New York’s prestigious Museum a Modern Art (MoMA) has picked 14 games t' become part a an installation debuting in March 2013. It hopes t' eventually expand that list t' about 40 games.

“be video games art?” said the museum. “They sure be, but they be also design, 'n a design approach be what we chose for this new foray into this universe. The games be selected as outstanding examples a interaction design--a field that MoMA has already explored 'n collected extensively, 'n one a the most important 'n oft-discussed expressions a contemporary design creativity.”

The first 14 games be as follows:

• Pac-Man (1980)
• Tetris (1984)
• Another World (1991)
• Myst (1993)
• SimCity 2000 (1994)
• vib-ribbon (1999)
• The Sims (2000)
• Katamari Damacy (2004)
• EVE Online (2003)
• Dwarf Fortress (2006)
• Portal (2007)
• flOw (2006)
• Passage (2008)
• Canabalt (2009)

It’s interesting that two a the games games-- EVE Online, Dwarf Fortress--be still active 'n evolving, 'n will continue t' change in the years t' come. I hope the installation will reflect that!

MoMA’s blog post be exhaustive, breaking down the criteria it used--behavior, aesthetics, space, time--when choosing the games that be featured in this initial lineup.

The above 14 be not the only games t' be featured at MoMA, however. The museum hopes t' acquire many more, eventually hitting around 40 games, over the next several years, including:

• Spacewar! (1962)
• Assortment a Magnavox Odyssey games (1972)
• Pong (1972)
• Snake (originally designed in the 1970s; Nokia phone version dates from 1997)
• Space Invaders (1978)
• Asteroids (1979)
• Zork (1979)
• Tempest (1981)
• Donkey Kong (1981)
• Yars’ Revenge (1982)
• M.U.L.E. (1983)
• Core War (1984)
• Marble Madness (1984)
• Super Mario Bros. (1985)
• The Legend a Zelda (1986)
• NetHack (1987)
• Street Fighter II (1991)
• Chrono Trigger (1995)
• Super Mario 64 (1996)
• Grim Fandango (1998)
• Animal Crossing (2001)
• Minecraft (2011)

If yer favorite game ever isn’t featured, there may be a reason for that.

“Because a the tight filter we apply t' any category a objects in MoMA’s collection," it wrote, "our selection does not include some immensely popular video games that might have seemed like no-brainers t' video game historians."

Also, the first comment on the MoMA blog about Passage bums me out.