Global Video Games Hall announces 2025

The game developers rejoice. Defender, Goldneye 007, Quick and Tamagotchi join the world video games Hall Strong National Museum to play.

These four games – which greatly affected the popular culture and the video game industry – have appeared from the field of contestants in the finals that also included the era of empires, angry birds, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Frogger, Golden Tee, Harvest Moon, Mattel Football, and NBA 2K. here The winners last year.

The games were announced in a special ceremony that included the members of the Defender Development Team, with the leadership of the team, Eugene Garvis; John Romero, co -author of the earthquake; Tara Badi, President of Tamagotchi by Bandai Namco. Games have now been dedicated to Strong National Museum to playWorld Video Games Hall in the world, part of the ESL Digital Worlds exhibition.

About Defender: Williams Electronics released in 1981, Defender proved that the players will host more complicated and difficult games in the corridors. The defender married intense play and a complex control scheme with the separation shooter who is passing horizontally. It has sold more than 55,000 units – making it best -selling books – and helped create a new market for the most difficult games.

“Defender Woulding Geplay has raised the level of competition in the corridors, and it was among the first games to really separate the players really from more than other deficit,” says Jermy Saucier, Assistant Vice President for Interpretation and Electronic Games.

About Goldneye 007: In 1997, NIRE and Nintendo held a partnership for the release of Goldneye 007 for the Nintendo 64 console, the first person to shoot the British British author Ian Fellange. Goldneye 007 is famous for its in -depth cut and overwhelming play, and it is particularly known for its multi -players ’mode, which has affected many multi -game games that followed. This game was the third best -selling game for Nintendo 64, as it was only Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64.

“Critics Goldneye 007 have praised as the main example of the first shooting for success on a console instead of a computer, and it is still considered one of the best multi -player experiences that have ever produced on the Nintendo system.

About Tamagotchi: It was launched in 1996, Tamagotchi Dam games and video games. The electronic game created a digital pet for its owner to care and raise the pressure on one button – it gives owners to provide affection and attention from birth to adulthood. Tamagotchi motivated the popular animal simulation type for video games, which resulted in popular games such as Neopets, Nintendogs and many social media and applications -based games.

“In addition to growing nostalgia for the past, Tamagotchi presented a distinctive form of play that differs from common video game electronics at the time,” says Christie Hatertt, group manager.

I have provided the players with feelings of communication, care and customization, comfort from competition and fighting games. Tamagotchi’s legacy can be seen in the famous pets that followed on traditional games, internet and personal devices throughout the subsequent years. “

About Quick: ID Software shook the world of games when he first appeared in 1996. The shooting engine from the first person from the first person was the new standard for this industry, and its multiple players’ position helped narrow the world of electronic sports. The revolutionary earthquake game code has been linked to dozens of other games and continues to be used in some modern games about 30 years after its release.

“Quick’s Legacy lives in the individual player’s campaign in the atmosphere, and its impact on how to play online games, the active amendment community, create and form them from electronic sports. Not only this at the present time, the symbol beyond exhaustion, says Lindsey Kurano, Electronic Games Coordinator.

The Hall of Celebrity World Video Games in The Strong was established in 2015 to learn about individual electronic games of all kinds – Arcade, Console, Computer, Handheld and Mobile – which are popular for a sustainable period and an impact on the video game industry or on popularity
Culture and society in general.

Recruitors were announced at the strong National Museum to play in Rochester, New York, on May 8, 2025, and they are on a permanent display on the second floor of the museum in the ESL digital worlds: a high degree. Anyone can nominate a game to the world video games Hall. The final choices are made based on the advice of journalists, scientists and other individuals familiar with the history of video games and their role in society.

The candidates this year also included the age of empires, angry birds, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Frogger, Golden Tee, Harvest Moon, Mattel Football and NBA 2K. I am happy for some of my own voices that have reached this choice, such as the earthquake.