BigWeather
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Exidy's Crossbow, also 1983, let you choose the path (red or green) when progressing through the game as well.
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Absolute firsts in video games
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Exidy's Crossbow, also 1983, let you choose the path (red or green) when progressing through the game as well.
teruterubozu
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I meant 3rd person. First person history is too convoluted and varied.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Hunter can be played in 3rd person, I believe.
There was Mercenary in 1985:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenary_(video_game)
Perhaps also the first game to feature multiple factions you could play off each other?
Earthpainting
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What's the first First Person Shooter that allowed you to look through your sniper rilfe's scope and see your target all zoomed in? I kind of want to say Golden Eye, but I honestly don't know.
Tail of the Sun (Playstation) - FIRST 3D OPEN WORLD SANDBOX game ever made.
you forgot mercenary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenary_%28video_game%29
Damn too slow again
There were shmups like Galaxians, Galaga, Moon Cresta etc that used scrolling stars in the background but that's all they were, stars whereas Xevious was landscape with various terrain. There may have been a fact about it on Namco Museum disc or that 3D Xevious reboot that was on PSone(?) bit I am positive it was a first in something. Maybe it was the secondary fire/bomb.
ichtyander
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The first console FPS (like Wolf3D or Doom) would probably be Corporation aka Cyber Cop, originally released on the Amiga in 1990, ported to the Genesis in 1992. Corporation was also very advanced for its time, it had dynamic lighting, realtime gameplay and maze-like environments (couple of years before Wolfenstein) but also had more complex elements like RPG stats and inventory/equipment and is probably the first FPS to have hacking and sneaking mechanics. It's the grandaddy of System Shock in some ways.
Regarding FPS games in general, or at least first person games on home computers, you could probably go as far as '82 with Wayout, a maze game with realtime first person graphics. Its "spiritual sequel", Capture the Flag (1983) is probably the earliest example of a FPS with split screen multiplayer and something that resembles the CTF game mode (although you just need to touch the flag, not take it back to your HQ).
Mercenary (1985) introduced an open world, a city you can walk, drive or fly around in, take and give items, destroy buildings or other vehicles, talk to NPCs, "work" for two sides, earn money and it even had a sprawling underground complex you could enter via elevators.
Then there's The Eidolon (1985), an adventure FPS where you battle mythical creatures by throwing magic with various effects and explore fractally generated caves.
And then there's MIDI Maze for the Atari ST (1987) and Driller released the same year. MIDI Maze is probably the earliest example of realtime FPS deathmatch and team deathmatch, sporting up to 16 player local MP with Atari STs linked via the MIDI port, a LAN party.
Driller (Space Station Oblivion) was more of a first person adventure/puzzle game, had full shaded polygon graphics, goals to solve and even secret rooms and hidden levels. Its sequel, Dark Side (1988) is more advanced, and probably the first to have a jetpack in an FPS game as well as a "stance" icon displaying if the player is on foot or in the air with the jetpack on, years before modern military shooters.These are all games that control a character on foot, which is one of the key aspects of classic FPS games. There are even earlier examples of first person games with shooting which were largely set into a cockpit of a vehicle (Battlezone, Star Wars and so on).
Ahhhh Mercenary was another game I was going to mention bit for other reasons (plus it was wireframe like Star Wars Arcade where as I mentioned filled objects to create polygon looking objects).
I was going to suggest/ask if Mercenary was the first sandbox game since it was technically a limited size playing field a opposed to Elite but gave you the ability to progress in any order and manipulate objects.
Screaming Meat
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Cracking game! Was Sword of Damocles the sequel to that?
I want to say that is definitely true. Pretty sure I've read that somewhere. If it wasn't the first it definitely was the one that popularized that mechanic.
Shin Kojima
Banned
Tail of the Sun (Playstation) - FIRST 3D OPEN WORLD SANDBOX game ever made.
This doesn't count?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_(video_game)
Rainbow 6 Vegas had one in 2006. Might not be the first though.
Nah, it was called something else that was exclusive to the Arcamedes(SP?) computer released in the late 80s.
PS I keep forgetting to commend the OP on this thread, possibly my favorite already in my 12+years of being part of Gaf.
Screaming Meat
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I checked that wiki page. Damocles (not Sword of...) was the sequel. I had it on ye olde Amiga. Loved all those games: Hunter, Midwinter etc.
But scramble had seperate fire/bomb and that's in 1981-It was just horizontal scrolling instead of vertical.
ichtyander
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Fantastic game. It worked so slow on the C64 but I didn't know any better back then and it was an incredible concept, just letting me run around a 3D city, drive vehicles etc. Yeah, Damocles is the sequel and there's a third game called The Dion Crisis. Damocles introduced a whole solar system you could explore, planets to land on and places to see, crazy stuff.
Damocles was the follow up to mercenary after the expansion like SECOND CITY.
Ah I see. I guess it might've just been the first vertically scrolling shooter with the mechanic then. Or rather first overhead shooter.
The first MMO was on C64, and it was called Habitat (made by LucasArts, used the QuantumLink service). It's obviously not like WoW or even Meridian, but it was much more than a graphical MUD. I remember a very interesting podcast about it, it was a breakthrough game in many ways (maybe it was Retronauts?).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_(video_game)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_(video_game)
Minister of the Dog
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The first RPG made in Japan (by a Dutch-Indonesian man!) was The Black Onyx, released in late 1983. The second RPG made in Japan was Mugen no Shinzou, made by actual Japanese people at Xtalsoft, released in february 1984. These games were designed after western games, like Wizardry.
http://www.edge-online.com/features/the-making-of-the-black-onyx/
http://www.edge-online.com/features/the-making-of-the-black-onyx/
I do believe that Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic Game(s) are the first to introduce Cinematic Dialogue Options
While dialogue choices is a very common element in Role Playing Games in the early 2000s, Bioware was the first one (to my knowledge) to imbue cinematic element in their dialogue system.
While dialogue choices is a very common element in Role Playing Games in the early 2000s, Bioware was the first one (to my knowledge) to imbue cinematic element in their dialogue system.
I'm starting to feel bad for posting so much but games just keep popping into my head.
Moon Cresta (1980 Arcade) - First schmup to enable the player to link your ships together to fire multiple bullets. This was made more popular by Galaga released a year later.
Time Soldiers (1987 Arcade) - First game to introduce time travel forwards and backwards as well as use weapons from each era (and you could take weapons from one era to another).
Soldier of Light (1986 Arcade) - Introduced not only vertical and horizontal platform/shooter on one of five planets. At the end of each stage you jump into a ship and fly to the next planet. This section was a horizontal schmup. Not sure if that counts as a first for mixing two different styles of gameplay.
Moon Cresta (1980 Arcade) - First schmup to enable the player to link your ships together to fire multiple bullets. This was made more popular by Galaga released a year later.
Time Soldiers (1987 Arcade) - First game to introduce time travel forwards and backwards as well as use weapons from each era (and you could take weapons from one era to another).
Soldier of Light (1986 Arcade) - Introduced not only vertical and horizontal platform/shooter on one of five planets. At the end of each stage you jump into a ship and fly to the next planet. This section was a horizontal schmup. Not sure if that counts as a first for mixing two different styles of gameplay.
What was the first music-oriented game? I'm thinking of Otocky (1987) on the Famicom Disk System but it was probably not the first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uIdWu1CzJ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uIdWu1CzJ0
How do you define "cinematic elements"?
Just to name one (and probably not the first), Secret of Monkey Island (1990) had similar dialogue options:
Here's a picture of the previously mentioned cathode ray tube amusement device.
Again, first interactive electronic game, period.
... I think the missile simulator game that this thing played deserves a remake.
bet that still weighs less than a ps3 phat
Not sure about the first FPS featured it, but LucasArts' Outlaw predates Golden Eye.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/outlaws/screenshots/gameShotId,4522/
Gusy
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Gaming's first noob
Great post over here..
SeventhSon
Member
Team Fortress - first class based shooter, first shooter with bonus damage for head shots
Earthpainting
Member
Oh, interesting! Never heard of the game, but it's definitely is the type of stuff I was describing.
Why would you do that?
Member
I remember reading that, too. Of course, it isn't a rhythm game like PaRappa (I believe the first proper rhythm game), but you perform actions to the beat and you create music while doing so, so it is music oriented. (I think I read it on Wikipedia, though. I should look at its source for that claim.)
ichtyander
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The original Team Fortress mod for Quake had the sniper class so it might be an even earlier example than Outlaws, but I havent played the original TF so I'm not sure if there's actually a scope view or just a simple zoom.
I'm wondering if SEAL Team had snipers, don't remember.
Venture (arcade, 1981) may also contain the first "hub world" in a game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA9Y-63-tss
Vanguard (1981) also has a secondary fire/bomb mechanic, and was released around the same time as Scramble.
Well, there's the handheld musical game Simon (1978):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(game)
However, it's debatable whether that counts as a video game.
The weapon shops in Double Dragon 3 (arcade, 1990) might be the first example of microtransactions in a video game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Dragon_3
You had to put in real quarters to buy items in the game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Dragon_3
You had to put in real quarters to buy items in the game.
Rip-Off (arcade, 1980) is possibly the first game to have simultaneous co-op gameplay (can't confirm this, but can't find anything older either):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um_Aq5M6REk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um_Aq5M6REk
Not the first with bonus damage for head shots. That goes at least as far back as Goldeneye (1997), and there's probably something older too.
Zapperkhan
Member
Nice!
Also, I realized that Lunar Lander (arcade, 1979) might count for microtransactions too, since you have to keep buying fuel in order to continue playing the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyAT9ot7Nu4
Zapperkhan
Member
I'd count it.
Wasn't Team Fortress originally a 1996 mod release?
SeventhSon
Member
Team Fortress had it first http://kotaku.com/5625054/the-history-of-headshots-gamings-favorite-act-of-unreal-violence
CyberChulo
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Was Killzone 2 the first to have snap, lean and peek cover system for a FPS game?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPZ7cQwblrM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPZ7cQwblrM
Is there any game predating Dragon Buster (arcade, 1984) with a map screen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OIAU4EYfGXM#t=87
Well, okay, there were a few games with level-select screens, but I'm talking the kind of map that would later show up in games like Mario 3 and Donkey Kong Country. This might be a case of "depends on how 'map screen' is defined".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OIAU4EYfGXM#t=87
Well, okay, there were a few games with level-select screens, but I'm talking the kind of map that would later show up in games like Mario 3 and Donkey Kong Country. This might be a case of "depends on how 'map screen' is defined".