I agree with the Starcraft being an odd-duck on the list, but FPS games deserve their spots. Quake popularized the use of graphic cards (shame really, considering how back then it was optional, but now its mandatory), Half-Life popularized scripted events (Duke Nukem 3D and build games had scripted events though) and probably modding too (Counter-Strike anyone?) and Doom popularized online gaming, shareware business and technically whole PC gaming at the time.
As for flight sims...naw. Im not so sure. Those games were always kind of for hardcore sim-players, and I cant really name any flight sim that was so revolutionizing that non-flight-sim-player could remember it.
EDIT: Now that I think of it, Doom really started of the modding stuff too, with all the wads and stuff. And mainly because of Counter-Strike, Half-Life popularized the online gaming even more.
Last edited by TheChosen; 27-08-2009 at 11:19 AM.
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