In my recent video essay Ready Player One Was Wrong: The First Easter Eggs In Video Games, I demonstrate these many firsts in captured gameplay footage. The overworld of DEC’s Moonlander (1973). ![]() Incidentally, all the “firsts” innovated above debuted in a single game: 1973’s Moonlander by Jack Burness. We consider a game important based on the range of its influence or concepts it innovated. The hidden “Easter Egg.” Or how about the first cutscene - those cinematic sequences that temporarily remove control from the player? ![]() They’re the things we take for granted, like the first on-screen depiction of a human, or the first game to take place across multiple screens. ![]() Everyone knows Neil Armstrong was the first man on the Moon, but who was the first man in a video game?Įarly video game history is littered with “firsts” - the footprints of trailblazers and innovators who established the conventions of this new medium, paving the way for the games that followed.īut like footprints, these minor developments are easy to miss if you’re not looking out for them.
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