History of Games. The first and the greatest.

Good days to all! In this blog, I will try to briefly tell about the greatest video games in history. Many will not be affected, many are missed, but there is something to see here too. In this topic the greatest and first games. Pleasant reading!

I say right away that Mario and Zeldy will not be here!

The first game in history
We will start with the very first game, as many origins say: a hunt is a game under Edsac who is a nolly crosses. She came out back to 1952, so there were no multipleers and cooperatives, but only a person against a computer. The output was carried out on a raster display with a dimension of 35 × 16 points, which used an electron-ray tube. The symbol and priority of the course were chosen by the player before the start of the game. Despite the restrictions on the length of the source code imposed by the characteristics of the computer, the game has a fairly good artificial intelligence.

Do not think that such an interface was in 1952. I hope everyone understands that this is only an emulator.

But these are just knitting crosses. Though the first.

The first multiplayer game
The first game that provided the opportunity to play against a person, and not fight artificial intelligence, is Tennis for Two. You can try to imagine that it happened if it had not occurred to William Higinbotam to create a game in which friends will compete among themselves. Probably nothing. Just the first multiplayer game would be another development.

Tennis for Two turned out to be an insanely popular game, but the Higinbots at that time did not realize the significance of his invention, and therefore did not try to patent it. Despite popularity, the game lasted less than two years. And I remind you that all this was played not on the Full HD screen, but an AVM and an oscilloscope served as to display the court and the ball. But everything has its time.

Oscilloscope – earlier with the help of this thing they displayed the image.

The first slot machine with a television screen

And so we got to the screens. The first game on the screens and part -time first arcade is Galaxy Game – a release game dates from 1971. The game was a Shoot ’em up, which is now a rarity.

Typical for Shoot ‘Em Up gameplay.

Galaxy Game grew out of Spacewar! And there is an opinion that the second is not just a prototype on which the game grew up, but also the Galaxy Game itself, but was renamed due to the non-suitable name against the backdrop of Vietnamese events.

The first shooter in the first person

MAZE WAR Game of 1974, which became one of the ancestors of modern jokes in the first person, as well as the creator of the Deathmatch mode.It is considered one of the first in the Juper genre.
In Maze War, players move around the labyrinth;The possibility of moving forward, backward, to get right and left, as well as look into the doorways. Other participants in the game are presented on the screen in the form of eyeballs. Glasses are awarded for each murder, and if you met death with the iPad, then glasses are removed. For me, so eye apples are a rather strange solution of designers, or designer ..

Multi User Dungeon Text-user computer game, which contains elements of the role-playing game, Hack-And-Slash, Interactive Fiction and a chat, usually divided into channels. Traditionally, Telnet protocol is used to transmit messages. There is nothing to tell. Ordinary text role -playing game.

Text role -playing game, looked something like this.

The first racing game with pseudo -dimensional graphics – Pole Position

This is not the first racing game, but it is the first in the genre of racing with pseudo -threat graphics.

A computer term that is used mainly in relation to games or gaming technologies, the graphics of which are trying to simulate a three -dimensional playing space, but is not three.

Also, the player’s opponents and the vast majority of DOOM elements are sprite, that is, these are not voluminous models, but an animized two -dimensional images that move in level and are replaced by ready -made versions from the existing library depending on the position of the object regarding the observer (approaching the enemy from the back, the player will see his spit depicting the monster)

In this game, the player drives a racing car with the aim of passing the qualification stage in the Formula 1 race at the Fuji Avtodrome. After successful qualifications, the race of race with several machines begins.

The first game in the style of “Living Casino-moana.uk Cinema”

Dragon’s Lair is a computer game originally released in the form of a slot machine by Cinematronics in 1983. The machine used Laserdiscc to play animation.
Most of the games of that time represented heroes using a set of springs. Due to hardware restrictions, sprites were greatly limited in quality. Dragon’s Lair went around these restrictions thanks to the use of Laserdisc. When the game appears, the contrast with other slot machines was striking. You can even call this game a breakthrough graphics plan. But not the gameplay.

FMV games-a collective designation for computer and video games using Full Motion Video technology for organizing the gameplay. Games can be made in various genres and also use other technologies.So when the next time you get ready to call any game kinz, remember this note

Sometimes this screenshot can be confused with Disney animation. No wonder one of the animators of the aforementioned studio worked on Dragon’s Lair.

Real time first strategy

And here is the first game from the genre that is now experiencing a crisis of ideas and the threat clearly hung over the genre. Stonkers – a strategic game in real time, which is considered the first in this genre. It was written and published for the ZX Spectrum computer Imagine Software in 1983.

Stonkers is controlled using a keyboard or joystick. The player manages infantry, artillery, tanks and supply trucks. During movement, units spend energy, and in order to replenish it you need to use supply units that must move to the same place. Supply units are replenished when a ship enters the port.

The first real -time strategy could captivate for a long time.
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メタルギア
Metal Gear developed by Hideo Kodzimima and Konami published by Konami in 1987 for home computers of the MSX2 standard. Laid the beginning of the famous Metal Gear game series. The player controls the solid Snayk. He must move according to various locations, performing the action determined by the task. And at the same time should be hidden from patrols. If the Snake gets into the eyes of an enemy soldier, then enemy reinforcements will arrive at the place. You can either tie a battle and dump, or destroy everyone.

Screenshot of reprints
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Battle City
One of the key eight -bit games .Battle City is the first game in history with a built -in LVL editor;It was impossible to save the created. The craftsmen, however, soon hacked the editor and flooded the underground transitions of Russia with cartridges with hundreds of new levels.

Battle City or tanks
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In 1989, Sweet Home was a computer game in the Survival Horror genre developed and released by Capcom for Nintendo in 1989. Officially the game has never been released outside Japan.

We are offered to play as much as 5 characters of Cazuo, Tarot, Akiko, Asuka, Amy – our five with cool names. Everyone has their own abilities, and get out of the house (and meanwhile the main task) using the special heroes of the main characters.

Not the first, but still a legend

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The first Mortal Kombat was created as the response of Street Fighter 2 from Capcom. Instead of drawn multiplier graphics, Mortal Kombat used sprites made from digitized videos with living actors. Critics claimed that ostentatious cruelty was included in the game only in order to cause public protest and disputes, and thereby draw public attention to the game. Although very controversial, a mixture of realism and cruelty made Mortal Kombat popular. The whole series of games is known for excessive cruelty, which includes cruel finishing, blows spraying blood, and unrealistic ostentatious specialists. For this we love.

The first Führer of the genre action
Now you think why the first Führer is not Maze War. Maybe you will not have such a question. After all, in comparison with this game, Maze War is just drowning. Wolfenstein 3D has become a revolution in everything. The gameplay was built on the fact that the player should break through from point A to point B along the way destroying tons of fascists.Although the game is not the first in the series, but in the genre of action in the first person it is the first. Before, there were only 2 games with the Wolfenstein heading and this: Castle Wolfenstein Stles Explosion and Beond Castle Wolfenstein, as well as the predecessor, was a stealth-screen from the top. The player in Wolfenstein 3D was offered to get involved in William’s skin “B. J.”Blazhkovich. But most likely you yourself know a lot about her.

The hero comes to his senses in alien jungle and after a while finds out that he is an agent of galactic CIA. Its task is to save the Earth from the invasion of mimicing aliens, which can only be recognized using the molecular density analyzer. Then there will be a fatal reality show in New Washington (a colony of earthlings on the titanium) and a trip to the native planet of the invaders-any of the choice of half an hour Flashback contains ideas for three inconspicuous fantastic novels.

Doom
For a long time there is no longer anything first, because everything has already invented everything. Doom could boast only by the fact that he is the first coop action. Also an achievement.
DOOM Cultiva, released by ID Software on December 10, 1993, is one of the most famous and popular products in the genre. And even now many people know that it is why he is so popular.

The idea of ​​the name of the game, according to John Karmak, prompted the film “The Color of Money”, in which the main character Vincent is a billiard room with a suitcase in his hand and, in response to the question “What Do You have in the?”, Answers with an ominous grin:” Doom “.
The player is invited to alternately explore the levels of different complexity, solve spatial and logical (quite rarely) tasks, find caches, destroy as many monsters as possible and survive. Levels are confusing labyrinths with many doors, keys, elevators, mines, buttons and secret rooms.

The first capture of the flag

No, we have not approached the Battlefield series. For the first time I had to control the points in Rise of the Triad, which is built on the modified Wolfenstein 3D engine.
This time we are part of the Hunt detachment, which should stop a certain cult that threaten humanity. The boat on which the hero arrives on the island is destroyed. The player can only discover the location of the leader of the cult and kill him. The player can choose one of the members of the Hunt detachment as a GG, each of the characters is distinguished by accessible weapons. Among the weapons there are both scientific and fantastic types of weapons and magical.

We have already seen a lot of different shooters in which the world has already saved from aliens, and millions of Fritz killed. What can we offer Duke Nukem 3D? The main character. Duke Nyukem is an agent of the US government, brutal and mocking. In general – one of the most colorful heroes of computer games. In the course of action, it can joke and even quarrel with the player. Replicas from the game quickly dispersed to quotes. In the same part of the game, the famous expression of Duke Nyukem appeared: “It’s Time to Kick Ass and Chew Bubble Gum!”(” Time to put your asses and chew gum!”). And nothing more new. Tons of aliens, an extended spect of the choice of weapons (moreover, another strange one) and the plot about the invasion of the aliens.

ID Software again created a breakthrough game. The Doom and Wolfenstein 3D have established itself, they continued to hone skills to create shooters. Quake was the first of the most successful games in total more than 4 million copies of Quake, Quake II and Quake III: Arena, which was not a small number for that time.
The game consists of 28 levels that are grouped in 4 episodes, as well as 4 hidden sub-levels in each episode. Each episode is a separate measurement into which the player falls through teleportation gate.Each episode the player begins on a futuristic military base, in which there are a gate into an alternative reality with a “medieval” environment. At each level there are secret areas – special small places hidden from the player. In each of them you can find some useful item. Most often, the entrance to such a secret area can be found if you carefully look at the situation. It can be either a door opening with a shot or button, or some niche, the passage into which is difficult to notice … At the end of each level, the statistics of passage are displayed: the time spent, the number of killed enemies and disclosed secrets, but it is time to stop talking about the first-person shooters and go to 1999.

Age of Empires II
A cult strategy that was ahead of the planet and brought a huge number of innovations. The player controls one of the nations, moving to different eras. The game begins with the dark era. Then you can go to the feudal era, the era of castles, and finally in the imperial era. The post-imperial era is also available, choosing which the player begins the game with all the studied technologies available to this civilization. The player controls units that can attack, build buildings, extract resources. Resources 4 types: gold, stone, wood, food. The game adjusts to the player. Although the spear is stronger than the words, but for those who love the tantric gameplay, there was also a place (which was demonstrated in stream by HD
remake Age of embries II).

Half-Life
Half-Life-a game in the genre of a first-person science fiction shooter developed by Valve. The first game in the Half-Life series.
Half-Life was one of the first games in which the plot develops completely inside the game space without using video surveys. Others call Half-Life the strong side of the artificial intelligence of opponents. Half-Life is one of the first games where the player had allies. Many publications note that Half-Life revolutioned the first-person shooter genre and laid the foundation for a new stage of its development.

No screensavers

More than 50 gaming publications recognized Half-Life “Game of the Year”. But now many say that too Half-life was overestimated.
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Gran Turismo
The first race developed, Polyphony Digital studio, which belongs to Sony. In their first project was both the arcade regime and the simulator mode. A realistic and subtle physical model, and many other aspects of the game made Gran Turismo successful, so much so that the game opened the doors to the genre of realistic car symphulants on consoles.

One of those few horror in which you can not only hide from enemies, but can also be resisted. I will not affect the gameplay and plot. About all this has long been described. But I will only say that Silent Hill is one of the first games in which the design of locations and enemies approached the share of creativity.Each enemy has a story: why he is? and the like. Well, about it was also described. And also Silent Hill the most beautiful soundtrack.

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The action of the first Deus Ex takes place in the near future, the game quickly explains that the world is not the illuminates, as all self -respecting psychopaths think. In fact, the Illuminati are in the escape of the organization Majestic 12, and this is not even the whole story. Deus Ex is one of the most important games in the sense of narrative and in terms of mechanics.
DEUS EX graphics at the time of release was a high level. The game used the modified graphic engine Unreal Engine 1. However, performance problems were noted – the low frequency of personnel in some cases.

Evolution in the Open World genre
Grand Theft Auto III, GTA III or GTA 3 – the first part of the great car carrier executed in 3D. Before that, there were pokatushki by car from above, but this time Rockstarovites approached the matter with fantasy, thought out the plot, characters, weapons, and of course they created a huge open world in which you can arrange the Genocide of the police and the local population. In addition, GTA games have become so popular and profitable that many Hollywood stars were happy to voiced the characters of the game. In addition to the most beautiful voice acting, we received radio stations and a sea of ​​content.

Claude – killer, hijacker, criminal, legend.

Max Payne
The policeman, Max Payne, witnesses (and the cause) of the death of his family, loses his mind and begins to exterminate the villains in Rapid, in the jump and with two hands. The game formed the basis of the film of the same name with Mark Walberg. The game Max Payne received quite high marks and flattering reviews of the game press. Critics noted an exciting gameplay and a brilliant presentation of the plot. In addition, the game received a number of awards, including the BAFTA Award.

Syberia
Titular Siberia is a fictional island where mammoths are still found. The quest of the French visionary Benois Sokaly begins as a classic detective story: the lawyer-lawyer Kate Walker comes to a remote village to deal with the unfriendly absorption of the toy factory factory.

Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven
The mafia tells the story of Thomas Angelo, a taxi driver who, unexpectedly for himself, begins his career in crime, joining one of the mafia groups that ruling in the city. The game received positive feedback, thanks to the reliably transmitted atmosphere of the USA of the 1930s, as well as a cinematic plot and a worked out city. And of course that race. On which many ended the passage of the first mafia.

Far Cry
The first Far Cry is a tropical paradise in which the action took place, attacking the hero of the starry mutants and much more. It is also important that this is one of the first examples of the implementation of the concept of the sandbox – when what is happening is not limited by plot missions and implies relative freedom of movement.

The latter is on our list, but not in value – Bioshock
The first Bioshock was good in terms of graphics and gameplay. Ken Levin, Head of the Irrational Games studio placed more emphasis on the plot. After all, the main point of the spear in Bioshock is a story. The story of underwater Eden, plasmids and other intricacies did not allow the final credits to get bored. Bioshock showed that players can understand more than the story of Russian atomic bombs and African terrorists.

Big Daddy: 3
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And that’s all! Many games were not affected, many were not mentioned, but I have listed the most important. After the release of Bioshock, the developers began to devote more time to the plot and design. I hope you liked it and you selected a new information for yourself and nostalgic.
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