World Video Game Hall of Fame
This is the complete list of all of the games currently inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame at the Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. Established on June 4, 2015 with the purpose of highlighting the games that have made an impact to the world.
Games I did voted for to be inducted:
Spacewar! (1962) in 2018
Centipede (1980) in 2020
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time & Ms. Pac-Man in 2022
Computer Space & Last of Us in 2023
Asteroids, Myst, Resident Evil, & SimCity in 2024
Oldest game to be inducted: Spacewar!
Newest game to be inducted: Last of Us
Most prominent decade: 1990's with a total of 17 games.
Most prominent release year for a game: 1996 with a total of 6 games.
The number of years each game was released in total: 51
Most prominent video game developer: Nintendo with 10 games inducted.
Most prominent video game character: Mario appearing in 3 games.
Games I did voted for to be inducted:
Spacewar! (1962) in 2018
Centipede (1980) in 2020
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time & Ms. Pac-Man in 2022
Computer Space & Last of Us in 2023
Asteroids, Myst, Resident Evil, & SimCity in 2024
Oldest game to be inducted: Spacewar!
Newest game to be inducted: Last of Us
Most prominent decade: 1990's with a total of 17 games.
Most prominent release year for a game: 1996 with a total of 6 games.
The number of years each game was released in total: 51
Most prominent video game developer: Nintendo with 10 games inducted.
Most prominent video game character: Mario appearing in 3 games.
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- DirectorKatsuya EguchiHisashi NogamiA game in which players live a second life in a virtual town - decorating their houses, interacting with fellow villagers, and more.Selected in 2021.
- DirectorEd LoggYour spaceship is trapped in an asteroid belt. Watch out for enemy spacecraft and maneuver your way out.Selected in 2024.
- StarsChris Anthony LansdowneA fashion designer computer game which allows a player to design new clothes for their Barbie doll. The fashion styles include wedding, casual, party, date, work and beach. Plus all forms of clothing are able to be colored and edited to the player's preferences. Once the design is finished the player can see their design being worn by a Barbie doll within the game modeling in the outfit on a catwalk. The clothing design can also be printed on a special printable fabric paper allowing the player's own Barbie doll to wear the actual customized clothing that the player designed.Selected in 2023.
- The player controls a gun that can only move in the bottom fifth of the screen. The object is to shoot a centipede that works its way down to the player area through a field of mushrooms. Other attacking enemies are fleas, spiders, and scorpions.Selected in 2020.
- Turn-based strategy game Civilization begins in 4000 BC and allows players to expand and develop their empires through the ages from the ancient era until modern and near-future times.Selected in 2022.
- A text based adventure game where the player must type in command words to explore a cave that holds treasure along with puzzles to solve along the quest.Selected in 2019.
- Take control of a rocket ship as it travels across reaches of outer space. The mission assigned to the rocket is to shoot a pair of flying saucers while avoiding their line of fire. along with firing rockets, the rocket is able to travel in a clockwise rotation, counterclockwise rotation, as well as performing a forward thrust.Selected in 2023.
- StarsMatt LaganDance your way through 10 songs by Mitsu-O! and JTPlayaz. This is the game that started it all.Selected in 2022.
- DirectorShigeru MiyamotoArcade video game and the first in the "Donkey Kong" series in which Jumpman (later retconned to be Mario) runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site and rescue Pauline from a giant gorilla, Donkey Kong.Selected in 2017.
- DirectorJohn CarmackTomohiko SatoStarsKevin CloudDavid KoserubaChristopher MurveyIn the future, an unnamed marine fights for survival on a space station on Mars where the Union Aerospace Corporation accidentally opened up a physical portal to Hell.Selected in 2015.
- DirectorYoshinori KitaseYasushi MatsumuraMasato YagiA former soldier from an evil company joins a mercenary clan to fight the company he once served.Selected in 2018.
- StarsFrank VincentJoe PantolianoMichael MadsenA young bank robber escapes from police custody and works his way up through the mafia ladder of crime-ridden Liberty City, USA.Selected in 2016.
- DirectorJason JonesStarsJen TaylorPete StackerTim DadaboSuper-soldier John-117, Master Chief of the United Nations Space Command, must battle a genocidal alien race known as the Covenant following his violent crash-landing on Halo, an ancient and mysterious ring-world.Selected in 2017.
- StarsScott CronceThe first entry of the long line of Madden football video games. As the player you have the option of customizing your team, the weather, and game rules.Selected in 2018.
- DirectorRoberta WilliamsThe king of Daventry, King Edward, is dying. He sends his best knight Sir Graham to find 3 treasures to prove himself worthy of the throneSelected in 2020.
- DirectorNeil DruckmannBruce StraleyStarsTroy BakerAshley JohnsonHana HayesIn a hostile, post-pandemic world, Joel and Ellie, brought together by desperate circumstances, must rely on each other to survive a brutal journey across what remains of the United States.Selected in 2023.
- DirectorShigeru MiyamotoTakashi TezukaFollows the story of a young boy named Link that must save a kidnapped princess from the evil, demonic Ganon, who put a spell on his lair which can only be removed with the 3 pieces of the Triforce, a golden triangle with mystical powers.Selected in 2016.
- DirectorEiji AonumaYoichi YamadaYoshiaki KoizumiStarsNobuyuki HiyamaFujiko TakimotoJun MizusawaA young Kokiri boy discovers that his destiny is to free the Seven Sages and save the land of Hyrule from the treacherous sorcerer Ganondorf.Selected in 2022.
- Ever wanted to actually fly a plane but never had the time or money to learn through flying lessons? Look no further, as Microsoft Flight Simulator is the closest you'll ever get to fly a plane within a simulation of piloting a Cessna 182 across four different regions of the USA.Selected in 2021.
- DirectorAgnes LarssonStarsPierre CoffinKatie CrownCW21Welcome to the world of Minecraft where you can build, brew potions, enchant your armor and tools and adventure other biomes. Visit the Nether, or even defeat the Ender Dragon in the End.Selected in 2020.
- This update to Pac-Man (1980) changed the character to a lady, added moving fruit, smarter monsters, cut scenes and more mazes.Selected in 2022.
- StarsDaniel PesinaRichard DivizioCarlos PesinaSeven martial artists from Earth must battle in sorcerer Shang Tsung's super secret tournament.Selected in 2019.
- DirectorRand MillerRobyn C. MillerHiroshi YamadaStarsRand MillerRobyn C. MillerThe player is the Stranger, an unknown person mysteriously transported to the island of Myst. Alone and without clues, the Stranger must solve the mysteries and discover the secrets of this strange place.Selected in 2024.
- StarsRichard Ellman KennedyThe player takes on the role of a wagon leader guiding a group of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley on the Oregon Trail via a covered wagon in the year 1848.Selected in 2016.
- Navigate Pac-Man through a maze escaping ghosts and eating Pac-Dots.Selected in 2015.
- DirectorSatoshi TajiriPlay as a young Pokémon trainer trying to catch all 150 Pokémon.Selected in 2017.
- DirectorSatoshi TajiriPlay as a young Pokémon trainer trying to catch all 150 Pokémon.Selected in 2017.
- Two players play a video version of table tennis. The first to score 11 points wins.Selected in 2015.
- DirectorShinji MikamiMitsuhisa HosokiStarsCharlie KraslavskyInezhGreg SmithThe RPD are investigating strange cannibalized corpses on the outskirts of the city. The Alpha squad, Jill and Chris, are sent to locate missing team members. While there, mutated dogs cause them to flee into a supposedly abandoned mansion.Selected in 2024.
- DirectorNobuyuki SuzukiBuild and design a city, mark land as being zoned as commercial, industrial, or residential, add buildings, build a power grid, build transportation systems, and watch your metropolis come to life in SimCity.Selected in 2024.
- DirectorWill WrightStarsGerri LawlorStephen KearinSean O'Connor"The Sims" is a close up look at a family of Will Wright's critically acclaimed "Sim City" series. In this game you create a family of "Sims" and build a house for them on the lot they are put on.Selected in 2016.
- A computer adaptation of the popular card game.Selected in 2019.
- A blue hedgehog with supersonic speed must rescue animals from being turned into robots by a mad scientist.Selected in 2016.
- Commonly considered as one of the most influential video games of all time, the goal is to defeat wave after wave of descending aliens with a horizontally moving laser cannon to earn as many points as possible.Selected in 2016.
- DirectorSteve RusselTwo players control two space ships engaged in a duel in the middle of outer space.Selected in 2018.
- DirectorMatt SamiaMark SchwarzDuane StinnettStarsGlynnis TalkenMichael GoughPaul EidingIn 2499 in the Koprulu sector, a ferocious collective race known as the Zerg arrives to massacre the exiled human colonies while a highly advanced race, the Protoss, intervenes to exterminate the Zerg.Selected in 2021.
- StarsJohnpaul WilliamsRyu, Ken and a roster of six international newcomers compete to get the chance to take on the evil dictator M. Bison, the leader of the Shadaloo organization, who plans to brainwash the best fighters to work in his organization.Selected in 2017.
- DirectorShigeru MiyamotoA plumber named Mario and his brother Luigi travel through the Mushroom Kingdom to save the princess from the evil Bowser.Selected in 2015.
- DirectorHideki KonnoTadashi SugiyamaMario, his brother Luigi and his friends Princess Toadstool, Toad, Yoshi, King Bowser, Donkey Kong Jr. and Koopa Troopa are all in a race to challenge each other and see who's the best racer in the Mushroom Kingdom.Selected in 2019.
- DirectorAlexey PazhitnovDifferently shaped blocks descend into a 2D container. The blocks can be moved and rotated, and must be sorted into the rest of the blocks on the fly.Selected in 2015.
- StarsShelley BlondNathan McCreeLara Croft, archaeologist and daughter to a rich aristocratic English family ventures across the world in search of three mysterious artifacts known as Scions. During her journey, she stumbles across the lost continent of Atlantis.Selected in 2018.
- Your job is to complete several quests and gather special stones to defeat the evil wizard, Mondain.Selected in 2024.
- DirectorDane BighamLauren ElliottGene PortwoodStarsAlex FernandezYou play a detective of the ACME Detective Agency chasing a notorious thief around the world as you learn about geography.Selected in 2021.
- DirectorKeizo OhtaTakayuki ShimamuraYoshikazu YamashitaStarsJosh MillmanA collection of short and funny sport mini games, played with motion-control controllers.Selected in 2023.
- DirectorMarc MessengerTerran GregoryJeffrey KaplanStarsMichele Marie ArkoTracy W. BushGrant GeorgeFirst entry in the MMORPG series. Four years have passed since the mortal races stood together against the might of the Burning Legion. Peace is fading. The lands of the world of Azeroth have once again become host to a World of Warcraft.Selected in 2015.