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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."

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  1. almost there... by lawngnome · · Score: 4, Funny

    no word of a dikatana plaque in the bathrooms? shame...

  2. Down already! by rueger · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow - seems that the voting apparatus went down even before the story was publicly posted here. Is their server in Florida?

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

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

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  4. 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

  5. What if they run out of space? by The+Original+Yama · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One thing I've always wondered about these 'walks of fame' is if they ever run out of room to place stars. It seems inevitable to me for this to happen eventually. What do they do in this case? Do they make room somewhere else or do they rip out old stars?

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    1. Re:What if they run out of space? by hunterx11 · · Score: 2, Funny

      They rip out the old stars, beginning with Buster Keaton...

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  6. Prediction by beldraen · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since these types of things always have to have some predictions, my two cents are: Mario and Sonic, and John Carmack and Shigeru Miyamoto.

    Topic: I really can't think of anyone else who have have had greater impact. Discuss.

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    1. Re:Prediction by mistersooreams · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Mario is an absolute certainty. No need for discussion there. Sonic is probably a fair inclusion on balance, but it seems most people who vote in these things are quite "recent-sighted". Sonic hasn't had a decent game in years, and I don't mean that as flamebait. The Genesis games were legendary, but since then? Not much. Sonic was key to the early development of the console, but he's been silent for years now. I don't have a prediction as to who might replace him. Shigeru Miyamoto is another dead cert, and follows straight from Mario's inclusion. I'm less certain about John Carmack. I don't doubt his vast influence, from Commander Keen to Doom. But, it does depend on the demographic of the people voting in this Hall of Game (slightly lame name by the way). Techies as most of us on Slashdot are would vote him in without question. But I don't know if his name is so widely recognised by the wider market of gamers. A designer like Metal Gear Solid's Hideo Kojima might be a better known name, perhaps. Only time will tell. I do think this is a nice idea, though.

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    2. Re:Prediction by Doctor+Beavis · · Score: 5, Insightful

      All very solid nominations. Carmack and Miyamoto are truly giants of the gaming community. The other person that that immediately comes to mind is Sid Meier - Civilization is the gold standard and had an incredible impact on the industry, perhaps more than Sonic, IMHO.

  7. 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.

  8. Re:It's just like the walk of fame... by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember when you had to roll dice. Two sets of doubles, however, and you went straight to jail.

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  9. Lara Croft by GordoSlasher · · Score: 3, Funny

    I vote for Lara Croft for two lifetime achievements.

  10. Re:pc vs. console by pommiekiwifruit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since I am now downloading a 61Megabyte "patch" to a PC game (over dialup) in a vain hope that this will make it actually work without crashing every hour, I wouldn't be surprised if console characters get voted higher. Their games actually work and they sell several times as many copies.

  11. Monkey Island by Cowclops · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd really like to see Ron Gilbert get some recognition, but it won't happen. SCUMM made graphic adventure games FUN and Monkey Island 2 belongs in my top 5 for best game ever on any system. Going on to make Total Annihilation is a definite plus.

    Unfortunately, though he was instrumental in starting LucasArt's line of graphic adventure games, he hasn't done anything recently of note and nobody plays adventure games anymore, so he won't be remembered. In a sad way of looking at it, its Carmack's fault that nobody plays adventure games anymore because first person shooters took over the took PC game genre spot from adventure games.

  12. Duke Nukem rumor by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've heard they are already working on a plaque for Duke Nukem.
    No word on when it's done.