Class of 2020
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Golden Age Gamer
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Donn first came onto the scene and earned his first notoriety in the competitive gaming space through the master of shooting games. As players were busy trying to deconstruct and master the difficult gameplay of Exidy’s Crossbow, the most technically advanced gun game at the time,
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Donn first came onto the scene and earned his first notoriety in the competitive gaming space through the master of shooting games. As players were busy trying to deconstruct and master the difficult gameplay of Exidy’s Crossbow, the most technically advanced gun game at the time,
1990's Era Game
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Final Fantasy VII is a 1997 role-playing video game developed by Square for the PlayStation. The game’s story follows Cloud Strife, a mercenary who joins an eco-terrorist organization to stop a world-controlling megacorporation from using the planet’s life essence as an energy source.
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Final Fantasy VII is a 1997 role-playing video game developed by Square for the PlayStation. The game’s story follows Cloud Strife, a mercenary who joins an eco-terrorist organization to stop a world-controlling megacorporation from using the planet’s life essence as an energy source.
Walter Day Lifetime Achievement
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Gabe is the president and co-founder of Valve Corporation. He attended Harvard University in the early 1980s but dropped out to join Microsoft, where he helped create the first versions of the Windows operating system.
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Gabe is the president and co-founder of Valve Corporation. He attended Harvard University in the early 1980s but dropped out to join Microsoft, where he helped create the first versions of the Windows operating system.
2000's Era Game
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Guitar Hero is a series of rhythm games first released in 2005, in which players use a guitar-shaped game controller to simulate playing primarily lead, bass, and rhythm guitar across numerous songs.
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Guitar Hero is a series of rhythm games first released in 2005, in which players use a guitar-shaped game controller to simulate playing primarily lead, bass, and rhythm guitar across numerous songs.
2000's Era Gamer
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Hajime Taniguchi, better known as Tokido, is a Japanese fighting game player who plays the King of Fighters and Street Fighter franchises.
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Hajime Taniguchi, better known as Tokido, is a Japanese fighting game player who plays the King of Fighters and Street Fighter franchises.
2000's Era Game
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Half-Life 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It was published for Windows on Valve’s digital distribution service, Steam.
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Half-Life 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It was published for Windows on Valve’s digital distribution service, Steam.
Community Action Award
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Keisha Howard is best known as the creator of Sugar Gamers, the world’s longest-running gaming & tech community geared toward inclusivity.
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Keisha Howard is best known as the creator of Sugar Gamers, the world’s longest-running gaming & tech community geared toward inclusivity.
Industry Leader
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Mark Cerny is a video game designer, programmer, and producer. In his early years, he spent time at Atari, Sega, Crystal Dynamics and Universal Interactive Studios before becoming an independent consultant under his own company Cerny Games in 1998.
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Mark Cerny is a video game designer, programmer, and producer. In his early years, he spent time at Atari, Sega, Crystal Dynamics and Universal Interactive Studios before becoming an independent consultant under his own company Cerny Games in 1998.
Golden Age Game
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Pong is a 1972 sports video game developed and published by Atari for arcades. It is one of the earliest arcade video games; it was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise.
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Pong is a 1972 sports video game developed and published by Atari for arcades. It is one of the earliest arcade video games; it was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise.
1990’s Era Gamer
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Tomo Ohira was 13 years old, probably 90 pounds, and fought utterly mistake-proof in Street Fighter 2. He is widely regarded as the natural of his sport. “Hands down the number one player at the time,” says Jeff Schaefer.
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Tomo Ohira was 13 years old, probably 90 pounds, and fought utterly mistake-proof in Street Fighter 2. He is widely regarded as the natural of his sport. “Hands down the number one player at the time,” says Jeff Schaefer.
1990's Era Game
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Warcraft is a franchise of video games, novels, and other media created by Blizzard Entertainment. The series is made up of six core games.
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Warcraft is a franchise of video games, novels, and other media created by Blizzard Entertainment. The series is made up of six core games.
Game Developer
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Will Wright is a video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, which later became part of Electronic Arts.
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Will Wright is a video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, which later became part of Electronic Arts.
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