• ryathal
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    3 months ago

    Like I said in the other thread, I vote pokemon. I don’t think you can go too much older, because the audience was just so small relative to more modern games. Scale is a major factor to influence.

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      3 months ago

      But it barely influenced any other games. The genre of creature collector games in this style is quite small.

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        3 months ago

        Pokemon has influence far beyond a genre. Palworld being called pokemon with guns is a good example.

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          3 months ago

          But Palworld is still literally one of maybe half a dozen other games remotely like Pokemon.

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      3 months ago

      Pokemon is The Bard’s Tale meets Tamagotchi.

      Pacman’s audience was colossal as was Tetris