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* Think ''[[Pong]]'' is the first video game ever? Well, our friends at [[That Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:First video game|think otherwise]]. Depending on how you define "video game", the answer is different; the first on a digital computer was ''Spacewar!'' in 1961, but a missile simulator using analog circuitry and a cathode ray tube existed in ''1947''.

** Speaking of which, the Atari VCS is NOT the first home game system, that goes to the Magnavox Odyssey.

* Remember [[Humongous Entertainment]]'s first batch of games? You know, ''[[Putt-Putt]] Joins the Parade'', ''[[Fatty Bear]]'s Birthday Surprise'' and ''[[Putt-Putt]] Goes to the Moon''? Almost everyone played those off a CD-ROM under their Windows ports. Yes, we just said port. Almost no-one is familiar with their original DOS versions, let alone their first release on ''floppy disks''.

 

* There's a very cool article about this subject [http://www.gamesradar.com/f/gamings-most-important-evolutions/a-20101008102331322035 here].

* The gaming press likes to credit ''[[Half Life]]'' with being the first FPS with a strong story that drives the gameplay, which is somewhat misleading. It may be true that ''[[Half Life]]'' was the first shooter to have a story told entirely in-game, but the idea of stories themselves in shooters was not truly new at the time. Both ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'' and ''[[System Shock]]'' placed a strong emphasis on storytelling in addition to combat years earlier, but they used a text-message-finding system to advance and expand their plots (there's an entry about it below).

* The ''[[X Universe]]'' series is often though of as a singleplayer clone of ''[[EVE Online]]'' by [[Did Not Do the Research|the uninformed]], but the first ''X'' game came out ''four years'' before ''EVE''. ''EVE's'' story also borrows heavily from ''[[Escape Velocity|EV Nova]]''.

 

* So many people seem to be under the impression that Bahamut being portrayed as a dragon was from ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', but it was done in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' long before ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' did it.

** Many people complain about D&D incorporating elements from [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]] into 4th edition. So many people don't realize that MMORPGs and [[MUD|MUDs]] have in fact incorporated elements from D&D into ''THEIR'' genre first, making it an odd case of a copier is being copied by the source material in order to seem more like it use to be, but game systems tend to copy each other a lot so this trope goes back a ways.

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* Haters of ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' will probably tell you that Sakimoto is a new guy, or make the fallacy that ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' was his first work on the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series - ignoring ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'' and the ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'' games...both of those predate ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' by 3 - 9 years. He's also by no means new to game development...you'll probably see his name (as well as Masharu Iwata) in the credits of any ''[[Ogre Battle]]'' games, or ''Revolter'', which was released in 1988. Way [[Older Than They Think]].

* Related to the above, most people will give you the impression that Nomura first started working with Square around ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', and some may tell you he was working with them with ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]''. Ignoring of course, that he was actually hired ''long'' before those games were even in production. Did you know he was actually working with the series as long ago as ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]''? Sure he was only a debugger there, but did you also know he was a graphic designer in ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'', too? And ''[[Chrono Trigger]]''? And ''[[Super Mario RPG]]''?

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