Genre Padlet Timeline by Theo Aprile Silva

Elite (1984)

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:02:46 UTC

Elite (1984) is considered one of the first sandbox games: the player as a space pilot traveled across a randomly-generated galaxy, engaging in combat with enemies (one of the first games to use simulated 3D combat through wireframe graphics)

SimCity (1989)

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:07:09 UTC

SimCity, also known as Metropolis or SimCity Classic, is a city-building simulation video game developed by Will Wright, and released for several platforms from 1989 to 1991.

Grand Theft Auto III in 2000 and 2001

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:09:41 UTC

Grand Theft Auto III is a 2001 action-adventure game developed by DMA Design and published by Rockstar Games. It is the third main entry in the Grand Theft Auto series, following 1999's Grand Theft Auto 2, and the fifth instalment overall.

Garry's Mod (2006)

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:11:15 UTC

Garry's Mod is a 2006 sandbox game developed by Facepunch Studios and published by Valve. The base game mode of Garry's Mod has no set objectives and provides the player with a world in which to freely manipulate objects.

Minecraft (2009)

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:12:40 UTC

is one of the most successful examples of a sandbox game, with players able to enjoy both creative modes and more goal-driven survival modes.

Donkey Kong 1981

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:16:02 UTC

Donkey Kong is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo. The franchise follows the adventures of Donkey Kong, a large, powerful gorilla.

1980 arcade video game Space Panic

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:17:46 UTC

Space Panic is a 1980 arcade video game developed by Universal. Predating Nintendo's Donkey Kong, and lacking a jump mechanic, Space Panic was the first game involving climbing ladders between walkable platforms. The genre was initially labeled "climbing games", but later became known as platform games

Kangaroo (1982)

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:19:01 UTC

Kangaroo (Japanese: カンガルー) is a four-screen platform game released as an arcade video game 1982 by Sun Electronics and distributed in North America by Atari, Inc Kangaroo is one of the first arcade games similar in style to Donkey Kong without being a direct clone. The player takes the role of a boxing glove-wearing mother kangaroo who is trying to rescue her joey from fruit-throwing monkeys.

Pitfall! (1982)

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:20:28 UTC

Pitfall! is a video game developed by David Crane for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600) and released in 1982 by Activision. The player controls Pitfall Harry, who has a time limit of 20 minutes to seek treasure in a jungle. The game world is populated by enemies and hazards that variously cause the player to lose lives or points.

Super Mario Bros. (1985)

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:21:36 UTC

was a defining game for the nascent genre, with horizontally scrolling levels and the player controlling a named character—Mario, which became a mascot of the company. The term platform game gained traction in the late 1980s, as did the alternate form platformer.

Origins (1958–1972)

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:24:37 UTC

Pong (1972) arcade cabinet

Sports video games have origins in sports electro-mechanical games (EM games), which were arcade games manufactured using a mixture of electrical and mechanical components, for amusement arcades between the 1940s and 1970s. Examples include boxing games such as International Mutoscope Reel Company's K.O. Champ (1955),[7

Intellivision World Series Baseball (1983)

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:25:50 UTC

considered the earliest sports video game to incorporate multiple camera angles in a manner resembling a sports television broadcast

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (2007)

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:27:31 UTC

a Wii game played by miming sports activity

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:28:57 UTC

FIFA responded by borrowing gameplay elements from PES to improve FIFA, which eventually pulled ahead commercially by a significant margin in the 2010s and emerged as the world's most successful sports video game franchise.

Runescape 2001

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:31:28 UTC

RuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed and published by Jagex, released in January 2001. RuneScape was originally a browser game built with the Java programming language; it was largely replaced by a standalone C++ client in 2016.

Trolls & Treasures (2002)

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:33:30 UTC

Tales of Trolls & Treasures was an early 2000s RPG game developed for Windows around 2001 and released the first alpha build on 2002. Tales of Trolls & Treasures was created to be a full modular role-playing in which players could create their own free adventures or quests. The game came with standard game (which was known as the "main quest") that was pre-installed along with a "quest generator" in which randomized quests would be made.

Legend of Grimrock (2012)

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:34:37 UTC

Legend of Grimrock is a 2012 action role-playing game video game developed and published by Almost Human. The title is a 3D grid-based, real-time dungeon crawler based on the 1987 game Dungeon Master. It was released for Windows in April 2012, OS X and Linux in December 2012, iOS in May 2015, and Nintendo Switch on 15 January 2024.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

tsilva54 — 2024-01-16 16:37:44 UTC

developed and published by CD Projekt. It is the sequel to the 2011 game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and the third game in The Witcher video game series, played in an open world with a third-person perspective. The games follow the Witcher series of fantasy novels written by Andrzej Sapkowski.