Jryntorica Qysalind 
When video games were at their peak they had their whole world in their hands and dominated pop culture. Being able to transport yourself and your life into a game and live in that world is why the games became so popular. Whether you are playing soccer or fighting aliens, you can be and do whatever you want. Some of the weapons that have been available in games have sometimes added to the age’s popularity and impact itself and this is what today’s post is about—the iconic weapons from games we love and grew up on.
What Is It Knives?
As I was making my list of weapons I wanted to talk about, I had two knives in the first 5 I named, which I found really interesting. Knives are unlike the usual weapons that become iconic, like guns, as they can’t be changed or added to with a scope, they come as they are. It also made me realize that knives are easy to make and incredibly iconic. For today I will stick to just two knives with the first being the knives from CSGO knives.
CSGO Knives
This may be a controversial first choice but, when it comes to sheer popularity and longevity in the gaming industry, the knives from CSGO tick all of these boxes. CS2 is a game that has been popular for a very long time and also never seems to stop gaining popularity.
Even when the game started to slow down, the CSGO developers added skins and knives that could be sold or bet on sites you can find on csgambling.net, which added a whole new fanbase to the already popular game.
In 2007, the first Assassin’s Creed was released and with it came the hidden blade that would become synonymous with the series. The hidden blade is the symbol of the brotherhood and is my favourite weapon ever, I think, and this may result in bias but the design alone adds to the weapon.
The retractable blade is hidden on the rest and is lethally used for stealth killings and normal fights in general. Even as the series has gone on and new weapons have been added, nothing has come close to the hidden blade.
The Blue Shell
Now, I have said the word iconic a lot today but it does not get any more iconic than a blue shell from Mario Kart. It is a rare weapon because it is pretty inescapable. When you are first and someone behind you throws that blue shell, you are in an instant panic as you know it is coming for you.
The interesting thing about the blue shell is that its aim is to hit the player first, but that won’t stop it from hitting people behind first. If a racer is in its way, it will hit you. If you are first the only thing you can do is hope the person in second slightly overtakes you and takes the (blue) bullet and hope you can still dodge it as it rushes after the player in first.
The Master Sword
And finally, the Master Sword from Zelda is a symbol of the start of one of the best journeys in gaming history and shows the start of an incredible journey. The Master Sword has a different story in all the games but mostly it is a sword made by a Goddess and has some magical powers with the biggest being the power usually being the ability to vanquish evil.
The Master Sword will only allow people worthy to claim the sword and the story that surrounds this weapon adds to its iconic history in the gaming world.
