At the recent Game Developers Conference, Henry Lowood (History of Science and Technology Collections, Stanford University) announced The Digital Game Canon - a list of the ten most important video games to date (alt: Ten Games You Need to Play):

  • Spacewar! (1962)
  • Star Raiders (1979)
  • Zork (1980)
  • Tetris (1985)
  • SimCity (1989)
  • Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990)
  • Civilization I/II (1991)
  • Doom (1993)
  • Warcraft series (beginning 1994)
  • Sensible World of Soccer (1994)

(source: NY Times)

How many hours of my life were given to these two pillars of computer gaming?