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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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

Concept Title Year Developer
Computer game Computer Chess 1951 Dietrich Prinz
Video game Computer Draughts 1952 Christopher Strachey
Linear game Tennis For Two 1958 William Higinbotham
Electro-mechanical
arcade game 		Mini Drive [6] 1959 Kasco
(Kenzou Furukawa)
Enemy Periscope [7] 1965 Namco
(Masaya Nakamura)
Character Duck Hunt [8] 1968 SEGA
(Hisashi Suzuki)
Score
Video projection arcade game Duck Hunt [8] 1968 SEGA
(Hisashi Suzuki)
Indy 500 [9][6] 1969 Kasco
(Kenzou Furukawa)
Player character (PC) Gun Fight [10] 1969 SEGA
(Hisashi Suzuki)
Cover system
Non-linear game Jet Rocket [11] 1970 SEGA
(Hisashi Suzuki)
Open world Jet Rocket [11] 1970 SEGA
(Hisashi Suzuki)
3D open world
Scrolling open world
Overworld
Scrolling overworld
Arcade video game Computer Space 1971 Atari
(Nolan Bushnell)
Commercial video game
Video game character Playtron [12][6] 1973 Kasco
(Kenzou Furukawa)
Video game player character
Non-player character (NPC)
Health
Boss Balloon Gun [13][14] 1974 SEGA
Wild Gunman [15] 1974 Nintendo
Video game boss Balloon Gun [13] 1974 SEGA
Cinematic game Wild Gunman [15] 1974 Nintendo
Cutscene
Quick-time event (QTE)
Violence
Human character Basketball [16] 1974 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)[17]
Wild Gunman [15] 1974 Nintendo
Human video game character Basketball [16] 1974 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)[17]
Jump [18]
Video game enemy Balloon Gun [13] 1974 SEGA
Difficulty levels Speed Race 1974 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)
Difficulty curve Space Invaders 1978
Destructible environment [19] Western Gun 1975 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)
Video game cover system
Destructible cover
Non-linear video game
Violent video game
Open-world video game Western Gun,
Heiankyo Alien 		1975,
1979 		Taito (Nishikado),
University of Tokyo
Video game overworld
High score Space Invaders 1978 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)
Procedural generation Beneath Apple Manor 1978 Don Worth
Survival [20] Space Invaders 1978 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)
Nostromo [21] 1981 Akira Takiguchi [22]
Video game cutscene Space Invaders
Part II 		1979 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)
Manbiki Shounen [23] 1979 Hiroshi Suzuki [24]
Sheriff 1979 Nintendo
(Shigeru Miyamoto)
Damsel in distress Sheriff 1979 Nintendo
(Shigeru Miyamoto)
Online MUD1 1979 Roy Trubshaw,
Richard Bartle
Animated video game cutscene Pac-Man 1980 Namco
(Toru Iwatani)
Power-up
Scrolling open-world
video game 		Rally-X 1980 Namco
Scrolling video game
overworld
Combo Flash Boy [25][26] 1981 Data East
Health meter
Hub 005 1981 SEGA
Hub world
Platform jump Donkey Kong
(Nintendo Classic) 		1981 Nintendo
(Shigeru Miyamoto)
RPG overworld Ultima 1981 Origin Systems
(Richard Garriott)
Isometric perspective Zaxxon 1982 SEGA
Dialogue choices Danchi Tsuma no Yuwaku [27] 1982 Koei
(Kou Shibusawa)
Portopia Serial Murder Case [28] 1983 Yuji Horii
Moral decisions [29] Danchi Tsuma no Yuwaku 1982 Koei
(Kou Shibusawa)
Nobunaga's Ambition 1983
Portopia Serial
Murder Case [28] 		1983 Yuji Horii
Branching narrative Portopia Serial
Murder Case [28] 		1983 Yuji Horii
Dialogue trees [30]
Health regeneration Punch-Out! 1983 Nintendo
(Genyo Takeda,
Shigeru Miyamoto)
Multiple endings Portopia Serial
Murder Case [28] 		1983 Yuji Horii
Nobunaga's Ambition 1983 Koei
(Kou Shibusawa)
Video game QTE Dragon's Lair 1983 Cinematronics
Timed decisions [31] Albegas [32] 1983 SEGA
Fully-scaled open-world
video game 		Courageous Perseus 1984 Cosmos Computer
Hydlide 1984 T&E Soft
(Naito)[33]
Pseudo-3D open-world
video game 		Gingahyōryū Vifam [34] 1984 Bandai
Elite 1984 David Braben
Fighting game combo Shanghai Kid [35][36] 1985 Nihon Game
New Game + Ghosts 'n Goblins 1985 Capcom
Beat 'em up combo Kunio-kun 1986 Technōs Japan
(Yoshihisa Kishimoto)[37]
Renegade
Graphical online game Daiva Dr. Amandora,
Super Laydock [38] 		1986 T&E Soft [39]
Scrolling cover system Rolling Thunder 1986 Namco
3D open-world video game Wibarm 1986 Arsys Software
(Katsunori Yoshimura)[40]
Star Cruiser 1988
3D cover system Cabal,
Devastators 		1988 TAD Corporation,[41]
Konami
Third-person cover system
Deathmatch Last Survivor 1988 SEGA
Free look Star Cruiser 1988 Arsys Software
(Katsunori Yoshimura)[40]
Motion capture Reikai Doushi [42] 1988 Magical Company [43]
Prince of Persia 1989 Brøderbund
WASD Star Cruiser 1988 Arsys Software
(Katsunori Yoshimura)[40]
Quake 1996 id Software
(John Romero)
Hub building Castle of Illusion
Starring Mickey Mouse 		1990 SEGA
Hub room
Combo system Street Fighter II 1991 Capcom
(Noritaka Funamizu)
Active time battle (ATB) Final Fantasy IV 1991 Squaresoft
(Hironobu Sakaguchi,
Hiroyuki Ito)[44]
Radial menu [45] Secret of Mana 1993 Squaresoft
(Nasir Gebelli,
Koichi Ishii)
Headshot Virtua Cop 1994 SEGA AM2
(Yu Suzuki)
3D motion capture Virtua Fighter 2 1994 Sega AM2
(Yu Suzuki)
3D polygon cover system Time Crisis 1995 Namco
(Takashi Sano)
First-person cover system
Passive-optical
motion capture 		Soul Edge 1995 Namco
RPG New Game + Chrono Trigger 1995 Squaresoft
3D quick-time event [46] Die Hard Arcade 1996 SEGA
(Makoto Uchida)[47]
Shenmue 1999 SEGA AM2
(Yu Suzuki)
Ragdoll physics Trespasser 1998 Dreamworks Interactive
3D polygon third-person
cover system 		Metal Gear Solid 1998 Konami
(Hideo Kojima)
WinBack 1999 Koei
Ragdoll physics
melee combat 		The Bouncer [48] 2000 Squaresoft
(Takashi Tokita,
Hisahiko Takeuchi)

Controls[edit | edit source]

Concept Product Year Developer
Steering wheel Mini Drive [6]
(Arcade) 		1959 Kasco
(Kenzou Furukawa)
Light gun Periscope [7]
(Arcade) 		1965 Namco
Periscope
Light gun (on-screen) Duck Hunt [8]
(SEGA Arcade)[49] 		1968 SEGA
Trigger
Joystick Missile [50]
(Arcade) 		1969
2-way joystick
Touchpad tablet Text Editing System [51] 1971 Hitachi
(Hidekazu Terai,
Kazuo Nakata)
Optical light gun Beam Gun 1971 Nintendo
(Gunpei Yokoi)
Video game light gun Shooting Gallery [52]
(Magnavox Odyssey) 		1972
Magnavox
(Ralph Baer)
Analog stick Sea Devil [53]
(SEGA Arcade)[49] 		1972 SEGA
Positional gun
Trackball Soccer [54]
(Arcade) 		1973 Taito
Video game joystick Astro Race [55]
(Arcade)
4-way joystick
Video game analog stick Balloon Gun [13]
(Arcade) 		1974 SEGA
Video game positional gun Balloon Gun [13]
(SEGA Discrete Logic)[56]
Video game steering wheel Speed Race
(Taito Discrete Logic) 		1974 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)
8-way joystick Western Gun,
Gun Fight
(Arcade) 		1975
Dual stick
Wireless TV Tennis 1975 Epoch [57]
Force feedback Fonz
(SEGA Fonz)[58] 		1976 SEGA
Trigger button Interceptor 1976 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)
Motion controls [59] Heavyweight Champ
(SEGA Discrete Logic)[56] 		1976 SEGA
KO Punch [60]
(Arcade) 		1981
Touchscreen tablet Touch Sensitive Tablet [61] 1979 Hitachi
(Masao Hotta,
Yoshikazu Miyamoto)
D-pad Vanguard
(Arcade) 		1981 Konami
Donkey Kong
(Game & Watch)[62][63] 		1982 Nintendo
(Gunpei Yokoi)
Pressure sensitive controls [64] KO Punch [60]
(Arcade) 		1981 SEGA
Full-body motion controls [59]
Hang-On
(SEGA Hang-On)[65] 		1985 SEGA AM2
(Yu Suzuki)
Console D-pad Famicom Controller
(NES Controller) 		1983 Nintendo
Gamepad
Microphone Famicom Controller
(Famicom)
Point & click interface Star Arthur Densetsu
[66] 		1983 T&E Soft
Thumbstick SG-1000 Controller
(SG-1000 Mark II) 		1984 SEGA
Analog flightstick Space Harrier
(SEGA Space Harrier)[65] 		1985 SEGA AM2
(Yu Suzuki)
Video game touchpad tablet SEGA Graphic Board [67]
(SG-1000) 		1985 SEGA
Dance pad Power Pad
(NES) 		1987 Bandai
Dual analog After Burner II
(SEGA X Board)[68] 		1987 SEGA AM2
(Yu Suzuki)
HOTAS [69]
Throttle
Pressure sensitive buttons Street Fighter
(Capcom 68000) 		1987 Capcom
(Takashi Nishiyama)
Strafing Star Cruiser 1988 Arsys Software
(Katsunori Yoshimura)[40]
Analog thumbstick XE-1 AP [70]
(SEGA Mega Drive,
Sharp X68000,
FM Towns) 		1989 Dempa,[71]
SEGA
Dual analog pad
Grip handles
Portable HOTAS [69]
Portable throttle
Shoulder buttons
Video game touchscreen Game Gear successor Early
1990s 		SEGA
Wireless gamepad Remote Control System
(Sega Mega Drive)[72] 		1992 WKK [73]
Remote Arcade System
(Sega Mega Drive)[74] 		1993 SEGA
Full-body motion sensors [59] SEGA Activator [75][76][77] 1993 SEGA
(Assaf Gurner)[78]
Analog steering pad neGcon
(PlayStation) [79] 		1995 Namco
Console pressure sensitive buttons
Console force feedback Nintendo 64 Controller
(Nintendo 64) 		1996 Nintendo
Shoulder trigger
Saturn 3D Controller
(Saturn) [80] 		1996 SEGA
Analog triggers
Dual thumbstick controller Dual Analog
(PlayStation) 		1997 Sony

Graphics[edit | edit source]

Concept Title Year Developer
2D Computer Draughts 1952 Christopher Strachey
3D Mini Drive [6] 1959 Kasco [81]
(Kenzou Furukawa)[82]
Color
Scrolling
Side-scrolling Periscope [7] 1965 Namco
(Masaya Nakamura)
3D (on-screen) Indy 500 [9][6] 1969 Kasco
(Kenzou Furukawa)
Color (on-screen)
Color video game Playtron [12][6] 1973
Sprite
2D sprite
Color sprite
Sprite character
Phong shading [83] Illumination of
Computer-Generated Images [84] 		1973 Bui Tuong Phong
Full-motion video (FMV) Wild Gunman [15] 1974 Nintendo
FMV cutscene
Human sprite Basketball [16] 1974 Taito
Scrolling video game Speed Race 1974 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)
2D scrolling
Vertical scrolling [85]
Graphics processing unit
(GPU) 		Fujitsu MB14241 1975 Fujitsu
Framebuffer
3D video game Road Race,[86]
Fonz 		1976 SEGA
Sprite scaling
Graphics card Taito Z80 1977 Taito
SEGA Vic Dual 1977 SEGA
Side-scrolling video game Bomber [87][88][89]
Vector graphics Space Wars 1977 Cinematronics
3D computer graphics
software 		3D Art Graphics [90][91] 1978 Kazumasa Mitazawa
8-bit color palette Galaxian
(Namco Galaxian) 		1979 Namco
Multi-color sprite
Tilemap background
8-bit color depth Radar Scope
(Nintendo Classic) 		1979 Nintendo
Page flipping [92] Star Cruiser 1980 Sirius Software
(Nasir Gebelli)[93]
Facial animation Pac-Man 1980 Namco
(Toru Iwatani)
Donkey Kong 1981 Nintendo
(Shigeru Miyamoto)
Color vector graphics Space Fury 1981 SEGA
High resolution Hitachi Basic Master Level 3 [94] 1981 Hitachi
Parallax scrolling [95] Scramble 1981 Konami
Color sprite scaling Turbo [96] 1981 SEGA
(Steve Hanawa)[97]
Texture mapping
Buck Rogers:
Planet of Zoom 		1982 SEGA
GPU microprocessor NEC µPD7220 1982 NEC
High definition
Stereoscopic 3D [98] SubRoc-3D 1982 SEGA
FMV video game Astron Belt [99]
(Sega LaserDisc [100]
3D FMV game
3D polygons
Pre-rendered 3D polygons
16-bit high color
24-bit color palette
FMV video game
cutscene
Bega's Battle [101] 1983 Data East
Gore [102]
Real-time 3D polygons Plazma Line 1984 Technosoft
(Katsunori Yoshimura)[40]
I, Robot 1984 Atari
(Dave Theurer)
3D polygon computer game Plazma Line 1984 Technosoft
(Katsunori Yoshimura)[40]
Real-time 3D polygon
arcade game 		I, Robot 1984 Atari
(Dave Theurer)
Fast real-time 3D polygons Amnork [103] 1986 ASCII
Sprite rotation After Burner (Sega X Board)[104] 1987 Sega AM2
(Yu Suzuki)[105]
Flat shading [106] Winning Run 1988 Namco
Lighting
Shading
High resolution console Sega Mega Drive 1998 SEGA
Ray casting [107] Last Survivor 1988 SEGA
Line of Fire 1989
3D polygon console game Star Cruiser (Sega Mega Drive) 1990 Arsys Software
(Katsunori Yoshimura),[40]
Masaya [108]
Fully 3D camera system Virtua Racing (Sega Model 1)[109] 1992 SEGA AM2
(Yu Suzuki)
3D polygon human character
3D polygon NPC
Anti-aliasing
3D polygon texture mapping Sim Drive [110] 1992 Namco
Gouraud shading [111]
3D polygon player character Virtua Fighter (Sega Model 1)[109] 1993 SEGA AM2
(Yu Suzuki)
3D character physics
Million polygons/sec Sega Model 2 [112]
Texture filtering Daytona USA (Sega Model 2)[112]
Textured 3D character Virtua Fighter 2 (Sega Model 2)[112] 1994
Virtua Cop (Sega Model 2)[112]
Cel-shading Doctor Hauzer [113] 1994 Riverhillsoft [114]
PaRappa the Rapper 1996 Sony Japan Studio
3D polygon handheld console Sega Nomad [115] 1995 SEGA
Autostereoscopic 3D [116] Floating Image System [117] 1997 SEGA AM3
(Hisao Oguchi) [118]
High definition (HD) console Dreamcast 1998 SEGA
Video game
Phong shading [83] 		Brave Firefighters [119] 1999 SEGA AM1
Space Channel 5 1999 United Game Artists
(SEGA)
Bloom lighting Skies of Arcadia 2000 SEGA Wow
The Bouncer [48] 2000 Squaresoft
(Takashi Tokita,[120]
Hisahiko Takeuchi)[121]
Cel-shader Jet Set Radio 2000 SEGA Smilebit
Depth-of-field (DOF)[122] The Bouncer [48] 2000 Squaresoft
(Takashi Tokita,
Hisahiko Takeuchi)

Genres[edit | edit source]

The following table lists electronic game genres by their first appearance.

Genre Game Year Developer
Simulation Computer Chess 1951 Dietrich Prinz
Strategy
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Turn-based tactics (TBT)
Strategy video game Computer Draughts 1952 Christopher Strachey
Sports Tennis For Two 1958 William Higinbotham
Action Mini Drive [6] 1959 Kasco
(Kenzou Furukawa)
Racing
Driving
3D racing
Scrolling racer
Third-person racing
Vehicle simulation
Action video game Spacewar! 1962 Steve Russell
Shooter
2D shooter
Vehicle combat
3D action Periscope [7] 1965 Namco
(Masaya Nakamura)[123]
First-person perspective shooter
Light gun shooter
3D shooter
Side-scrolling shooter
Shoot 'em up
3D action (on-screen) Duck Hunt [8] 1968 SEGA
(Hisashi Suzuki)[124]
First-person perspective shooter
(on-screen)
Light gun shooter (on-screen)
Shoot 'em up (on-screen)
Racing (on-screen) Indy 500 [9][6] 1969 Kasco
(Kenzou Furukawa)
Driving (on-screen)
3D racing (on-screen)
First-person racing
Third-person action Gun Fight [10] 1969 SEGA
(Hisashi Suzuki)
3D third-person action
Third-person shooter (TPS)
3D third-person shooter (TPS)
3D shooter (on-screen) Jet Rocket [11] 1970 SEGA
(Hisashi Suzuki)
Action-adventure
3D action-adventure
Flight simulator
First-person shooter (FPS)
Open-world game
Sandbox
Rhythm game Oh! Mouretsu [6] Early
1970s 		Kasco
(Kenzou Furukawa)
Light gun shooter video game Shooting Gallery [52] 1972 Nintendo (Gunpei Yokoi),
Magnavox (Ralph Baer)
Racing video game Astro Race,[55]
Space Race 		1973 Taito,
Atari
2D racing
Space flight sim
Adventure game Wild Gunman [15] 1974 Nintendo
3D adventure game
FMV adventure game
Graphic adventure
Interactive fiction
Interactive movie
Basketball Basketball [16] 1974 Taito
First-person perspective shooter
video game 		Balloon Gun [13][125] 1974 SEGA
Shoot 'em up video game
Driving video game Speed Race,
Gran Trek 10 		1974 Taito (Nishikado),
Atari
2D driving
Scrolling racer video game Speed Race 1974 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)
Action-adventure video game Western Gun 1975 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)
Sandbox video game
Tactical shooter
Computer RPG (CRPG) Pedit5 1975 Rusty Rutherford
Dungeon crawler
Role-playing video game (RPG)
First-person shooter video game Spasim 1975 Jim Bowery
Driving combat Demolition Derby 1975 Fairchild
(Gerald Lawson)
Crashing Race [126][127] 1976 Taito
Open-world video game Western Gun 1975 Taito (Nishikado)
Heiankyo Alien 1979 University of Tokyo
Run & gun shooter Western Gun 1975 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)
Sheriff 1979 Nintendo
(Shigeru Miyamoto)
Real-time strategy (RTS) Western Gun,
Space Tactics [128] 		1975,
1980 		Taito (Nishikado),
SEGA
Real-time tactics (RTT)
3D action video game Road Race,[86]
Fonz 		1976 SEGA
3D racing video game
Third-person racing video game
Boxing Heavyweight Champ
Fighting
2D fighting
Versus fighting
Motorbike racing Fonz [129]
First-person racing video game Night Driver 1976 Atari
Adventure video game Colossal Cave
Adventure 		1977 William Crowther,
Don Woods
Text adventure
Scrolling shooter Bomber [87][89] 1977 SEGA
Side-scrolling shooter
video game
Shmup Space Invaders 1978 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)
Fixed shooter
Tower defense Space Invaders 1978 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)
Vermin 1980 Nintendo
Bokosuka Wars [130] 1983 Koji Sumii [131]
Pinball video game Bomb Bee 1979 Namco
Vertical scrolling shooter SOS 1979 Namco
Galaxian
Ozma Wars 1979 SNK
3D shooter video game Radar Scope 1979 Nintendo
Third-person action video game
3D third-person action
video game
Third-person shooter
video game (TPS)
3D third-person shooter
video game (TPS)
Stealth Manbiki Shounen [23] 1979 Hiroshi Suzuki [24]
3D tactical shooter Space Tactics [132] 1980 SEGA
First-person tactical shooter
Graphic adventure video game Mystery House [133] 1980 Sierra Entertainment
(Roberta Williams)[134]
Hack & slash Samurai [135] 1980 SEGA
Open-world driving Rally-X 1980 Namco
Open-world racing
Platformer Space Panic 1980 Universal
2D platformer
Stealth action Lupin III [136] 1980 Taito
Beat 'em up Samurai,[135][137]
Kung-Fu Master 		1980,
1984 		SEGA,
Data East
Endless runner Jump Bug 1981 Alpha Denshi
Scrolling platformer
Side-scrolling 2D platformer
Roguelike Rogue 1981 A.I. Design
Stealth action-adventure 005 1981 SEGA
Survival horror Nostromo [21] 1981 Akira Takiguchi [22]
Survival game Nostromo [21] 1981 Akira Takiguchi [22]
Panorama Toh [138] 1983 Nihon Falcom
(Yoshio Kiya)
Adventure RPG Dragon & Princess [139] 1982 Koei
(Kou Shibusawa)
Japanese RPG (JRPG)
Strategy RPG (SRPG)
Tactical RPG (TRPG)
3D survival horror Terror House [140] 1982 Bandai
Eroge Night Life 1982 Koei
Interactive movie video game Astron Belt [99] 1982 SEGA
3D interactive movie
Isometric shooter Zaxxon 1982 SEGA
Rail shooter Buck Rogers:
Planet of Zoom 		1982 SEGA
3D rail shooter
Third-person rail shooter
Metroidvania Tutankham 1982 Konami
Mr. Do's Castle 1983 Universal
Portopia Serial
Murder Case [28] 		1983 Yuji Horii
Racing simulation Pole Position 1982 Namco
TX-1 1983 Tatsumi [141]
3D platformer Antarctic Adventure 1983 Konami
Action RPG (ARPG) Panorama Toh [138] 1983 Nihon Falcom
(Yoshio Kiya)[142]
Bokosuka Wars [143] 1983 Koji Sumii
Isometric adventure Congo Bongo 1983 SEGA
Isometric platformer
Open-world action RPG Panorama Toh [138] 1983 Nihon Falcom
(Yoshio Kiya)
Point & click adventure Star Arthur Densetsu
[66] 		1983 T&E Soft
Visual novel Portopia Serial
Murder Case [28] 		1983 Yuji Horii
Wrestling Tag Team Wrestling 1983 Technōs Japan
Immersive sim [144] Portopia Serial
Murder Case [28] 		1983 Yuji Horii [145]
Hokkaidou Chain
Murders [146] 		1984
Action RTS (ARTS) Bokosuka Wars [143] 1983 Koji Sumii
Herzog Zwei [147] 1989 Technosoft
3D polygon racing Plazma Line 1984 Technosoft
(Katsunori Yoshimura)[40]
3D polygon first-person racing
3D polygon flight sim
3D polygon space flight sim
Open-world space flight sim Gingahyōryū Vifam 1984 Bandai
Elite 1984 David Braben
Role-playing shooter (RPS) The Screamer [148] 1985 Magical Zoo [149]
Survival horror RPG
3D polygon role-playing game Wibarm 1986 Arsys Software
(Katsunori Yoshimura)[40]
3D action RPG
3D role-playing shooter (RPS)
3D polygon third-person shooter (TPS)
Console RPG (CRPG) Dragon Quest 1986 Chunsoft
(Yuji Horii)
3D open-world
video game 		Wibarm 1986 Arsys Software
(Katsunori Yoshimura)[40]
Star Cruiser 1988
3D polygon first-person shooter Amnork [103] 1986 ASCII
Star Cruiser 1988 Arsys Software
(Katsunori Yoshimura)[40]
3D hack & slash Getsu Fuuma Den [150] 1987 Konami
Rhythm video game Dance Aerobics 1987 Human Entertainment
First-person role-playing shooter
(RPS) 		Star Cruiser 1988 Arsys Software
(Katsunori Yoshimura)[40]
3D polygon space flight sim
Kart racing Power Drift 1988 SEGA AM2
(Yu Suzuki)
3D kart racing
3D polygon first-person driving Winning Run 1988 Namco
MOBA Herzog Zwei [147] 1989 Technosoft
Dynasty Warriors 2 1997 Koei
Hero shooter [151] Herzog Zwei [147] 1989 Technosoft
Outtrigger [152] 1999 Sega AM2
(Yu Suzuki)
3D light gun shooter Galaxian³ 1990 Namco
3D polygon rail shooter
3D polygon adventure game Alice:
An Interactive Museum 		1991 Toshiba-EMI [153]
(Haruhiko Shono)[154]
3D polygon third-person racing Virtua Racing 1992 SEGA AM2
(Yu Suzuki)
3D polygon survival horror
(partial) 		Alone in the Dark 1992 Infogrames
(Frédérick Raynal)
3D real-time adventure game The Life Stage:
Virtual House [155] 		1993 Micro Cabin [156]
3D fighting Virtua Fighter 1993 SEGA AM2
(Yu Suzuki)
3D polygon hack & slash King's Field 1994 From Software
3D polygon survival horror
(full) 		Doctor Hauzer [157] 1994 Riverhill Software [158]
(Kenichiro Hayashi)[159]
Soulslike Monster Hunter 2004 Capcom
Demon's Souls 2009 From Software
(Hidetaka Miyazaki)[160]

Hardware[edit | edit source]

Microcomputer SMP80/08 1972 Sord
(Takayohi Shiina)
8-bit microcomputer
Personal computer (PC)
Handheld electronic game Electro Tic-Tac-Toe 1972 Waco
Video game console Magnavox Odyssey 1972 Magnavox
(Ralph Baer)
General-purpose microcomputer SMP80/x 1974 Sord (Toshiba)
Microcomputer operating system
Microprocessor video game Gun Fight 1975 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)
Midway
(Dave Nutting)
Demolition Derby 1975 Fairchild
(Gerald Lawson)
Wireless TV Tennis 1975 Epoch [57]
Microprocessor console Fairchild Channel F 1976 Fairchild
(Gerald Lawson)
8-bit console
ROM cartridge
Home computer
(home microcomputer) 		Apple II 1977 Apple
(Steve Jobs)[161]
Sord M200 1977 Sord
(Toshiba)
16-bit microcomputer Panafacom Lkit-16 1977 Panafacom
(Fujitsu, Fuji Electric,
Matsushita)
8/16-bit game system Sega VIC Dual (Arcade)[162] 1977 SEGA
PC with floppy disk drive M200 Smart Home Computer 1977 Sord (Toshiba)
PC with hard disk drive M223 Mark VI 1979
16-bit console Intellivision 1979 Mattel
Handheld console Microvision 1979 Milton Bradley
Laptop HC-20 1981 Suwa Seikosha
High definition (HD) computer NEC PC-9801 1982 NEC
Laserdisc video game Astron Belt 1982 SEGA
Optical disc
PC with Laserdisc MSX 1984 Pioneer
16-bit console GPU Master System VDP[163][164] 1985 SEGA, Yamaha [165]
32-bit game system Namco System 21 (Arcade) 1988 Namco
CD-ROM game system PC-Engine CD-ROM²
(TurboGrafx-CD) 		1988 NEC,
Hudson Soft
8/16-bit handheld console Game Boy 1989 Nintendo
PC with CD-ROM FM Towns 1989 Fujitsu
Compressed instructions SuperH 1992 Hitachi
32-bit console FM Towns Marty 1993 Fujitsu
64-bit game system Namco Magic Edge Hornet Simulator
(Arcade) 		1993 Namco
Laserdisc console LaserActive 1993 Pioneer
16/32-bit handheld console Sega Nomad [115] 1995 SEGA
Hybrid handheld-home console
64-bit home system Nintendo 64 1996 Nintendo
DVD game system PlayStation 2 2000 Sony
32-bit handheld console Game Boy Advance 2001 Nintendo
Blu-Ray disc PlayStation 3 2006 Sony

Sound[edit | edit source]

Concept Product Year Developer
Pulse-code modulation (PCM) Differential Quantization of
Communication Signals 		1952 C. Chapin Cutler
Differential PCM (DPCM)
Solid-state electronic audio Periscope [7] 1965 Namco
(Masaya Nakamura)[166]
Digital audio recorder PCM recorder[167] 1967 NHK
PCM recorder
PCM music Uzu: The World Of
Stomu Yamash'ta 		1971
Adaptive DPCM (ADPCM) Adaptive quantization in
differential PCM coding 		1973 Nikil Jayant,
James L. Flanagan
Digital synthesizer FM Tone Generator 1974 Yamaha,[168]
John Chowning
Frequency modulation synthesis
(FM synthesis)
Game music Western Gun,
Gun Fight 		1975 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)
Chiptune [169]
Sound card Taito 597-907
Logic Board
Sound chip
CD audio CD Audio 1976 Sony
(Toshitada Doi)
Audio programming language Sharp MZ,[170]
Hitachi Basic Master 		1978 Sharp,
Hitachi
Music Macro Language
Continuous music Space Invaders 1978 Taito
(Tomohiro Nishikado)
Rally-X 1980 Namco
PCM sound chip Oki MSM5205,
Oki MSM5218[171] 		1979 Oki
DPCM sound chip
ADPCM sound chip
Video game PCM Namco King & Balloon
Sound Section 		1980 Namco
Delta modulation (DM)
Video game DPCM
Speech synthesis [172] Stratovox [173] 1980 Taito
Manbiki Shoujo [174][175] 1980 Hiroshi Suzuki [176]
FM synthesis computer music Yamaha GS-1 Computer 1980 Yamaha
MIDI Musical Instrument
Digital Interface 		1981 Roland
(Ikutaro Kakehashi)
Laserdisc audio Sega CN2 Audio Board 1982 SEGA
MIDI computer music NEC PC-88 1982 NEC
NEC PC-98
Pulse-width modulation (PWM) Sega SN76496 1982 SEGA
FM synthesis sound chip Yamaha YM2151 1983 Yamaha [177]
MIDI music software Yamaha CX5 (MSX) 1983 Yamaha
Yamaha MSX Module
Sound card Yamaha MSX Module
FM synthesis sound card
MIDI sound card
LA synthesis Roland D-50 1987 Roland
(Ikutaro Kakehashi)
Roland MT-32
LA synthesis sound card Roland MT-32
Video game CD audio PC-Engine CD-ROM²
(TurboGrafx-CD) 		1988 NEC,
Hudson Soft
PC with CD audio FM Towns 1989 Fujitsu

Technology[edit | edit source]

Concept Hardware Year Developer(s)
Electronic television (TV) All-electronic television 1924 Kenjiro Takayanagi
Cathode ray tube (CRT)
television
Digital circuit Switching circuit theory 1934 NEC
(Akira Nakashima)
Electronic computer Colossus 1944 Post Office Research Station
Random access memory (RAM) Magnetic-core memory 1945 Jeffrey Chuan Chu,
John Presper Eckert
1949 An Wang,
Way-Dong Woo
Color TV Shadow mask CRT 1950 RCA
Floppy disk Magnetic Disk Sheet 1950 Tokyo Imperial University
(Yoshiro Nakamatsu)
Transistor computer Manchester Computer 1953 University of Manchester
Optical fiber A flexible fibrescope 1953 Narinder Singh Kapany
Stored-program
transistor computer 		ETL Mark III 1954 Electrotechnical Laboratory
(Japan)
Optical communication Fiber-optic communication 1964 Jun-ichi Nishizawa
Online communication
Dynamic RAM (DRAM) Toscal BC-1411 1965 Toshiba
Aperture grille CRT Trinitron 1968 Sony
(Susumu Yoshida)
Microprocessor,
4-bit microprocessor 		Intel 4004 1968 Sharp [178]
(Tadashi Sasaki)
Busicom
(Masatoshi Shima)
1969 Intel
(Marcian Hoff)
8-bit microprocessor Intel 8008 1972
Internet ARPANET 1969 DARPA
Handheld television IC TV MODEL TR-001 1970 Panasonic
Monochrome LCD Twisted Nematic LCD 1970 Hoffmann-La Roche
TFT LCD System for driving LCD device 1970 Canon
(J. Kishimoto)
High definition television (HDTV) MUSE 1970s NHK
General-purpose microprocessor Intel 8080 1974 Intel
(Masatoshi Shima,
Federico Faggin)
Color LCD Color LCD 1975 Sharp
(Shinji Kato,
Takaaki Miyazaki)
16-bit microprocessor Panafacom MN1610 1975 Panafacom
(Fujitsu, Fuji Electric,
Matsushita)
Compact disc CD 1976 Sony
(Toshitada Doi)
Lithium-ion battery Lithium-graphite compound 1977 Samar Basu
Lithium battery 1980 Rachid Yazami
Magnetic disk
perpendicular recording 		Perpendicular recording 1978 Tohoku Institute of Technology
(Shun-ichi Iwasaki)
Laserdisc Laserdisc 1978 MCA DiscoVision
Pioneer
Digital signal processor (DSP) NEC µPD7720 1980 NEC
Flash memory NOR/NAND 1980 Toshiba
(Fujio Masuoka)
LCD television Epson TV Watch 1980 Hattori Seiko
Constant Angular Acceleration CAA Early
1980s 		Pioneer
Micro floppy disk 3½-inch floppy disk 1981 Sony
CD-ROM CD-ROM 1982 Denon, Sony
Monochrome plasma display IBM 3290 1983 IBM
Laserdisc digital data storage Laserdisc digital data storage 1984 Sony
Large LCD Large LCD 1986 Sharp Corporation
Color plasma display Color plasma display 1989 Fujitsu [179][180]
Hard drive with glass platter MK1122FC 1990 Toshiba
Blue LED Blue LED 1992 Shuji Nakamura
Static DRAM (SDRAM) Samsung KM48SL2000 1993 Samsung Electronics
DVD Digital Video Disc 1995 Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic
LED-backlit LCD Qualia 005 2004 Sony

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

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