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The Strong National Museum of Play has announced this year's World Video Game Hall of Fame inductees and, arsenic ever, they're each worthy additions. Angry Birds, Silent Hill, Dragon Quest and FIFA International Soccer dress up nan people of 2026.
Since it debuted successful 2009, Rovio's Angry Birds bid has seen group uncovering joyousness successful utilizing a catapult to fling furious feathered friends astatine pigs taking shelter successful vulnerable structures. A decade earlier, Konami's Silent Hill started its reign of panic pinch a psychological scary crippled that paved nan measurement for a successful long-running franchise.
In 1986, Dragon Quest from Enix (now portion of Square Enix) helped forge a template for modern roleplaying games. FIFA International Soccer, released successful 1993, was nan genesis of Electronic Arts' blockbuster FIFA series. It remains nan world's biggest sports crippled franchise, though EA no longer holds nan FIFA license.
The different games that made this year's shortlist were Frogger, Galaga, League of Legends, Mega Man, PaRappa nan Rapper, RuneScape, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Tokimeki Memorial. This year's inductees subordinate 49 different influential games successful The Strong's World Video Game Hall of Fame, including last year's additions of GoldenEye 007, Quake, Defender and Tamagotchi.
