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The Walk of Game is an area of the Metreon complex building in San Francisco, California that honors great video game achievements. The awards are chosen through a month long vote held every October on the Internet. The top four video and computer games and characters are chosen, as well as two game developers, and are given a permanent star.[1] It is meant to be similar to Hollywood, California's Walk of Fame. However, it does not receive much publicity and is more of an attraction for the Metreon building. Metreon, an entertainment shopping center, launched on June 16, 1999 as the first in a proposed succession of Sony urban centers aggregating dining, gaming, music, exhibitions, shopping, and movies. ... “San Francisco” redirects here. ... “Computer and video games” redirects here. ... Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue... Buskers perform on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ...


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Mario ) is a video game character created by Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and the official mascot of Nintendo. ... Link ) is the protagonist of Nintendos The Legend of Zelda video game series created by Shigeru Miyamoto. ... This article is about the video game character. ... It has been suggested that Covenant Vehicles in Halo be merged into this article or section. ... “Starcraft” redirects here. ... Lara Croft is a fictional British video game character and the heroine of the Tomb Raider series of video games, movies, and comic books. ... This article is about the Final Fantasy franchise. ... EverQuest (EQ) is a 3D fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that was released on March 16, 1999. ... Shigeru Miyamoto , born November 16, 1952) is a Japanese video game designer. ... Nolan K. Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari and the Chuck E. Cheeses Pizza-Time Theaters chain. ... Sidney K. Meier (born 1954 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American programmer and designer of some of the most commercially and critically successful computer strategy games of all time. ... John D. Carmack II (born August 20, 1970) is a widely recognized figure in the video game industry. ...

Notes

  1. ^ Walk of Game; about. Retrieved 2006-04-18.

External links

  • Official site

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Walk of Game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (155 words)
The Walk of Game is an area of the Metreon complex building in San Francisco honoring great video game achievements.
It is meant to be similar to Hollywood, California's Walk of Fame, although it does not receive as much publicity and is widely regarded to be an advertisement for the Metreon building.
The 2006 inductees are Sid Meier and John Carmack for the Lifetime Achievement Awards, Lara Croft for the Character Award, and Starcraft, Final Fantasy, and EverQuest for the Game Awards.
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