Latest category of entrants World Video Game Hall of Fame The Strong National Museum of Play includes the Asteroids, Ultima, Resident Evil, and SimCity series, joining the groundbreaking Myst as works recognized for their importance to video games and interactive entertainment as a whole.
There is one notable omission, however, and it may upset many fans across multiple generations: Metroid. Nintendo’s space adventure, which began with 1986’s Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System, was not successful. This is despite the series’ nearly 40-year publishing history for Nintendo, as well as the name of its own sub-genre of video games, the “Metroidvania”, which describes a side-scrolling adventure consisting of multiple objectives. But it doesn’t have to be accomplished linearly.
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Maybe Metroid will have to wait for another year. This year’s Hall of Fame class There are no less worthy recipients. Asteroids was first launched in 1979 as a vector-graphics shoot-em-up, with several adaptations since. It was the subject of the pop music hit “Hyperspace” on Buckner and Garcia’s album “Pac-Man Fever”, released in 1982, and has been considered for a screenplay since 2009.
Myst was a HyperCard-stack game that used the emerging CD-ROM technology when it launched in 1993. It has long been remembered for its challenging visual puzzles and cutting-edge graphics. It was created by Robin and Rand Miller for Broderbund Software.
resident Evil Barely needs an introduction, but here’s one anyway: Capcom’s survival-horror adventure series from 1996, which has since spawned dozens of sequels and is among video games’ longest-running (and most complex) canons. Inaugurates one of the. The most recent launches, 2021’s Resident Evil Village and 2017’s Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, join the three remakes for modern hardware to make the series the envy of most video game publishers.
SimCity, first developed by Maxis in 1989, not only inaugurated town-building style, many other life simulation titles have emerged. Its legacy includes The Sims, which was a 2016 World Video Game Hall of Fame inductee.
And Ultima was one of the first role-playing games released for computers, debuting in 1981 and followed by eight sequels, although it has not been seen since 1999. Created by Richard Garriott, himself a member of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. The deep influence of Hall of Fame, Ultima, is still felt through one of the main genres of video gaming.
The Strong National Museum of Play is dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of toys, entertainment, and popular culture, and is headquartered in Rochester, New York. The World Video Games Hall of Fame opened in 2015; This is the 10th class of attendees.
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