Not in Hall of Fame News

Last year, the Strong Museum in Rochester, New York inducted the first class of the World Video Game Hall of Fame.  Today, the second full class of six video games has been announced after being paired down from fifteen finalists. The new inductees are: Space Invaders Sonic the Hedgehog The Oregon Trail Grand Theft Auto III The Legend of Zelda The Sims The video games that missed the cut were John Madden Football, Elite, Final Fantasy, Minecraft, Nurburgring, Pokemon Red and Green, Sid Meier's Civilization, Street Fighter II and Tomb Raider. The Strong Museum also houses the National Toy Hall of Fame.

Let’s do this one more time shall we? It wasn’t that long ago when we created the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame and after two and a half years we have inducted seven athletes, three contributors and one veteran.  In that last paragraph, the emphasis needs to be placed on the word “we”, as with the exception of inaugural inductee, Rocky Balboa, the voting has been all up to the general public, and for all of the support that we have received we would like to thank you all! However as always it is onward and upward for us, and…

We warned you all that he his column was coming soon! In one of our past “Coming Soon” updates we told you about a regular visitor who calls himself “Dr. Johnny Pervert” (unless that is in fact his real name) had offered to add a list of whom he decreed as the hottest women in sports.  Mildly intrigued, we here at Notinhalloffame.com took him up on the offer providing that he could do what we normally do: Provide a list longer than most of what you would find on the Internet and promise to update accordingly.  While we don’t yet…

At the age of 45, groundbreaking professional wrestler Joanie Laurer, who performed professionally as “Chyna”, was found dead in her home in California.  It has been speculated that she died from a drug overdose and was already dead for nearly two days when her body was found. When she entered the WWF in the late 90’s as the bodyguard of Hunter Hearst Helmsley, the wrestling world had never seen anything like her.  Chyna did not look like any other woman who had previously been associated with the industry and she was a physical match for many of the men, so…

That didn’t take long. In an interview with Billboard, Steve Miller reacted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame drama that he was a part of and as you can imagine he had a lot of interesting things to say: On whether he stands by his statements that he made regarding the ceremony: “Of course I do, yeah. I spoke the truth as I experienced it, and as I have experienced it over the years. Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks…I was pretty naïve when I started…