The Strong National Museum of Play has introduced their annual candidates for induction into the World Video Game Hall of Fame. This 12 months the whole checklist of nominees contains Age of Empires, Angry Birds, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007), Defender, Frogger, Goldeneye 007, Golden Tee, Harvest Moon, Mattel Football, NBA 2K, Quake, and Tamagotchi.
It’s a packed discipline in what’s at all times a packed competitors.
Deciding between simply the video games you possibly can play on a PC is tough: Age of Empires, Call of Duty 4 (2007), and Quake are vastly influential swings. How do you decide between foundational FPS Quake, a foundational RTS Age of Empires, and the Call of Duty entry that launched the now-ubiquitous concept that it’s best to degree up and get perks in each type of recreation that is not an RPG?
That’s not even to the touch the video games which can be kind-of on PC. Does an Atari depend as a PC in our trendy world? Kind of. Maybe it’s best to vote for Defender, then. There’s additionally the sometimes-on-PC NBA 2K collection. Hell, you would possibly even vote for one thing that is not on PC. That’s in all probability fantastic as a result of PC completely cleaned up final 12 months.
Every 12 months the general public chooses three video games so as to add to the corridor of fame, whereas a committee of worldwide consultants chooses one other three—although the general public’s vote does additionally depend as a member of the committee. 2024’s inductees had been Ultima, SimCity, Resident Evil, Myst, and Asteroids.
Starting so late within the lifetime of the videogame medium provides The Strong a powerfully various vary to attract from for every year’s slate of nominations. Their selections embrace not simply PC or console videogames, however transportable digital video games and arcade cupboards. That might be why they induct so many video games every year—a correct corridor of fame goes to require quite a lot of catching up.
You can solid your vote for the 2025 inductees on the Museum of Play web site.
