{"id":585,"date":"2007-03-12T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T17:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/03\/12\/stepping-towards-the-canon\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T03:57:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T07:57:45","slug":"stepping-towards-the-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/03\/12\/stepping-towards-the-canon\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping Towards the Canon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many moons ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/05\/03\/preserving-the-computer-canon\/\">I posted about creating a canonical list<\/a> of video games, using the National Film Registry as a model.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have a first step of a sort. I wanted to hit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/12\/arts\/design\/12vide.html?ex=1331352000&#038;en=380fc9bb18694da5&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">this talk at GDC<\/a> but didn&#8217;t for some reason. All of the interesting panels are scheduled at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a list of 10 canonical video games has been compiled by Henry Lowood, Steve Meretzky, Warren Spector and Christopher Grant. They are, in chronological order:<\/p>\n<p><em>Spacewar!<br \/>\nStar Raiders<br \/>\nZork<br \/>\nTetris<br \/>\nSimCity<br \/>\nSuper Mario Brothers 3<br \/>\nSid Meier&#8217;s Civilization (1 and 2)<br \/>\nDoom<br \/>\nThe Warcraft series<br \/>\nSensible World of Soccer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not a bad list, though I would have thrown in <em>Balance of Power<\/em> and\/or <em>The Legend of Zelda<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many moons ago, I posted about creating a canonical list of video games, using the National Film Registry as a model. Now we have a first step of a sort. I wanted to hit this talk at GDC but didn&#8217;t for some reason. All of the interesting panels are scheduled at the same time. Anyway, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,78],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-9r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}