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Alright fuckers, so I had this video¹ recommended to me by YouTube yesterday so I, still feeling patriotic (drunk), watched the crappy video. Realizing how crappy it was, even though I was patriotic off my ass, I decided to make a better Mount Rushmore of gaming that had less to do with me personally, and more to do with gaming, as it relates to the culture of gaming.
My list goes as follows:
Super Mario
Reasons: simple, he's the star of the highest selling video game franchise to date. He's become synonymous with platformers(as well as other genres) Plus he'll be turning thirty-five this Saturday, what other video game characters can say that?
Fuckin Pikachu.
Reasons, he's the Pokemon mascot, the face is the series that created the collectable monster trading games that revolutionized social gaming so much he was banned from schools and feared to be the Antichrist (that's pretty metal)
Bond, James Bond.
Whys: without GOLDENEYE the console FPS scene would be totally different, he by no means created it, or even popularized it, but without the existence of 007 and his game we would likely not have our halos and cod(that makes me want fried fish and onion rings) that would go on to restructure today's video game industry.
Mortal Kombat ninja
Who? Hey, it's an unpainted carving in a mountain and they all look the same without color.
So yeah, originally I was gonna pick Ryu from Street Fighter, but i felt Mortal Kombat was the Fighter that left a bigger mark in gaming culture since they forced the creation of the rating system we've known and ignored for a long time. So I was going to pick their main character... But Liu Kang is the most boring character in the first couple games, the most popular characters are the ninjas, Sub Zero and Scorpion, who were palette swaps of the same actor (who wore a red costume by the way) their rivalry has defined the series whose brutality made parents realize that videogames aren't just toys.
My question to you guys is this, can we make it any better?
Alright fuckers, so I had this video¹ recommended to me by YouTube yesterday so I, still feeling patriotic (drunk), watched the crappy video. Realizing how crappy it was, even though I was patriotic off my ass, I decided to make a better Mount Rushmore of gaming that had less to do with me personally, and more to do with gaming, as it relates to the culture of gaming.
My list goes as follows:
Super Mario
Reasons: simple, he's the star of the highest selling video game franchise to date. He's become synonymous with platformers(as well as other genres) Plus he'll be turning thirty-five this Saturday, what other video game characters can say that?
Fuckin Pikachu.
Reasons, he's the Pokemon mascot, the face is the series that created the collectable monster trading games that revolutionized social gaming so much he was banned from schools and feared to be the Antichrist (that's pretty metal)
Bond, James Bond.
Whys: without GOLDENEYE the console FPS scene would be totally different, he by no means created it, or even popularized it, but without the existence of 007 and his game we would likely not have our halos and cod(that makes me want fried fish and onion rings) that would go on to restructure today's video game industry.
Mortal Kombat ninja
Who? Hey, it's an unpainted carving in a mountain and they all look the same without color.
So yeah, originally I was gonna pick Ryu from Street Fighter, but i felt Mortal Kombat was the Fighter that left a bigger mark in gaming culture since they forced the creation of the rating system we've known and ignored for a long time. So I was going to pick their main character... But Liu Kang is the most boring character in the first couple games, the most popular characters are the ninjas, Sub Zero and Scorpion, who were palette swaps of the same actor (who wore a red costume by the way) their rivalry has defined the series whose brutality made parents realize that videogames aren't just toys.
My question to you guys is this, can we make it any better?
