Strong Museum to announce 2025 inductees for World Video Game Hall of Fame
Gaming experts will be at the Strong National Museum of Play's 'ESL Digital Worlds' exhibit to share which games are in the Class of 2025.
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Here are the finalists:
Age of Empires
Angry Birds
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Defender
Frogger
Goldeneye 007
Golden Tee
Harvest Moon
Mattel Football
NBA 2K
Quake
Tamagotchi
The video games that were inducted in 2024 were Asteroids, Myst, Resident Evil, Sim City, and Ultimate. They faced competition from the likes of Guitar Hero, Metroid, and Neopets.
The announcement of this year's inductees is scheduled for Thursday morning at 10:30 a.m. This story will be updated once the inductees are revealed.
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