Twenty years ago, Wolfenstein 3D game out. For those of us who grew up around that time, it was an addicting game that featured Hitler in a mech as a final boss. Leviathyn.com's Jason Fanelli celebrates this timeless classic.

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With Rage coming out in a little over a month, this week's "Numb Thumbs" column at Patch.com takes a look at 90's-era id Software to reflect on why they've been so important to the industry.

For those who still feel a pang of nostalgia when hearing Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake...

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Throughout the course of gaming history, there have been several titles that revolutionized the medium, introducing new gameplay elements and allowing players to do things never thought possible within the realm of a video game. Bright Hub presents five of the most innovative games to ever hit gaming systems.

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"Video Games have existed just a bit longer than I’ve been alive to play them (a sentence that will surely date me in the eyes of my audience). But since their inception into the world and over the expanse of time into our popular culture, there have been franchises that have received multiple iterations and have ‘changed with the times’, so to speak. Most notably would be Mario, Nintendo’s lovable plumber who has rescued Princess Peach on more occasions than I care to remember. Over the years..."

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"Video games allow us to enter worlds and scenarios in which we couldn’t possibly take part in in the real world. You may battle aliens on a distant planet. Or you may fight the Reich in a WWII shooter. The possibilities are endless, because what can be done in the realm of imagination is endless. So why do we continue to return to the same enemies that we’ve killed thousands of times before? The straightforward answer? Because they’re safe."

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