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Walk of Game is a year-round attraction honoring the icons and pioneers of the video game industry, and is located inside
MetreonMetreon is a shopping center located in downtown San Francisco at the corner of 4th St. and Mission St.. It is a four-story 350,000 square foot building built over the corner of the underground Moscone Center convention center...
, an entertainment shopping center in San Francisco.
Gamers worldwide cast their votes through paper ballots and online submissions at the Walk of Game website during a one-month voting period. Ballots were held during October in the years 2005 and 2006.
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The
Walk of Game is a year-round attraction honoring the icons and pioneers of the video game industry, and is located inside
MetreonMetreon is a shopping center located in downtown San Francisco at the corner of 4th St. and Mission St.. It is a four-story 350,000 square foot building built over the corner of the underground Moscone Center convention center...
, an entertainment shopping center in San Francisco.
Gamers worldwide cast their votes through paper ballots and online submissions at the Walk of Game website during a one-month voting period. Ballots were held during October in the years 2005 and 2006. There have not been additional ballots opened since. The top four games/characters and two lifetime achievers are then honored with a permanent, 24"x24", customized steel star on Walk of Game.
The attraction is deliberately similar to Hollywood, California's
Walk of FameThe Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves as an entertainment museum...
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Awards
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- Mario
is a fictional character in his eponymous video game series, created by video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Serving as Nintendo's mascot and the main protagonist of the series, Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation...
- Link
- Sonic the Hedgehog
, trademarked Sonic The Hedgehog, is a video game character and the protagonist of the eponymous video game series released by Sega, as well as in numerous spin-off comics, cartoons and books. The first game in the franchise was released on June 23, 1991, in order to provide Sega with a mascot to...
- Solid Snake
is a fictional character and the main protagonist of Konami's Metal Gear series of stealth video games. Created by Hideo Kojima, Metal Gear is Konami's main franchise and has sold approximately 26.5 million units as of February 2009. Introduced in the first game of the series, Metal Gear , Snake...
- Captain Falcon
- StarCraft
StarCraft is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. The first game of the StarCraft series was released for Microsoft Windows on 31 March 1998. With more than 11 million copies sold worldwide as of February 2009, it is one of the best-selling...
- Lara Croft
Lara Croft is a fictional character and the protagonist of Eidos Interactive's Tomb Raider video game series. Created by Toby Gard, the character has also appeared in comic books, novels and a series of animated short films, and has been played by Angelina Jolie in two feature films...
- Final Fantasy
is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and is developed and owned by Square Enix . The franchise centers on a series of science-fantasy console role-playing games , but includes motion pictures, anime, printed media, and other merchandise...
- EverQuest
EverQuest, often shortened to EQ, is a 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game that was released on the 16th of March, 1999. The original design is credited to Brad McQuaid, Steve Clover, and Bill Trost. It was developed by Sony's 989 Studios and its early-1999 spin-off...
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Shigeru Miyamotois a Japanese video game designer and producer who has been called the "father of modern video games" and "the Walt Disney of electronic gaming" for helping create the Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Pikmin and F-Zero franchises and games such as Nintendogs and Wii Music.-Early...
Nolan BushnellNolan K. Bushnell is an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain...
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Sid Meier Sidney K. "Sid" Meier is a Canadian programmer and designer of several popular computer strategy games who has won accolades for his contributions to the computer games industry...
John Carmack |