The World Video Game Hall of Fame 2016 Inductess

Reader Dave Knott writes: The World Video Game Hall Of Fame has announced its inductees for the year 2016, the second group of games to be so honoured since the award's inception in 2015. The Hall Of Fame "recognizes individual electronic games of all types -- arcade, console, computer, handheld, and mobile -- that have enjoyed popularity over a sustained period and have exerted influence on the video game industry or on popular culture and society in general". This year's six inductees are: Grand Theft Auto III, The Legend of Zelda, The Oregon Trail, The Sims, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Space Invaders.The Sydney Morning Herald has more details.

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Nethack?

[bughunter]

I'll take this Hall of Fame seriously when they induct Nethack.

I mean, really, if *any* game deserves to be in a hall of fame, it's the longest-lived and longest continually maintained game of 'em all... not to mention one of the most complex and hardcore.

Re:Simple question

[Adriax]

It's a troll. The exact same message is getting posted in all the stories.

While these are nice picks for the hall of fame, they do have a 40+ year history to pick inductees from.
I wonder how many years before they exhaust the obvious picks and start scraping the barrel? Like the Guiness Book did with the recent "world record for time spent in VR".