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Post by phediuk on Jul 10, 2018 13:15:13 GMT -5
I interpreted "environmental awareness themed" as "preservation of the natural world"--less Alan Turing and more Rachel Carson.
For an early (earliest?) commercial example of a Game of Life-like game, there's Alien Garden (Atari 800, 1982):
The Wikipedia page also pushes it as the first "art game", though that strikes me as a uselessly nebulous term. Would the free-drawing mode in Surround (Atari 2600, 1977) count as an art game?
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Jul 10, 2018 13:30:39 GMT -5
Yes that's more accurate to what I had in mind, but I appreciate all your suggestions.
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Post by starscream on Jul 17, 2018 7:22:43 GMT -5
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Post by condroid on Jul 17, 2018 8:39:19 GMT -5
Conway's Game of Life was an extremely popular coding exercise that was featured in many books and programming guides. If you started as a developer in the 70s/80s then there is a pretty good chance that you ran into the algorithm at some point. As a result there are probably thousands of implementations/variations of that idea out there and some apparently even made it into commercial games. When I was a kid I changed the behavior of the amoeba in Boulder Dash to follow these rules, although the game became pretty much unplayable at that point
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Post by phediuk on Jul 23, 2018 16:54:14 GMT -5
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Post by phediuk on Jul 23, 2018 16:56:41 GMT -5
Also, is Ultima V (released March 1988) the first RPG where a party member dies as part of the storyline?
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Post by phediuk on Jul 23, 2018 17:07:24 GMT -5
Bakutoushi Patton-kun for the Famicom Disk System (1988) appears to be the first video game to contain a written instance of the word "fuck"; during the loading screen, a message appears telling the user to "Turn to Side B and Insert to Fucking Box!" (CORRECTION: it's the first commercial game with a "fuck", but not the first game period.) (Chrontendo discovered that one.) The first game where "fuck" is spoken out loud appears to be Llamatron (DOS, 1991). I have also seen claims that Beach Head II for C64 (1985) contains it (see 2:16 here: youtu.be/efXtNbUONig?t=136), but it sounds like "ugh" to me. The first game to feature someone flipping the bird is the Japanese version of Paranoia (TG-16, 1990). (EDIT: scratch that, the disembodied hands from Splatterhouse [1988] came first.) The first instance of the word "shit" in a video game, both written and spoken, is in Oh Shit! for the MSX (1985).
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Post by Woody Alien on Jul 23, 2018 17:55:27 GMT -5
The first game to feature someone flipping the bird is the Japanese version of Paranoia (TG-16, 1990). Didn't Splatterhouse (1988) have those disembodied hands flipping the bird lifted from Evil Dead 2? Or was it the sequel maybe?
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Post by phediuk on Jul 23, 2018 18:01:46 GMT -5
The first game to feature someone flipping the bird is the Japanese version of Paranoia (TG-16, 1990). Didn't Splatterhouse (1988) have those disembodied hands flipping the bird lifted from Evil Dead 2? Or was it the sequel maybe? I stand corrected.
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Post by starscream on Jul 24, 2018 7:41:19 GMT -5
Bakutoushi Patton-kun for the Famicom Disk System (1988) appears to be the first video game to contain a written instance of the word "fuck"; during the loading screen, a message appears telling the user to "Turn to Side B and Insert to Fucking Box!" (Chrontendo discovered that one.) (1985). Lol, that's great. I have a hard time believing it was the first though, though it could be on consoles or maybe even in terms of commercial computer games. There are probably quite a number of teenage homebrew efforts that came before, e.g. on C64 there is stuff like "Fuckman" etc.
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Post by phediuk on Jul 24, 2018 11:26:22 GMT -5
Bakutoushi Patton-kun for the Famicom Disk System (1988) appears to be the first video game to contain a written instance of the word "fuck"; during the loading screen, a message appears telling the user to "Turn to Side B and Insert to Fucking Box!" (Chrontendo discovered that one.) (1985). Lol, that's great. I have a hard time believing it was the first though, though it could be on consoles or maybe even in terms of commercial computer games. There are probably quite a number of teenage homebrew efforts that came before, e.g. on C64 there is stuff like "Fuckman" etc.
Yeah I was only considering commercial games there. Fuckman (1984) might actually hold the title for games period, though.
I'm not sure why "fuck" seemed to be the last taboo that games were willing to cross. There were onscreen ejaculations (Beat 'em and Eat 'em, Stroker) and rape games (Custer's Revenge, Paradise Cafe) and torture simulators (Chiller) but somehow "fuck" was too much for the industry. Even GTA: Vice City doesn't contain a single "fuck".
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Post by phediuk on Jul 24, 2018 11:37:09 GMT -5
Actually, trying to determine what the first non-Japanese, commercial game to contain an uncensored, un-hidden, unambiguous "fuck" is somewhat difficult.
Even Llamatron (1991) made its "fuck" a secret. Apparently The Orion Conspiracy (DOS, 1995) qualifies, but it seems ridiculous that it would've taken so long. Anything earlier?
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Post by condroid on Jul 24, 2018 13:44:37 GMT -5
Many adventure games of the 80s understand 'fuck' and have built-in responses (sometimes even context-sensitive) when it is used. Try it in Leather Goddesses of Phobos, for example. I don't know what the first one was though.
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Post by phediuk on Jul 24, 2018 22:24:50 GMT -5
Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti (1989) for the Famicom features Dracula flipping the bird. Presumably this is the first home game to feature the gesture.
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Post by surnshurn on Jul 27, 2018 15:52:44 GMT -5
Ninja Gaiden for NES was ahead if its time for having cutscenes, which is something that really didn't become popular until the 00's. I don't know if it was the first, but it was pretty ambitious, what with the "Studio Tecmo Presents" as an opening splash screen
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