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Just a few before I head off to work.

Wolfenstein might have come first, but Doom polished it up and delivered it to a global audience. People all across the planet were sharing a fist full of floppy disks to install the newest craze.

There were a few before these two, but Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat were the first big fighting games and brought it to the masses across arcades, PC's and home consoles.

The Legend of Zelda changed gaming in many ways. It expanded the concept of player health by allowing players to gather more hearts to make them stronger. It broke out of the linear mould most games followed by creating an open world and letting the player explore and even complete dungeons out of order (to an extent anyway), plus the existence of dungeons themselves separate to the open world. Shit they even understood the game was massive (for it's time) and that people would need a break, so they installed a ****ing battery in the cartridge allowing consoles to save progress for the first time ever. Not only did it revolutionise gaming in many ways itself, it spawned a series that would continue to do so.