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2018 World Video Game Hall of Fame finalists announced

Savantcore

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The following 12 electronic games are finalists for 2018 induction into The Strong's World Video Game Hall of Fame. The inductees will be announced during a ceremony at The Strong museum on Thursday, May 3 at 10:30 a.m.
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Link with more information on each game

Vote for your favourite here (you can vote once every day)

Which video game do you think is most worthy of joining icons such as Pac-Man, Pong, Super Mario Bros., and Tetris in the World Video Game Hall of Fame? Vote below for the one you think best meets the criteria of icon-status, longevity, geographic reach, and influence.

The three games that receive the most public votes will form one "Player's Choice" ballot, which will join the 27 other ballots submitted by members of the International Selection Advisory Committee, a supporting group composed of journalists, scholars, and other individuals familiar with the history of video games and their role in society.
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The nominees are:
  • Asteroids
  • Call of Duty (2003)
  • Dance Dance Revolution
  • Final Fantasy VII
  • Half-Life
  • John Madden Football
  • King's Quest
  • Metroid
  • Minecraft
  • Ms. Pac-Man
  • Spacewar!
  • Tomb Raider
Current Hall of Fame:

Phoenix Splash said:
I had to look up for the members of this Hall of Fame and I expected worse, but it seems like a very clean and exclusive Hall of Fame, tbh:

  • Donkey Kong
  • DOOM
  • GTA 3
  • Halo
  • TLoZ
  • The Oregon Trail
  • Pac-Man
  • Pokémon Red and Green
  • Pong
  • The Sims
  • Sonic
  • Space Invaders
  • Street Fighter II
  • Super Mario Bros
  • Tetris
  • World of Warcraft


Yes, it seems pretty clean.
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Bigkrev

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How the hell can you have a gaming hall of fame without Spacewar or Asteroids in it
 
MrNewVegas

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No Fallout New Vegas... What kind of hall of fame is this.

All those seem pretty decent. Madden and Tomb Raider being meh.
 
Phoenix Splash

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I had to look up for the members of this Hall of Fame and I expected worse, but it seems like a very clean and exclusive Hall of Fame, tbh:

  • Donkey Kong
  • DOOM
  • GTA 3
  • Halo
  • TLoZ
  • The Oregon Trail
  • Pac-Man
  • Pokémon Red and Green
  • Pong
  • The Sims
  • Sonic
  • Space Invaders
  • Street Fighter II
  • Super Mario Bros
  • Tetris
  • World of Warcraft


Yes, it seems pretty clean.
 
Soneji

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Asteroids, DDR and Metroid are the most deserving from this list of being in the hall.
 
WestEgg

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Spacewar! for sure, it's easily one of the most important games in history, and also got Nolan Bushnel interested in games.

I know both series already have representation on the list, but Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time both deserve nominations at some point. The former for basically creating competent movement in a 3D space, and the latter for it's massive legacy, still sitting atop metacritic 20 years later.
 
Teeth

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I'm wondering if Call of Duty 4 should have been the nominee, like FF7 is. I feel like the sequel did more to define the following decade of games than the original .
 

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I recognize they have the original Zelda on their list already - but I'd argue OOT was a more important game for the industry.
 
CoolestSpot

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DDR or Half Life would be my choice.

DDR was massive for it's prime and a movement, and Half Life impact can't be understated.

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But to be honest they all should get in.
 

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Seems like 4 games will make the cut cause they did it this way last year

Spacewar
Asteroids
Half-Life
Minecraft
 
SchuckyDucky

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Teeth said:
I'm wondering if Call of Duty 4 should have been the nominee, like FF7 is. I feel like the sequel did more to define the following decade of games than the original .
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Yeah, I agree. COD 4 is way more relevant and influential than the first entry in the series. It's what most people think ofowhen they think of COD.
 
ASaiyan

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Solid existing list and solid crop of nominees. They could add stuff a little more quickly but perhaps then it would get too bloated.
 
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MrCunningham said:
In all fairness, John Madden Football is EA's first successful sports game, it helped create a new model for sports franchises and is still a series that gets instant recolonization, US or not.
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I think you're overestimating how much people care or even know what the heck a John Madden is outside north america
 
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Starlatine said:
I think you're overestimating how much people care or even know what the heck a John Madden is outside north america
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Yeah, I realize Fifa is a bigger franchise, but Madden still set groundwork for the direction that sports game went in after its release. Madden was the stepping stone that took EA from being a mid-tier 16-bit microcomputer publisher to being one of the biggest publishers on the planet. Which was what I was getting at. Weather that is a bad or a good thing, it is still a ground breaking game.
 
Starlatine

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MrCunningham said:
Yeah, I realize Fifa is a bigger franchise, but Madden still set groundwork for the direction that sports game went in after its release. Madden was the stepping stone that took EA from being a smaller16-bit microcomputer developer to being one of the biggest ones on the planet. Which was what I was getting at. Weather that is a bad or a good thing, it is still a ground breaking game.
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I'm not minimizing the importance of Madden to EA or saying FIFA is more deserving ( it isn't) I just think that your part about how recognizable the game is outside the US is...off the mark
 
Wamb0wneD

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So they only do whole franchises? But why is CoD specified as 2003 then?
raterpillar said:
Worthless post. All those games belong there, though I'm not sure about Ms Pac Man over the original or the original CoD over 4.
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Funny Valentine said:
Fallout 1 should go in before New Vegas.
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Seems to me like they only do whole franchises anyway. So Fallout as a whole will probably get in at some point.
Edit: Nvm they got GTA 3 and SF 2 in there
Who on earth would pick Metroid over Super?
 
Aters

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The current members in the Hall of Fame are so strong it's hard to put these new entries next to them. Like, imagine you are in videogame Hall of Fame before OoT.
 
MrCunningham

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Starlatine said:
I'm not minimizing the importance of Madden to EA or saying FIFA is more deserving ( it isn't) I just think that your part about how recognizable the game is outside the US is...off the mark
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Yeah I guess you're right, Madden doesn't really reach out further than North America in general. I still think Madden is a pretty well known name world wide, but that doesn't entirely reflect on sales globally.

I get this feeling that Madden is generally known more as a brand globally. I doubt the person it was named after; John Madden, is really that well known outside of America.
 
Wamb0wneD

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Out of the nominees FF 7, Metroid and Half Life should definetly get in there. That's not even a question.
Ridley327 said:
No, they do the initial releases of games thus far. When they say Super Mario Bros, they really mean Super Mario Bros the game.
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Yeah I noticed with GTA 3 and SF 2. But why Metroid over Super Metroid then? Because it started the genre?
Seems like that's a big factor in there.
BordyDogue said:
Seems like 4 games will make the cut cause they did it this way last year

Spacewar
Asteroids
Half-Life
Minecraft
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Maybe 6 with Metroid and FF 7. :P
 
Zan

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Minecraft, Spacewar, FF7, King's Quest, Metroid.

Save the others for next time.
 
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