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Mario and Link Get Their Stars On the Walk of Game

Posted by Zonk on from the hyrule-represent? dept.

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."

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  1. Huh. by Wraithfighter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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    1. Re:Huh. by kannibal_klown · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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

  2. Straight from the horses mouth by curtisk · · Score: 4, Informative

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

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  3. Sense of History? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  4. A Pong Paddle by OAB_X · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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