Hey kids, Excremento here.
I am planning to make a list, not just any list, a list to end all lists and potentially get me a little notoriety and some front page lovin'.
I've been kicking around an idea for a Weird Kid's Top 100. "Top 100 what," you might ask yourself. Well, pretty simple, the Top 100 Video Game Icons of All Time.
This is promising to be quite the daunting task and has taken up many nights and billable hours already, and promises to take up even more. If my last epic blog is any indication of length, it should be near 60 pages long if you put it into MS Word and have over 100 pictures.
I wouldn't be doing such a thing as essentially committing writer suicide by writing a novel length post in a blog, if it weren't for you lovely people out there who look at each of my blogs and leave me such positive statements.
Shit, the one main reason I stick around every single day is because of the sense of community I feel with you all. It's not the game reviews, it's not the game news, not the contests or even the petty squabbling is enough for me, it's all of my homies here in the Community Blogs.
I've tried writing at other sites, there was just something about those places that felt a bit off, almost like the bicycle repair man on that episode of Diff'rent Strokes that scarred me as a child. If you ask Jim Sterling what it feels like, he'd probably start talking in length about his Uncle "Reg" and the naughty things he'd do to little sunny Jim.
Alas, I digress. What I'm trying to say is this, I've been working on this list for over a few months and have over the last few weeks gotten serious about finishing this project of mine. I have over 200 names of characters, game developers, producers, composers, companies, bloggers, journalists, and key individuals who have made this game industry what it is today.
I know with the ratio I have right now it'll be just a matter of offing 50% of the list...that's not good enough for Destructoid, we need a massive genocide of characters to make this list truly what it should be, epic. This is where you come in my dearies, I want each one of you to submit your own choices for who you'd like to see in the Top 100.
It doesn't have to be a huge list of people you'd like to see, it can be one name and one name alone. I want to give you, the community that I visit and spend time with each and every work day, a chance to have a part of something larger.
I'll be collecting and writing all of the suggestions along with who submitted them down in an spreadsheet and will then go to the task of having each person, character, or individual fight it out in one-on-one battle (ala Thunderdome).
Those that wish to submit their ideas can do so by leaving comments below OR by emailing me at my gmail account. Some of you out there already have my email but for those of you that don't its Xopher [dot] Reed [AT] gmail [dot] com (only without the all the spaces, gotta keep the spam bots working for my email address). Please put in the subject line Top 100 Idea and your Destructoid name if it isn't painfully apparent.
My thanks to all of you that participate, and here's to the community that has sustained me all of these past couple of months. Long live Mr. Destructoid!
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Cyberdemon from Doom
Kane from Command and Conquer
Earthworm Jim
Sweet Tooth from twisted metal
no brainer should be the obvious Nintendo icons, Megaman, Gordon Freeman and Snake.
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The original mammoth tank
Brotherhood of Steel armour from Fallout
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Manny Calavera from Grim Fandango
Max Payne
Claude Speed from GTA 2&3
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Beat from JSR
Luigi
Shigeru Miyamoto
Rare
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Sam & Max, Leon Kennedy, Squirtle, Bald Bull, the paddle from Arkanoid, and that creepy disembodied head from Brain Age.
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Lawl shitty triforce
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Lu Bu from Dynasty Warriors.
Yangus from Dragon Quest: The Journey of the Cursed King
Minsk from Baldur's Gate.
Etna from Disgaea.
(# 16) on 04/15/2008 05:16
Sonic
Yuji Naka
Cloud Strife
Sephiroth
Shigeru Miyamoto
Hironobu Sakaguchi
I'm not sure if companies should be included but if they are then my votes go to Rare and Bullfrog
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Cave: awesome shooters.
Nobuo Uematsu: Square and Mistwalker composer
Gunpei Yokoi: Game & Watch, Kid Icarus, Metroid, Gameboy, Virtual Boy, WonderSwan
(# 24) on 04/15/2008 08:18
John Karmak.
Cliffy B.
Mark Hamill.
Wil Wheaton.
John Madden.(I know you hate him, but you can't deny his series is one of the longest running)
Game Characters:
Master Chief.
The Double Dragon Boys.
The Battletoads.
The Lost Vikings.
The Marine(or Firebat) from Starcraft.
Fox.
Falco.
Slippy.
Donkey Kong.
Diddy Kong.
Kirby.
Publishers/Devs:
LucasArts
(# 25) on 04/15/2008 08:28
Also, don't forget Blitz, Ryu, Ken,
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Ad I tried, but I couldn't even begin to list my choices.
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Characters:
-- The ball from Pong (Where would that game be without the ball? Where I say?)
-- The ghosts from Pac-Man (it is time. Someone needs to tell their story, their plight from under the oppression of the all consuming bourgeoisie Pac-Man)
-- Tinkle (One of the most hated characters in video game history. In fact, forget I posted him. I don't want him to sully up your list)
-- Bo Jackson (I think you know why)
(# 29) on 04/15/2008 10:42
Master Higgins (Adventure Island series)
Crono (ChronoTrigger)
Sabin & Edgar Figaro (Final Fantasy 6)
Protoman (Mega Man 3)
Cervantes (Soul Edge series)
Tingle (Legend of Zelda series)
The Koopa Kids (Super Mario 3 & Super Mario World)
(# 30) on 04/15/2008 13:20
Gunpei Yokoi - invented the Game Boy: The best portable ever hands down.
Yuji Naka - mastermind behind Sonic the Hedgehog and NiGHTS into Dreams.
Just a few of the important ones.
(# 31) on 04/15/2008 13:42
Also, you have to add Klonoa, since he's the other mascot of Namco.
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Gabe Newell from Valve
Only ones i can think off right now.
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Atlus (Persona, Trauma Center folk)
Treasure (guys behing Ikaruga)
Gabe Newell (HL, HL2)
Suda 51 (the man behind Killer7 and No More Heroes)
Yu Suzuki (Shenmue and OutRun creator..WHERE THE HELL IS HE?)
Sega
Clank (Ratchet's better half)
Cliffy B (UT series, GoW series creator dude)
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Eva
Big Boss
(All MGS characters)
Auron (FFX)
Steiner (FFIX)
Barret (FFVII)
Real People:
Dark_Alex (the maker of PSP custom FW, sure not exactly legit, but why not?)
Jeff Gerstmann (Ex-Gamespot editor, now giantbomb.com dude)
N'Gai Croal (really now?)
Kevin Levine (BioShock creator)
Doug Lombardi (Valve marketing guy)
Kaz Hirai ("PS3 does 4d!11!)
More when i wake. Good luck kind sir.
(# 36) on 04/15/2008 22:43
Tim Schafer - mastermind of massive proportions
Chad Wardenn - PSTriple Hero
Kerrigan from Starcraft.
Benjamin Franklin/Volta/Faraday - discovering electricity
The concept of winning? Or maybe just points.
The chainsaw from Doom.
The film Tron.
Earthworm Jim.
I'm sorry. I don't know if this post hindered you more than it helped.
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OCremix.org
CNet
l337 speak
People:
John Romero
John Carmack
Warren Spector
Will Wright
Seamus Blackley
Ed Fries
Hideo Kojima
Hironobou Sakaguchi
Noubu Uematsu
Polyphony
Peter Moore
Shoe (ex-editor of EGM)
Gunpei Yokoi
Raph Koster
(# 39) on 04/18/2008 16:41
My immediate two ideas for a top spot are Mario or Pac-Man. Those are two names I know any random person on the street will know of as a video game character.
(# 40) on 04/21/2008 14:04
-Geno and Mallow from Super Mario RPG
-Raz from Psychonauts
-Dr. Maximillian Roivas from Eternal Darkness
-Amaterasu and Issun from Okami
-Jade, Pey'j and Double H from Beyond Good & Evil
-the monkeys from Timesplitters
-Big Daddy, Little Sister, Andrew Ryan from Bioshock
-Ness, Paula, Poo, Jeff and Buzz Buzz from Earthbound
-Frog, Magus, Lucca, Robo and Nu from Chrono Trigger
-Agro from Shadow of the Colossus
-Travis Touchdown and Destroyman from No More Heroes
-Midna from Twilight Princess
-Tetra from Wind Waker
-Linebeck from Phantom Hourglass
-The End and The Boss from MGS3