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Walk of Game Honors Industry Paragons

Posted by Zonk on from the go-link-go! dept.

dustrider writes "The latest silver screen to silicon crossover is the Walk of Game, a Walk of Fame style display for the Gaming Industry. You can vote in two categories, "Game/Character" and "Lifetime Achievement", until the end of October. The top four Game/Character and the top two lifetime achievers will be the happy recipients of 24"x24" brushed steel stars at Metreon in SF."

3 of 98 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Huh? by slaad · · Score: 3, Informative

    yes, all the links are dead except "media center" and "about"

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    ~Warning!~ The above is encrypted using rot676!
  2. Re:Huh? by Skilf · · Score: 3, Informative
    me neither...
    tried firefox then IE just in case, but the page works with neither of them.

    Skilf

  3. Metreon's struggle to make games cool by Animats · · Score: 2, Informative
    The San Francisco Metreon, which is basically a multiplex movie theater with some extra stuff, has struggled to figure out what the additional attractions should be.

    They used to have "The Way Things Work", a big walk-through mechanical demo and a theater with a boring presentation. That didn't work. So they converted that theater to show anime, and that didn't work. Now it's mostly used for meetings.

    Then they had Portal One, which is a video game arcade with really good interior decoration. It's modelled after Moebius' Airtight Garage series in Heavy Metal back in the 1970s. Nobody got this. Their giant custom multiplayer game became dated, their simulator ride didn't get much traffic, and now their big attractions are virtual bowling and retro games.

    Between these two non-attractions is a little-used suspended walkway about 100m long. That's now the Walk of Game.