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What games popularized certain mechanics? (lemmy.world)
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I was trying to think of which games created certain mechanics that became popular and copied by future games in the industry.

The most famous one that comes to my mind is Assassin’s Creed, with the tower climbing for map information.

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[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

for a while it was the most played videogame in the world.

I see what you did there!

Space War history

SpaceWar is the first game to be frequently ported to different computers, back when computers took up a big portion of the room they sat it, and when "porting" was practically re-coding, from scratch, in Assembler.

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