Prepare to be inducted into the realms of pixelated glory as we celebrate the latest legends to enter the Video Game Hall of Fame for 2024! From the asteroid-dodging thrills of Atari's 'Asteroids' to the empowering journey of Samus in 'Metroid', we're honouring the games that redefined entertainment. Get ready to rock out with 'Guitar Hero' and confront the undead in 'Resident Evil', as we discuss why these games are more than deserving of their place in history. Take a seat, grab your joystick, and reminisce with us about the titles that challenged our thumbs and captured our hearts.
Prepare to be inducted into the realms of pixelated glory as we celebrate the latest legends to enter the Video Game Hall of Fame for 2024! From the asteroid-dodging thrills of Atari's 'Asteroids' to the empowering journey of Samus in 'Metroid', we're honouring the games that redefined entertainment. Get ready to rock out with 'Guitar Hero' and confront the undead in 'Resident Evil', as we discuss why these games are more than deserving of their place in history. Take a seat, grab your joystick, and reminisce with us about the titles that challenged our thumbs and captured our hearts.
Let's do this. Welcome everybody to another episode of the Game of Traffic show. I'm your host, Mike Samson. Chill with my co-host Simply amazing what I'm doing today. Everybody get off of Mr Amazing On today's Game of Traffic show. This is our one topic episode and today's topic we're going to talk about Mr Amazing. Tell the people.
Speaker 2:The Video Game Hall of Fame Inductees for 2024. It's that time of year again.
Speaker 1:Yes, it is people that time of year. Mr Mays, Do you know who the inductees are? Yes, I do. Tell us, bro. Spit it, spit it, spit it, let's go.
Speaker 2:Let's break it down together, all right? So let's start off Number one, astro. Well it's not in order. When I say number one, it's the fact I'm just going to give you the deductees, but it was all going to be revealed on Mayknife to see who the final Well, the final deductees will be revealed on Mayknife. I should say who's going to make it to the National Museum of Play in Rochester. We got to go there. Actually the real.
Speaker 1:I wish you had that. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2:We gotta go there. So no order in particular, but one of the inductees so far is Asteroids Mike, released in 1979 by Atari. What makes this game popular and is probably attracting it to the inductee was it was the best-selling coin-operated game, which sold 70,000 units and blew up when the home version was released on Atari 2600. Exactly, number two, mike.
Speaker 1:Number two is wherever you want it to be, Mr.
Speaker 2:Mason, wherever you want it to be.
Speaker 1:Mr Mason, mr Mason, I will say Nintendo, metroid, metroid, yes, and it probably was the first playable female. It is the first.
Speaker 2:No, it is the first playable female character. It is the first. No, it is the first playable female character. Yep First protagonist Mike. Do we know her name? Seamus? That is correct, my friend.
Speaker 1:The franchise, or the franchise of War, sold over 20 million units for a while.
Speaker 2:That is correct, yes, released on Nintendo in 1986. These are some oldies, because the backstory is 1987, 1989, 1987, give that woman her props. No, no real talk, because she was the gateway to other female characters.
Speaker 1:Damn it. There ain't no tune writing about her.
Speaker 2:Damn it Give her, her props no a lot of her eyes in a lot of other games.
Speaker 1:My thing is, like we talked about it, a couple of episodes where, like Q man, nobody's sitting around talking about Samuels back in the day. Oh, she's not looking good. Oh my God, I just want to play a game because I wanted to play the game, yeah, but anyway I digress.
Speaker 2:No, I agree with you. So yeah, the Nintendo one that was in there, 1986 release. I'll throw one at you now. This one is called Elite Release. Elite release 84.
Speaker 1:Elite yeah.
Speaker 2:So what makes this famous? It's? It was pioneered for the first 3D graphic. It's crazy. Remember. This is 1984. We're talking about open world game, which allowed players to control ships and roam the galaxy. So this is what introduced. This would be the landmark for open world games and so on, from Grand Theft Auto and games to come afterward.
Speaker 1:So this is why this is the game developed in Great.
Speaker 2:Britain. Yes, I believe this was. I think this was developed in Great Britain. Oh, no, you're right, 100%. Yeah, it was developed in Great Britain. I do have that written down. Yeah, good call on that one. Elite was one of the picks there. Throw another one at me, Mike. What you got.
Speaker 1:Guitar Hero. Is this the first time they nominated? I think we talked about it last year. It might have gotten nominated but it was 7-1. Guitar Hero sold over what? 25 million units overall. Earned over $2 billion.
Speaker 2:Yeah in earnings, yeah 25 million units worldwide, 60 million tracks and $2 billion in revenue. I didn't know that. I didn't know about Guitar Hero, damn yeah. And then what I liked about Guitar Hero is that it led to the birth of rock band. Crazy as it sounds, I had the whole set up yo I. It used to be my, my cousin, my sister, my brother, even my father. We used to get on rock band and we used to get up like that and we used to go rock out at night and we weren't big rock stars, but we felt like them though, man.
Speaker 1:That's good family entertainment. No, it is, and I think what's missing now these days we have a group of people playing games. Yeah, I agree with you In person getting together, actually socially interacting.
Speaker 2:I agree with you and I think it would be cool if they brought back Guitar Hero.
Speaker 1:I think they're trying to do it. I hope they do. I think they have like a mobile app for Guitar Hero. Okay, I believe so.
Speaker 2:That would be a good look if they could bring that back. Man, All right, I'll throw another one at you. This one is crazy. I played this one. Let me go. Let me go my turn.
Speaker 1:Resident Evil, also known as Fire Hazard in Japan. Mr Amazing, yeah, this is like the first real, I mean horror game. Yeah, survival horror game, you could say, and that really brought to modern times, really brought the horror genre back absolutely, I mean, unless you go back to Friday the 13th would absolutely suck on Nintendo. This actually brought the horror survival genre and this was played based on horror games back in full effect. Yeah Well, that's not back.
Speaker 2:Made it in full effect, made it in full effect. No Resident Evil, that thing isn't getting in Beyond. Gotta get it. I feel like that has to get in that. And Metro, and I feel like I have to get that, gotta get in.
Speaker 1:But we'll talk about that after, but it also, like I said, also created also other dramas I mean genres and that not only did they games based on Resident Evil, they also did movies and live action movies. The live action movies made over a billion dollars. Over a billion dollars. Yeah, absolutely Absolutely. Man. The majority of them suck, half of them suck. I did like the first and second one. The third one was okay. The other one was absolutely garbage. You're talking?
Speaker 2:about the movies.
Speaker 1:Yes, the movies, oh okay, yeah, yeah yeah, Anime movies were absolutely garbage. Mr Amazing would defend the one or two of them, but I would not defend them. I forgot my name. It wasn't that long ago. I saw it either. It wasn't that bad. I saw the last live-action Resident Evil. Was it Lucy? Based on the first Resident Evil game. I don't know why it was so bad.
Speaker 2:I can't remember what was the one that Nemesis made you watch recently. I can't remember the name of it. I can't remember that one. I can't remember it was so many of them.
Speaker 1:It was straight up garbage. No, that one I liked, I know I said people were misremembering.
Speaker 2:That one I liked. I remember. Yeah, I do remember liking that one. Anyway, I'm going to throw out there Miss. And the reason I'm throwing Miss out there Is because when I got my computer the game was on there for free. So that's why it's not a game I would have bought, but it just had to be my computer. When I bought my first computer. My parents bought my first computer In 96. I want to say I got it, but it was released in 93 though. So Miss is like a mysterious Puzzle hunting. It was the best-selling computer game in the 90s. We sold over 6 million copies. So that was one. Go ahead, mike, throw an S at us man.
Speaker 1:Tony Hawk Pro Skater baby. This was interesting, Go ahead. Launched a Neversoft slash Activision in 1999. Yeah, Led to several sequels Mr Amazing. Yep, in 1999 led to several sequels Mr Amazing and generated how much it sells Mr Amazing over a billion dollars, 1.4 billion based on real life skater, mr Tony Hawk himself yeah, but did you hear what Tony Hawk said about it?
Speaker 2:the franchise? He said that this game ignited his career and overshadowed it at the same time. So this game helped get it off, but it no longer became about Tony Hawk the skater, but Tony Hawk the game. Now it overshadowed him, he said.
Speaker 1:So it was a blessing and a curse. Did it overshadow the checks he was getting? Oh no, he loved that part, Did it overshadow the money bag he was getting. He loved that part. He good, he good, mr Bay, he good, he loved that part, he good, he ain't complaining. You got people that didn't know who you were Like. Oh, tony Hawk game, blah, blah, blah. They might have bought these things and they might have actually wanted to go skateboarding because of that game they're not wrong and For the video game.
Speaker 2:But a lot of people don't realize he's one of the main people.
Speaker 1:I can say that he's the one guy, but he's the main person that did it. We launched the Tony Hawk series. Yeah, I haven't, oh, okay.
Speaker 2:I found it hard. I played it, I sucked at it. I sucked at it, yeah, but it did open the draw for more skating games.
Speaker 1:No, absolutely, Absolutely, but you got to think about it. It's what is it? Sx Tricky.
Speaker 2:Yes, those are the ones that probably.
Speaker 1:I used to play those too. Those were fun. Probably inspired the Tony Hawk games, yeah, of course they gave birth to it.
Speaker 2:Next one I'm going to throw at you is you Don't Know, jack, it was a TV game show format. Yeah, that ain't getting in Debut in 95 where it was questioned humor multiplayer. I mean it's cool. I don't think it's going to get in right now, but it was a cool feature because remember that game where you and I used to play the movie night thing, that should get in that. You know it's kind of based on, but you know that shouldn't get in movie game.
Speaker 1:That was fun, that was super fun. I have it. I still have it. You still have it.
Speaker 2:I might have mine too. Actually you said that, but that was fun though. Go ahead, mike man, throw another one at me. Another one SimCity, simcity was dope. I did play that one actually.
Speaker 1:SimCity.
Speaker 2:I think everybody might have played SimCity, the Sims. It all gave birth to all that. I never played it. I mean, you might not have played it but you played Minecraft and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:I never played Minecraft.
Speaker 2:It gave birth to stuff like that, though, but to give you an idea is what SimCity is, where you could build and simulate. You know adult children. You know build cities with problems in your cities.
Speaker 1:And it's pretty much the Sims. This isn't Sim City, but I think the last Sim City. They had problems because it was always online.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember that and that was a big problem. That was a problem.
Speaker 1:Look at you 100% that kind of screwed the franchise over for the time being.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're 100% right on this one. I'll throw one at you. This one was interesting because when this came out, I thought this thing is so stupid. I remember saying that to myself but this is the big guy. Where was I? The stupid one Neopets? I was like who would take care of these dead virtual pets? Who cares about virtual pets? I thought, yo, this thing has 25 million active Meaning.
Speaker 2:It's still on right now 25 million, I don't know nobody who did Me neither, but I remember when I saw it for the first time in the 90s. Well, users, this has been on for two decades, dropped to 99. And I remember when. What was that system? One of the systems I love, dreamcast had the iteration of it with the little pet inside the little.
Speaker 1:Thing. I can't share that sentimental fact with you guess I was a joke.
Speaker 2:Choices on your player. Joke. All right, mike. Mc Choice is on you player. All right, you didn't do any more than this because he's like these guys ain't gonna make it.
Speaker 1:What is it Ultimate?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Ultimate. Yeah, A computer role-playing game.
Speaker 1:Yo shout out to the people that made it. Hopefully it'll get in. That's all I can say about that game.
Speaker 2:I mean, it was dropped to 81. We all know why we're just listening. This ain't getting down. So this was dropped to 81. It compiles role playing mechanics with fictional world and fantasy. A lot of game designers credit this game with role playing games of today. So that's why this game is getting in, because it's what created today's role playing games, and the last one, but not least, it would be. This is kind of hard Tokamaki Memorial.
Speaker 1:Tokamaki Memorial yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so what is this? This was launched in 94. And what this is? Data Simulator? Yeah, so what this does is it simulator? Yeah, so, yeah. So this, what this does is it paved the way For graphic adventures, novelties, dating, kind of like the Sims we were just talking about. It was a Japanese game, it wasn't really big In the cities, but these are all In the US, yeah.
Speaker 1:But it did help Future games they do have. I was going to buy it Five dates. They do have, I was going to buy it Five Dates. They do have games like that oh okay, okay, not like that, but more you know, you know um.
Speaker 2:Those are more relevant in Japan, though.
Speaker 1:I can't, I was. They have games like dating games. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know it's very interesting. You know. You a question. So we do know that inductees will be announced on May 9th. Do you know how many that makes it? I forgot. I can't remember either, I forgot. Is it four?
Speaker 1:I thought it was six.
Speaker 2:It's six. Okay, let's just say six for all purposes of the show. What are your six? Guitar Hero Yep, I agree, yep, I agree, metroid Agree.
Speaker 1:Resident Evil.
Speaker 2:Agree.
Speaker 1:Sim City.
Speaker 2:Hmm, that's what, that's four. Alright, that's your four, okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, hmm, asteroids.
Speaker 2:That was one of mine, yep, and what?
Speaker 1:would be your sixth one. Last Asteroids, that was one of mine, yep, and.
Speaker 2:What would be your sixth, one, last?
Speaker 1:Did I say Tony Hawk?
Speaker 2:Did you say Tony Hawk? I don't remember if you did. If you did, that was one of my picks too, actually.
Speaker 1:Miss.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had Miss in there. The only one I think that I might defer from you would have been you said SimCity right, yeah, I think I would. Might defer from you would have been you said SimCity right, yeah, I think I would have picked Neopets over it, because that thing is just so freaking popular man. That's the only reason why I would pick it over it. The numbers are just crazy on that.
Speaker 2:Besides that I think you not have almost the exact same picks, to be honest with you. Yeah, actually we do have the same picks. That's the only difference.
Speaker 1:New York Pets. I can see that happening.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no it is Because you got gigs like Candy Crush, stuff like that, all getting nominated every year, angry Bird, so New York Pets will definitely get in. Yeah, I can see that those are my picks, but, like we were saying, though, man, we got to go there. I want to go there just to be there, be part of it, be part of history.
Speaker 1:So it's in Rochester.
Speaker 2:It's not far from here, so why not?
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe trip out there, take the kids, whatever.
Speaker 2:You know, one day, who knows, maybe we can do a show out there. I wish we could do a show somewhere. We never do, though. Do a show out there in front of the museum. Kick us out, what the hell.
Speaker 1:You got a permit for this. Now you got a permit. We don't need those stinking permits. Alright, get on a traffic show In the house.
Speaker 2:Exactly, that's all you need to know.
Speaker 1:That's all you need to know people. But, mr Miz, anything else you want to say About this?
Speaker 2:No, no, but congratulations. Just because you don't get inducted Doesn't mean you're not A good game. So congratulations To all the nominees.
Speaker 1:As one famous person said, if you're not first, you're last.
Speaker 2:That is true too.
Speaker 1:Nah, but yo, I know people did hard work on these video games. I know we had a little fun with it. But, like I said, wish them the best of luck and yo keep gaming, Keep gaming, y'all. All right, this is the Game of Trappers show we out. We're in a few outlets to actually talk about the Hall of Fame. You're not going to see too much on YouTube, but we do it. You know what I'm saying. Like I said, in the Game of Traffic show, we try to entertain, make you laugh and educate you while at the same time All right, Mr Mason, Game of Traffic show we out, You're not going to jump and freestyle like Take care y'all, yo yo take care, tune in, please, tune in, please.
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