10th January 2003, 11:57 PM
But if you don't pay attention to genre definitions, it makes awards like these pretty hard to qualify in categories...
Anyway, to me adventure and graphic adventure are the same thing. Zelda is in no way an adventure game. Adventure-RPG, probably. Action-Adventure-RPG if you want to be specific.
As for age, Mystery House was before Zelda, no question. It came out in 1980.
http://www.cyberflix.com/timelapse/speci...st8090.htm
Text adventure games existed before that, too...
Anyway, to me adventure and graphic adventure are the same thing. Zelda is in no way an adventure game. Adventure-RPG, probably. Action-Adventure-RPG if you want to be specific.
As for age, Mystery House was before Zelda, no question. It came out in 1980.
http://www.cyberflix.com/timelapse/speci...st8090.htm
Text adventure games existed before that, too...