[Cid_Yama]

You don't know anything about me, so don't even try.

Bethesda Softworks Games Fallout, Fallout 3 Take a Trip to The Smithsonian
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f nothing else, Bethesda is racking up some accolades - including a stint at The Smithsonian - that show that it's one of the premier video game developers around.

More precisely, a pair of Bethesda's games was recently selected to be part of The Smithsonian's The Art of Video Games exhibition, which explores the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium. Voters selected 80 games from a pool of 240 proposed choices in various categories, divided by era, game type and platform. The exhibition will be on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from March 16, 2012 through September 30, 2012.

Bethesda's winning games include:

- Fallout, released in 1997, was selected to represent the Adventure category of "Era 4: Transition," for the DOS/Windows platform.
- Fallout 3, released in 2008, was chosen again to represent the Adventure category, this time in "Era 5: Next Generation," for the Modern Windows platform.
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion almost made the cut to represent the Adventure category for the Xbox 360 platform but was bested by MassEffect 2.

(If you guessed that Pac-Man from 1981 was the top game selected to represent Era 1, you would be correct.)

On the same topic of accolades, two of Bethesda's games were recently named among the top 20 in IGN's Top 100 Modern Games list, beating out the likes of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Gears of War.

- Fallout 3, released in 2008, ranked 6 overall. Said IGN, "This western-style RPG from Bethesda Game Studios took on one of PC gaming's biggest franchises. The setting: a frightening, post-apocalyptic landscape that's the end result of a massive nuclear exchange between the United States and China. Focused in an obliterated Washington, D.C., players are cast as the Wastelander, a character that grew up in the safety of an underground vault only to be launched into the realities of a dystopian landscape where everyone is out for their own self-interest."
- Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, released in 2006, ranked 18 overall. Said IGN, "If what you're looking for is a deep, immersive, non-linear and incredibly expansive experience, look no further than The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Released on PC and Xbox 360 in 2006 and a year later on the PlayStation 3, Oblivion brought gamers to the fictional province of Cyrodiil, tasking them to complete a meaty main quest while complimenting that quest with incredible freedom to explore the territory at will."

Aside from the accolades, it seems that the reason Bethesda Softworks hasn't been making news of late is because it's preparing to make news later this year - to prepare the launch of the next installment of the Elder Scrolls series (and follow up to the ridiculously successful Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, co-published by 2K Games (NASDAQ: TTWO), and which sold almost 5 million copies after less than a year on the market).

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is slated for release on November 11 (11/11/11), for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 platforms.

[AdTheNad]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Expatriot', 'T')he hilarious part about Cid blowing huge coin on a gaming computer is that he is PO.com's resident chief Marxist.

If he had his way, and government ran everything, we'd still be trying to work out how a semiconductor could be used as a transistor.

[AgentR11]

Problem with PacMan as a game, if I recall from the days when I didn't have gray hair, was that you could memorize a pattern that always worked, so in essence, the game became 10-15 minutes of grind, just to see if you could extend the play for just a few more seconds as it got ridiculously fast paced.

Yes... I memorized a video game. I'm ashamed... all those defenseless quarters. And then, when you're sitting at the videogame for 15 minutes per quarter, you're thinking, "someone's losing a ton of money by me being here..."

btw..As to electricity... my computer room requires two full 20amp circuits and got so hot that it required its own dedicated A/C. lol.
Yall don't get to feel bad.

[lowem]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'b')tw..As to electricity... my computer room requires two full 20amp circuits and got so hot that it required its own dedicated A/C. lol.
Yall don't get to feel bad.

[Expatriot]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'Y')ou don't know anything about me, so don't even try.

[Keith_McClary]

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', '
')And if you hadn't noticed, the world is coming to an end in the next decade or so. You can stop trying to save it.(Like you ever were in the first place.) It's too late.

[Sys1]

I'm a gamer too. I just love video games and programmation. I'm quite ready to forget car, cell phone, plane or salmon. Forgetting about computer would be really sad. Finally, without any computer and the internet, I would not have known anything about peak oil.
I would be clueless today about what's going on and would have made bad decisions (like credit, kind of job, no preps...).
I'm currently playing games like GTA4, Starcraft2, Mafia2, Crysis2... Fallout 3.
My first computer was an Amstrad CPC 6128, with which I discovered programmation (Basic). I'm currently programming in Delphi, a kind of enhanced turbo pascal with which I created a chatbot. After many years, I'm still amazed by the freedom of creativity you can get out of a computer.