Voting Begins for Smithsonian Videogame Exhibit

[StriderShinryu]

I'd imagine Susan Arendt is giggling with glee over PN03 being one of the nominees.

Voted for half life. Let's hope Half life gets picked over another faceless COD game.

Meh, I doubt I'd vote for Half Life anyway, but at least in the modern era they have HL2 up against Portal. Even if I liked HL2, there's no way I'd put it above Portal either as a better game or a better example of games as art. I certainly agree with not voting for CoD though.

 

[Jumplion]

Era 5 was when it got really hard to decide, but ultimately I just had to go with "Shadow of the Collosus". I know it's not the most mainstream game of the era (these polls are for what games had the most impact in their time period, so Super Mario World 3 would have easily been mainstream at the time), but damnit, I cannot say no to Team ICO.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Simplest regertartion process is a understatment.

Voting as soon as the damn thing loads.

EDIT: LOL'd at ET as a voteing option.

 

[terriblejustterrible]

I would have loved to have been there for the selection process....

Some of the omissions and choices I have to make on that website are just BRUTAL.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

I would have loved to have been there for the selection process....

Some of the omissions and choices in this list are just BRUTAL.

I know, they really did their homework.

 

[Traun]

Site is slow as hell. Hope this doesn't give too much ego to "games are art" people.

 

[New Frontiersman]

I got games in two of the eras at one point, I just had to wait a while.

Website functionality issues aside, this sounds very cool. I think this is a big step in video games gaining mainstream acceptance. I can't wait to see how this turns out.

 

[Rallion]

I've never wanted a site to work so badly. MUST VOTE LET ME VOTE.

 

[Traun]

What the fuck!? Why are Dune and Sim City, and Ultima 4 NOT in a PC section? The hell, Ultima 4 was even ported by SEGA, doesn't have anything to do with the original creator.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Yes! Finally. The United State's goverment has funded an insitution that considers video games ART.

Take that Congressmen of the United States who oppose video games!

 

[Traun]

Seriously, what are strategy games doing in the console sections!?

 

[BrownGaijin]

Short answer: Wha?

Long answer: Did I just read the header correctly? The Smithsonian is going to hold a video game exhibit? Duuuuude.

Edit: LUNAR SILVER STAR STORY COMPLETE FOR THE PS2!

 

[Traun]

Dragon Age is in the PS3 section....DRAGON AGE IS IN HE PS3 SECTION!?

These guys are morons and the museum is a joke.

EDIT: And they continue to put strategy games in the console section, these guys are retarded. (not to mention putting Ultima 4 in the SEGA section)

 

[Nutcase]

Worst website design I have ever seen. Yay for "art".

Not to mention they have genres/categories seriously messed up, and they also have the games and voting split up by platforms, when platform is the last thing on anyone's mind when considering "game art".

 

[tthor]

half life 1, or Portal. I've heard good things about Deus Ex, but being I haven't played it yet, i can't really vote for it just yet

 

[Ubermetalhed]

Doesn't work. Unless thats the joke, that no videogame is art hence nothing to vote for.

 

[Stammer]

The games just take a while to load. Give it ~2 minutes. If it doesn't load, refresh the page and try waiting another ~2 minutes.

I know about the problem, but just have a little patience. It took me a while too but I eventually got it to work. I've now voted for each era ;D

I see. Well the page says it's finished loading after a couple seconds.

Yeah, it'll say it's 100% loaded. But still give it a minute or two.

 

[itsausernamewhatofit]

This is really pretty cool. I'd really like to see the exhibit when it's done.

 

[itsausernamewhatofit]

I wonder what Roger Ebert thinks about this.

That's EXACTLY what I thought when I saw this.

 

[Irridium]

I have to choose between Baldur's Gate, Grim Fandango, and Fallout?

Wow, these guys are evil.