Four more video games have been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, the Strong National Museum of Play announced Thursday: Williams Electronics’ Defender, Rare’s GoldenEye 007, id Software’s Quake, and Bandai’s Tamagotchi.
The quartet of classic games emerged from a list of 2025 World Video Game Hall of Fame nominees that also included Age of Empires, Angry Birds, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Frogger, Golden Tee, Harvest Moon, Mattel Football, and NBA 2K.
Those four titles selected “significantly influenced popular culture and the video game industry,” The Strong said in a news release. The museum’s annual nominees are judged on four metrics: icon status, longevity, geographical reach, and influence. Quake is the second id Software game to be inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame; Doom was welcome to the esteemed group in 2015.
Regarding this year’s inductees, judges and curators explained why Defender, GoldenEye 007, Quake, and Tamagotchi were so influential.
Since 2015, 49 games have been inducted into the museum’s hall of fame. Last year, The Strong welcomed Asteroids, Myst, Resident Evil, Ultima, and SimCity to its collection.
