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Use for historical questions in the field of [video] games

For questions pertaining to the history of [video] games outside of the games themselves. For example, it would not apply to in-universe history.

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Incubator Q&A Earliest first-person view multi-player computer game?

Today we take multi-player first-person view computer games for granted, but what was the first one? When was that? What did it run on? Who were the players? What was it like? Any interesting ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

Question video-games history
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Incubator Q&A First use of dice to determine direction

Which game first introduced the concept of rolling dice to determine a direction? I'm designing a board game and I know which game gave me this idea[1] but I doubt it was the first to use it. I'm ...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

Question tabletop-games dice history movement