The Strong Museum in Rochester, New York, recently introduced a self-proclaimed "Official World Video Games Hall of Fame", coming with a series of first-class video game legends. This list includes the following games:

• Pong
• Pac-Man
• Tetris
• Super Mario Bros.
• Doom
• World of Warcraft

What do you make of this list? Do you feel other games would deserve a place in this list?

Source: http://www.museumofplay.org/press/r...orld-video-game-hall-fame-inductees-announced

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Actually VS.Super Mario Bros. was available as an arcade game before it was available on the NES in EU territories, but if anything that hyped EU gamers for the NES more than if they had never seen the game before. I was spending all my money on the arcade machine, which I suspect is the main reason my parents bought me a NES at launch.

That's a completely different game though, with nowhere near the complexity or fun of Super Mario Bros. But it was probably popular in arcades.

 

[Bimmel]

Actually someone did. Not in a positive way though.

Oh, I did not see that. Thank you. Will read it right away.

 

[DinohScene]

Tennis for Two... fair enough, I agree. More or less just Pong 2.

Tennis for two, somewhere in the 50's I believe.
It's one of the first videogames ever.
There's a missle launch inspired game from 1947.
I say that one deserves a spot as well.

 

[ldg1414]

I wouldn't really say they represent modern games, if you want to say, the most "popular" older games then sure.

 

[cvskid]

Shenmue to the list.

 

[Deleted User]

There's a missle launch inspired game from 1947.
I say that one deserves a spot as well.

You mean this one?
I was kinda upset that it's wasn't on the list.

 

[DinohScene]

That's the one yes.

 

[jonthedit]

You probably weren't around to know why Half life is so important to gaming.

Correct. I was not.

Have you? Half Life was insane when it released, it's practically the father of modern shooters with all of the innovative mechanics and gameplay elements it spawned. It still plays well, even today, minus the constant load screens which were necessary at the time, and Black Mesa has shown that if you simply threw in some better looking textures, it's still an excellent game.

I have not. Why? I can not. The mechanics and graphics- hell even the load times ARE impressive for its time. That's not at all why I disagree on half-life being included.
The reason is how drawn out and terribly boring the story is. Even Half Life 2- a group of 6 friends of mine [aged 17-22, so yes we are 'unappreciative' if you go that route] tried to play it with Synergy and we just got so terribly bored. We tried for a year- but we can not finish it- we get too bored.
I appreciate that Half-Life inspired so much in todays FPS world- but the game itself.... is awful!

 

[cracker]

They obliviously wanted an abridged version (like any HoF — it would be counter-intuitive to list many). It must have been placed in a time capsule for 20 years though.

 

[Hungry Friend]

As far as cinematic console games go, Metal Gear Solid(the series) should probably be on there although there's likely something that preempts it that I don't know about. Also Ultima Online was pretty fucking popular back in 1997-2000, but after killing people became severely penalized(if you were resurrected after killing more than 5 people, you lost tons of stats) it became less popular and EQ took over. I was one of the 3-4 Kains on the Baja server though, and if you played on that server there's a decent chance I killed you a few times. I was a gigantic dick in that game(and in general; I was 13-15)

As far as JRPGs go, Dragon Quest 1 was the most influential imo. FFVII definitely made JRPGs more popular and was a massive production at the time. Put it on the list simply because it was the game that introduced most people to linear, story-based JRPGs. MGS was certainly more cinematic though despite being of a very different genre. Hell, MGS games are their own genre.(3 being the best, at least Subsistence/HD)

EDIT: Also Virtua Fighter 1 for polygonal(it was still 2d) fighters, just like SF2 revolutionized 2d sprite-based fighters.

 

[Qtis]

Have you? Half Life was insane when it released, it's practically the father of modern shooters with all of the innovative mechanics and gameplay elements it spawned. It still plays well, even today, minus the constant load screens which were necessary at the time, and Black Mesa has shown that if you simply threw in some better looking textures, it's still an excellent game.

While I agree, I have to add the following image to say that Half-Life was not necessarily the number one for online fps. It was Quake and it's customizability (sorry fellow darkthemers, it's transparent (and from VALVE!)):

ps. I just played HL from start to finish a while back. Still I think QuakeWorld was more critical to a lot of multiplayer games as it included features such as predicting player movement in software to counter lag (note: Dial-up/ISDN was the norm, I was playing on superior ADSL at the time!)

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

While I agree, I have to add the following image to say that Half-Life was not necessarily the number one for online fps. It was Quake and it's customizability (sorry fellow darkthemers, it's transparent (and from VALVE!)):

ps. I just played HL from start to finish a while back. Still I think QuakeWorld was more critical to a lot of multiplayer games as it included features such as predicting player movement in software to counter lag (note: Dial-up/ISDN was the norm, I was playing on superior ADSL at the time!)

I'm not disagreeing with you, but I never said anything about Half Life being important to online FPS Just modern shooters in general (although nowadays a lot of shooters are sort of devolving into online only...); Half Life had all those scripted NPCs, had some pretty advanced AI coding (and roach AI ;O, a lot more interact-able objects than any previous game, the "seamless" level design (in that it only had to load a different section, no "go into elevator, scrape old world, load new world"), the whole skeletal animation that enemies had etc etc, stuff like that hadn't ever been combined into one steamy delicious game before, and most FPS games afterwards would go and combine those same features into more, steamy delicious packages.

 

[DiscostewSM]

But most people can't get passed the first Goomba.

 

[tbb043]

Zelda, Dragon Quest, and Street Fighter II definitely belong on the list.

 

[sandytf]

These are some of the most influential games in history because they each basically created a new genre of video game. While they might not have been the very first in their respective genres, they were the games that helped those genres become mainstream. To that end, I think the list should have included a rpg (maybe Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy). If they add new games each year, then they should consider games that defined sub-genres, like SRPG, TRPG, etc.

 

[YugamiSekai]

Where's Ocarina of Time? I got a Master Sword waiting to strike some Stalchildren in front of Hyrule Castle.

 

[Foxchild]

The original Myst held sales records for a long time and was the first game on cd-rom. There's also Gauntlet for its co-op. Zelda deserves to be there. Can't really argue against any on the list though.

 

[stomp_442]

I am surprised that Space Invaders or Asteroids is not on the list. Who made that list any ways?

 

[mechagouki]

That's a completely different game though, with nowhere near the complexity or fun of Super Mario Bros. But it was probably popular in arcades.

I think you're thinking of "Mario Bros", the arcade machine VS. Super Mario Bros. is near identical to the Famicom/NES version of Super Mario Bros. In fact, this article suggests that the game originated in the arcade and was ported to home consoles: http://nintendoeverything.com/looking-into-the-release-date-origins-of-vs-super-mario-bros/

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I think you're thinking of "Mario Bros", the arcade machine VS. Super Mario Bros. is near identical to the Famicom/NES version of Super Mario Bros. In fact, this article suggests that the game originated in the arcade and was ported to home consoles: http://nintendoeverything.com/looking-into-the-release-date-origins-of-vs-super-mario-bros/

Ah, didn't know about that. Yeah I meant Mario Bros.