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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 9658477" data-attributes="member: 57112">You can find the full list of 49 here: <a href="https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibits/world-video-game-hall-of-fame/inducted-games/" target="_blank">Inducted Games - The Strong National Museum of Play</a>Given the criteria here, which, quote: "The Strong’s World Video Game Hall of Fame recognizes individual electronic games of all types—arcade, console, computer, handheld, and mobile—that have enjoyed popularity over a sustained period and have exerted influence on the video game industry or on popular culture and society in general," I'm hard pressed to find any that really raise the eyebrow. John Madden Football, as I mentioned above, is standing in for its franchise so it's hard to blame it, and even the ludicrous-at-first-glance inclusion of Barbie Fashion Designer makes more sense when you learn that it, a PC game marketed to directly to young girls, sold over 500,000 copies in its first two months on the shelves and outsold both Doom and Quake, in 1996. Within just the FPS genre, Quake and Goldeneye are joining Doom, Halo, and nothing else (also, Call of Duty 4: Black Ops made the shortlist this year). I'm fine with them adding Doom before Quake; I guess you could argue that Halo wouldn't have been Halo without Goldeneye really popularizing the multiplayer deathmatch concept, but you could also argue that Halo had a bigger impact on the genre overall.</blockquote>

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