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Here are [[The Oldest Ones in the Book]] for [[Video Games]]. The [[NES]]'s US introduction in October 1985 marked the beginning of the end of [[The Great Video Game Crash of 1983]], and we have chosen it as a cutoff date for [[The Oldest Ones in the Book]] of [[Video Game Tropes]].

A good number of the RPG tropes can be found here, since these games trace their roots pretty much directly back to [[Tabletop RPG]]s such as ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', which were among the first commercial games to be ported over to a video game system.

'''Examples''':

* [[Action Adventure]]: ''[[Adventure (1979 video game)|Adventure]]'' (Atari 2600), 1979
* [[Adventure Game]]: ''[[Colossal Cave]]'', 1975
* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: RPG version, ''[[Wizardry]]'' 1, 1981
* [[Arbitrary Maximum Range]]: ''[[Space War]]'', 1962
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: Many, many many games; in particular, ''[[Pac-Man]]'', 1980.
* [[Ascended Glitch]]: ''[[Space Invaders]]'', 1978
* [[Asteroids Monster]]: ''[[Asteroids]]'' (obviously), 1979
* [[Attack Its Weak Point]]: ''Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back'', 1982
* [[Attract Mode]]: Many, many arcade games; ''[[Sinistar]]'''s (1982) is particularly famous.
* [[Balls of Fire]]: ''[[Donkey Kong]]'', 1981
* [[Block Puzzle]]: ''[[Sokoban]]'', 1982
* [[Border Patrol]]: Saucers in shooting sections of ''[[I Robot (video game)|I Robot]]''
* [[Boss Battle]]: ''[[Dnd]]'', 1975
* [[Bottomless Pits]]: ''[[Hunt the Wumpus]]'', 1972
* [[But Thou Must!]]: ''[[Grannys Garden]]'', 1983
* [[Character Level]]: ''[[Dnd]]'', 1975, or ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', 1974
* [[Clairvoyant Security Force]]: ''[[Zork]]'', 1979, for one.
* [[Color-Coded Multiplayer]]: Some ''[[Pong]]'' systems, 1975.
* [[Color-Coded Armies]]: Kreigsspiel, the first example of [[War Gaming]] and used to train the Prussian General Staff, 19th Century
* [[Controllable Helplessness]]: ''[[Adventure (1979 video game)|Adventure]]'', 1979
* [[Cores and Turrets Boss]]: ''[[Bosconian]]'', 1981
* [[Corridor Cubbyhole Run]]: ''[[Spikes Peak]]'', 1983
* [[Cosmetic Award]]: [[Activision]] [http://www.digitpress.com/archives/cc_patches_2600.htm mailed out physical ones] for achieving a preset score in their [[Atari 2600]] games.
* [[Cosmetically Different Sides]]: ''[[Space War]]'', 1962
* [[Critical Existence Failure]]: ''[[Dnd]]'', 1975, or ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', 1974
* [[Critical Hit]]: ''[[Avatar (video game)|Avatar]]'', 1979
* [[Cutscene]]: ''[[Space Invaders]] Part II'', 1979
* [[Deadly Walls]]: ''[[Berzerk]]'', 1980
* [[Death Mountain]]: ''[[Alpiner]]'', 1982
* [[Death Throws]]: ''[[Crystal Castles (video game)|Crystal Castles]]'', 1983
* [[Demonic Spiders]]: ''[[Centipede]]'', 1980
* [[Difficulty Levels]]: The [[Atari 2600]] had two built-in difficulty level switches in 1977.
* [[Direct Continuous Levels]]: ''[[Scramble]]'', 1981
* [[Directionally Solid Platforms]]:: ''[[Jump Bug]]'', 1981
* [[Driving Game]]: ''[[Gran Trak 10]]'', 1974
* [[Dungeon Crawling]]: ''[[Dnd]]'', 1975
* [[Easter Egg]]: ''[[Adventure (1979 video game)|Adventure]]'', 1979
* [[Enemy Detecting Radar]]: ''[[Star Trek Text Game]]'', 1971
* [[Extra Lives]]: ''[[Space Invaders]]'', 1978
* [[Every Bullet Is a Tracer]]: ''[[Space War]]'', 1962
* [[Every Ten Thousand Points]]: Many, many arcade games. Goes back to [[Pinball]].
* [[Excuse Plot]]: ''[[Space Invaders]]'', 1978
* [[Eyes Are Unbreakable]]: ''[[Pac-Man]]'', 1980
* [[Faux First Person 3D]]: ''[[Maze War]]'', 1974
* [[Final Boss]]: ''[[Dnd]]'', 1975
* [[First-Person Shooter]]: ''[[Maze War]]'', 1974
* [[Flip Screen Scrolling]]: ''[[Adventure (1979 video game)|Adventure]]'', 1979
* [[Game Over]]: ''[[Space Invaders]]'', 1978
* [[Game Over Man]]: The TI-99/4A port of ''[[Hunt the Wumpus]]'', 1980.
* [[Global Currency]]: ''[[Ultima]]'', 1980
* [[Goddamned Bats]]: ''[[Hunt the Wumpus]]'', 1972
* [[Goomba Stomp]]: ''Horace And The Spiders'', 1983
* [[Gravity Screw]]: ''[[Space War]]'', 1962
* [[The Great Video Game Crash of 1983]] (Duh)
* [[Grimy Water]]: ''[[Spikes Peak]]'', 1983
* [[Guide Dang It]]: ''[[Colossal Cave]]'', 1975
* [[Hit Points]]: ''[[Dnd]]'', 1975, or ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', 1974.
* [[Instant 180 Degree Turn]]: ''Basketball'', 1978
* [[Interactive Fiction]]: ''[[Colossal Cave]]'', 1975
* [[Interface Screw]]: ''[[Rogue (video game)|Rogue]]'', 1983
* [[In Vehicle Invulnerability]]: ''[[Gran Trak 10]]'', 1974
* [[Inventory Management Puzzle]]: ''Colossal Cave'', 1975
* [[Invincibility Power-Up]]: ''[[Pac-Man]]'', 1980
* [[Invisible Grid]]: ''[[Maze War]]'', 1974
* [[Job System]]: ''[[Avatar (video game)|Avatar]]'', 1979
* [[Jump Physics]]: ''[[Donkey Kong]]'', 1981
* [[Karma Meter]]: ''[[Ultima IV]]'', 1984
* [[Last Lousy Point]]: ''[[Colossal Cave]]'', 1975
* [[Level Editor]]: ''[[Maze War]]'', 1974
* [[Level Goal]]: ''[[Donkey Kong]]'', 1981
* [[Level Grinding]]: ''[[Ultima|Akalabeth]]'', 1979
* [[Level Scaling]]: ''Beneath Apple Manor'', 1978
* [[Light Gun Game]]: ''Ray-O-Lite'', 1936
* [[Match Three Game]]: ''[[OXO]]'', 1952—You '''do''' have to match three to win.
* [[Mini Boss]]: ''[[Dnd]]'', 1975
* [[Mini Game]]: ''[[Escape From the Mindmaster]]'', 1982
* [[Mook Maker]]: The oil drum in ''[[Donkey Kong]]'', 1981.
* [[Multi User Dungeon]]: ''[[Multi-User Dungeon]]'', 1979
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Of course—if you're ignorant of anything Nintendo preNES—the title may now break your mind.
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: ''[[Star Trek Text Game]]'', 1971, running out of fuel.
* [[No Plot, No Problem]]: Sports and board games in general are [[Older Than Dirt]].
* [[Numbered Sequels]]: ''[[Space Invaders]] II'', 1981; not to be confused with Space Invaders ''part'' II.
* [[Obvious Beta]]: ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (video game)|ET the Extra Terrestrial]]'', 1982
* [[Old Save Bonus]]: ''[[Wizardry]]'' 2, 1982
* [[One-Hit Kill]]: ''[[Space War]]'', 1962
* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: ''[[Space War]]'', 1962
* [[One Bullet At a Time]]: At least as early as ''[[Space Invaders]]'', 1978
* [[1-Up]]
* [[Oxygen Meter]]: ''[[Space Panic]]'', 1980
* [[Painfully-Slow Projectile]]: ''[[Air-Sea Battle]]'', 1977
* [[Palette Swap]]: First color games, 1970s
* [[Pause Scumming]]
* [[Porting Disaster]]: ''[[Pac-Man]]'' on the Atari 2600, 1982
* [[Press X to Die]]: ''[[Star Trek Text Game]]'', 1971
* [[Press X to Not Die]]: ''[[Dragon's Lair|Dragons Lair]]'', 1983
* [[The Problem with Licensed Games]]: ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (video game)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'', May 1982, [[Ur Example]]; ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (video game)|ET the Extra Terrestrial]]'', 1982, [[Trope Codifier]]
* [[Puzzle Boss]]: ''[[Donkey Kong]]'', 1981
* [[Regenerating Health]]: ''[[Dragonstomper]]'', 1982
* [[Roguelike]]: ''[[Rogue (video game)|Rogue]]'', 1980
* [[Save Scumming]]: ''[[Rogue (video game)|Rogue]]'', 1980
* [[Scoring Points]]: ''[[Pong]]'', 1972
* [[Shielded Core Boss]]: ''Star Castle'', 1980
* [[Shoot'Em Up]]: ''[[Space Invaders]]'', 1978
* [[Side View]]: ''[[Tennis for Two]]'', 1958
* [[Silliness Switch]]: The potion of hallucination in ''[[Rogue (video game)|Rogue]]'', 1980.
* [[Simon Says Mini Game]]: ''[[Touch Me]]'', 1974
* [[Simulation Game]]: ''Utopia'', 1982
* [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World]]: ''[[Atari 2600 Indy 500|Indy 500]]'', 1977
* [[Smart Bomb]]: ''[[Defender]]'', 1980
* [[Space-Filling Path]]: ''[[Donkey Kong]]'', 1981
* [[Stalked by the Bell]]: Evil Otto in ''[[Berzerk]]'', 1980
* [[Stealth Based Game]]: ''[[Castle Wolfenstein]]'', 1981
* [[Strategy Game]]: [[Go]], [[Older Than Dirt]]
* [[Subsystem Damage]]: ''[[Star Trek Text Game]]'', 1971
* [[Super Title 64 Advance]]: [[Commodore 64]] games
* [[Solve the Soup Cans]]: ''[[Colossal Cave]]'', 1975
* [[Status Line]]: Vector terminal port of ''[[Lunar Lander]]'', 1973
* [[Take Cover]]: ''[[Maze War]]'', 1974
* [[Text Parser]]: ''[[Colossal Cave]]'', 1975; ''[[Zork]]'', 1979
* [[That One Level]]: ''[[Donkey Kong]]'', 1981.
* [[Trial and Error Gameplay]]: ''[[Zork]]'', 1979
* [[Turn-Based Strategy]]: ''[[Crush Crumble and Chomp]]'', 1981
* [[Violation of Common Sense]]: {{spoiler|Killing the dragon}}, ''[[Colossal Cave]]'', 1975
* [[You Can't Get Ye Flask]]: ''[[Colossal Cave]]'', 1975
* [[Walkthrough]]: There were guides written for ''[[Colossal Cave]]''.
* [[Warp Whistle]]: ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (video game)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'', 1982
* [[Wide Open Sandbox]]: ''[[Space Travel]]'', 1969
* [[Wizard Needs Food Badly]]: ''[[PLATO Moria|Moria]]'', 1975
* [[Wrap Around]]: ''[[Space War]]'', 1962

{{reflist}}
[[Category:Video Game Tropes]]
[[Category:Game Tropes]]
[[Category:Index Index]]
[[Category:Index]]
[[Category:Older Than the NES]]
[[Category:The Oldest Ones in the Book]]

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