10 Video Games That Were Ahead of Their Time 

10 Video Games That Were Ahead of Their Time

We found 10 games that pushed the world of gaming forward.

When you look at video games in 2014, it\'s hard to believe that they belong to the same medium that gave us Pac-Man 30 years ago. We\'ve seen incredible advancements, technically and artistically, in those few short decades. But those advancements didn\'t happen in a vacuum.

Much of what we consider "modern gaming" was created in fits and starts, as developers used the tools they had available to make the best games they possibly could. Some of those games were more ambitious than the hardware of their era could support, unfortunately. But the developers pushed forwards anyways, doing their best to produce titles that would catch the attention of fickle gamers.

As gaming grew and developed, designers introduced new ways to control them, new ways to display their graphics and new ways to deliver their narratives. They took bits and pieces from previous games and blended them together to create something innovative, and sometimes they pulled ideas seemingly out of nowhere.

In this feature, we\'ll spotlight 10 games that pushed the world of gaming forward ahead of schedule. Some were commercial successes, some were cult hits, and some were all-out flops. But they all helped predict where gaming would take us in the coming decades, and for that we salute them.

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