This is a list of firsts in gaming history, or list of gaming firsts, listing game concepts and genres by their first appearance. It includes board game firsts and electronic game firsts, the latter including video game firsts.
Tabletop/Board game firsts
The following table lists board game concepts and genres by their first appearance.
| Concept | Game | Year | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linear game | Senet | c. 3100 BCE to c. 1000 BCE |
Egypt |
| Racing | |||
| Non-linear game | Draughts | c. 3000 BCE to c. 900 CE |
Iraq/Mesopotamia, Iran/Persia |
| Sandbox | |||
| Strategy | |||
| Turn-based strategy (TBS) | |||
| Enemy | Go | c. 300 BCE to c. 800 CE |
China, Korea, Japan |
| Health | |||
| Open-world | |||
| Overworld | |||
| Strategy wargame | |||
| Wargame | |||
| Boss | Chess | c. 500 CE to c. 800 CE |
Indian subcontinent, Persia, Arab world |
| Character | |||
| Creative sandbox | Chess [1] | ||
| Hack & slash | Chess | ||
| Level up | |||
| Player character | |||
| Role-playing game (RPG) | |||
| Strategy RPG (SRPG) | |||
| Tactical RPG (TRPG) | |||
| Tactical wargame | |||
| Turn-based tactics (TBT) | |||
| Dungeon crawler | Dungeons & Dragons | 1974 | Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson |
| Hit points | |||
| RPG overworld | Dungeons & Dragons | 1974 | Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson |
| Empire of the Petal Throne [2] | 1974 | Muhammad Barker [3] | |
| Tabletop RPG (TRPG) | Dungeons & Dragons | 1974 | Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson |
| Empire of the Petal Throne [2] | 1974 | Muhammad Barker [3] | |
| Critical hit | Empire of the Petal Throne [2] | 1974 | Muhammad Barker [3] |
| Battle royale [4] | Battle Royale [5] | 2000 | Japan |
Electronic/Video game firsts
This is a list of electronic game firsts, which includes a list of firsts in video game history, or list of video game firsts.
The electronic games listed include video games (arcade, computer and console games), computer games (mainframe and personal computer games), and arcade games (electro-mechanical and video games).
The following tables list concepts related to electronic games, by their first appearance. The tables includes electronic games as well as related hardware.
Concepts
Controls
Graphics
Genres
The following table lists electronic game genres by their first appearance.
Sound
Technology
See also
- History of video games
- Japan
- List of gaming pioneers
- Timeline of arcade video game history
- Video gaming in Japan
References
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker, Wikipedia
- ↑ Battle Royale (Giant Bomb)
- ↑ Battle Royale Card Game
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 Kasco and the Electro-Mechanical Golden Age (Interview), Classic Videogame Station ODYSSEY, 2001
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Periscope, Sega Retro
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Duck Hunt, Sega Retro
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Indy 500, Giant Bomb
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Gun Fight, Sega Retro
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Jet Rocket, Sega Retro
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Playtron, Giant Bomb
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 Balloon Gun, Sega Retro
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- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 Wild Gunman, Giant Bomb
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Basketball, Giant Bomb
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- ↑ Destructible Environment, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Survival, Giant Bomb
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- ↑ Dialogue Trees, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Timed Decisions, Giant Bomb
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- ↑ Gingahyōryū Vifam, MobyGames
- ↑ Shanghai Kid, Giant Bomb
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- ↑ Quick-time event, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Makoto Uchida, Giant Bomb
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- ↑ Sea Devil, Sega Retro
- ↑ Soccer, Giant Bomb
- ↑ 54.0 54.1 Astro Race at Museum of the Game
- ↑ 55.0 55.1 Discrete logic arcade games, Sega Retro
- ↑ 56.0 56.1 Martin Picard (December 2013), The Foundation of Geemu: A Brief History of Early Japanese video games, The International Journal of Computer Game Research 13 (2), Game Studies
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- ↑ 58.0 58.1 58.2 Motion Control, Giant Bomb
- ↑ 59.0 59.1 KO Punch, Sega Retro
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- ↑ Pressure Sensitivity, Giant Bomb
- ↑ 64.0 64.1 Sega Hang-On hardware, Sega Retro
- ↑ 65.0 65.1 Star Arthur Densetsu I: Wakusei Mephius, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Sega Graphic Board, Sega Retro
- ↑ Sega X Board, Sega Retro
- ↑ 68.0 68.1 Hands On Throttle-And-Stick
- ↑ XE-1 AP, Sega Retro
- ↑ Dempa, Sega Retro
- ↑ Sega Activator, Giant Bomb
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- ↑ neGcon, Giant Bomb
- ↑ 3D Control Pad, Sega Retro
- ↑ Kasco, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Kenzou Furukawa, Giant Bomb
- ↑ 79.0 79.1 Phong Shading, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Bui Tuong Phong, Illumination of Computer-Generated Images, Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, UTEC-CSs-73-129, July 1973.
- ↑ Vertical scrolling
- ↑ 82.0 82.1 Road Race, Sega Retro
- ↑ 83.0 83.1 Bomber, Sega Retro
- ↑ Bomber, Giant Bomb
- ↑ 85.0 85.1 Bomber at Museum of the Game
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- ↑ PROJECTS AND ARTICLES Retrieving Japanese Apple II programs.
- ↑ Page flipping
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- ↑ Parallax Scrolling, Giant bomb
- ↑ Turbo, Sega Retro
- ↑ Steve Hanawa, Sega Retro
- ↑ Stereoscopic 3D, Giant Bomb
- ↑ 94.0 94.1 Astron Belt, Sega Retro
- ↑ Bega's Battle, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Extreme Violence, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Katsunori Yoshimura, Giant Bomb
- ↑ 98.0 98.1 Amnork (Giant Bomb)
- ↑ Flat Shading, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Ray Casting, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Sim Drive (Giant Bomb)
- ↑ Gouraud Shading, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Doctor Hauzer, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Riverhill Software, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Autostereoscopy, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, issue 93, April 1997, page 22
- ↑ Hisao Oguchi, Sega Retro
- ↑ Brave Firefighters, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Takashi Tokita, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Hisahiko Takeuchi, MobyGames
- ↑ Depth-of-field, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Masaya Nakamura, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Hisashi Suzuki, Sega Retro
- ↑ Balloon Gun at Museum of the Game
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- ↑ Crashing Race at Museum of the Game
- ↑ Space Tactics, Sega Retro
- ↑ Fonz, Sega Retro
- ↑ Dru Hill: The Chronicle of Druaga, 1UP
- ↑ Koji Sumii, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Space Tactics, Sega Retro
- ↑ Mystery House, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Roberta Williams, Giant Bomb
- ↑ 124.0 124.1 Samurai, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Lupin III, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Samurai at Museum of the Game
- ↑ 127.0 127.1 127.2 Panorama Toh, Giant Bomb
- ↑ The Dragon & Princess, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Terror House, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Tatsumi, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Yoshio Kiya, Giant Bomb
- ↑ 132.0 132.1 Bokosuka Wars, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Immersive Sim, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Yuji Horii, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Hokkaidou Rensa Satsujin: Ohotsuku ni Kiyu!!, Giant Bomb
- ↑ 136.0 136.1 136.2 Herzog Zwei, Sega Retro
- ↑ The Screamer, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Magical Zoo, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Getsu Fuuma Den, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Hero Shooter (TV Tropes)
- ↑ Outtrigger (Sega Retro)
- ↑ Toshiba-EMI Ltd, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Haruhiko Shono, Giant Bomb
- ↑ The Life Stage: Virtual House, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Micro Cabin, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Doctor Hauzer, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Riverhill Software, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Kenichiro Hayashi, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Hidetaka Miyazaki (Giant Bomb)
- ↑ Masaya Nakamura, Giant Bomb
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- ↑ Yamaha, Sega Retro
- ↑ Chiptune, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Sharp MZ (Giant Bomb)
- ↑ Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar, Volume 4 (1979)
- ↑ https://www.giantbomb.com/speech-synthesis/3015-3801/ Speech Synthesis], Giant Bomb
- ↑ Gaming's most important evolutions, GamesRadar
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- ↑ Hiroshi Suzuki, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Yamaha, VGM Rips
- ↑ Sharp Corporation, Giant Bomb
- ↑ Steve Jobs, Giant Bomb
- ↑ https://segaretro.org/Sega_Master_System
- ↑ https://segaretro.org/Sega_Master_System/Technical_specifications
- ↑ https://segaretro.org/Yamaha