high voltage Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Romcards for consoles Sega for the SG 1000 II Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap! Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 First console with a DVD player, the PlayStation 2. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 (edited) Intellivision (1979) was first with tiled background graphics and hardware scrolling. Intellivision (1979) was first with a thumb-pad directional control. Intellivision was first to have major league sports licenses in 1980. Intellivisions was first to have celebrity endorsement in 1980. Atari also had Pele Soccer in 1980. Actually I thing some Pong systems might have been earlier with celebrity endorsements. Intellivision Utopia (1982) was the first realtime strategy videogame. Intellivision World Series Baseball (1983) was the first sports game to use a virtual 3D playfield, first to be based on statistical game-play, first to use historical player statistics, first to have managerial functions, first to have play-by-play speech. Cool thread. But I believe the Atari VCS beat the Xband to the punch by about 12/13 years with the Gameline. Intellivision PlayCable (1981) was first with downloadable games. Magnavox Odyssey2, the first console with an add on voice module ... The Intellivoice is listed as having a release date of 1982 June 29. When exactly was the Voice for Odyssey2 released? Some claim Intellivision Baseball released in 1980 (programmed in 1978) is the first video game with speech. Edited June 4, 2018 by mr_me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd30 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 Were there any games prior to SwordQuest where you could actually win PHYSICAL prizes, not just a high score or ending screen? Activision patches. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticGamer Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 Atari Lynx was probably the first (and only) ambidextrous handheld. Sony was the first console to have dual analog controller if I recall correctly. It was also probably the first to reach 100 million sales, but I don't know if the Game Boy reached that milestone first. The Master System is the longest running console of all time if you count Brazil. The Xbox was the first with a built-in hard disk drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 (edited) First home console human female main character, Billie Sue (1982): Well there was a female choice with Magnavox Odyssey's Simon Says (1972) or Origin's Akalabeth World of Doom (1979), but they were selectable. And Ms Pac-Man and Lady Bug in arcades (both 1981). Edited June 4, 2018 by high voltage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Intellivisions was first to have celebrity endorsement in 1980. Atari also had Pele Soccer in 1980. Atari had Don Knotts and Pete Rose in '78 or '79. Although the exact year is unclear, Fairchild briefly procured Milton Berle for Channel F ads just before they cashed out to Zircon and got out of the business (which happened in 1979). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Black_Tiger Posted June 15, 2018 Share Posted June 15, 2018 Atari Lynx was probably the first (and only) ambidextrous handheld. Sony was the first console to have dual analog controller if I recall correctly. It was also probably the first to reach 100 million sales, but I don't know if the Game Boy reached that milestone first. The Master System is the longest running console of all time if you count Brazil. The Xbox was the first with a built-in hard disk drive. Time between first and last official releases of their original run is roughly 13 years for Mark III/SMS, Neo Geo AES and PS2. But the SMS isn't the same deal and has its time period artificially stretched by one market launching 4 years late. Of course, the AES was propped up all along by its entire library being games made primarily for a successful arcade format. A more interesting measure would be a single region original run, which in Japan the PS2 kept a steady stream of releases for the full 13.5 years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted June 15, 2018 Share Posted June 15, 2018 KC Munchkin for the Philips Magnavox Odyssey 2: first game removed from sale because of a copyright dispute Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empsolo Posted June 15, 2018 Share Posted June 15, 2018 (edited) Atari Lynx was probably the first (and only) ambidextrous handheld. No. Gunpei Yokoi designed the WonderSwan, which was an ambidextrous handheld that Bandai released in the late mid to late 90's. Edited June 15, 2018 by empsolo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Video Posted June 15, 2018 Share Posted June 15, 2018 It also was designed to be easily played horizontally or vertically. It may be the only handheld designed for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap! Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 First console with built-in WiFi: PS3, with a release November 11, 2006. It beat out the Wii by just 8 days. The Xbox 360 was released earlier (November 22, 2005), but the original model required you to buy a separate adapter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 First console with built-in WiFi: PS3, with a release November 11, 2006. It beat out the Wii by just 8 days. The Xbox 360 was released earlier (November 22, 2005), but the original model required you to buy a separate adapter. Wait it has built in wifi... and here I was running an ethernet cable over the floor for it lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 KC Munchkin for the Philips Magnavox Odyssey 2: first game removed from sale because of a copyright dispute Wasn't Shark Jaws removed earlier? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Wasn't Shark Jaws removed earlier? That's news to me ... reading about it here makes it look like it wasn't part of a lawsuit, but they kinda expected one That was an arcade game I've never seen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iswitt Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 The Xbox 360 was released earlier (November 22, 2005), but the original model required you to buy a separate adapter. It also required you to buy a separate console after a short period of time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatPix Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 (edited) The first commercially sold VR headset with motion detection was the Forte VFX1, as early as 1995 : The gear is able to detect head movement on the 3 axis; separate (at first? infos are very sketchy) controllers called Cyberpucks were able to simulate a mouse and also had 2 axis movement detection. (make sense as the most common 3D games of the era would be Doom-likes) The H.E.A.D.G.E.A.R. was sold at least between 1995 and 1997 in the US; it was probably sold in Europe since I've spotted a few ads for used ones. Retail price is noted as either $995 or $695; most likely it was the launch price and the later-in-life price. Many sites says that it was superceded by another headset in 2000, but it doesn't necesserely mean it was sold until the year 2000. Also, informations on the second headset are even more scarce, making it appears as either a commercial failure or it never went over being sold in a few test markets. Still, it was the first available headset that provided movement detection. If you plan to get one, be very careful; the VFX1 require a specific ISA board, that process the video display : Without it, the headset is just a bulky curiosity item. And given it's an internal board, most of them dissapeared with the computer they were installed in... Edited June 13, 2019 by CatPix 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Black_Tiger Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 It also required you to buy a separate console after a short period of time. You're thinking of the Sony Playstation and Playstation 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 You're thinking of the Sony Playstation and Playstation 2. No he was thinking of th RROD. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Black_Tiger Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 No he was thinking of th RROD. No he was thinking of th RROD. Sony beat Microsoft to deliver the "first" console with such massive failure rates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 That's news to me ... reading about it here makes it look like it wasn't part of a lawsuit, but they kinda expected one That was an arcade game I've never seen. According to The Dot Eaters there was no lawsuit: http://thedoteaters.com/?bitstory=bitstory-article-2/shark-jaws-2 The Atari History Museum doesn't mention anything either: http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/arcade/arcade75.html No idea how I got the idea Universal forced them to take it off the market; maybe Wikipedia used to say something like that? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 On June 4, 2018 at 12:46 PM, AtticGamer said: Atari Lynx was probably the first (and only) ambidextrous handheld. Wasn't the Wonderswan ambidextrous too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoshiChiri Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 2 hours ago, pacman000 said: Wasn't the Wonderswan ambidextrous too? No- while the Wonderswan allowed for rotating the handheld to a vertical position like the Lynx, its button layout meant it couldn't be properly ambidextrous (and I'm not aware of any games supporting such a feature.) The Lynx's ambidextrous nature was a hardware feature, I'm not aware of anything else that ever did that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glazball Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Entombed (1982) - first video game with zombies as enemies 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Adventure - First graphical adventure game on a home console. Starship 1 - First Easter Egg/cheat code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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