My Top Ten Game Franchises of All TIME!!!!!!!

We have come a long way since the days of Kaleco Vision and Atari.
I believe over 25,000 games have been created and over 500 million plus consoles have been sold(including remakes, excluding virtual games).

that said i have come up with my top 10 games of all time and why.

I encourage everyone to comment with their top 10

10. Tony Hawk Pro Skater - Playstation
Tony Hawk Franchise has broken the mold with life like pro skaters, create a park and real skating spots around the world. It has received numerous awards and top picks as greatest games ever created. It has recreated the dull extreme sports industry and has revitalized a sport on the rise that wanted millions of children to learn how to skateboard and do backflips on it. I was one.

9. Tetris - PC
A brilliant Russian scientist was the creator of such a simple game that entrapped people for hours to beat. It has been created on every platform created except the arcade boxes and next gen. It has been recently recreated on the Nintendo DS in 2006. Still addicting.

8. Grand Theft Auto - Playstation
GTA has changed drastically over the years. Since it was first release it was a top down, birds eye view game. Even with that, there was tons of violence in it. I was a free lance Smash Tv type game with missions and car jacking. It has gone along way into full immersed 3-d world roaming. It definitely revolutionized the gaming industry. Many games have copied the style of GTA. Even car games like Need For Speed: Carbon has copied the open world style.

7. Madden Football - Nes
First ever football game to include 3d models in real life. Only game franchise in the industry to have an illustrious curse on its cover athlete.
It has been the #1 sports game sold yearly. In 2006, it was the top selling game, selling at 1.8 million plus. It even has its own made up holiday celebrated on the release date and call Madenology. It is currently the only football franchise to have exclusive rights to the NFL franchise, likeness and rights. It is the most accurate video game representation of any sport.

6. Need For Speed - PC
Race fast, race nice cars, drift, pursuits. Need For Speed has changed the influence of the Car industry. I bet most gamers wouldn't know a Fiat from a Ford, or what a Ferrari is if it wasn't for Need For Speed. This gaming franchise grew with popularity with movies like the Fast and the Furious . The car craze has never been at a high for a younger generation if it wasnt for Need For Speed.

5. Doom - PC
You people are probably asking why or how is Doom number 5 on my list. Doom paved the way for true 3-d horror Fps(first person shooters) game made. Im not forgetting the amazing Wolfenstein 3-d, but Doom was what paved the way for games like Unreal, Quake, Shadow Warrior, Duke Nukem and System Shock. The was one of the first games to ever push the computer to graphical limits. This sparked the war for games to push the graphics envelope. Games that made people build computers or buy brand new ones just so these games would even run at minimal speeds.

4. Mortal Kombat - Nes
Oh, Mortal Kombat. How bloody thee is. Mortal Kombat was evolutionary for the industry. It was one of the first games that had extreme violence. It was the game that sparked congress when Tipper Gore pointed out that this game was not suitable for children. This was the same game that initiated the ESRB. Very significant I say. Mortal Kombat was also responsible for sucking quarters out of little kids pockets at the arcades.

3. Final Fantasy - Nes
Oh how far has Final Fantasy has come along. Starting of from Nintendo and then jumping ship to Playstation and making a brief stint on Xbox and back to Nintendo. This Franchise has been on nearly every system. Lets start counting. NES, SNES, Gameboy, Playstation, Playstation 2, Xbox, PC, DS, PSP and the WonderSwan. Thats been alot of games. For those of you that don't know what Final Fantasy is, it is a Role Playing Game a.k.a. RPG. It was one of the first RPGs ever to be created for a console. Final Fantasy consistently gave gamers 30+ hours of story line and deep game play. They gave gamers a reason to get to level 99 with max health. Final Fantasy just recently celebrated 20 years in the videogame market. Thats a feat that is hard to touch when they only bring out a new game every 2-6 years. Much love to Final Fantasy, you made summers and winters go by so slowly.

2 . Resident Evil - Playstation
Didn't expect this one did you. I bet not. With 3 movies and a 4th one coming up in the next couple years, this franchise has been booming. Resident Evil 4 being a smash hit and all the spin offs and remakes of the games, I had to give one of my all time favorites a spot higher then Sonic. If you rememeber this game on the Playstation, the Original game, you would probably remember how scary it was back then. Don't lie either, you probably had nightmares or even pissed your pants cause it was that scary.

1. Super Mario Bros - NES
It was plump little plumber that could. That could jump over tall pipes, grow up and be a man, and when getting hit by a goomba, shrink and become a child with a mustache. He dove in to our hearts and became an Icon in the American Gaming Industry. Get went from 2-D to 3-D in a matter of nearly 2 decades. He was the first to save a princess in any game. He went on to make Nintendo who they are. He did it with very little violence and no curse words or slang. He transcended gender and age barriers. He even had his own cartoon/live show and had his own cereal(check the link out). He was the first video game icon to be made into a McDonalds(Old Mcdonalds Commerical, I owned every one of those) toys twice. He is what we would call an Icon in todays society.

Honorable Mention:

Zelda:Link to the Past
Definitely a great franchise, I definitely have not forgotten about this one. One of the greatest top down games of all time. I love the Zelda franchise, but with Mario and Sonic being the front runners for their prospective systems I had no place to put this franchise anywhere in my top 10.

Unreal and Halflife
Why did I put these together? Because back in the day they redefined the first person shooter genre. although not on my top 10, they did what Doom could not. Combine great graphics, gameplay, and story. But Doom set grounds for what FPS are today. Thats why these franchises are not on my top.

Metal Gear Solid
Quirky characters in a serious espionage game? Only works in this title. As we wait patiently for MSG4, we have seen a rough and tough spy grow up to be oh so lovable. With his smoke filled lungs and coarse voice we have seen him team up with a gay ninja and face a pyscho that can read our memory cards. Creepy how this all works together in a spy game. Oh Snake, please smoke more and give us another game after MGS4

This article has taken over a month to write. It was very hard for me to compile a list of games that effected my life since I first started playing NES when i was 5. I would like the readers to comment and compile a list together of their top 10. Im very tired now.