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Here are [[The Oldest Ones in the Book]] for [[Video Games]]. The [[NES]]'s US introduction in October 1985 marked the beginning of the end of [[The Great Video Game Crash of 1983]], and we have chosen it as a cutoff date for [[The Oldest Ones in the Book]] of [[Video Game Tropes]]. |
Here are [[The Oldest Ones in the Book]] for [[Video Games]]. The [[NES]]'s US introduction in October 1985 marked the beginning of the end of [[The Great Video Game Crash of 1983]], and we have chosen it as a cutoff date for [[The Oldest Ones in the Book]] of [[Video Game Tropes]]. |
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A good number of the RPG tropes can be found here, since these games trace their roots pretty much directly back to [[Tabletop RPG |
A good number of the RPG tropes can be found here, since these games trace their roots pretty much directly back to [[Tabletop RPG]]s such as ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', which were among the first commercial games to be ported over to a video game system. |
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'''Examples''': |
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* [[Level Scaling]]: ''Beneath Apple Manor'', 1978 |
* [[Level Scaling]]: ''Beneath Apple Manor'', 1978 |
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* [[Light Gun Game]]: ''Ray-O-Lite'', 1936 |
* [[Light Gun Game]]: ''Ray-O-Lite'', 1936 |
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* [[Match Three Game]]: ''[[OXO]]'', |
* [[Match Three Game]]: ''[[OXO]]'', 1952—You '''do''' have to match three to win. |
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* [[Mini Boss]]: ''[[Dnd]]'', 1975 |
* [[Mini Boss]]: ''[[Dnd]]'', 1975 |
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* [[Mini Game]]: ''[[Escape From the Mindmaster]]'', 1982 |
* [[Mini Game]]: ''[[Escape From the Mindmaster]]'', 1982 |
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* [[Mook Maker]]: The oil drum in ''[[Donkey Kong]]'', 1981. |
* [[Mook Maker]]: The oil drum in ''[[Donkey Kong]]'', 1981. |
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* [[Multi User Dungeon]]: ''[[Multi-User Dungeon]]'', 1979 |
* [[Multi User Dungeon]]: ''[[Multi-User Dungeon]]'', 1979 |
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* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Of |
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Of course—if you're ignorant of anything Nintendo preNES—the title may now break your mind. |
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* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: ''[[Star Trek Text Game]]'', 1971, running out of fuel. |
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: ''[[Star Trek Text Game]]'', 1971, running out of fuel. |
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* [[No Plot, No Problem]]: Sports and board games in general are [[Older Than Dirt]]. |
* [[No Plot, No Problem]]: Sports and board games in general are [[Older Than Dirt]]. |
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