Smithsonian game inclusions announced

by Steve Watts, May 05, 2011 11:00am PDT

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has announced the inclusions in its upcoming Art of Video Games exhibit. The museum took the selections to an online vote, and winners include several Mario and Zelda games, Metal Gear Solid, Halo 2, BioShock, and Minecraft.

Additionally, the museum unveiled five games that will be playable on the exhibition floor, that weren't included for fan voting. The exhibit will go on display on March 16, 2012, and lasts until September 30, 2012, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. Check below for a full list of included games.

Era 1: Start!

Atari VCS
- Pac-Man
- Pitfall
- Space Invaders
- Combat
Colecovision
- Donkey Kong
- Pitfall II: Lost Caverns
- Zaxxon
- Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator
Mattel Intellivision
- Tron: Maze-Atron
- Advanced Dungons and Dragons
- Star Strike
- Utopia

Era 2: 8-Bit

Commodore 64
- Jumpman
- The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate
- Attack of the Mutant Camels
- Sid Meier's Pirates!
Nintendo Entertainment System
- Super Mario Brothers
- The Legend of Zelda
- 1943: The Battle of Midway
- Desert Commander
Sega Master System
- Marble Madness
- Phantasy Star
- After Burner
- Spy vs Spy

Era 3: Bitwars!

Sega Genesis
- Earthworm Jim
- Phantasy Star IV
- Gunstar Heroes
- Dune II: Battle for Arrakis
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
- Super Mario World
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- Star Fox
- SimCity

Era 4: Transition

DOS/Windows
- Doom II
- Fallout
- Diablo II
- StarCraft
Nintendo 64
- Super Mario 64
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Goldeneye 007
- Worms Armageddon
Sega Dreamcast
- Sonic Adventure
- Shenmue
- Rez
- Chu Chu Rocket!
Sega Saturn
- Tomb Raider
- Panzer Dragoon Saga
- Panzer Dragoon II: Zwei
- Sim City 2000
Sony PlayStation
- Metal Gear Solid
- Final Fantasy VII
- Einhander
- Final Fantasy Tactics

Era 5: Next Generation

Microsoft Xbox
- Halo 2
- Fable
- Panzer Dragoon Orta
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Microsoft Xbox 360
- BioShock
- Mass Effect 2
- Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
- Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth II
Modern Windows
- Portal
- Fallout 3
- flOw
- Minecraft
Nintendo GameCube
- Metroid Prime 2: Echos
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
- Star Fox: Assault
- Pikmin 2
Nintendo Wii
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
- Boom Blox
- Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
Sony PlayStation 2
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Okami
- Gradius V
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Sony PlayStation 3
- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
- Heavy Rain
- Flower
- Brutal Legend

Additional Games (available for short play in exhibit, not included in vote)

Pac-Man (Arcade)
Super Mario Brothers
The Secret of Monkey Island
Myst
World of Warcraft

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Steve Watts posted a new article, Smithsonian game inclusions announced.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has announced the winners of its open vote for inclusions in the Art of Video Games Exhibit. Some standouts include several Mario games, Metal Gear Solid, and Minecraft.

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  heh no sonic for genesis and flow for modern PC? simcity for SNES? : dantastic
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    flOw was first released as a free title on PC, and if you're questioning Simcity representing on the SNES... : RaptorII
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      it's for this generation though : dantastic
      
      I guess. The generations are pretty uneven, some lasting over a decade, while others just 3 years but dif... : RaptorII
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  Desert Commander for the NES? Seems like a very odd choice. : deathofrats
  - oh nevermind, i was thinking of that generic helicopter shooter..this looks like a precurser to Advance W... : deathofrats
- No Quake? Wow? : Pneum0
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  Ok...they have no quake Half Life Half Life 2 Bauldors Gate Freespace 2 Descent Wolfenstein 3D U... : Epsilon Sector
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  With a limit of 4 representative titles per system per era there are going to be a ton of worthy games ex... : fuell
  - PC in "Transition" covers about 13 years. Yeah. That's representative. : RaptorII
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  Only one missing that I can see is Diablo. Spooky, random dungeons, so much variety in loot. Was a magica... : Zerbyte
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    It's not a matter of "crying", it's a matter of determining which games were groundbreaking for their time. Wolfenstein 3D came first, and was the first "pseudo 3D" FPS. Doom was obviously the more fun game, but technologically speaking, Wolf came first. I mentioned Descent in my post since it was the first 3D game where you could move along all six axis, essentially a precursor to all modern flight simulation games. I'd like to see Mechwarrior 2 simply because it was awesome and also got me into the Battletech genre of games. They did a good job of picking Simcity and Simcity 2000 since those essentially defined building simulators and were integral precursors to all modern economic simulation games. The problem unfortunately is that because of what was voted upon, and how people cast their votes, it was not determined on whether a game was groundbreaking or not, but upon popular vote by what appears to be casual players as opposed to hardcore gamers who are better at analyzing what defines a good and/or groundbreaking game since we have more experience playing games.
    
    What the votes essentially state is that these games define the entire history of PC gaming:
    Doom II (FPS)
    Fallout (RPG)
    Diablo II (Action RPG)
    StarCraft (RTS)
    Myst (Puzzle)
    World of Warcraft (MMORPG)
    
    They're missing quite a few genres, and they shouldn't be basing things just upon what's popular TODAY. They should be taking at least one game from each genre for each year or two, but not 4 games to represent 13 years.
    
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    It's not a matter of "crying", it's a matter of determining which games were groundbreaking for their tim... : Epsilon Sector
- "Attack Of The Mutant Camels" for the C-64 (1983) is pretty LOL : MatthewPhillips
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  Fable 2 is listed under the original Xbox, this is incorrect. : Begawkiness
  - You're right, that should read "Fable" in the original Xbox category. Corrected. : SporkyReeve
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  And again the Dreamcast shows us why it's still boss. : Memphis-Ahn
  - i loved my dreamcast.... it pwned. : megreedy
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  No way in hell is MGS2 a top 4 representative PS2 game. : ughhhhhhh
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    I like 2 but yeah, Snake Eater should be there. : justwr!ght
    - You could blindfolded throw a dart at the wall of PS2 titles and come up with a better representative tha... : ughhhhhhh
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  Qbert!, Super Breakout, Haunted Mansion, any of the Fatal Frame series and God of War. : tortuga121
  - Also Grand Theft Auto 3 : ughhhhhhh
- Their choice of 'chronology' for PC is simply non-sensical... Skipping 8 years? wth? : pillzer
- Hmm. Would definitely of had Gran Turismo instead of Final Fantasy Tactics on there on the PS1 selection : Creepin_Jeezus
- Where's the Apple][e!? Where's ULTIMA?! Pac Man and Space Invaders were two examples of AWFUL examples o... : AxeMan808

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