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Mario and Link Get Their Stars On the Walk of Game
snuttepelle writes "Pong creator Nolan Bushnell and Donkey Kong maker Shigeru Miyamoto, along with gaming icons like Mario, have received the first-ever 'Walk of Game' stars for video games in San Francisco."
Anyone notice that, while its a Sony branded mall where this is taking place, that the characters on the walk are all Nintendo, the two people are the Pong creator and Nintendo, and the first game was Bungie (and, by ownership, Microsoft)? Are there actually any Sony titles with a star in the Sony shopping center? Just a thought...
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Walk of Game website for more info and possible voting on 2006 nominees
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You know, when I first read the /. headline, I thought... "Cool. Nice to see some sense of history in the gaming biz."
But then I RTFA and came across this...
Bungie's masterpiece Halo became the first video game to have its own star on the Walk of Game - a riff on the Walk of Fame stars in Hollywood.
Give me a break. The number of games that are not only superior, but also of greater historical significance are too numerous to count.
Sense of history, indeed.
It looks like eight stories of tempered glass stupid. The showcase stores are idiotic, unless you are a raving fanboy of whatever subject they showcase, and then you probably don't give a flying rat's ass about the other stores. Just your Warhammer, or whatever. The arcade... is better than some other arcades I've been to, but that is saying nothing.
I'm glad to have a movie theater right next to BART. As a movie theater, it passes. Aside from that, I wish the Metreon would sink into the Earth and never return.
The Walk of Game is their attempt to figure out what to do with the braindead architecture. There's this suspended walkway for no reason on one of the floors. And Mario & Link have been on that idiotic walkway for at least six months. Keep in mind, this means the "Walk of Game" is owned by Sony. Somehow I doubt that they've gone and set up an independent commission to determine who goes on the Walk of Game. Also, the suspended glass walkway isn't very long. Maybe they expect to expand it throughout the building, but more likely it's just a one-time PR thing that now I've spent way, way too much time thinking about.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
How would they get the pong paddle as a picture on the star? I mean, a vertical pipe?
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I'm a big fan of mario and I think this is really neat. I now own all of the consoles and am most impressed with my XBOX. Since not many of my friends play games I can use Live to play with real people! However, I instantly discredit this thing if they put Halo as one of the best games ever. Lets get honest here people, Halo wasn't that great. Sure the multiplayer was cool and the story was decent, but what about the level design, the repetitive gameplay, 6 hours long, terrible AI, easy as sin, and it wasn't online enabled. I wonder if they've ever played Half-Life, Starcraft, Warcraft, Metroid, etc. Lets get some people with REAL gaming experience voting for games!
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You are not kidding my friend. How about Id's masterpiece Wolfenstein 3D or Id's materpiece Doom? After all these games started the genre that made Halo such a "masterpiece" What significant contribution did Halo bring to games besides a reason to actually purchase an X-Box?
From TFA: "...the first-ever 'Walk of Game' stars for video games..."
Video games != computer games. Most people, when they talk of "video games," are talking about console games exclusively. The line is becoming less fine (for example, you can now find "Doom 3" for the PC on both the Video Games and Software sections of Amazon), but I think (and the recent inductees back this up) that this is geared toward consoles only.
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If you really want to argue semantics of this, lets take it way back to video gaming back before consoles, when video gaming was solely found in arcades. To that end, shouldn't we be seeing something like Pac Man getting a star?
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I think it's now sufficiently safe to remove "Stuff that matters" from the slogan
yeah, well as you said the line is pretty vague. for example, you can find wolf3d, doom and quake on consoles and hell you can even find commander keen on gameboy! i think to many people computer game and video game mean the same thing even if you and i know the (ever increasing subtle) difference...
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Once again, Luigi gets the shaft.
He was making fun of how Zelda is the girl you rescue in the Zelda series, despite the fact that the games focus on you the hero Link rescuing her and the magical Triforces. Nintendo called the first game "The Legend of Zelda" and their naming scheme has stayed this way ever since.
The Mario Brothers series doesn't have this flaw, since Mario and Luigi are the stars of the game and usually have the job of rescuing Princess Toadstool. Thus they put "Princess Toadstool 64", instead of "Mario 64" to point out how ridicules the Zelda series naming scheme Nintendo has gotten itself into.
Shigeru Miyamoto wasn't on it already?
I hate Halo and GTA. Sue me.