The video game hall of famers
by Darya Luganskaya from Technology | The Guardian on (#1D187)
Space Invaders and Grand Theft Auto III recently joined the likes of Pong and Pac-Man in the World Video Game Hall of Fame. The history of these games is also the history of how we play them
The road from Space Invaders to Grand Theft Auto III is a long and winding one, but this week both were inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame. They join last year's crop - Pong, Super Mario Bros, Pac-Man, Doom, World of Warcraft and Tetris - along with four other new inductees.
The history of those games is also the history of how we play them. Pac-Man, for example, was first released in the arcades in 1980. It went from PCs to Game Boys to consoles. And now it's available on phones and tablets.
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