ZOMG. I have to vote against Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? I wished this day would never come.
TMNT was a grand series. Not what it has become today, but back, 10 years ago. In the day of the hardcore Batman: The Animated Series and cartoons that made some damn sense. The games? Spectacular for what they were. Side-scrolling fighters. It was an arcade game you could play at home.
The Sims though...it spawned a whole new genre of nerd. The Sims has the umph to charge 50+ dollars for the first, most basic game. Then 20-30 dollars, (maybe more), for multiple content packs after that. If you bought The Sims, and you got hooked, expect to spend 200 dollars on content packs and expansions. And the content packs only really had what, 20 items in them? 20 items that really didn't make it any easier for your Sim to live, either. Just more stuff to waste HOURS playing. and people gladly paid it.
We get a sick sense of joy in being a serial cheater, watching our Sims get lucky for the first time, get married, and get that top promotion. We feel sad when our Sim pisses himself because we weren't paying attention, when he dies because we forgot to put a ladder (or "accidentally" deleted it. MWAHAHAHA) in the pool, when the oven catches fire. We get pissed off when the burglar comes in and steals his TV, when the dish washing machine breaks, when the Repo man comes to take his oven because you didn't pay your bills.
And any game that can make us care like that for a fake person we put through the loops for hours upon hours a day should get your vote.
The Sims