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Gaming Icons Get Star On 'Walk Of Game'

Posted by simoniker on from the outside-stann's-chinese-takeaway dept.

Thanks to Businesswire.com for hosting the press release announcing a 'Walk Of Game' within the Metreon Center in San Francisco, honoring "groundbreaking videogame titles and franchises" in the form of Hollywood Walk Of Fame-style stars. No inductees have yet been announced for the walk, set to "...commemorate some of pop culture's most indelible icons of the digital screen", but it'll be interesting to see if Mario gets a star inside the Sony-owned Metreon, and whether creators will be honored in addition to game characters.

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  1. Of course it'll have Mario! by Piquan · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The Metreon shows films that have no Sony association.

    If they don't put down Mario, everybody will know that it's nothing but a farce, and Sony will lose face. Of course it'll have Mario!

  2. Re:heh by JAYOYAYOYAYO · · Score: 3, Insightful

    well, according to me, they already lost credibility by using video game characters instead of the people that created them. this is NOT for paying respect to the brilliant people in the industry-- its nothing more than a publicity stunt to shovel more kids into the metreon.

  3. Re:Must-Have Characters? by ChiPHeaD23 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Throw in all the Lucasarts adventure designers - especially Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer.