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I feel like there's some notable omissions like: - Online multiplayer - MMO - VR / AR with headtracking - Generated Worlds
Such as Ant Attack - may be the first isometric game for personal computers.
Chess in 1K for the ZX81
The Hobbit - first to accept sentences for the game parser.
etc.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh my. Is it possible to upload the full resolution anywhere?
I couldn't find a site that'd let me upload it in full res, but I've put it on Imgur cut into four pieces. You can just stitch them back together to get the whole thing at full res. Unfortunately Imgur's also re-encoding the image at a lower JPEG quality. Anyone know a good free large + high res image host that doesn't need an account? Original is 9880x6966, 35MB. Sorry about the minor glitches in the scan - the orig…
The 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.
Yeah, seems to be, according to Wikipedia Atlantis was from March 1997, Blade runner from November that year. I played both, liked Atlantis more, sucked me in for a summer, a very new experience at that time (didn't really realize it at that time). I was translated to dutch with some "famous" Dutch voice actors. Really well done.
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?
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…
Descent had this before Quake, and I think even Ultima Underworld was "true 3d" (edit: but wasn't a shooter).
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 couldn't find a reference for this, and my recollection is that Unreal had amazing (for the time) detail textures when you got close to an object, but they were very repetitive.
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…
I think only Oblivion caught up with this some 15 years later.
Also Baldur's Gate, Thief, Deus Ex, Jagged Alliance were all genre-defining with their own huge improvements (e.g. 3D sound and lighting in Thief).
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…
Would work well as a wiki based site