Game Innovation Database

[Oh! My Car!]

from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4986688.stm

A website that aims to record the history of videogame innovation is calling on games fanatics for help.

The Game Innovation Database (GIDb), as the website is known, has been developed by a team at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University.

The online encyclopaedia is similar to Wikipedia and allows users to browse and edit the site's content.

The developers hope that games fanatics can start to build a complete picture of the last 35 years of games history.

http://www.gameinnovation.org/

site seems to be down at the moment though...

[MonkeyWrench]

It's spotlighted in this months edge...forgot to check it out. Sounds pretty cool.

[Zanza]

Some of the so claimed innovations are ridiculous though:

Black and white :

"first game where you can draw magic spells using the mouse"

Is that an innovation, hardly?

[Malavon]

Some of the so claimed innovations are ridiculous though:

Black and white :

"first game where you can draw magic spells using the mouse"

Is that an innovation, hardly?

I'm also fairly certain it isn't true, either.

[Molloy]

Well, the gesture system was heavily marketed at the time of the games release as being some sort of fantastic breakthrough. The site could be useful eventually, maybe. At the moment though..

Sensible Soccer:

Innovations
[Top Down Soccer Great]
The most playable top down soccer simulation ever.

[saif]

Interesting, I hope this will show that many innovative games were not necessarily that good. Often its after the innovation that a good game can use it. Sensi did nothing "innovative" except put loads of ideas toogether and make a ****ING great game.

[MartyG]

Trouble is it's open to anyone to edit.

I picked something at random. Apparently, Legend of Zelda is the first video game to offer the player an open world to explore :/

[MonkeyWrench]

Bloody site is up and down like a brides nighty.

Anyway, managed to check it out earlier and it looks like it might be promising. As it's wiki based it takes time for the content to settle down.

[Molloy]

The BBC linked to it and they can't handle it.

Problem is lots of the people submitting are idiots. Wikipedia is getting better and better for videogame information. I don't really see what this has to add that Wikipedia couldn't do.

You could say that Sensible Soccer was the first game to let you put aftertouch on the ball. But then you could say Pong did that first. Problem is all these things are so subjective.

[MonkeyWrench]

Kick Off II was the first game to have after touch, AFAIK you couldn't curve the blip in Pong:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_Off_2

[FelixofMars]

Wow, the wiki has been edited by morons and is really thin on the ground, why did the BBC bother doing an article on this? You get more info from Wikipedia itself or Moby Games database.

[oldskool]

Kick Off II was the first game to have after touch, AFAIK you couldn't curve the blip in Pong:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_Off_2

I though that was Kick Off: Extra Time

[Oh! My Car!]

apparently Goldeneye was the first FPS to include a sniper rifle?

From the bbc description I thought this site was supposed to be a database of the history of games, seems like its more a willy waving contest to try and invent innovations for every game ever. hmmm

[SegaMark]

Since when was the Famicom and Super Famicom modem built in? The SF had Setallaview didn't it? And the Famicom had some crappy modem you plugged in that did eff all? I've never heard this before, and GOOGLE aint bringing anything up.