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."

Comments

Huh.

[Wraithfighter]

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...

Re:Huh.

[kannibal_klown]

Not that surprising...

Sony is great and they have some original characters, but compared to Nintendo they haven't been around that long.

The first ones to go onto the "Walk" are characters, games, and persons that helped make modern gaming what it is today. Heck, any gamer (old or young) know who Mario and Link are and are at least familiar with Pong.

Sony's stuff will come in soon. Besides, if the first entries were Metal Gear's Snake and Final Fantasy, it would look like they were just patting themselves on the back instead of being true to gaming. Start with the earlier popular stuff and move on from there

Re:Huh.

[HarvardAce]

How is that not "patting themselves on the back"?

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?

Re:Huh.

[MilenCent]

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).

Straight from the horses mouth

[curtisk]

Walk of Game website for more info and possible voting on 2006 nominees

Sense of History?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

A Pong Paddle

[OAB_X]

How would they get the pong paddle as a picture on the star? I mean, a vertical pipe?

ls | pong

Re:Bungie?!?

[HarvardAce]

However, I instantly discredit this thing if they put Halo as one of the best games ever.

Don't look at this as an assembly of the best games ever. Look at this as a "who's who in video games." Much like the walk of fame in Hollywood has just about every even moderately famous or popular actor/actress on it (Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, for example), this is really just a way to recognize the popular games/characters of the time. And whether you think it was a good game or not, it is one of the only successful FPS games available on a console.

I wonder if they've ever played Half-Life, Starcraft, Warcraft, Metroid, etc.

The first 3 are PC games, not video games. While the time when video game exclusively meant a console game has passed, I think the emphasis here is on console games. I'm sure Metroid/Samus will be there eventually, as will your Pokémon, Sonic, Final Fantasy, etc.

Once again...

[neilyos]

Once again, Luigi gets the shaft.