10 Most Important Video Games In History

Even though Atari systems were out for a while beforehand, it really wasn't until the 1980's where video game consoles became really widespread in popularity. And there's only one name responsible.

It's a-him, Mario.

Nintendo brought the Nintendo Entertainment System to the west in 1985, and front and center on the console was Super Mario Bros. A incredibly fun side-scrolling platformer, it not only popularized the genre, it popularized games, and popularized Nintendo.

There's a reason parents called every game console a Nintendo, and it's thanks to the NES and Mario's big adventure to save the princess from Bowser.

After this game's success, more iconic NES titles were quickly added to the console, and Nintendo became a trailblazer in the video game world.

Trying to picture what the current landscape of gaming would look like if Super Mario Bros didn't have Nintendo become a permanent fixture is impossible, because if Nintendo didn't exist, then there's a good change that video games wouldn't have existed either.