The World Video Game Hall of Fame 2016 Inductess 54
Reader Dave Knott writes: The World Video Game Hall Of Fame has announced its inductees for the year 2016, the second group of games to be so honoured since the award's inception in 2015. The Hall Of Fame "recognizes individual electronic games of all types -- arcade, console, computer, handheld, and mobile -- that have enjoyed popularity over a sustained period and have exerted influence on the video game industry or on popular culture and society in general". This year's six inductees are: Grand Theft Auto III, The Legend of Zelda, The Oregon Trail, The Sims, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Space Invaders.The Sydney Morning Herald has more details.
PETE ROSE !! (Score:2, Funny)
Dammit !!
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The typo in the headline is on me, not the slashdot editors.
I did mention it in the comments on the submission, but I guess they missed it.
If you think proofreading even just the headline of a story isn't the duty of an editor, what do you think is a responsibility of an editor?
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Having one doubt about the needful and reverting the same.
Here lies andy; peperony and chease (Score:4, Funny)
Here lies andy; peperony and chease
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Same way the Guiness Book of World Records affects you.
Re:Simple question (Score:4, Insightful)
It's a troll. The exact same message is getting posted in all the stories.
While these are nice picks for the hall of fame, they do have a 40+ year history to pick inductees from.
I wonder how many years before they exhaust the obvious picks and start scraping the barrel? Like the Guiness Book did with the recent "world record for time spent in VR".
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Yeah, I noticed similar posts in other stories after commenting here. Some people have too much time.
As for the longest time in VR, not sure I'd call it scraping the barrel so much as seeing which way the wind is blowing (or at least thinking they do) and getting the records official before it really takes off, so they don't have to sift through hundreds of submissions of, "But I was there for three days two years ago!"
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If they do 6 a year I don't see them going more than a decade or 2 before exhausting the prime candidates and start having to nominate call of dutys and maddens.
Yeah they have a 40 year backlog, but there were some real blah years there.
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But can anyone tell me why this matters?
If you actually belonged here instead of wandering in from the Youtube comments section you'd have the prerequisite knowledge to answer this question on your own.
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Turn-based RPGs in general have been jobbed: no MUDs, Zork or Final Fantasy...yet.
It's apparently the second year they've done this, and the fact that only 12 games are listed apparently means that they've decided that only 6 get added each year. Why they decided to add World Of Warcraft, The Sims, and GTA 3 before Diablo, SimCity, or Final Fantasy is beyond me, but I suppose they have their reasons.
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Same reason Doom got added instead of Wolfenstein. Wolf3D was the first. But DOOM was a bit more revolutionary. And became a broader household name.
SimCity was the first, but The Sims was a larger commercial success. We nerds played Sim City, all the average folk played The Sims. I can see World of Worldcraft being one of the most successful Multi-User Environment games. But I agree that a few others are critical enough to have come before GTA3 or Diablo.
I would consider the following noteworthy:
- Zork an
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- Halo, no not the first person shooter. They were on PCs for ages. But arguably the first first person shooter on a console to replicate the dynamic that was expected on PCs and to become so mainstream, that it essentially foot the bill for the Xbox marketing wise.
I would give GoldenEye 007 on the N64 a slight edge over Halo. I remember many kids/twenty-something who were not typically gamers, still had a N64 specifically for GoldenEye. IMO It was GoldenEye that opened the door for Halo's acceptance.
When GoldenEye was released I had already been playing PC shooters like Doom, Quake, and Duke Nukem for years so GoldenEye seemed like a huge step back to me, but there was no arguing against how popular it was.
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I'd add Fallout and Baldur's Gate.
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> Why they decided to add World Of Warcraft, ... before Final Fantasy
Agreed -- these popularity rewards are plain stupid. That's like giving McDonalds a medal for gourmet food. Quantity (popularity) != Quality.
This sucks that turn-based RPGs got completely screwed. Seriously, without:
Final Fantasy -- classic JPRG
Ultima -- set the tone for Western RPGs
There never would have been Ultima Online, Everquest, and ultimately WoW.
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I really shouldn't feed the trolls ...
Ah, the classic ad hominem [wikipedia.org] attack when you lack intelligence and facts. Stay classy!
> I'm pretty sure that Telengard set the tone for Ultima
BZZT. Thanks for playing! You've just won 1st prize in "You Don't Know WTF you're talking about" (TM).
* Ultima 1: Initial release date: June 1981
* Telengard: Initial release date: 1982
* Ultima 2: Initial release date: August 24, 1982
> We can sit here and make up shit like this all day
You could continue to make shit up but I'll
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Turn-based RPGs in general have been jobbed: no MUDs, Zork or Final Fantasy...yet.
I've just started playing Might and Magic I. 1987. Turn-based, simple first-person moving (one tile at a time), but all-text combat, and no auto-map. I'm enjoying the heck out of it, hand-drawn maps and all.
But that reminds me of what was probably the most popular turn-based RPG in history: Pokemon. A little too new for this year's inductees, but it reminds me that a whole new generation came to love a turn-based RPG with basically all-text combat,
Re: Dwarf Fortress got robbed (Score:2)
But that reminds me of what was probably the most popular turn-based RPG in history: Pokemon. A little too new for this year's inductees, but it reminds me that a whole new generation came to love a turn-based RPG with basically all-text combat,
The first generation Pokemon games were nominated, but not selected yet, both years they've done this. They'll get there.
Sad News. (Score:2)
Nethack? (Score:3, Insightful)
I'll take this Hall of Fame seriously when they induct Nethack.
I mean, really, if *any* game deserves to be in a hall of fame, it's the longest-lived and longest continually maintained game of 'em all... not to mention one of the most complex and hardcore.
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"Unheard of"??
Get off my lawn!!
The first inductees in any real gaming HoF should have been Spacewar [oversigma.com], Star Trek [arctuviangambit.com] and Nethack [thegreates...erplay.com].
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I mean, really, if *any* game deserves to be in a hall of fame, it's the longest-lived and longest continually maintained game of 'em all... not to mention one of the most complex and hardcore.
Which is another way of saying that only those who play the game even know that it exists.
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This Cannot Be Taken Seriously (Score:3)
How in the world can they be taken seriously if they did not induct Galaga, Asteroids, and Zork?
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How in the world can they be taken seriously if they did not induct Galaga, Asteroids, and Zork?
This is only the second year they've been handing out awards. Surely you don't expect them to give awards to every deserving candidate up front?
I agree those games are probably worthy of awards, but they had to start somewhere, and I think they mode reasonable choices.
Editor drunk again? (Score:2)
I see from the headline that the World Video Game Hall of Fame now has an Inductess. I imagine next they'll be appointing a Seductee.
Oregon Trail would have been inducted last year... (Score:2)
... but kept dying from dysentery on the way ...