This story is part of our new Future of Gaming series, a three-site look at gaming’s most pioneering technologies, players, and makers.
If you’ve been playing games for any length of time, you probably know the feeling: a sense of awe washing over you as you encounter something you’ve never quite experienced before. Genuine innovation, a push forward that just might change games forever. Perhaps, in trying to imagine the future of games, it behooves us to look to the past, to the specific games that triggered that feeling for us once upon a time. Perhaps, in the remarkable achievements they pulled off, we can see a hint of what the games of the future will do, as they seek to continue evolving this still-young medium.
Here are 16 games that felt ahead of their time.
