Video Game Firsts

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Originally Posted by Roufuss

Mine was Shinobi. How awesome is that!

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Damn, I really wish mine was a cooler game like Shinobi or SFII but when you're playing a game and that starts to happen, you don't really complain.

I still stand by my original statement of the first non-sports title being built around a black lead character is Shaq Fu. I don't think dancing games would count or any RPG with an open ended character creation system. I would really like to know what the definitive answer to this is.

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Originally Posted by kingoffighters

Since this is the TNL board and all....

The most important question of all, is, what's the first game that truly suck? :)

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Street Fighter 2. Look at the left side.
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Originally Posted by Tragic

Listen, I love me some Dreamcast, ok?

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So wait, was the sexual servicing from the Dreamcast as well? Because if so that doesn't count and you need counseling.

Frog, I consider Major Havoc a multi-genre game, as opposed to a collection of mini-games like Lazy Jones or Wario Ware. Either way, Major Havoc was way cool.

As for Master of 7's question, not counting sports and dance games, I think he might of answered his own question with SMS Quartet. Although he doesn't look totally black.

LOL at FPM's pic.

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Originally Posted by soundwave

I still stand by my original statement of the first non-sports title being built around a black lead character is Shaq Fu. I don't think dancing games would count or any RPG with an open ended character creation system. I would really like to know what the definitive answer to this is.

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As I stated earlier, that would be Luther from the Sega Master System version of Quartet. It was originally a four-player game (hence the name Quartet) but SMS only had two control ports. The white guy and the asian dude got the axe and Luther and Mary got the game all to themselves.

*EDIT* My bad!! I just looked it up. Black guys name was Edgar not Luther. Though I still don't see him as a lead since he never starred in anything else. Shaq-fu.....ergh....bleh..however horrible the game was you may have a point.

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Originally Posted by Master of 7s

I said a lead black character as in a Mario/Sonic/Mega-man/Master Chief type of lead. DeeJay was just one face in a line-up and not a very memorable one at that. Besides, Balrog/M. Bison came before he did and the black dude from King of Fighters with the white mohawk who fights alongside Vanessa (wtf is his name?) is more recognized.

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Seth. And are you seriously trying to say Seth is better known than Deejay? You couldn't even name the guy.

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*EDIT* My bad!! I just looked it up. Black guys name was Edgar not Luther. Though I still don't see him as a lead since he never starred in anything else. Shaq- fu.....ergh....bleh..however horrible the game was you may have a point.

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What about Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for the arcade/Genesis? It doesn't matter what he is now, does it?

Here's a little known "first fact" about Moonwalker. There was a Moonwalker game before Sega's versions, Keypunch Software's 1989 computer game.

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Originally Posted by salmonax

Seth. And are you seriously trying to say Seth is better known than Deejay? You couldn't even name the guy.

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I'm not much of a KOF fan.

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What about Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for the arcade/Genesis? It doesn't matter what he is now, does it?

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:confused: Shit, I dunno. Was he still black when they made Moonwalker? :p