Tamagotchi and Quake join both in the World Video Game Hall of Fame

The strong National Museum of New York has welcomed four new entries to its video game Hall of Fame: Quake, Goldeneye, 1981 by Arcade Side Scroller defender and the virtual pet Tamagotchi. It is the last one who is by far the most interesting of the four picks, and I have to admit that I had never thought of Tamagotchi in these conditions.

Here is the strong about Tamagotchi's inclusion:

“Apart from the cultivation of nostalgia, Tamagotchi offered a pronounced form of games at that time, apart from the prevailing popularity of video play electronics. In the book Millennial Monsters: Japanese toys and global imagination (2006), the scholar Anne Allison argued that Tamagotchi argued with feelings, intimacy and personalization and personalization Combating competition and fighting games provided. “

This is purely speculative for me – I would love it if someone gives me a little more context or insights – but the first Tamagotchi was released in 1996, in the same year as Snes Farming Game and Stredew Valley Influence Harvest Moon. Together, this is an incredibly influential year for contemporary violent or “cozy” titles, and I wonder whether these three games (or two games and Tamagotchi, depending on their point of view) have common influences themselves.

When I say I never thought Tamagotchi as a video game, I don't mean it in “not real meaning”. Only that it hadn't really occurred to me to think about what we could describe as history as a story. But honestly, I got the idea pretty quickly. Now I think about Tamagotchi could actually have been my first exposure to Permadeath. I lost one for once months and finally found it under my bed to see my beloved pet in a mountain of his own shit. Brutal stuff.

The inclusion of quake focuses strongly on the use of the 3D room and the popularity of its competitive multiplayer “centrally to create eSports as an industry”. They also point out that “the first shooter who got widespread mode support” and the teams like Team Fortress 2 produces.

These four additions bring the total number of Hall of Fame to 49 games. The earliest entry is SpaceWar!, And the last one is the last of us. We are happy to complain about irritating use of punctuation in game names here at RPS, but I assume that you are with us from the start. I wish you now called the last of us something like panic! In the abandoned supermarket, only out of symmetry.