Games That Invented Genres?

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Salnax said:

thatmediaguy150 said:

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Jumping Flash invented the 3D platformer.

Antarctic Adventure was a 1983 game from Konami where you played as a character in a 3D environment that ran and jumped over obstacles. Same with 1987's 3D Worldrunner. Sure, these games were sprite-based rather than polygonal, but is that really what makes a 3D platformer? And even if those didn't count, Alpha Waves came out in 1990 on Amiga. It wasn't necessarily a good game, but it meets the criteria.

I had Alpha Waves on my 286, and really no idea what I was supposed to do.

Speaking of which, the game becomes impossible to run natively on a 486 or faster because the game clock is tied to the CPU clock and modern PCs are so fast that it's impossible to finish the game in the allotted time because the timer clocks down wayyy too fast.