History of Video Games (1940's – 2010's) – list of firsts
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History of Video Games (1940's – 2010's) – list of firsts
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#2Ok so I just realised that my entire understanding of video game history was wrong! This is fascinating.
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#4Not sure why it says that Mystery House is the "first game with an ending". Hunt the Wumpus from 6+ years earlier certainly has an ending (you catch the Wumpus). Colossal Cave Adventure and mainframe Zork certainly do too. Adventure for the Atari 2600 and Star Raiders for the Atari 800 both predate it by a couple months. It's not even the first commercial home computer adventure game to have an ending, since quite a few of the Scott Adams adventures predate it. At a guess, I'd say it could be the first "graphical adventure game with a text parser interface", but I wouldn't swear to it.
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#5I feel like there's some notable omissions like:
- Online multiplayer
- MMO
- VR / AR with headtracking
- Generated Worlds
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#6This pretty awesome. There were things in this list that I didn't know they existed.
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#7I think they forgot Falcon 4.0. First game with procedural campaign simulating an entire warfront where your missions impacted the outcome of the war.
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#8The Space Wars (1977) gameplay video is me playing my old arcade game with my son. The video is copied from my YouTube channel -- maybe this guy should attribute the source of his gameplay clips...
I sold the game years ago as it is rather large. I also worked with a few ex-Cinematronics engineers back in the day. They claimed it was a "hack shop" but a lot of fun at times.
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#9The Space Wars (1977) gameplay video is me playing my old arcade game with my son. The video is copied from my YouTube channel -- maybe this guy should attribute the source of his gameplay clips... I sold the game years ago as it is rather large. I also worked with a few ex-Cinematronics engineers back in the day. They claimed it was a "hack shop" but a lot of fun at times.
Take one for the team. He is storing and trying to preserve this info, which is valuable by itself.
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#10I used to play Hunter on Amiga for hours (first open world 3D game). I never understood why it took so long after Hunter for the concept of open world to really stick.