This year's winners were voted in from a field of finalists that also included Age of Empires, Angry Birds, FIFA International Soccer, and Goldeneye 007.
This year’s additions bring to 40 the number of games to be enshrined since its opening at The Strong museum in 2015. that also included Age of Empires, Angry Birds, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, FIFA International Soccer, Goldeneye 007, NBA 2K, Quake and Wizardry.
“There was no video game industry in 1970. The games that we’d now call video games were still mostly locked away on computers in university and research labs, inaccessible to the public,” Jeremy Saucier, assistant vice president for interpretation and electronic games at The Strong, said in a news release.
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