Kageshinzo
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Timesplitters came out in 2000. It contained a level editor.
Goldeneye came out in 1997.
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Absolute firsts in video games
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Timesplitters came out in 2000. It contained a level editor.
Goldeneye came out in 1997.
Wouldn't that be mega man legends?
SolidSnakex
Member
I'm not sure if it's the first, but Cyberia had regenerating health during the flying sections and it was released in 94.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Space War (1962) predates Pong and that was compulsory multiplayer.
Edit: Tennis for Two predates even that, I just learned!
yeah, talking about forge and anvil for marathon infinity.
super marathon came out on the pippin in 1996. (and it featured mouse and keyboard support)
Kageshinzo
Member
Ah, I thought you meant Halo: CE was the first for both.
In that line of thinking, one of the most popular gameplay elements, even more so than Collecting (Pac-Man ?) or Exploring (Zelda ? Edit: To be clear, I mean it in the sense of exploring a map, finding secrets, not in the sense of E.T. for example. But I'm sure there are much older ones than Zelda), is Eliminating. I think that came with Breakout (1976) from which Space Invaders was largely influenced. People loved eliminating things back then and still do today - it's at the core of lots of games.
I think Tennis for Two (1958) is also the first game to use controllers and have multiplayer gameplay.
Other gameplay mechanics to research the origins of :
Evading (Was there one before Pac-man ?)
Means acquisition (acquiring a power-up, temporary like in Pac-Man, Mario or permanent like in Metroid for example)
Ressource acquisition and management (I've no idea of the first one, not even a guess, would really appreciate someone guessing)
Alignment (Aligning objects. I think Tetris is the first one)
Platforming (Donkey-Kong ?)
ShiroAmakusa
Member
Are you talking about the first console only FPS? If not, I've been playing Wolfenstein on my SNES in 1994, not sure about any console FPS before that. My age surpassed my memory capacities.
Fuzzification
Member
If we're talking ports, then Wolfenstein on the SNES counts, released in 1993.
IIRC they were also the first fps games to featured dual wielded pistols.
WIkipedia summarizes SNK's Samurai Showdown's impact on fighting games when it comes to firsts:
Like many of SNKs flagship series, Samurai Shodown is home to several firsts in the history of fighting games. For instance:
I think Point #2 may be incorrect; Bushido Blade launched nine months before it. That let you move freely away from the initial combat areas to new ones.
Vargavinter
Member
Unless someone already mentioned it but didnt Adventure to the Atari 2600 have the first easter egg?
I don't know what the first was but every Dreamcast racing game I played did it too. At a guess I'd say Sega Rally 2.
I'm not sure when that started getting standardized for default controllers, but supposedly, using a Jogcon for Ridge Racer Type 4 meant you got accelerate/brake shoulder buttons.
ResidentDante
Member
Maybe analog triggers, but if you just say buttons then one of the earlier ones must be the NegCon sontroller on the PS1. It had two analogue buttons and an analogue shoulder button.
Both the 3D controller on the Sega Saturn and the Dreamcast controller had analogue triggers, but I don't know if any racers used them other than measuring on/off.
BTW wasn't PGR1 or 2 the first racer to turn the wheels of the car at a realistic speed regardless of the player throwing the stick or tapping d-pad suddenly in the opposite direction and thus turning the wheels instantly?
MrCunningham
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Nope, that would be the Namco NeGcon controller, which was released in 1996:
I think the first game to support this controller might have been Rage Racer, though I could be wrong. Though the NeGcon controller only had one analogue shoulder button for gas.
The first game controller to have both L and R analogue shoulders pads was the Sega Saturn 3D pad which was released in 1997:
And I believe a version of Daytona USA used the analogue triggers for gas and brake. There were also tons of Dreamcast games that used this control too,
beaten by a million times.
ResidentDante
Member
Nope, that would be the Namco NeGcon controller, which was released in 1996:
I think the first game to support this controller might have been Rage Racer, though I could be wrong. Though the NeGcon controller only had one analogue shoulder button for gas.
The first game controller to have both L and R analogue shoulders pads was the Sega Saturn 3D pad which was released in 1997:
And I believe a version of Daytona USA used the analogue triggers for gas and break. There were also tons of Dreamcast games that used this control too,
As in analogue gas/brake, or just plain supporting the controller? Becasue the NegCon has been supported since Ridge Racer 1 and WipEout 1, though I don't know if they featured analogue gas/brake. Thanks for clearing a lot up here regarding the Sega Saturn controller though!
MrCunningham
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Actually I didn't know that the original Ridge Racer on the pS1 supported the NeGcon, so I am not sure. But I will take a guess and say that all of Namco's racers probably supported the analogue gas and brake buttons. Honestly Rage Racer was the only game I have ever played with this controller.
Also, there were a lot more racing games that supported the Saturn 3D pad than I first thought:
Daytona USA: Championship Circuit Edition
Daytona USA CCE Netlink Edition
Daytona USA Circuit Edition
Choro Q Park
Manx TT Superbike
Over Drivin' GT-R
Sega Ages OutRun
Sega Ages Power Drift
Sega Rally Championship Plus
Sega Touring Car Championship
Wipeout XL
On the Dreamcast, I am pretty sure that almost every racing game made for the console used the analogue triggers accordingly. I am hard pressed to think of a DC racing game that didn't use them.And there were a lot of racers for this console.
Bjoern the Smexy
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Wolfenstein 3D came out in 1993 on the SNES.
The PC version might also be the first FPS with a map editor.
MrCunningham
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Sparrowhawk
Member
What about first paid DLC? Best answer I can find is MechAssault for the original Xbox released in 2002.
ResidentDante
Member
I gotta test it out after work today and see if they actually had analogue gas/brake in Ridge Racer 1 and WipEout 1, I think they may just be digital (on/off). The steering is definitely analogue though.
Bjoern the Smexy
Member
Depends. Are we declaring DLC as additional content? Because then, no. Additional content was a thing on PCs long before DLC even had its name.
MrCunningham
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When you add PC games, it is next to impossible to figure out which one had the first DLC. On home Consoles, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 had free DLC that could be downloaded online. SA2 had a Halloween theme that you could download to your VMU, while SA 1 had a bunch of other stuff (I forget what it had).
But, DLC could go all the way back to the Famicom and Super Famicom modems in Japan, for all I know.
Sparrowhawk
Member
Hmm, that is true. I also completely forgot about the Dreamcast having DLC. There's also stuff like the Satellaview...
Shin Kojima
Banned
Gaming's first noob
yeh I was thinking arcade games when I mentioned pong.
Should have been more specific.
Tales of Phantasia was the first JRPG with full voice acting for scenes, and a full opening "cutscene" with a dedicated vocalized theme song on the SNES.
I guess after that, every JRPG has a JPOP for their opening lol.
Also the first game with a linear action zone combat system with a full range of X/Y movements.
I guess after that, every JRPG has a JPOP for their opening lol.
Also the first game with a linear action zone combat system with a full range of X/Y movements.
Space panic came out a year earlier.
There's no jumping but there are ladders and platforms so in my book it counts.
In regards to the NegCon, I believe that came out at the same time as Ridge Racer. It was also heavily supported through the PSones life with games such as the WipEout series, Gran Turismo (all the way up to GT4 on PS2), Need for Speed 1 (possibly sequels), TOCARidge Racer 2 & 4 and Rage Racer to name a few.
There was also Zero Tolerance on the Megadrive which also came with a link cable to go from one joypad port to another on a different console.
Also in terms of Fps games there was something on the C64 around '87-'88 that used something like filled polygons. I can't remember that name of the game but if my memory serves me correctly it was released by Rainbow.
There was also Zero Tolerance on the Megadrive which also came with a link cable to go from one joypad port to another on a different console.
Also in terms of Fps games there was something on the C64 around '87-'88 that used something like filled polygons. I can't remember that name of the game but if my memory serves me correctly it was released by Rainbow.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Max Payne in 2001 introduced the concept of bullet-time / shootdodging.
After that nearly every shooter had some sort of slow-mo, bullet time thingy.
Although it is easily my favourite game series and it certainly codified/perfected it, Bullet-Time had been in titles before Max Payne (2001) in one form or other:
MDK (1997) had a sort of bullet-time in it's sniper view. You would have window-in-window slow-mo views of bullets you'd just fired. Unreal Tournament (1999) had bubbles of Slow-Time you could enter that slowed everything down (plus you could turn on Slo-Mo via console commands). You could slow down time in Requiem: Avenging Angel (1999), too.
There may even be earlier examples.
trikster40
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How about Pitfall? First time you could go backwards in a video game that I can think of.
Pretty much every source I read on this (HCG101, 1Up blogs, various retro sites) says that Xevious was not the first one - 'only' among the firsts, and certainly the most known. I don't know if this is actually true or not, as no site I ever read named any actual previous shmup, maybe someone here knows.
Also, does anyone have information about the first video gaming specific magazines? Preferably in Japan, US and Europe (UK and Germany) separately?
Awesome thread.
My (hopefully true) contributions: Gran Trak 10 (Atari) and Speed Race (Taito) were the first racing games, both released in 1974.
Wikipedia says that Speed Race was the first Japanese game distributed in America.
Night Driver (Atari, 1976) was (one of the) first videogame with realtime first-person view.
Adventure on VCS (1979) off the top of my head.Plus technically you could in text adventures as well.
@Grath.Computer and video games was the first UK game related mag I can remember.
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
It wasn't even the first console racing game made by Bizarre to use analogue triggers
Depends on what you define as key elements of a metroidvania.
Underwurlde on the spectrum has many of the gameplay elements
maybe first but certainly not the only one.
Both GT5 and 6 have manually operated wipers.#
speaking of that, GT5 and 6 both also have a dedicated button for flashing the headlights.
There is allready a buttong tio Switch between low and headlights, but you can also use a seperate button for flashing the lights.
Pole Position from 1982 was the first racing game with real world tracks and the first to introduce qualifying
BradleyLove
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Defender (1980) was the first game to introduce the concept of a "game world" in that events would happen outside of the players view (e.g. Humanoids being abducted).
I'm not sure if it was also the first to introduce smart bombs and teleporting (as an escape mechanism).
It's already been mentioned as being the first game to have gameplay not confined to a single screen. Edit: maybe not, looks like Sky Raider was earlier.
I'm not sure if it was also the first to introduce smart bombs and teleporting (as an escape mechanism).
It's already been mentioned as being the first game to have gameplay not confined to a single screen. Edit: maybe not, looks like Sky Raider was earlier.
Doom was out in 95 on the PS1.
(and apparently Wolfenstein on the SNES was before even that)
teruterubozu
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Tail of the Sun (Playstation) - FIRST 3D OPEN WORLD SANDBOX game ever made.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Does Elite not count? I know it's fairly dubious calling it a sandbox but I think there is a good argue to be made for it. If not, then definitely Hunter would be considered one of the earliest.
Wikipedia says their first issue was in november 1981. That's impressive. Thanks for the info.
They also say Electronic Games was the first American magazine (october 1981), with Computer Gaming World launching one month later.
And their very vague information on Japan is that LOGiN was the first magazine, sometimes in 1982.