Video games that literally RAN THE STREETS

[Leavingtheecstasy]

How this thread go this long without noone mentioning gta 5.

People like to bytch and complain but gta 5 is without a doubt running the streets since the day it came out. Highest selling piece of media at the time. Maybe ever at this point idk

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

Tony Hawk underground & THPS 1-3
NBA Street
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
San Andreas
Pokémon Red
Mortal Kombat
Smash Bros
Fortnite


And as far as PC gamers:


SIMS City
SIMS 1-3
Diablo 2
WoW
Counter Strike Source
PuBG
Battlefield 2

 

[daze23]

Street fighter 2, mortal kombat, sonic 2, tekken 3, virtual fighter 4, outrun, afterburner, NARC, Double dragon, def jam ffny

Space Harrier in the arcade

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

nikkas also forgot about Drug Wars if you know you know

 

[ORDER_66]

Space Harrier in the arcade

That shyt was lit when the plane moved and the whole machine moved with the controls...

 

[dakidblu]

Pokemon Blue-Silver, GTA 3-San Andreas, Halo 1-3 had shyt on lock when they dropped

 

[ORDER_66]

That shyt was lit when the plane moved and the whole machine moved with the controls...

 

[Roid Jones]

Dude's just naming games they liked running the streets is something different and not many games had that effect. GTA 3 onwards, street fighter 2, Mario 3, Mario World, Mortal Kombat, Sonic 1&2, GoldenEye, Halo to name a few

 

[Lord Beasley]

SF2, NBA Jam and TMNT in the arcades. You young bucks don't know.


Street Fighter 2 was a cultural revolution damn near.

the simpsons is right up there with that. yurrr

 

[_genocidecutter_]

Pokemon Red and Blue

Literally anyone who had a gameboy had one of those games.

 

[TBdaGhost]

Mortal Kombat. NBA jam. shyt was different in the arcade days. And then kids would lose their fukkin minds when the shyts came to consoles

 

[Days of Future Piff]

Dude's just naming games they liked running the streets is something different and not many games had that effect. GTA 3 onwards, street fighter 2, Mario 3, Mario World, Mortal Kombat, Sonic 1&2, GoldenEye, Halo to name a few

I feel you. There's a difference between liking a game and a game that literally EVERYONE is rocking with. For example, Castlevania Symphony of the Night is one of my personal GOAT games but I can't argue that it was more well-known among non-gamers than the likes of Pokemon Go, Call of Duty or Fortnite. (I don't play any of those)

Trying to be as objective possible, I'll try going by year:

1980- Pac-man
1984- Tetris
1985- Super Mario Bros (There wouldn't be an industry without this game)
1988- Dragon Quest III (In Japan*)
1989- Super Mario Bros 3, SimCity
1991- Street Fighter 2, Super Mario World, Sonic the Hedgehog
1992- Sonic 2, Super Mario Kart, Mortal Kombat, A Link to the Past
1993- Mortal Kombat 2, NBA JAM, DOOM
1996- Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64
1997- Goldeneye 007, Pokemon Red/Blue, Gran Turismo
1998- Final Fantasy VII, Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2
1999- Everquest
2000- Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Pokemon Gold/Silver
2001- GTA 3, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Halo, Final Fantasy X
2002- GTA Vice City, Metroid Prime, Soul Calibur 2, Kingdom Hearts
2003- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
2004- GTA San Andreas, Halo 2, Half-Life 2, World of Warcraft, Sims 2
2005- Kingdom Hearts 2
2009- Modern Warfare 2
2010- Black Ops
2011-2012- Minecraft, Black Ops 2, Temple Run
2016- Pokemon Go, Undertale
2018-2020- Fortnite

(Bolded = definite gamechangers)
(Italics = edits)
First person shooters in general (especially Call of Duty)ran the streets through most of the late 2000s through the late 2010s until Pokemon Go and Fortnite really took off.
(* Dragon Quest was so huge in Japan that Enix had to pass an internal rule to only release the games on weekends because everybody was skipping school/work to go play it )

MGS2 could have made the list, but the Raiden bait-and-switch killed a lot of people's hype.
It pains me to leave out games like Chrono Trigger, FF6, Super Metroid, Symphony of the Night, and Earthbound, but those were sleeper GOATS compared to the likes of Goldeneye, Pokemon, and FF7. RPG's in general were slept on pre-FF7.

I might be reaching on some of these, though.

 

[ALonelyDad]

MW2, I say this because I got scammed out of 20 dollars PSN Card trying to get that spinning emblem. I was up day and night trying to figure out how to get that, shyt dominated my life.

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

I feel you. There's a difference between liking a game and a game that literally EVERYONE is rocking with. For example, Castlevania Symphony of the Night is one of my personal GOAT games but I can't argue that it was more well-known among non-gamers than the likes of Pokemon Go, Call of Duty or Fortnite. (I don't play any of those)

Trying to be as objective possible, I'll try going by year:

1980- Pac-man
1984- Tetris
1985- Super Mario Bros (There wouldn't be an industry without this game)
1988- Dragon Quest III (In Japan*)
1989- Super Mario Bros 3
1991- Street Fighter 2, Super Mario World, Sonic the Hedgehog
1992- Sonic 2, Super Mario Kart, Mortal Kombat, A Link to the Past
1993- Mortal Kombat 2, NBA JAM
1996- Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64
1997- Goldeneye 007, Pokemon Red/Blue
1998- Final Fantasy VII, Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2
2000- Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Pokemon Gold/Silver
2001- GTA 3, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Halo, Final Fantasy X
2002- GTA Vice City, Metroid Prime, Soul Calibur 2, Kingdom Hearts
2003- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
2004- GTA San Andreas, Halo 2, Half-Life 2, World of Warcraft
2005- Kingdom Hearts 2
2009- Modern Warfare 2
2010- Black Ops
2011-2012- Minecraft, Black Ops 2
2016- Pokemon Go, Undertale
2018-2020- Fortnite

(Bolded = definite gamechangers)
First person shooters in general (especially Call of Duty)ran the streets through most of the late 2000s through the late 2010s until Pokemon Go and Fortnite really took off.

(* Dragon Quest was so huge in Japan that Enix had to pass an internal rule to only release the games on weekends because everybody was skipping school/work to go play it )

MGS2 could have made the list, but the Raiden bait-and-switch killed a lot of people's hype.
It pains me to leave out games like Chrono Trigger, FF6, Super Metroid, Symphony of the Night, and Earthbound, but those were sleeper GOATS compared to the likes of Goldeneye, Pokemon, and FF7. RPG's in general were slept on pre-FF7.

I might be reaching on some of these, though.

Some games that should definitely be on the list:


DOOM (1993)
SIMS 2 (2004)
Gran Turismo (1997)
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (2003)
Everquest (1999)
Temple Run (2011) ---> the game that blew up iphone games

 

[Another Man]

Pokemon Go
SF4
Guitar Hero 3

You couldn't escape these if you tried. Sparked some of the biggest community gaming movements we've seen.

SF 4 pretty much brought fighting games back and made em more mainstream far as the competitive scene goes