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Origins and Genre Definers chart Anonymous 06/28/19 (Fri) 23:00:45 No.7833

I want to have a chart that covers the origin points for everything vidya related, as well games that defined a genre, such as SFII.

The reason I'm posting this as a work in progress is because I don't have the ability to do all the research myself in any reasonable amount of time.

Allow me to start, and please any and all corrections and criticism is very much requested.

>First game

Space Wars

>First fighting game

Heavyweight boxing (1970s)

>First stealth game

0077 (??)

>First use of isometric

Zaxxon

>Revolutionized fighting genre to what it is today

SFII

>First FPS

Maze Hunter (??)

>First Roguelike

Rogue

>First turn based RPG

Ultima

>First dungeon crawl TB-RPG

Wizardry

>First game with a story

???

>First game with a cut scene

>First of every genre

This is a base necessity for this chart

>First [insert graphical improvements ie vector graphics, first color game, first game with actual video/photo(s), etc]

This is also a base necessity

>First x-bit games

First 8bit, 16, etc, this applies to both sound and video

>First game with samples

>First Japanese game

>First rotary joystick game

Even things such as this should be included.

Please, if you can think of any other categories to cover, or games to include for whatever reason, list them. I know this list is incomplete, I'm simply trying to illustrate the idea and scope of this chart.

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Anonymous 06/29/19 (Sat) 20:35:23 No.7834

Wizard's Castle might be older than Rogue. It doesn't have the same kind of maze where monsters follow you around, but it's still a randomized dungeon where you fight monsters and grab treasure while seeking the "Orb of Zot".

http://www.armchairarcade.com/neo/node/1381

On that page he posted the 1979 version called Hobbit, but there were later versions for various computers.

Then there's another different game altogether called DND that was written by Daniel M. Lawrence in 1976, and which eventually became sold commercially as Telengard (but there were various mainframe versions floating around before then). Have a look here for some background:

http://web.archive.org/web/20021128165907/http://dnd.lunaticsworld.com/

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MAMEguy ## Board Owner 06/30/19 (Sun) 06:28:52 No.7835

>Revolutionized fighting genre to what it is today

I'd say that's a very subjective label. First X is one thing, First Fighting Game with Special Moves maybe. Even then I think the first Street Fighter had special moves. I'd recommend avoiding vague or subjective labels altogether, and stick to firsts.

Also, I'm pretty sure Akalabeth did the turn-based RPG before Ultima did. Though technically, didn't any mainframe D&D game do the turn-based RPG thing before that?

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Anonymous 07/29/19 (Mon) 06:03:10 No.7894

Was Dragon's Lair the first game with quick time events?

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Anonymous 11/17/19 (Sun) 13:20:47 No.7915

This thread is pure love.

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