Jolt Country

https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibits/w ... finalists/

Vote now!

I don't know how they keep coming up with worse nominees each year. Jesus.

Every year their process makes me want to vomit.

Zork, Robotron, Duke Nukem 3D, X-COM and Lode Runner should all be in before any game they have nominated ever. What a disaster. "Barbie Fashion Designer". FUCK OFF.

I haven't had anyone from the Strong Museum return my calls.

It's just such a pathetic, milquetoast group of nominees.

AArdvark wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:18 pm Vote now!

What's the point?

AArdvark wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:18 pm Vote now!

Why bother?

AArdvark wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:18 pm Vote now!

Who cares?

You don't wamt Barbie Fashion Designer to get in before Wizardry, do you?


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Putting Civ in, instead of Civ 2, tells you everything you need to know.

Anyone can nominate a game, Strong just picks the most popular entries

Where is the nomination url?

https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibits/w ... te-a-game/

Its too late for 2023 but there's always next year

I do believe Quake 1 and 2 belong as 2 of the greatest games ever. I was late to the game. Basically I bought Quake I and Quake II about the same time shortly after getting a Dell Inspiron laptop for community college (in 1999 when no one really carried around a laptop commonly, especially at CC). Got totally sucked into the sounds and theme of Quake I. At this point I am not playing any computer games "online". About half a year later though I score an actual 56k external modem which delivered about 48 baud versus low 30s or high 20s that my built in "Win Modem" provided. I finally decide one night after working the late shift at the local newspaper as a web producer to fire up the laptop and modem and try to join a Quake II MP game. The server browser sorts to either a server in Texas that still exists today or a server I recall called something like "Mage Warehouse" which no longer exists. Either way, I connect!

I'll never forget that first moment I played a true online game. I spawned in Q2DM8 right by the stairs near the hyperblaster weapon spawn. I hear "huh! huh! huh! huh!" (the sound of OTHER space marines jumping around me on the same map!!) and start to move after my initial shock and anxiety. I hear the sound of a chaingun and "argh!" I'm dead I realize as a chick with a chain gun hops over me with a windy, female version of "huh!".

At that point I was hooked. Bad. For at least a couple of years to come I would piss on any game that wasn't Quake II. I was interested in Ultima Online, but knew I couldn't afford the fees on top of paying the whopping 20$ a month back then on my low wages. I was also interested in Return to Castle Wolfenstein, but it would be years before I entered the realm of "3d card" gaming on PCs. Quake II rendered fast via software and CPU back then so there was no real need for video card at the time if you were just a Quake head like me. My main motivation for finally ditching 56k for cable? Quake II. And man oh man did I feel like a god before most everyone else in the US had low pings hah.

Quake motivated me to start learning Linux so that I would have a much more efficient LAN server. Quake motivated me to start creating my own levels and then later whole conversions for Doom II and Doom III as well as maps for RTCW and RTCW: Enemy Territory. Quake got me back into C programming at that point in my younger life when Madden 97 and bongs were probably taking up too much time. When I work in Unreal5 today I realize certain things just wouldn't make any damn sense had I not tinkered with tools such as "Radiant" for these older game engines.

If there is one game aside from our favorite Infocom or other older companies games that I could say "It was more than a game to me. It was a life-changer." it would definitely be Quake.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 5:55 pm I don't know how they keep coming up with worse nominees each year. Jesus.

Every year their process makes me want to vomit.

Zork, Robotron, Duke Nukem 3D, X-COM and Lode Runner should all be in before any game they have nominated ever. What a disaster. "Barbie Fashion Designer". FUCK OFF.

I remember playing Duke Nukem 3D at your house, several times, Jonesy.

Mama Blue wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 4:29 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 5:55 pm I don't know how they keep coming up with worse nominees each year. Jesus.

Every year their process makes me want to vomit.

Zork, Robotron, Duke Nukem 3D, X-COM and Lode Runner should all be in before any game they have nominated ever. What a disaster. "Barbie Fashion Designer". FUCK OFF.

I remember playing Duke Nukem 3D at your house, several times, Jonesy.

And I remember people saying, "This is good, but no eventual hall of fame game like ......



Ole Fash-Dez."

I vote Barbie..


Jk

At this point, it's not incompetence it's stupidity

What a dumb fucking waste of time

They have a decent video game room though. And the Butterflies are cool.

I say we super spam them with one of RobB's games and get him in the hof next year

I mean, I guess the thing that makes me roll my eyes is that we don't have much for others in Rochester. We have more pizzerias per capita than anyone else in the US the last time I read a story on it, but everyone is convinced that their town makes the best pizza even if it's terrible. I don't think it's a delusion, but it probably is.

So this "Video Game Hall of Fame" was something. But it's almost exactly like "Cleveland" telling everyone that they run the official Rock and Roll "hall of fame" and then they just filled it with nonsense. There are probably 20,000 people within 3 square miles of the Strong alone that could have done a better job with this project. It would be depressing if it wasn't so pathetic. I do not recognize what they are trying to do. I have contempt for it.