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People are always raging on about the birth of a new type of gaming, but what about the old ones?

Where did they all come from?

AFAICT : These may be the originators but I could be totally wrong

Adventure : Colossal Cave (1976)
FPS : The Eidolon? (1985)
RTS : Dune 2? (1993)
Maze Games: Pacman (1980) - You could even call it an Arcade Adventure?
Shooters : Space Invaders (1978)
Platformers : Moon Cresta (1980)

Any more? And are there any new types of gaming about?
 
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AFAICR, it was something called Space Wars back in the 60's...

I know GoW is known for Quicktime events, but was the first Dragon's Lair?

Couple more I'm looking at

Light Gun : Boot Hill?
Film adapation : ET?
Voice Synth : Ultima something?
 
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Many many moons ago, I had a lightgun game that was built in to a 'home entertainment console'. I forget what the machine was called, but it had several variations of pong, two paddle controllers that were permanently attached, and a light-gun you could plug in to play either 'skeet' or, uh, the other one. Both light gun games consisted of a white dot floating around a black screen. I remember it from the early 80s, but it may have been older than that, I don't know when we bought it.
 
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I've heard the origin of the RTS genre being attributed to Herzog Zwei on the Sega Genesis which dates to 1989. The Westwood Studios guys who made Dune 2 and the C&C series cited it as their inspiration.

For the first FPS I would go back to Battlezone from 1980, but that is probably stretching the definition a little.
 
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