6 Of Your Fave Button Mashers Got Enshrined In The Video Game Hall Of Fame

STORY TIME: To this day, the greatest video gaming achievement of this particular writer’s largely uneventful life was arriving home from the pub at 1am absolutely stonkered drunk one fateful Friday night, and managing to play all the way through, and beat, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on the Sega Mega Drive.
It took all 35 lives accumulated during an otherwise flawless run through the game to defeat the final Death Egg boss, but I bloody well did it. AND I did it whilst totally resisting the urge to spike the controller through a wall, which is a big achievement in and of itself.
But I digress.
The still-new Video Game Hall of Fame has announced the list of inductees for its Class of 2016, and it reads as a veritable what’s-what of iconic gaming across multiple generations.
The Hall of Fame, operated by the Rochester, NY-based museum The Strong – a facility dedicated to documenting and showcasing the “history of play” – was founded last year with six titles being immortalising in the inaugural intake: Doom, Super Mario Bros, Pong, Pac Man, Tetris, and World of Warcraft.

The museum has today revealed six new titles that will take their rightful place in the upper pantheon of gaming: Sonic the Hedgehog, Grand Theft Auto III, Space Invaders, The Oregon Trail, The Sims, and The Legend of Zelda.

The six inductees were whittled down from a longer list of nominees, that included titles that didn’t ultimately make the cut such as Minecraft, Tomb Raider, John Madden Football, Street Fighter II, and Pokemon Red & Green.
The games were selected based on their longevity, popularity, and overall influence on both other games, and popular culture as a whole.
You can read about the Hall of Fame and all its inductees over at The Strong‘s website.
And here’s to the wonderful, at times maddening, but all-consumingly fun crop of new inductees.
Finally, peperony and chease is enshrined in the annals of time forever.

Source: The Strong.

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