Actually, multiplayer goes at least as far back as Tennis for Two in 1958.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_two
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Absolute firsts in video games
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Actually, multiplayer goes at least as far back as Tennis for Two in 1958.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_two
Megadragon15
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First video game with an in-game vocal soundtrack was Psycho Soldier by SNK.
Why would you do that?
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Sorry I can't easily post a video on my phone, but I believe R.C. Pro Am on the NES (made by RARE) was the first racing game to use boost pads.
Excite Bike has things that look like boost pads, but really just cool your vehicle down. They aren't traditional boost pads.
Excite Bike has things that look like boost pads, but really just cool your vehicle down. They aren't traditional boost pads.
Maybe the first original vocal soundtrack, but, as previously mentioned, Journey (arcade, 1983) featured Journey's "Separate Ways" on a built-in cassette tape.
Zabant
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Die Hard Arcade (1995) was the first modern useage of QTE's in a video game, well before Shenmue (1999) popularised them and the coining of the term.
Some think games like Dragon's lair were the first instances of QTE's but I don't think they count.
Some think games like Dragon's lair were the first instances of QTE's but I don't think they count.
There are a bunch of FMV games before then that should count, though, like Ninja Hayate, Time Gal, Road Avenger, etc. Many of those were released for the PC Engine and Sega CD in the early 90s, and I believe some of those ports also included button prompts.
So I don't think Die Hard Arcade can be considered the first game with QTEs.
Not the first commercial multiplayer game either; that would be the Magnavox Odyssey, which predates Pong by five months.
Goddamit but you are good.First coinop multiplayer then??? (getting a bit too specific here)
Nerdkiller
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First game with parallax scrolling:
Defender (1980)
First game with sprite based parallax scrolling:
Moon Patrol (1982)
Defender (1980)
First game with sprite based parallax scrolling:
Moon Patrol (1982)
Zabant
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I agree to an extent, but i feel QTE's can only be considered as such when they're part of a game that isn't wholly based upon them like FMV games. Die Hard Arcade was a Polygonal Beat'em up that had QTE's when you travelled to each new area.
FMV games were just videos where you would press a button in a time frame and if you didn't you died and the scene restarted.
In Die Hard Arcade, if you fucked up the QTE you had to beat him up the normal way.
Gentleman Jack
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We'd probably need to come up with a consensus definition for a thing before we can definitively, absolutely say something is the first instance of that thing. Several 'what was the first game with QTEs' threads have appeared on GAF in the past and for any given value of 'QTE' there's a different game to be the first with QTE events.
ichtyander
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Light gun games also have an interesting history. Looking back as far as the 1920s, mechanical sharpshooter games the likes you'd find on fairs were somewhat common, but in 1936, Seeburg created Ray-O-Lite which could be considered the first light gun game. The goal was to shoot down a flying duck. It was very much mechanical of course, but it introduced the principle of light-sensing vacuum tubes.
Decades later, in 1968 SEGA released an electro-mechanical target shooting arcade game called Periscope, with cardboard ships, light animation and mechanical sounds. It was wildly successful for SEGA and it's also notable of being the first coin-op arcade game to cost a quarter per play.
In 1973 Nintendo introduced the Laser Clay Shooting System, played in bowling alleys. It was huge and used an overhead projector to display moving targets. It was reduced in size and released as the Mini Laser Clay in 1974 with the first appearance of Wild Gunman. The first Wild Gunman used full-motion video with live action footage, way before the arcade and NES game we all know and love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmdOHmnbYHw
It's worth noting that in 1972, just a couple of years earlier, Magnavox Odyssey, the first commercial home video game console was released with the Shooting Gallery light gun game. It was kind of a gimmick though, as it used plastic overlays that you put over your TV, so the "game" just flashed the whole screen or portions of it with white color, the light being visible only through the various shaped holes in the overlay. The lightgun would then register light when the player pulled the trigger and you'd make a hit. The system was so simple that you could easily just point the gun at a light bulb and you'd still score a hit. But it introduced the lightgun principle into people's homes which was of course later made widely popular by Nintendo on the NES.
Decades later, in 1968 SEGA released an electro-mechanical target shooting arcade game called Periscope, with cardboard ships, light animation and mechanical sounds. It was wildly successful for SEGA and it's also notable of being the first coin-op arcade game to cost a quarter per play.
In 1973 Nintendo introduced the Laser Clay Shooting System, played in bowling alleys. It was huge and used an overhead projector to display moving targets. It was reduced in size and released as the Mini Laser Clay in 1974 with the first appearance of Wild Gunman. The first Wild Gunman used full-motion video with live action footage, way before the arcade and NES game we all know and love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmdOHmnbYHw
It's worth noting that in 1972, just a couple of years earlier, Magnavox Odyssey, the first commercial home video game console was released with the Shooting Gallery light gun game. It was kind of a gimmick though, as it used plastic overlays that you put over your TV, so the "game" just flashed the whole screen or portions of it with white color, the light being visible only through the various shaped holes in the overlay. The lightgun would then register light when the player pulled the trigger and you'd make a hit. The system was so simple that you could easily just point the gun at a light bulb and you'd still score a hit. But it introduced the lightgun principle into people's homes which was of course later made widely popular by Nintendo on the NES.
Journeywalker
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Oooh, Pandora for video games, cool idea.
gigantor21
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Would Heavyweight Champ (1976) be the first fighting game with competetive multiplayer?
Maybe the first console game that let you save, but I'm pretty sure lots of crpgs did let you save before that.
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I remember hearing that, too. However, if true, it would have to strictly be relating to cartridge games. (I believe that certain cassette tape games saved on the cassette before then, and of course PC games and external storage devices existed. The 1984 Family Basic for the Famicom saved on cassette via a peripheral, for instance.)
That interestingly was the theory and hope for the Giant Bomb wiki: the ability to trace elements of games, be it mechanics, objects, technology or characters, through time.
Nerdkiller
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Looking this up on Wikipedia, the thing used 16mm film on two separate projectors?In 1973 Nintendo introduced the Laser Clay Shooting System, played in bowling alleys. It was huge and used an overhead projector to display moving targets. It was reduced in size and released as the Mini Laser Clay in 1974 with the first appearance of Wild Gunman. The first Wild Gunman used full-motion video with live action footage, way before the arcade and NES game we all know and love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmdOHmnbYHw
The thing's probably super rare now, seeing how unreliable film would be in an application like this. Still, I'm goddamned amazed at how they managed to do FMV before file storage formats were a thing.Wikipedia said:
LoveCake
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First First Person - Shooter Maze War circa 1974
First God game - Populous - 1989
First Real Time Strategy - Herzog Zwei - 1989
First 3D driving sim - Hard Drivin - 1989
Full Spectrum Warrior - 2004 first game where you can take a college back to a medical location to be tended to, also the first game for the masses to be used by the military for helping soldiers.
First God game - Populous - 1989
First Real Time Strategy - Herzog Zwei - 1989
First 3D driving sim - Hard Drivin - 1989
Full Spectrum Warrior - 2004 first game where you can take a college back to a medical location to be tended to, also the first game for the masses to be used by the military for helping soldiers.
Kageshinzo
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Time Crisis (both arcade and home versions) released in 1996 and 1997, respectively, specifically use a manual cover system.
captmcblack
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First power-up item in a game was in Pac-Man.
I love the idea of this thread - and if a videogame DNA project is happening, I'd love to work on that too!
I love the idea of this thread - and if a videogame DNA project is happening, I'd love to work on that too!
ichtyander
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I've found very little on the technical specs so I'm not sure how it all worked but yeah, the 16mm film has degraded badly as seen on the YouTube video I posted as well as these two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBwG0svJWI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxwikshonsk
The concept is insane and wonderful indeed. Another interesting tidbit about that system is that by 1974, Nintendo was nearing bankruptcy so the redesigned Mini Laser Clay and the numerous games that came with it pulled them out of the gutter. Gunpei Yokoi did wonders.
And another insane thing regarding the first Laser Clay System, taken from nitnendo.wikia.com:
Haha, when something doesn't work for the Grand opening, you get the intern behind the screen to move stuff and act like a computer. At least this one got credit
A few points here.
#1: Herzog Zwei was not the first RTS.
That would be Stonkers (ZX Spectrum, 1983): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonkers
#2. Utopia (Intellivision, 1981) is turn-based, but allows you to make as many actions as you're able to within a time limit, making it a proto-RTS.
#3 The idea of God games goes back at least as far as Hamurabi from 1968: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi . Also, Utopia, mentioned above, is basically a God game with timed turns.
#4 Hard Drivin' was not the first polygonal racing game. That would be Namco's Winning Run from 1988: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G01FZUtIMX0
SeventhSon
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Comanche was the first commercial flight sim to use Voxel technology.
Played the crap out of comanche, wicked fun.
BigWeather
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The Magnavox Odyssey had an 8-bit processor.
First (only) RPG with the goal of self-improvement and not beating some Foozle - Ultima IV?
Edit: Beaten like Mondain by Adnor on the Ultima IV reference. =)
Was Ultima II the first game that shipped with a cloth map? Ultima II may be the first with feelies of any kind, as it beat Infocom's Deadline.
Man that racing game looks awesome
ichtyander
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Well, one could argue that Speed Freak (1979) could be considered the first 3D racing game, since most of the bare-bones elements are there, even though it has kind of pseudo-3D vector graphics so it wouldn't perhaps fit into the "first filled-polygon 3D racing game". I'm only mentioning this because Battlezone is often regarded as one of the ealriest 3D FPS games so by that criteria, Speed Freak would fit the description.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQWJMj9K_4Q
BigWeather
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Hmmm, maybe Wizardry 2: Knight of Diamonds? If not, I think it was the first to require that saves be imported.
Though Wizardry 2 is 1982 -- surely a RPG allowing imports came before... Did Curse of Ra?
Wizardry 2.
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lol it is awesome looking at that 3D game with CD quality music, yet it has that very old arcade / NES font. (The one used in several old arcade games and old NES games including Mario and the localized Zelda).
Speaking of which, that is another first someone should figure out. That font was used in so many old games, which was the first one? I recall seeing a really old black and white Atari arcade game with that font...
Ivan
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I think Marathon was the first game that used mouse for free look.
Bungie did it first, ha
Alright, I'll admit it...I don't get the reference. Could anyone clue me in?
Rad Mobile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AXaEGhFDqs
First and only game to have a dedicated wiper button?!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AXaEGhFDqs
First and only game to have a dedicated wiper button?!?
BasketCasket
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First secret character
Someone likely already mentioned it; but this isn't true.
Just off the top of my head I can already tell you that Shining Force was released in Japan before Mortal Kombat released anywhere. Shining Force had many secret characters. I'm going off the assumption that you mean optional characters that are playable; which require puzzles or other mechanics to unlock them.
I can't imagine it was the first either.
Dictator93
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Its an obscure reference to something CLiff Blezisinki said about some rapper.
It wasn't. Defender (1980) was the first game with a scrolling screen.
Tail Gunner (1979) is probably it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4hb9UJBs9k
Not even close. Many of the late 70s and early 80s consoles had 8-bit processors (Fairchild F8, Colecovision, Atari 2600 and 5200, Vectrex). Someone mentioned Intellivision being 16-bits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor...on)#Early_8-bit_home_consoles_.281976-1983.29
plasmawave
Banned
Was MGS1 first to do opening staff credits while players playing the game?
Nope, that would be Cat and Mouse for the Magnavox Odyssey.
Granted, the cat was just a dot in that game.
There's also Caesar the Cat for C64 (1983): http://www.mobygames.com/game/caesar-the-cat
SeventhSon
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Activision - first non in house publisher/developer for a home console
Activision is often referred to as the first third party develeper/publisher, but the entire concept of licensed parties didn't really exist until the NES. Anyone could produce carts for the Atari VCS, there was no lock out mechanism, as there was no licensed publishers.
Activision is often referred to as the first third party develeper/publisher, but the entire concept of licensed parties didn't really exist until the NES. Anyone could produce carts for the Atari VCS, there was no lock out mechanism, as there was no licensed publishers.
ah, never played Q3, that's why, such an awesome feature though