KittenMaster
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Wolfenstein started as a top down game more about going through screens stealthily.
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Absolute firsts in video games
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I think Impossible Mission on C-64 was the first home-videogame to feature digitized speech (in absolute terms it was Berzerk I believe)?
It was also a fuckin' masterpiece
Actually, Berzerk might not be the first game with digitized speech.
There's also Stratovox (arcade, 1980): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSh-3Ikskq4
It's not clear which game was released first.
EDIT: actually, it is clear! Stratovox came in August 1980, while Berzerk only arrived in December for its test release.
So, we can say now that Stratovox (arcade, 1980) is the first game to contain speech samples.
PLASTICA-MAN
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The Getaway the first ESRB 18+ game, and don't tell me it was debunked, I am SURE of that. It even started a polemic at that time. (I know mature games existed before but never lableled 18+ by ESRB).
Nope. Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (1997) is an 18+:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps/196786-blood-omen-legacy-of-kain/images/box-12576
EDIT: wait, ESRB? Sure you haven't mixed up your ratings boards? Because there's nothing special about the rating on the NTSC The Getaway box: http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/914419-the-getaway/images/box-26230
Debunked this already. Knightlore (Spectrum, 1984) came first.
Maybe it's time I compiled everything confirmed into the first post.
What was the first game to contain product placement, I wonder?
There's a few advergames for the 2600, like Kool-Aid Man (1983) and Chase the Chuckwagon (1983). Not sure if they're the first, though. Also, movie-based games released before then, like Tron and ET, could be considered a form of product placement.
There's a few advergames for the 2600, like Kool-Aid Man (1983) and Chase the Chuckwagon (1983). Not sure if they're the first, though. Also, movie-based games released before then, like Tron and ET, could be considered a form of product placement.
PLASTICA-MAN
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Oh nevermind, it seems the first 18+ game in europe , PAL version, you know rating in USA and europe differs, what is 18+ in europe is 21 + in USA.
Maybe Tapper? The Budweiser logo isn't seen when the game is in compilations.
Ah ha, good one! It's also a 1983 release, though, so unless there's something from an earlier year, this question may be impossible to answer.
Metaternal
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Anybody know what the first original (non-licensed) opening theme song with vocals is? It has to play at or before the title screen for it to count.
The oldest one I could think of (1993) was Sonic Boom since You Can Do Anything is based off another song. The oldest one I've heard (1992) was the intro to Global Gladiators. There's gotta be something older than that.
The oldest one I could think of (1993) was Sonic Boom since You Can Do Anything is based off another song. The oldest one I've heard (1992) was the intro to Global Gladiators. There's gotta be something older than that.
I don't think it has been mentioned yet, but I think Chrono Trigger was the first RPG introducing multiple characters combining their techniques together.
The Phantasy Star series introduced them before Chrono Trigger did.
Oh really? Interesting, I never played the Phantasy Star games, except the online ones.
I really should give those a shot soon.
Dash Kappei
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I believe Ghostbusters on C64 was the first game to feature an interactive title screen (hit spacebar to shout "Ghostbusters!") and also the first to feature the Karaoke for the intro music.
http://youtu.be/q3Zy3rCMbVs
http://youtu.be/q3Zy3rCMbVs
Nice!
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
There's this youtube video which proves the audio and karaoke to be in-sync and also feature the iconic user-triggered "ghostbusters!" shout.
Man .i loved this game, the first time .i was able to sneak past Stay Puft... amazing :'-)
http://youtu.be/qMas8qTLddE
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Oh, btw Cosmic Chasm on the Vectrex for the first home console game to be ported to the arcades in 1984
Dragonseeker
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Magic Sword 1990 - First fantasy game to feature a space theme level (level 24 with the celestial twin dragons)
Goldeneye 1997 - The first 3D game where two in-game characters kiss?
Shadow of the Colossus - The first game to only fight bosses? Or first adventure fighting game?
Goldeneye 1997 - The first 3D game where two in-game characters kiss?
Shadow of the Colossus - The first game to only fight bosses? Or first adventure fighting game?
RMS Gigantic
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Does Princess Peach's kiss on Mario's nose in Super Mario 64 (1996) count?
First one is definitely untrue. Ultima 1 (Apple II, 1981), while generally a fantasy RPG, suddenly changes gameplay near the end and forces the player to go into space and play a shmup minigame until they become a Space Ace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i6YZ_6E_Sw
And the Shadow of the Colossus one depends entirely on how "boss" is defined. You could argue that early fighting games like Yie Ar Kung Fu (1985) and Street Fighter 1 (1987) were boss gauntlets.
DiipuSurotu
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I don't think it has been mentioned yet, but I think Chrono Trigger was the first RPG introducing multiple characters combining their techniques together.
I'm not familiar with the Phantasy Star series, but Squaresoft's own Final Fantasy IV also had combination attacks, with Palom and Porom (and Golbez and FuSoYa in a non-interactive battle).
Resident Evil 2 was 18's in Ireland when I got it. Think they have a different ratings board though.
Edit: Maybe I'm not remembering correctly. Might have been 15's. First GTA was definitely 18s though.
I'm pretty sure Ocarina of Time used inverse kinematics.
The Shenmue Saturn demo has some pretty sophisticated things going on with its head and neck animation considering it was on 32-bit hardware. Too bad it never saw a release.
You're right about OoT, just checked.
What's the first game in which you can dismember enemies?
Chiller (arcade, 1986) would be an early example,: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiller_(video_game)
But the people in that game are only "enemies" in the sense that your goal is to shoot them (they cannot harm you or fight back in any way), and I'm not sure if it's the first anyway.
Edit: now that I think about it, Asteroids (arcade, 1979) might be the progenitor to all enemy dismemberment, since you blow apart the rocks into multiple pieces with each shot. Of course, they are still just rocks.
Chiller (arcade, 1986) would be an early example,: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiller_(video_game)
But the people in that game are only "enemies" in the sense that your goal is to shoot them (they cannot harm you or fight back in any way), and I'm not sure if it's the first anyway.
Edit: now that I think about it, Asteroids (arcade, 1979) might be the progenitor to all enemy dismemberment, since you blow apart the rocks into multiple pieces with each shot. Of course, they are still just rocks.
I remember reading that the Zool port on the Amiga CD32 (1994) was the first CD game where the entire soundtrack was digital, at least according to the composer. I believe the distinction is none of the tracks were ever rendered in MIDI etc. which would discount earlier games like Sonic CD which used that for its Past levels.
Can anyone think of an earlier example?
Can anyone think of an earlier example?
Fighting Street (PC Engine CD, 1988) appears to stream all music from the disc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjlmtFWbn8E
and there's arcade Laserdisc games before then, too.
petran79
Banned
Halloween (1983) on the Atari2600 was the first console game with blood. there also the main character is beheaded by the homicidal maniac and runs headless with blood sprouting. It caused much controversy. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1983) was similar. First game where you kill children with a chainsaw!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJmEbN6TU_g
Good work. Are there any games, period, before Halloween that display blood?
The reply about Choplifter is correct, the copyright dates on these materials confirm it.
As computer game to arcade game ports go, Choplifter definitelly trumps Tetris, by around 3 years.
Also, who did make the first arcade version of Tetris and who's arcade board did it run on?
Oh yeah THAT company. It's them again.
ichtyander
Member
It's kind of in a gray area since you might as well consider the asteroids as scenery instead of enemies so it might better fall into something like destructible terrain/objects, although Space Invaders covers that a year earlier (enemies and the player can gradually destroy the defensive structures between them).
I don't think this is true; the Famicom had a built-in microphone on the player 2 controller that was used in some games, such as to defeat Pols Voices in Zelda (1986).
SeventhSon
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What was the first home system with a CPU? Fairchild Channel F?
Yes, thanks for reminding me.
In GTA1, each type of car had its specific radio station, so instead of switching the channel you just switched the car ^^
Oh the memories of the pickup truck's country song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEi_yNAre2I (the last 5 seconds are pure genius
Was Star Fire (arcade, 1979) the first game with sprite scaling?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f4TaN6iLaE
EDIT: Nevermind, I can answer this question. Night Driver (1976) is almost certainly the first game with sprite scaling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HUGmAc0Txg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f4TaN6iLaE
EDIT: Nevermind, I can answer this question. Night Driver (1976) is almost certainly the first game with sprite scaling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HUGmAc0Txg
Actually, I can debunk this as well - the first day/night cycle in a game that I am aware of is the 1983 Cosmi release of Forbidden Forest for the Commodore 64 (it also had animated red blood, for the conversation up above).
Daytime action:
Evening action:
Midnight action:
Actually, I can debunk this as well - the first day/night cycle in a game that I am aware of is the 1984 Cosmi release of Forbidden Forest for the Commodore 64 (it also had animated red blood, for the conversation up above).
Daytime action:
Evening action:
Midnight action:
Good work. Updating first post.
Iva Demilcol
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This thread is great! There are so many things I wasn't aware of.
If I had to make a contribution to this thread I'd like to talk about the first game that used cel-shading: It was Doctor Hauzer for the 3DO (1994). I haven't played the game but I love when developers use cel-shading to provide that characteristic cartoony style, so I decided to make a little bit of research about the technique and I got very surprised when I found out the technique was older than I thought.
In a completely unrelated thing, this thread could've been very useful some years ago when a local game journalist in my country claimed that Nintendo invented FPS and that the very first one was actually Duck Hunt. I believed he published that on the Mexican version of EGM; when someone posted that on a rival game forums everyone went to his blog to point out that Duck Hunt was not even the first game of its kind but after a very long discussion he dismissed all the comments as negative criticism and concluded that the very first FPS was a Nintendo creation.
(I dunno, he might be a gaffer for all I know.)
If I had to make a contribution to this thread I'd like to talk about the first game that used cel-shading: It was Doctor Hauzer for the 3DO (1994). I haven't played the game but I love when developers use cel-shading to provide that characteristic cartoony style, so I decided to make a little bit of research about the technique and I got very surprised when I found out the technique was older than I thought.
In a completely unrelated thing, this thread could've been very useful some years ago when a local game journalist in my country claimed that Nintendo invented FPS and that the very first one was actually Duck Hunt. I believed he published that on the Mexican version of EGM; when someone posted that on a rival game forums everyone went to his blog to point out that Duck Hunt was not even the first game of its kind but after a very long discussion he dismissed all the comments as negative criticism and concluded that the very first FPS was a Nintendo creation.
(I dunno, he might be a gaffer for all I know.)
The first hologram video game was Time Traveler by Sega in 1991.
I think the first game I know of to combine digital play with mechanical play was Baby Pac-Man (Bally 1982 release... it was a video game and pinball machine combined).
The first loading screen on a console that I know of is Communist Mutants from Space (Starpath -1982). If you had an Atari 2600, you would pop in an accessory called the Supercharger in the cartridge slot to expand the console's memory x49 (!), and plug its wire to a cassette player. The Starpath games like CMfS mentioned above were on cassettes, so you had to press play on your player so it would load the data into the Supercharger, allowing you to play the game.
I think the first game I know of to combine digital play with mechanical play was Baby Pac-Man (Bally 1982 release... it was a video game and pinball machine combined).
The first loading screen on a console that I know of is Communist Mutants from Space (Starpath -1982). If you had an Atari 2600, you would pop in an accessory called the Supercharger in the cartridge slot to expand the console's memory x49 (!), and plug its wire to a cassette player. The Starpath games like CMfS mentioned above were on cassettes, so you had to press play on your player so it would load the data into the Supercharger, allowing you to play the game.
I think you're right, Falcon 3.0 released in 1991 (sometime just after the Persian Gulf War) and the first consumer game flight sim to have 'Padlock View'. It's nothing today (Padlock View was an expected standard of any flight sim by the time F4 came out in '98) but this was really great for nearly a quarter of a century go.
I recall seeing Falcon 3.0 running at an Egghead Software store in Niles IL. in '92 I believe, running on some Gateway 486 machine.
486 needed for Ultr...I mean "Really Hot!" settings.
Teleporting at least was done earlier in Asteroids (1979)
TheWretched82
Member
Not sure if posted already, but:
Gauntlet was the first multiplayer dungeon crawler game. Maybe just one of the first... but it's still a great game.
Gauntlet was the first multiplayer dungeon crawler game. Maybe just one of the first... but it's still a great game.
What's the first game that lets you take photographs as a game mechanic?
Edit: okay, that was a quick search. It appears to be Bishojo Shashinkan: Moving School (Pc-88, 1987). NSFW screenshots!
http://www.mobygames.com/game/bishjo-shashinkan-moving-school
Edit: okay, that was a quick search. It appears to be Bishojo Shashinkan: Moving School (Pc-88, 1987). NSFW screenshots!
http://www.mobygames.com/game/bishjo-shashinkan-moving-school