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[Phediuk]

3D Monster Maze first 3d game on a home system

That depends entirely on how "3D" is defined.

For example, Star Ship for the Atari 2600 (1977) could also be considered "3D": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2XmthOEEgo

Escape from the Mindmaster (Atari 2600, 1982) could be considered 3D too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yf430Ls7Ew

 

[Minister of the Dog]

Z-targeting from Ocarina of Time. All 3D Zeldas have used it afterwards, and so have Metroid Prime 1 & 2 on GC (never played MP3) and Dark Souls.

 

[MrNyarlathotep]

Zaxxon was the first isometric game

 

[Lurch666]

Star fire might have been the first game you could enter your initials for a high score.
First one I can remember anyway.

 

[Damaniel]

I dream that you guys will put together all of these firsts, and then dissect modern games, showing where their gameplay originally comes from. So, something like CoD would include, first FPS, first jumping, first health pack, first deployable health pack, etc. Like DNA or a family tree of some kind. Surely someone could visualize this well.

Once all the heavy lifting was done, you could produce the entire genome of each game that comes out, based entirely on various game play elements.

This would be absolutely awesome. It would certainly end (and start) some 'XYZ is just a ABC clone!' arguments. I can't even begin to imagine how much time I'd lose just browsing through it.

 

[Phediuk]

Rogue (1980) first randomly generated levels

Nope.

Beneath Apple Manor (1978) came first: http://www.mobygames.com/game/beneath-apple-manor

 

[jem0208]

I, Robot looks really fun.

It looks like it would be a pretty good phone game with some updated graphics

 

[equippedwithtowel]

What was the first game with regenerating health, and a cover system?

As far as I know, Killzone 2 is the first game to use a first person cover system.

Didn't the first Call of Juarez use something similar? I know 2009's Bound in Blood did. Plus Far Cry 2 did as well IIRC.

 

[Menome]

First adult game or game to contain nudity: Custer's Revenge

Any ideas on first game to have blood and gore?

Close, but beaten to the punch (in the same year) by Night Life:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Life_(video_game)

 

[Lurch666]

Zaxxon was the first isometric game

It was either that or escape on the zx spectrum-both 1982 but I can't remember which one was first.

 

[ichtyander]

Spasim (1974) is the first 3D multiplayer game and most probably the first FPS in terms of showing the action from a first person perspective, not the actual mechanics and tropes that are synonymous to modern FPSs (such as being in the role of a person or walking on ground). The graphics and gameplay updated about once every 1 second so it was slow as hell, but the principle was there. It also supported 32 players, divided into groups of 8 "per solar system", I suppose that means per match/server.

I dream that you guys will put together all of these firsts, and then dissect modern games, showing where their gameplay originally comes from. So, something like CoD would include, first FPS, first jumping, first health pack, first deployable health pack, etc. Like DNA or a family tree of some kind. Surely someone could visualize this well.

Once all the heavy lifting was done, you could produce the entire genome of each game that comes out, based entirely on various game play elements.

I started building a comprehensive list, limited to FPS games, arranged by year and broader genres, trying to chronologically connect at least some sort of legacy but it turned into somewhat of a mess so I gave up on it for now, might come back to it eventually. Might be helpful to someone in the state it's in, at least as a chronological list.

 

[Yoshichan]

FFX - First RPG with voice acting

Spoiler

Wait for it... WAIT FOR IT...!

 

[FalsettoVibe]

I Robot looks.....interesting.

 

[Anarki]

First 8bit home console - NES
First 16bit home console - TurboGrafx-16
First 32bit home console - Amiga CD 32

 

[Lord_Balkan]

Metroid Prime: First Person Jumping...

Spoiler

DONE RIGHT

Thief says hello with its awesome mantling

 

[Lurch666]

I remember what I first saw I robot in the arcades and thought-There's no way home computers will ever be able to do graphics like that.( I was young and naive)

 

[Phediuk]

First adult game or game to contain nudity: Custer's Revenge

Any ideas on first game to have blood and gore?

Custer's Revenge was not the first adult game (though it may have been the first with nudity.)

It was preceded, at least, by Softporn Adventure from 1981: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softporn_Adventure

 

[Captain Smoker]

Activision (founded on October 1, 1979) was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles.

 

[Markitron]

Didn't the first Call of Juarez use something similar? I know 2009's Bound in Blood did. Plus Far Cry 2 did as well IIRC.

Technically they did but IIRC they were very loose and pretty much just amounted to a slight camera/gun movement when you were close to an edge, KZ2's was a little more substantial. KZ3's was perfect imo

 

[LiK]

LoZ: Ocarina of Time

Z-Targeting

 

[drugstore_cowboy]

I always thought Gun Fight and Boot Hill were the same game, turns out they aren't.

 

[Aquamarine]

- First 3D game (with polygons) developed by Nintendo (February 21st, 1993)

- First game released that was developed in-house by Sony Computer Entertainment (December 16th, 1994)

 

[MrNyarlathotep]

FFX - First RPG with voice acting

Spoiler

Wait for it... WAIT FOR IT...!

Grandia?

 

[Syril]

Would Space Invaders be the first game to have a difficulty curve?

 

[nate75]

Spasim (1974) The First First-Person-Shooter 3D Multiplayer Networked Game

 

[Danneee]

I,Robot looks awesome!
I would have thought that the first game with filled polygons would've been a lot uglier than that. And shaded polygons at that! Impressive.

 

[nkarafo]

Starfox 64.

First console game with rumble support.

 

[thesuperfunk]

Subscribed ... this thread has potential!

First secret character

Colour me suprised!

 

[ichtyander]

First adult game or game to contain nudity: Custer's Revenge

Any ideas on first game to have blood and gore?

The earliest one I know of is Chiller (1986) although I'm not sure if there's some home computer game that had at least some depiction of blood or gore. Perhaps some text adventures, but that probably doesn't count.

 

[Hades Hotgun]

LoZ: Ocarina of Time

Z-Targeting

Z-targeting from Ocarina of Time. All 3D Zeldas have used it afterwards, and so have Metroid Prime 1 & 2 on GC (never played MP3) and Dark Souls.

Isn't z-targeting just a Nintendo specific way of referring to "lock-on?"

 

[Anarki]

First online multiplayer game - Snipes

 

[Shion]

Grandia?

Lunar and Popful Mail on the SEGA CD featured voice acting before Grandia did

 

[Markitron]

Isn't z-targeting just a Nintendo specific way of referring to "lock-on?"

The term stems from OoT which was the first game to have this kind of lock-on system in a 3D game.

 

[Khaz]

FFX - First RPG with voice acting

Spoiler

Wait for it... WAIT FOR IT...!

Full voice acting?

If not, I raise you Star Ocean.

 

[LiK]

The term stems from OoT which was the first game to have this kind of lock-on system in a 3D game.

yes!

 

[pieman]

Wizardry (1981) first computer RPG to feature parties of multiple characters instead of a lone hero/adventurer, and it was a cracking game, really tough but fun.

 

[Adnor]

Ultima IV - First game with a morality system?

 

[StoopKid]

Gears of War was the first game to actually have something to say.

sogood.gif

 

[Carn82]

I believe Asteroids (for the Atari, 1979) was the first two player console co-op game

 

[Phediuk]

Are there any games earlier than Karateka (Apple II, 1984) that use rotoscoped animations?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk43YEwjMiQ

Karate Champ (arcade, 1983) also looks like it might be rotoscoped, but I can't find any sources that clarify.

 

[Megadragon15]

First handheld system that accepted cartridges was the Milton Bradley Microvision.

 

[oldmario]

Advanced fish AI - Call of Duty: Ghosts

Spoiler

just kidding don't kill me pls

 

[Phediuk]

I believe Planetfall (1983) may feature the first in-narrative death of a sympathetic character in a game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetfall

I cannot say this for sure, though, and it really depends on how "sympathetic character" is defined anyway. There had been several murder mystery adventure games earlier (i.e. Mystery House from 1980), but I'm not sure if murder victims automatically count as sympathetic.

 

[Phediuk]

Mattel's Auto Race (1976) wss the first digital handheld game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isejBX1Tyjk

 

[-KRS-]

I think Nintendo's Golf on the NES introduced the three button-press swing mechanic.

 

[Syril]

Full voice acting?

If not, I raise you Star Ocean.

I raise you Far East of Eden.

 

[Lurch666]

Pong-first multiplayer.

 

[Coreda]

I dream that you guys will put together all of these firsts, and then dissect modern games, showing where their gameplay originally comes from. So, something like CoD would include, first FPS, first jumping, first health pack, first deployable health pack, etc. Like DNA or a family tree of some kind. Surely someone could visualize this well.

Once all the heavy lifting was done, you could produce the entire genome of each game that comes out, based entirely on various game play elements.

There was a large-ish thread which was doing this for the family tree of FPS games recently. Was great, and various people were adding to the openly editable graphics.

A continuation of that concept for individual gameplay elements would be a fun discussion.

 

[Pritchardo]

i think im right in saying that Elite was the first game with multiple galaxies to visit in wire frame 3D.

 

[Phediuk]

i think im right in saying that Elite was the first game with multiple galaxies to visit in wire frame 3D.

It could certainly be considered the first open-world game, but there's no easy way to define "open-world".