The first members of the Hall of Fame video games

The National Museum of games in Rochester, New York, will be the Hall of Fame video games. Several masterpieces of the gaming industry come all the criteria in order to become the first to get into the Hall.

Under the cut - details about the first member of the Hall of Fame with a warm lamp videogame advertising.

Games should be signed, they must overcome the border between the two countries and to influence the creation of other games, other forms of entertainment and popular culture and society.

The Museum of video game fame can get the game on all platforms - for arcade machines, computers, laptops and mobile devices, game consoles. In April 2015 the Museum has announced 15 finalists, of which only six were the first members of the Museum of Fame.

While the "best" is not recognized as The Legend of Zelda, Minecraft, The Oregon Trail, Angry Birds, FIFA, Pokemon, The Sims, Sonic the Hedgehog and Space Invaders. Until March 31, 2016 will be considered new candidates.

The first six games in the Hall of Fame :

Pong - 1972
Pac-Man - 1980
Russian Import "Tetris" - 1984
Super Mario Bros - 1985 li >
Doom - 1993
World of Warcraft - 2004
Pong - 1972 h4> Atari Pong game released in 1972 as an arcade machine. In 1975 the company decided to build on the success by releasing a prefix Atari Pong .

Pong was the first commercially successful video game and caused the development of clones competitors Atari.

Total Atari has sold 150,000 consoles Atari Pong.

Pac-Man - 1980 h4> In Japan, in 1980, created a game in which there was no violence as takogovogo, there was shooting and alien invasions. Pac-Man walked through the maze and ate cherries.

As for the game show filmed , and the character has appeared in 30 sequels and clones.

Cuts from the series about Pac-Man from the TV series "Friends."

Packaging flakes for breakfast.

Russian Import "Tetris" - 1984 h4> Abstract puzzle created Alexey Pajitnov in 1984, is highly addictive . "When you play for a long time it becomes almost meditative practice. Tetris was the most versatile of all the video games, appealing to players of any age, gender and geography. It is adapted for almost any computer system ».

Super Mario Bros - 1985 h4> Mario Brothers - one of the most important characters in the history of the company Nintendo . For the first time the players met Mario in Donkey Kong. Then he appeared in more than 200 games with it has sold more than 210 million units of games. The character takes first place in the list of fifty the best characters of computer games according to the Guinness Book of Records.

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Doom - 1993 h4> Doom determined the development of the genre of first-person shooter. Game id Software released the company in 1993.

Advertising for 64-bit game console Jaguar .

Promotional video channel MTV.

Advertising the second part of the game.

World of Warcraft - 2004 h4> World of Warcraft - multiplayer online role-playing game by Blizzard Entertainment. According to the Guinness Book of Records, it is the most popular MMORPG in the world. In 2014, the number of users has exceeded 12 million people. For comparison - the population of Moscow, according to the Federal State Statistics Service in 2015 is about 12.2 million people.

At the time of the shooting advertising in World of Warcraft had 10 million users. Because Chuck Norris has allowed to live.

Unsurpassed Mr. T in advertising games.

Mountain Dew and WoW.

Minium of "Austin Powers."

Ozzy Osbourne

Source: geektimes.ru/post/251662/