It all started in 2004, when the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) started issuing Emmy awards for video games. 2005 brought the Atari 2600 an award for the impact of 8-bit consoles. In 2007, they were slightly more current, awarding Nintendo with an Emmy for the NES D-Pad from 1983. The awards for this year, however, are right on the target date…if you recently woke up from a coma.
The envelopes please…
User Generated Content – Game Modification:
Quake - id Software [1996]
Development of MMORPGs:
Everquest - Sony Online Entertainment [1999]
Neverwinter Nights - AOL-Time Warner/Stormfront/Ubisoft/TSR-Wizards of the Coast [1991]
Handheld Game Device Display Screen Innovation:
Atari Lynx - Atari [1989]
Of course, other more current games like World of Warcraft, and hardware like the Wii and DS, won in the same categories. But even those have been on the market for a while now. Why don’t we just start making categories for really old computer hardware standards?
Coaxial cable technology:
AT&T [1929]
…these guys are a little behind the times. When do they give out the Emmy for Best Cotton Gin Implementation?
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11 responses so far ↓
1 Dejanus // Jan 9, 2008 at 2:05 pm
That is downright sad, videogames need a legitimate awards show.
And no one point to the VGA’s, those are a fallacy more than anything else. At least they had Sam Jackson.
2 Altered Weapon // Jan 9, 2008 at 2:18 pm
We as a community need to create an awards show for Video Games.
3 Dejanus // Jan 9, 2008 at 2:25 pm
I agree, but unless you just came into a significant amount of cash I just don’t see how. any shows sponsored by publishers fall under the Gamespot Effect, and any independant ones never grow large enough to have universal appeal like the Emmys.
And don’t even get me started on how screwed up corporate sponsorship can make things.
4 kman571 // Jan 9, 2008 at 2:41 pm
What?! Eli Whitney doesn’t desrve an Emmy?
5 Alecsander_C // Jan 9, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Atari Lynx?!?!?!?
are you serious?
that thing is SO fragile, are you serious?
6 irish boy90 // Jan 9, 2008 at 4:09 pm
the sarcastic awards?
you could give shadowrun #1 best game
make sure its on a friday too
7 Alecsander_C // Jan 9, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Also look at the categories, why don’t they come up with “most creative way of manipulating your character in a video game during 1980s”
the winner is the D-Pad—
I mean come on
8 Ansem the Wise // Jan 9, 2008 at 6:27 pm
wait, what about Gfouria? Not sure I spelled it right, but they ARE pretty big…..-.- even if bioshock got friggen game of the year over halo jesus…
9 Matt "Volkov" Schmidt // Jan 10, 2008 at 1:17 am
G-Phoria is basically handouts to the sponsors. Halo Jesus won the Mountain Dew award.
10 LuckyEMS // Jan 10, 2008 at 9:09 am
Shadowrun is an awesome game
11 Dejanus // Jan 10, 2008 at 3:51 pm
G-Phoria is also dead, it stopped being a convention last year and became what amounts to an extended episode of X-Play.
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