The genre makers.

[Piotr621]

Which games do you believe had created one of the basic genre's when released (eg. "Platforming", "FPS", "RPG" etc...)

 

[Inverse Skies]

Donkey Kong for the arcade created platforming, Doom created the FPS (or maybe Wolfenstein)... yeah that's all I can think of right now.

 

[Sir Ollie]

Doom created the FPS (or maybe Wolfenstein)... yeah that's all I can think of right now.

I think Wolfenstein did i can't remember but wasn't Doom the first FPS to have the ablity of looking up and down?

 

[The Iron Ninja]

Katamari Damacy.
First of... Whatever the hell that was.

 

[Inverse Skies]

I think Wolfenstein did i can't remember but wasn't Doom the first FPS to have the ablity of looking up and down?

Ummmm... that's a good question. I think it might have been the first one to have up and down movement as well as moving, because wasn't Wolfenstein all in the same plane? No up and down? I can't quite remember now...

 

[goater24]

Pedit5 - First RPG (Of Sorts)
Mario 64 - First 3d platformer

EDIT: Am I about to get flamed?

 

[skorpion352]

gta 3 has ot be one of the most well known genre makers

and wow kinda defined the mmo genre, and at the very least madei t more mainstream, even if lots of people hate it (im one of those people that hate it)

 

[Piotr621]

I think Wolfenstein did i can't remember but wasn't Doom the first FPS to have the ablity of looking up and down?

Ummmm... that's a good question. I think it might have been the first one to have up and down movement as well as moving, because wasn't Wolfenstein all in the same plane? No up and down? I can't quite remember now...

Doom 1 definetly did not have looking up and down.

 

[Fire Daemon]

I think Wolfenstein did i can't remember but wasn't Doom the first FPS to have the ablity of looking up and down?

Ummmm... that's a good question. I think it might have been the first one to have up and down movement as well as moving, because wasn't Wolfenstein all in the same plane? No up and down? I can't quite remember now...

Wolfenstein 3D was the first FPS. Doom was the first FPS that allowed for the player to walk up stairs and go up on lifts. Doom couldn't have a room on top of another room though, each level was a single level if you get what I mean.

Both games had no Y axis, you couldn't look up and down.

EDIT: Wolfenstein didn't have any stairs of lifts so you where constantly at the same altitude. Each level was actually shaped like a Swastika, bet not many of you knew that.

 

[Shycte]

Wolfenstein 3D was the first FPS. Doom was the first FPS that allowed for the player to walk up stairs and go up on lifts. Doom couldn't have a room on top of another room though, each level was a single level if you get what I mean.

Both games had no Y axis, you couldn't look up and down.

EDIT: Wolfenstein didn't have any stairs of lifts so you where constantly at the same altitude. Each level was actually shaped like a Swastika, bet not many of you knew that.

Pling Pling Pling!

You're correct sir! You win a free cookie!

Let's get back on topic shall we?

Seeing that there is a LOT of old arcade games and atari games it is really hard to say who were first without lookingit up

We know two things however.

Wolfenstien created FPS and Pong created Sports-games.

 

[Fire Daemon]

Wolfenstien created FPS and Pong created Sports-games.

Dune II didn't create the RTS but it is responsible for creating the RTS format that is used today.

Also, your cookie was disgusting. I demand more for knowing pointless video game trivia!

 

[Ultress]

FF7 put RPGs in the mainstreram,I think.You could argue it either hurt or helped the genre but thats up to others

 

[Shycte]

Dune II didn't create the RTS but it is responsible for creating the RTS format that is used today.

Also, your cookie was disgusting. I demand more for knowing pointless video game trivia!

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*Unzips*

Heheh. Just kidding.

What you you want from me then?

Also, Pac-Man kinda created the whole Maze thing.

 

[Archaeology Hat]

FF7 put RPGs in the mainstreram,I think

It put JRPGs in the mainstream. It's Baldur's Gate is the real champion of the Mainstream Western RPG, although its by no means the first, just the one that "saved the genre".

 

[Pumpkin_Eater]

RPGs existed before the advent of videogames, the genre just got ported to a new format. If you're not satisfied with that then text based MUD games created electronic RPGs; I don't know which one came first because they were before my time.

 

[Quistnix]

I think Wolfenstein did i can't remember but wasn't Doom the first FPS to have the ablity of looking up and down?

Ummmm... that's a good question. I think it might have been the first one to have up and down movement as well as moving, because wasn't Wolfenstein all in the same plane? No up and down? I can't quite remember now...

Wolfenstein 3D was the first FPS. Doom was the first FPS that allowed for the player to walk up stairs and go up on lifts. Doom couldn't have a room on top of another room though, each level was a single level if you get what I mean.

Both games had no Y axis, you couldn't look up and down.

EDIT: Wolfenstein didn't have any stairs of lifts so you where constantly at the same altitude. Each level was actually shaped like a Swastika, bet not many of you knew that.

Doesn't that make Ultima Underworld the first fist-person game to allow you jumping and looking up and down? System Shock had multiple rooms on top of each other, but I'm not sure if those were in Ultima too.

 

[bjj hero]

International karate was the first game I played that was recongnisable as a one on beat em up. Barbarian introduced health and one hit finish/death moves.