IGN's Top 100 Games

[Frogacuda]

can someone remind me what is important about pokemans. All I can remember is that it kept Nintendo in the hand held market (and possibly alive period).

Arguably popularized a major subgenre. Though SMT kind of did it first, making it a kids thing turned out to be a brilliant move.

[Othello Harrington]

Arguably popularized a major subgenre. Though SMT kind of did it first, making it a kids thing turned out to be a brilliant move.

The sales numbers alone take the "arguably" out of the equation.

[Yoshi]

Popularizing a sub genre doesn't compare to lots of things Sega did before they circled the bowl.

[sethsez]

I'd argue that you're confusing importance with sales. Sonic broke Nintendo's monopoly. It doesn't get any more important than that. It completely changed the industry.

Pokemon brought the Gameboy back from the brink of death to become their biggest franchise, and it helped make Nintendo's portable division so profitable that it could carry them through multi-year console droughts. Your much-hated DS probably wouldn't exist as it does if Pokemon hadn't been the hit it wound up being.

Sonic should definitely be up there, and yes, an argument could be made for it being more important, but I don't think it's really clear cut. A decent argument could be made for either position.

[Othello Harrington]

Agreed, I'm just talking about sales here.

I mean Pokemon outsold Mcdonalds one year or something....

[Yoshi]

Your much-hated DS probably wouldn't exist as it does if Pokemon hadn't been the hit it wound up being.

Fuck Pokemon.

[Othello Harrington]

Fuck Pokemon.

[Fe 26]

Buttcheeks needs to turn in his serious gamer patch.

I never played pokemans. So shoot me.

[Othello Harrington]

I'd rather hug you

[NeoZeedeater]

The only reason I used the word "important" there is because IGN's criteria made it so I couldn't use the word "better". If the list was simply 100 games based on quality alone like it should have been, it wouldn't have been a problem. Pokemon's impact would certainly qualify as important if we're going simply by that.