Volkov
01-09-2008, 01:24 PM
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?
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?