Mario game, we wouldn't have 2D sidescrollers in the way we would come to know them via the games that followed. The same applieಞs to Doom and first-person shooters, and 1993's Doom rounds out BAFTA's top three.

While Tetris, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metal Gear Solid, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 7 all deserve to be in there, number seven is the only confusing entry on this list. Those polled settled on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 being the seventh most influential game of all time. I'm not entirely sure how a game that was only released two months ago has managed to have that much influence on the games industry as a whole, and there's no real explanation as to why those who voted feel differently. The new game is higher on the list than the likes of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dark Souls and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Super Mario 64.

Remember, BAFTA didn't do this. It ran a poll to determine the top 21, so if you want to blame anyone for the running order, blame t🌠hose who cast their votes.