GoldenEye 007 finally slides into the Video Game Hall of Fame

More games have been added to the Video Game Hall of Fame, including Rare’s brilliant first-person shooter GoldenEye 007.

The Strong Museum’s Video Game Hall of Fame was established back in 2015, with a goal to recognise individual electronic games from arcade to console and everything in between which have “enjoyed popularity over a sustained period and have exerted influence on the video game industry or on popular culture and society in general”.

And now, having missed out on being inducted to this Hall of Fame back in 2023, N64 classic GoldenEye 007 has finally made the cut.

“GoldenEye surpassed its contemporaries to become the third best-selling game on the Nintendo 64, beaten only by Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64,” the Video Game Hall of Fame team wrote of GoldenEye 007.

“Critics lauded it as the premier example of a first-person shooter to succeed on a console rather than a PC, and it is still considered one of the best multiplayer experiences ever produced on a Nintendo system.”

This is honestly one of my favourite games of all time. When it was released on Xbox in 2023, I spent quite a bit of time besting my family in the multiplayer. And, thanks to the introduction of Achievements with this Xbox release, I can still look back at my unforgiving gaming dominance with pride… (see below)

Other games inducted into the Strong Museum’s World Video Game Hall of Fame this year are Defender, Quake and Tamagotchi. Since its conception in 2015, 49 games have been added to the Strong Museum’s World Video Game Hall of Fame. These include classics such as the original Tomb Raider, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Tetris and Pac-Man.

As for the future of James Bond games, Hitman developer IO Interactive has one in the pipeline, known for now as Project 007. This release will kick off a new trilogy of games, IOI hopes.

For more, our Ed spoke to GoldenEye 007 composer Grant Kirkhope earlier this year.