Gameplay and Design Origins Discussion Thread

[Othello Harrington]

Interesting topic..... of course, my mind is in the gutter so I have to ask, what is the first pornographic game? I remember those 2600 games like Porky's or Custard's Revenge, but I figure there must be games even earlier than that. Maybe Porn Zork called Pork?

Eat it and Beat it

Imo

[Frogacuda]

Interesting topic..... of course, my mind is in the gutter so I have to ask, what is the first pornographic game? I remember those 2600 games like Porky's or Custard's Revenge, but I figure there must be games even earlier than that. Maybe Porn Zork called Pork?

There was a text adventure called Soft Porn, but I don't know what year it came out

[Frogacuda]

Yeah, I was playing it without the overlays on MAME too but I think you can fall if you move too far to the edge.

Man, I love MAME's new rendering system. I dug this out again, and it makes a lot more sense now.

I still don't know if it really relates to platforming, because you can't really aim your jump, but you can fall off the lillypad.

[bVork]

There was a text adventure called Soft Porn, but I don't know what year it came out

Soft Porn came out in 1981. Leisure Suit Larry was actually based on it.

[gamevet]

Interesting topic..... of course, my mind is in the gutter so I have to ask, what is the first pornographic game? I remember those 2600 games like Porky's or Custard's Revenge, but I figure there must be games even earlier than that. Maybe Porn Zork called Pork?

Beat em and eat em!

[NeoZeedeater]

I might as well bump this thread instead of starting a new one for this question -

I have been playing TRON Deadly Discs on Intellivision again (BTW, everyone should play this on a real machine if they get the chance; it's still one of the best games ever) recently and it made me think it might have had some firsts.

Are they any games earlier that have a character's movement slowed by getting hit? The game is from 1982 and I can't think of any game before it where the player can get injured and have it affect gameplay until he heals. Also, I can't think of any earlier action games off-hand with a block move. Any ideas?

[RoleTroll]

But the original cartridge version had an editor too.

IIRC, Excitebike had a track editor but you couldn't save the tracks. Nintendo left in the save screen but it didn't actually work on the cartridge. I thought at the time that the Japanese version was on the Famicom disk system and they stripped out the funtionality for the US release, but that can't be right if the disk system didn't even exist yet. Maybe the Famicom version could save using a battery? Or Nintendo coded the save functionality in anticipation of the Famicom disk system?

[NeoZeedeater]

Maybe the Famicom version could save using a battery?

It saved via the Famicom Data Recorder peripheral.

[Frogacuda]

Bump. I'm kind of curious if anyone has any ideas about the origin of the music game. I know about Break Street, Break Dance, and Break Fever on C64, but are there any earlier ones?

[NeoZeedeater]

Melody Chase on Aquarius (1982 or 1983) is a music game that comes to mind although it's different than those dance games.

And if you really want to go to basics, the Simon Says game in the original Odyssey is related even though it's not a music game at all.