Open Menu
AllLocalCommunitiesAbout
lotide
AllLocalCommunitiesAbout
Login

what video game deserves to be in a museum?

⁨295⁩ ⁨likes⁩

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Abraxas@feddit.uk⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/39cbcabf-faf1-4993-8b01-c489c556daa7.webp

source

Comments

Sort:hotnewtop
  • Outdated4134@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    RDR2

    source
  • hmmm@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Doom, Minecraft and Touhou

    source
  • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Dwarf fortress

    source
  • 5inister@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The Museum of Modern Art in New York has some games in their permanent collection: (Games in MoMA)[en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_video_games_in_the_Mus…]

    source
    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Swap the () and []! 🩵

      source
  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Unpopular opinion, I played Elden ring for close to 10 hours and hated it. Ugly game, saw nothing but barren wastelands, got extremely annoyed with the style of fighting and the repetitiveness. I think it’s by far one of the worst games I’ve ever played

    source
  • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Terraria, a monument to indie games and the craft itself, gave tons of free content and still does, unlike the popular pay for expansion models on a half finished buggy game of their contemporaries

    source
  • Vupware@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Elite dangerous. 1:1 replica of the Milky Way that is being actively colonized as we speak.

    source
  • codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Alright, so here’s my case for Thief, the Looking Glass Studios game.

    Thief, on its own, is a great game and basically shares the claim to originating a lot of ideas behind stealth in games along with MGS, which came out the same year.

    What many don’t know is how incredibly innovative what they were doing with their engine tech was. In another timeline, id software were mildly successful action game makers while LGS became the industry defining mega success. The Dark Engine refines a lot of ideas present in Ultima Underworld and marries them to tech that was decades ahead of its time.

    Check out the opening and closing of this long talk: youtu.be/wo84LFzx5nI

    Thief had, probably, the first ECS in gaming. They also had their own rendering technique using “portals” that was a bit slower than id’s BSP trees but allowed for insane geometry. They also had an incredible system for events called stimulus-response that was doing things like Breath of the Wild’s “chemistry engine” again, decades before it would be rediscovered.

    They weren’t just making games, these were really simulations of a limited world with complex interactions. If the rest of the industry had caught onto their good practices, who knows what the landscape would look like today!

    source
  • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Resident Evil - the original.

    source
  • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Redneck Rampage

    source
    • FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “Hey mother fucker!”

      source
  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    All of them.

    source
  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “List all notable video game characters”

    Oh cmon

    Might as well ask someone to list the top songs of every year since the 80’s.

    source
  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Et for the Atari 2600

    Doom OG

    GTA 3

    source
  • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    • Journey
    • Shadow Of The Colossus
    • Shenmue 1
    • Half-Life 1 & 2
    source
  • Taalnazi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Spore, even if imperfect. Minecraft. Pong. Elden Ring. Rollercoaster Tycoon. Zoo Tycoon.

    source
    • Newsteinleo@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Spore should be in there bit not for a good reason.

      source
  • BunScientist@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    for a more “traditional paint” like experience, Gris is just gorgeous to look at

    source
  • tatann@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Anthem

    (For history purpose, just like there are museums for the Holocaust or the WTC)

    source
    • Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I still mourne over what that game could have been.

      source
      • tatann@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Meh, I mean the gameplay is nice but Bioware hasn’t been able to write a good game for more than a decade, I don’t expect anything from them anymore

        source
  • Pronell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Karateka, along with everything else Jordan Meschner did following it, starting the Prince of Persia series.

    It’s a nice evolution of personal style.

    I’ve more or less dropped out of mainstream gaming so have no idea how the more recent Prince of Persia games play, nor if he has any involvement… but anyone who knew the original games should understand that these games did something foundational with movement and interface, helping the player to feel involved in the action.

    source
    • Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      the last prince of persia Meschner directly worked on was Sands of Time, which is imho well worth playing.

      the other 3d Prince of Persias by ubisoft upto two thrones are still good games, but they lost a bit of the 1001 nights feel. The darker parts where there in sands of time, but warrior within goes all in on dark and edgy and just loses a bit of that timeless flair and is very much a mid 2000s game.

      can’t talk about ubisofts prince output after two thrones, they never found their way into my collection.

      source
  • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    None, that’s not how you enjoy the medium. You don’t go to a museum to read books.

    source
    • toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I beg to differ, sir. I’ve been to a pinball museum and all were playable. It was great.

      source
    • Cobrachicken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Elite

      source
  • FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Star Raiders for the Atari 400/800.

    source
    • zod000@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I had that game for the Atari 2600 and unlike E.T, it was a great game.

      source
    • MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That was the first game that scared the shit out of me.

      Granted, it was a jump scare, but it got me good…

      source
  • Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So I did a class on the art of the video game and MoMA (museum of modern art) has a number of them in their collection. There is even a Wikipedia article on it. Wikipedia Article

    source
    • Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Pretty solid collection IMO. I am surprised they haven’t included any RPGs (say one CRPG like Ultima 6 and one jRPG like say Final Fantasy 7).

      source
      • duchess@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They have, EVE Online and The Sims.

        source
        • -> View More Comments
  • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Gris.

    source
  • MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Assuming a single game, Minecraft. It should be a kids museum style where you can build things. You can make each room a different biome or structure.

    source
  • Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Half Life Dead Space Minecraft Terraria Stardew Valley

    source
  • son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned the Strong Museum of Play which contains the video game hall of fame

    source
  • crash_thepose@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    All y’all be honest with yourself. The answer is the prestigious league of legends.

    source
  • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

    source
  • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The original Star Wars Battlefront games. The best offline multiplayer I’ve ever had in a video game.

    source
    • Darth_Lemmy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I remember my little brother and I would be playing kashyyk and would wait for the wookies on the beach behind the barriers and he would always say “We have more customerrrss” shit was so damn hilarious

      source
  • RedFrank24@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It depends on what your museum is trying to convey. If it’s moments of gaming history and games and consoles of significance, I’d go with:

    For the earliest video games, I’d show the Tennis for Two on the DuMont Lab Ocilloscope, released in 1958.

    You should also include the life of Warren Robinett, because he was the first ever game programmer to receive in-game credit for a game he made, because Atari never gave their programmers credit, but he snuck one in as an easter egg. He then went on to found the Learning Company which made all those Reader Rabbit games.

    For the Crash of 1983, you have to include ET for the Atari 2600 as the posterboy, but “Pitfall!” should also be included. Pitfall was a good game, but it was the breakout hit of Activision and therefore proof that third-party video games were viable, leading to the glut of video games which, in combination with ET being such a colossal failure, caused the crash.

    For the resurgence after the crash, the Nintendo Entertainment System, but specifically the one that came with the little robot to help you play games. It’s essential that you convey that Nintendo intended to sell it as a toy rather than a games console because the games market in the US had completely died in the crash, but the toy market was very much alive.

    source
  • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Half-life: Alyx

    source
-> View More Comments