Questions tagged [gaming-history]
Questions about the history of games, conventions, customs, traditions and gaming terms, and how they have developed over time.
8
questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
6
votes
0
answers
106
views
What's the first game to feature sacrificing at altars as a general game mechanic?
In NetHack you can sacrifice sufficiently fresh corpses at altars for various benefits. Are there any earlier games where such sacrifices are a general game mechanic? Going by the TV Tropes page on ...
- 189
4
votes
0
answers
220
views
What was the first game to have a "quicksave" feature?
Quicksave (according to Wikipedia, and my own experience) is a feature that allows the player to save their game state with a single keystroke, instead of (say) going through a lot of complicated ...
- 287
3
votes
0
answers
183
views
Is Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road the first game to implement paid upgrades?
I went to the arcade recently and played Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road (long name) for the first time. I noticed you could put tokens in the machine with the purpose of buying upgrades for ...
2
votes
0
answers
56
views
First platformer enemy to stun players by jumping?
In platformer games, there’s a fairly common trope/mechanic of an unusually heavy enemy that, when they land after jumping, stuns the player if they are on the ground. Examples include Sledge Brothers ...
- 31
2
votes
0
answers
329
views
Who was the first boss who had multiple HP bars?
It is commonplace in current video games that bosses, most likely final bosses, have multiple HP bars so that depleting one fully reveals another underneath, usually a different color, or sometimes ...
- 137
2
votes
0
answers
219
views
Where did the Waluigi myth come from?
A while ago, I heard there was a myth about unlocking Waluigi as a playable character in the DS port of Super Mario 64. I've looked around the internet for the origin but all I can find are ROM hacks....
- 1,964
1
vote
0
answers
79
views
What was the first game to include a crafting system for non-critical in game items?
What was the first video game that allowed you to collect components or materials that had no intrinsic use by themselves, and then combine them into useful in game items such as weapons or food?
I'm ...
- 481
1
vote
0
answers
50
views
Who did what for the original "Shadowgate" on Macintosh and NES?
I am trying to determine who were actually involved in making the classic "Shadowgate" game for the Macintosh, and its NES port.
On MobyGames, I read:
Staff: David Feldman, David Marsh, ...
- 565
Hot Network Questions
- Is Taoism a philosophy?
- Night hike partitioning
- As a dungeon master, how can I manage a blind encounter?
- Does distance exist in thermodynamic coordinates?
- Can we hit the spaceship
- When 'business' means 'company,' is it a countable noun?
- Discrepancies between Mann-Whitney Test and Linear Mixed Model Results in R
- May a juror refuse to answer questions?
- Is it purely an embrace that is being discussed?
- Matrix Class Implementation
- 'Cat' has a final 't'. — The letter "t" is the only one in the word "cat". Then why is it possible to use "a" here?
- How to project a vertex to the nearest point along a vector?
- Are 90 minutes enough for London Luton inbound connection?
- If Else Conditions in Bash
- What's missing?
- 220v Washer Dryer Machine Voltage Tolerance
- Why does the IDF call the surgery department of Al-Shifa the "Qatari Building"?
- What is the lowest CR creature that can defeat an Ancient Red Dragon in open combat, and how many of them does it take?
- Does becoming a warlock mean said warlock will become a "Soul Coin" upon death?
- How to let a recruiter know you're not seriously considering another job but you are exploring your options
- Can philosophy be useful?
- Hierarchical forecasting - demand classification required for prediction?
- The science behind an invisible wall of pain
- Why was Lt. Col. Markinson worried that Santiago's letter would leak?