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Rochester, New York-based museum The Strong is about to do something pretty awesome. It’s opening a World Video Game Hall of Fame“There is no other video game award and recognition program such as this, which focuses solely on individual game titles across platforms and their impact over time and across international borders,” said G. Rollie Adams, The Strong’s president and CEO in a press release.

To be considered, a game must be of “iconic status” and have an influence on other games and over large geographic areas. The Strong is already home to the International Center for the History Electronic Games (ICHEG) as well as the National Toy Hall of Fame. The museum is accepting nominations through March 31. The finalists will be selected by an advisory committee at the museum. The winners will be judged by a group of scholars, journalists and “other individuals familiar with the history of video games and their role in society.”

Which games should be included? Let us know below.

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Jenna Busch is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Legion of Leia and has hosted and written for sites like Nerdist, ComingSoon.net, Metro, Birth. Movies. Death., IGN, AOL, Huffington Post and more. She co-hosted Cocktails With Stan with the legendary Stan Lee and has appeared on Attack of the Show, Fresh Ink, Tabletop with Wil Wheaton, in the documentary She Makes Comics, on NPR and Al Jazeera America, and has covered film/TV/gaming/comics for years. She's currently a co-host on Most Craved. She's been published in the comics anthology Womanthology, is a chapter author for Star Wars Psychology: Dark Side of the Mind, Game of Thrones Psychology and Star Trek Psychology and more, and owns a terrifying amount of swords and 20-sided dice. There are also those My Little Pony trailer voice overs that give one nightmares.