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* [[Character Level]]: ''[[Dnd (Video Game)|Dnd]]'', 1975, or ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', 1974
* [[Clairvoyant Security Force]]: ''[[Zork (Video Game)|Zork]]'', 1979, for one.
* [[Color -Coded Multiplayer]]: Some ''[[Pong]]'' systems, 1975.
* [[Color -Coded Armies]]: Kreigsspiel, the first example of [[War Gaming]] and used to train the Prussian General Staff, 19th Century
* [[Controllable Helplessness]]: ''[[Adventure (Video Game)|Adventure]]'', 1979
* [[Cores and Turrets Boss]]: ''[[Bosconian]]'', 1981
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* [[Faux First Person 3D]]: ''[[Maze War (Video Game)|Maze War]]'', 1974
* [[Final Boss]]: ''[[Dnd (Video Game)|Dnd]]'', 1975
* [[First -Person Shooter]]: ''[[Maze War (Video Game)|Maze War]]'', 1974
* [[Flip Screen Scrolling]]: ''[[Adventure (Video Game)|Adventure]]'', 1979
* [[Game Over]]: ''[[Space Invaders]]'', 1978
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* [[In Vehicle Invulnerability]]: ''[[Gran Trak 10 (Video Game)|Gran Trak 10]]'', 1974
* [[Inventory Management Puzzle]]: ''Colossal Cave'', 1975
* [[Invincibility Power -Up]]: ''[[Pac-Man]]'', 1980
* [[Invisible Grid]]: ''[[Maze War (Video Game)|Maze War]]'', 1974
* [[Job System]]: ''[[Avatar (Video Game)|Avatar]]'', 1979
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* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Of course -- if you're ignorant of anything Nintendo preNES -- the title may now break your mind.
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: ''[[Star Trek Text Game (Video Game)|Star Trek Text Game]]'', 1971, running out of fuel.
* [[No Plot, No Problem]]: Sports and board games in general are [[Older Than Dirt]].
* [[Numbered Sequels]]: ''[[Space Invaders]] II'', 1981; not to be confused with Space Invaders ''part'' II.
* [[Obvious Beta]]: ''[[ET the Extra Terrestrial (Video Game)|ET the Extra Terrestrial]]'', 1982
* [[Old Save Bonus]]: ''[[Wizardry (Video Game)|Wizardry]]'' 2, 1982
* [[One -Hit Kill]]: ''[[Space War]]'', 1962
* [[One -Hit -Point Wonder]]: ''[[Space War]]'', 1962
* [[One Bullet At a Time]]: At least as early as ''[[Space Invaders]]'', 1978
* [[One Up]]
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* [[Porting Disaster]]: ''[[Pac-Man]]'' on the Atari 2600, 1982
* [[Press X to Die]]: ''[[Star Trek Text Game (Video Game)|Star Trek Text Game]]'', 1971
* [[Press X to Not Die]]: ''[[DragonsDragon's Lair (Video Game)|Dragons Lair]]'', 1983
* [[The Problem With Licensed Games]]: ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Video Game)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'', May 1982, [[Ur Example]]; ''[[ET the Extra Terrestrial (Video Game)|ET the Extra Terrestrial]]'', 1982, [[Trope Codifier]]
* [[Puzzle Boss]]: ''[[Donkey Kong]]'', 1981
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* [[Scoring Points]]: ''[[Pong]]'', 1972
* [[Shielded Core Boss]]: ''Star Castle'', 1980
* [[Shoot 'Em Up]]: ''[[Space Invaders]]'', 1978
* [[Side View]]: ''[[Tennis for Two (Video Game)|Tennis for Two]]'', 1958
* [[Silliness Switch]]: The potion of hallucination in ''[[Rogue (Video Game)|Rogue]]'', 1980.
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