The director of Starfield and Skyrim also drops what he believes are the "two most important games of all time."

Bethesda's Todd Howard Reveals His Two Choices For Most Influential Game Of All Time

As for the actual question, Howard selected Super Mario Bros. and Doom as the most influential games because he sees their DNA in modern games--even three decades later. "Two games where if you trace things games are doing today, you can trace so much of that back to those games," Howard said.

Howard most recently served as executive producer on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. He also got to appear with Harrison Ford on stage at The Game Awards in December. As for Super Mario Bros., it's still one of the top-selling video games of all time after launching on NES in 1985. Meanwhile, Doom came out on PC (specifically MS-DOS) in 1993 and now gets hacked onto every device known to mankind.

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This story originally appeared on: GameSpot - Author:UK GAG