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Why wouldn't Elite (1984) count as the first open-world 3D game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)
Don’t know. I think that history is very much a work in progress. Hunter’s world was a bit more coherent, in that it had no “jumps”.
This is interesting but the site is missing many important game technologies and incorrectly attributing some. The site lists Descent 3 as being the first to have procedural texturing and yet Unreal had it in 1998. Doom is only listed as "first game to present panoramic skies". Doom may have been the first to have ambient lighting and built to be moddable. Probably also the first LAN-based multiplayer 3D first-person…
>first LAN-based multiplayer 3D first-person shooter that would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_(1973_video_game) , its right there on this site https://ultimatehistoryvideogames.jimdofree.com/maze-war
I actually played multiplayer Maze War at the Living Computer Museum on a Xerox Alto in 2017: https://photos.app.goo.gl/VUVXQ1cG3zWAMWY3A Right is a real Alto and the other two are emulated. The three were running a multiplayer game.
I’m sure Cunningham’s Law will deliver some improvements to this list as people trawl their youth for innovations. But one thing I think is equally interesting is the list of _lasts_ in video games. For example I’m pretty sure Frontier: Elite II was the last commercial game written by a single person, in assembly language, released on a single floppy disk. And it’s been nearly 15 years now since a single game was rel…
This is interesting but the site is missing many important game technologies and incorrectly attributing some. The site lists Descent 3 as being the first to have procedural texturing and yet Unreal had it in 1998. Doom is only listed as "first game to present panoramic skies". Doom may have been the first to have ambient lighting and built to be moddable. Probably also the first LAN-based multiplayer 3D first-person…
I’m sure Cunningham’s Law will deliver some improvements to this list as people trawl their youth for innovations. But one thing I think is equally interesting is the list of _lasts_ in video games. For example I’m pretty sure Frontier: Elite II was the last commercial game written by a single person, in assembly language, released on a single floppy disk. And it’s been nearly 15 years now since a single game was rel…
As for the "written by a single person in assembly": RollerCoaster Tycoon ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RollerCoaster_Tycoon_(video_ga... ) was quite a bit later (1999) than Frontier. Probably not released on floppy though(?)
I have a great supplement to this. Back in 2000 I had a subscription to the UK PC Gamer magazine and they did a huge "Complete History Of Games" poster, with connections between everything that influenced everything else. Imgur won't let me upload my scan of it in full resolution, but here's a lower res and still readable version of my scan: https://i.imgur.com/eZPLvMR.jpg
Made me chuckle (:
I have a great supplement to this. Back in 2000 I had a subscription to the UK PC Gamer magazine and they did a huge "Complete History Of Games" poster, with connections between everything that influenced everything else. Imgur won't let me upload my scan of it in full resolution, but here's a lower res and still readable version of my scan: https://i.imgur.com/eZPLvMR.jpg
Oh my. Is it possible to upload the full resolution anywhere?
Sorry about the minor glitches in the scan - the original scan is many smaller scans stitched together as well as I only have an A4 size scanner, and the poster must be about A1.
Top left: https://i.imgur.com/NHTOq98.jpg
Top right: https://i.imgur.com/nwyFrq7.jpg
Bottom left: https://i.imgur.com/gO3Ihum.jpg
Bottom right: https://i.imgur.com/D45rmw4.jpg
I think they forgot Falcon 4.0. First game with procedural campaign simulating an entire warfront where your missions impacted the outcome of the war.
