Inducted: 2026
Dragon Quest, released in 1986 for the Nintendo Famicom, grew out of a collaboration between scenario writer Yuji Horii, manga artist Akira Toriyama, and composer Koichi Sugiyama. Sugiyama was a popular composer, known for his past work on earlier Enix games, who wrung memorable music out of the Famicom’s limited audio capabilities. Sugiyama’s approach to the creation of game music was revolutionary; he was one of the first composers to consider game music as a serious form of compositional […]
EA Sports FIFA International Soccer
Inducted: 2026
EA Sports FIFA International Soccer was not the first sports simulation video game—nor even the first one about soccer—but it became the most popular sports game franchise of all time, with sales continually bolstered by annual releases from publisher EA. Given soccer’s worldwide popularity, EA Sports FIFA International Soccer had a larger global imprint than other sports titles such as Madden, with approximately 325 million games in the EA Sports FIFA series sold by 2021.
FIFA is the global game for the global sport. While in […]
Silent Hill
Inducted: 2026
What makes a game scary? For that matter, what makes a game great? Silent Hill was not the first horror game or even the most famous, coming three years after Resident Evil, but it pushed the boundaries of the horror genre with innovative 3D graphics, a dynamic camera, and an emphasis on psychological intensity, where a brooding dread pervades the game as players explore the game’s eponymous town. To survive is to succeed in Silent Hill, but it takes a lot to survive! […]
Angry Birds
Inducted: 2026
Angry Birds was the breakout mobile game hit that convinced millions of people worldwide to pay for a game they could download onto their smartphones. More than two billion downloads later, hundreds of millions of people have spent tens of billions of hours flinging brightly colored birds at buildings built by egg-thieving pigs.
At its core, Angry Birds is delightfully simple. Hurl a bird from a slingshot to knock down the pigs’ precariously balanced structures. A quick video intro sets the story, then […]
