ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A video game that allowed players to zap marching aliens with dot lasers and another that gave them flamethrowers and put them in the driver’s seat in a violent 3-D world are among six games inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame.
Space Invaders and Grand Theft Auto III — along with The Oregon Trail, Sonic the Hedgehog, The Legend of Zelda and The Sims — were honored Thursday for their influence on gaming and pop culture at the hall inside The Strong museum in Rochester.
Space Invaders wasn’t the first shooter game when it was introduced in Japan in 1978, but it spurred many imitators and a craze for arcade games, said Jeremy Saucier, assistant director of The Strong’s International Center for the History of Electronic Games.
