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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."
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.
The OP was talking about how if they put Sony characters/games first, it would look like nothing more than shameless self promotion (since the Mall is owned by Sony). Since Halo isn't a Sony game, they aren't patting themselves on the back.
which means it's nothing more that a popularity contest
And the walk of fame is any better? Have you ever seen a list of the people in the walk of fame? Keanu Reeves? Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen?
Note to self: Stop putting jokes in my insightful comments so I can get something other than +1 Funny!
Sony is actually fairly lacking in interesting characters, unless you count things like Ape Escape. Crash Bandicoot used to be well-identified with them, but not anymore, and anyway he was never owned by them.
Snake is more accurately a Konami character (and remember that one MGS game has appeared on the Gamecube), and Final Fantasy is obviously Squeenix (and they make Final Fantasy games, or at least games that contain the words "Final Fantasy" in the title, for Gamecube, and ports of older FFs for GBA, among other systems).