Games That Invented Genres?

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Leynos said:

Underground Exploration 1982 I guess it the first JRPG as in RPG developed in Japan. It used text for commands tho most if not all JRPGs in the early 80s were considered ARPGs. The bump system was popular. Famously games like Hydlide and Ys were popular at the time.


Ultima 1981 is one of the earliest WRPGs in video game form and was turn based. Of course, It's heavily taken from DnD.

Before Ultima came Akalabeth, also from Lord British Richard Garriot. It did beat Wizardry by 2 months though. Both together were major influences in creating JRPGs as a genre: The overhead map and travels from Ultima were combined with the combat system of Wizardy and then simplified, especially the spell systems (many spells which were absolutely deadly in Wizardry and/or Ultima became borderline useless in the transfer, especially status effects were nerfed beyond recognition. This btw makes those older games much more difficult for most modern players as they have the uselessness of those spells and effects in the back of their mind and don't use them even in favor of the nukes though they're pretty much the best ones to use in those games instead)