13th January 2003, 8:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 13th January 2003, 9:02 PM by A Black Falcon.)
You didn't read the thread, did you OB1? I have already proved quite conclusively that graphic adventures existed years before console-style ones. Just read that link I posted when I discussed that... you'd see Mystery House came out in 1980, more than 5 years before Zelda, which really created the console Action-RPG-Adventure genre that it was the founding member of.
Edit:
http://www.if-legends.org/~adventure/timeline.html
Oh, and Adventure (aka Colossal Cave), the first text adventure game (the other half of the adventure genre... though mostly dead for years now), was finished in 1972 for a mainframe. Somehow I bet that predates Zelda, or any other console action-adventure-rpg (or whatever combo) game.
Edit 2: So this is consoles-only. I know. Consoles get a few graphic adventures too... the Gamecube has none, but I know PS2 has a couple of them.
Edit:
http://www.if-legends.org/~adventure/timeline.html
Oh, and Adventure (aka Colossal Cave), the first text adventure game (the other half of the adventure genre... though mostly dead for years now), was finished in 1972 for a mainframe. Somehow I bet that predates Zelda, or any other console action-adventure-rpg (or whatever combo) game.
Edit 2: So this is consoles-only. I know. Consoles get a few graphic adventures too... the Gamecube has none, but I know PS2 has a couple of them.