If you were to compose a list of the Top 10 video games of all-time, what would your list consist of? Stanford professor Dr. Henry Lowood, curator of the History of Science and Technology Collection at the school, has been pondering that exact question. Seeing as games and gaming systems are ephemeral (they don’t last forever, ya know?), Lowood, among others, has been pressing the Library of Congress to get involved in the preservation of the gaming industry’s iconic first releases. Recently, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Lowood announced his canon to the public along with his list of the 10 games to be preserved first.

The first 10 titles they would like to see covered are:

  1. Spacewar!
  2. Star Raiders
  3. Zork
  4. Tetris
  5. SimCity
  6. Super Mario Bros. 3
  7. Civilization I/II
  8. Doom
  9. The Warcraft series
  10. Sensible World of Soccer

Selecting only 10 games for a canon is never an easy thing. Everyone seems to have a gaming system that defined gaming for their generation. And we all know it’s really the games that make or break a system. Of course, those of you in my generation remember the release of the original Nintendo gaming system. We got two games in one AND they came with the system! Anyone up for a game of Duck Hunt?

Source: ARS Technica

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