Maximum points: what is the most influential video game ever?
As Bafta launches a survey asking the public to nominate the most influential game of all time, we asked people from across games and culture for their picks
Ahead of the 21st Bafta games awards this April, the institution is running a public survey asking people to nominate the most influential video game of all time. As the survey points out, this is an open-ended question: early, groundbreaking titles such as Space Invaders and Pong regularly crop up as answers because they helped write the rules of the form, but on a personal level, the right game at the right time can be exceptionally influential, too. For players, it’s often the games that made us feel differently about what games could do that feel the most influential. For a game designer, a film director, a writer or a musician, one particular game might inspire a whole creative era.
Inspired by Bafta’s survey, we asked people from across games and culture for their most influential game – and not one name cropped up twice.
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