The BAFTAs dares to ask the internet: 'What is the most influential videogame of all time?'
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What did you put in? I wrote an essay on how inevitable praise of Dark Souls also applies to Metroid but then deleted it as too pretentious even for BAFTA.
Metroid is too new, Contra was much more of a "git gud" game. They were released around the same time, but I think Contra is more iconic.
The question is influential though not iconic. Metroidvanias are popular. Contra doesn't have a genre named for it
I think the notion of a "git gud" game largely came from Contra. Yes, the genre didn't last, but people crowding around the arcade machine translated to people making videos of themselves beating a hard game.
It's a different kind of connection.
Git Gud started with Donkey Kong. Younger gamers have no idea how hard some of the coin driven games were