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Eternity's Child
Eternity's Child (2008)
subdirectory_arrow_right Eternity's Child (Game)
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Eternity's Child features the first video game credit for DidYouKnowGaming creator and VGFacts co-founder Shane Gill, who contributed art and animation to the game.
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Credits, First, General, Real Life, Website
person DidYouKnowGaming calendar_month February 14, 2024
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Balloon Kid
Balloon Kid (1990)
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Alice from Balloon Kid, while not Nintendo's first female main video game protagonist, (being predated by Bubbles from Clu Clu Land and Samus from Metroid) was the first to be unambiguously female in all regions in which her game was released, as opposed to having her gender be a surprise reveal or having an androgynous design and being assigned as female in a Western localization.
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Character Design, First, General, Male/Female Gender
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Mortal Kombat X
Mortal Kombat X (2015)
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On the day of the game's release, the character Kung Jin was confirmed by writer Dominic Cianciolo to be the first homosexual character in the Mortal Kombat series. This was notably hinted at during a conversation with Raiden in Story mode:

Raiden: "Go to the Wu Shi Academy. Join the Shaolin, like Kung Lao before you."
Kung Jin: "I can't. They won't... accept-"
Raiden: "They care only about what is in your heart. Not whom your heart desires."

When Tanya was added as a DLC character, one of her prefight interactions with Jin also references his lack of interest in the opposite sex:

Tanya: "Quite a handsome Shaolin."
Kung Jin: "Barkin' up the wrong tree, sister."
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Backstory/Lore, Development, Downloadable Content (DLC), First, General, LGBTQ+, Suggested
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Tetris
Tetris (1989)
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In December 2023, a 13-year-old boy named Willis Gibson from Oklahoma became the first known person to "beat" the NES version of Tetris. At level 157 (which in itself was a world record), he reached the game's "kill screen", a feat only accomplished previously with machine assistance. A video of his victory was uploaded to his YouTube channel "Blue Scuti" on January 1, 2024.
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100% Completion, First, General, Real Life, Record
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Tank
Tank (1974)
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Attachment According to The Cutting Room Floor, a website devoted to archiving unused content in video games, Tank is the first video game known to have unused content. Specifically, the game's score numbers are stored as one sprite even for double digit numbers, with the numbers going up to 63, despite such a score being impossible in the game due to the game's maximum 120 second timer and invulnerability frames.
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First, General, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Gran Trak 10
Gran Trak 10 (1974)
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Gran Trak 10 was the first video game to store graphics on the ROM instead of mathematically generating them, the first video game about cars, and the first video game with a steering wheel control scheme.
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Controls, First, General, Technology
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This Is Football 2004
This Is Football 2004 (2004)
subdirectory_arrow_right WALL-E (Game)
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This is Football 2004 was the first Western video game to be officially localised into Arabic. In 2008, THQ would attempt to pass off the HD version of Wall-E as the first, using the rather dubious wording of "first current-gen game".
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First, General, Hoax, Regional Difference
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Article on WALL-E Arabic Localization:
https://kotaku.com/wall-e-gets-arabic-localization-a-middle-east-first-u-5022431

Article on This is Football 2004 Arabic localization:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050326200812/http://www.cpilive.net/news_ver2/inside.asp?wherefrom=search&;newsitem=329200484747AMRESELLER+WORLD+ME.htm&channel=RESELLER+WORLD+ME
Zoo Tycoon
Zoo Tycoon (2001)
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Attachment Predating Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs, the Triceratops is notably the first ever prehistoric creature included in the Zoo Tycoon series as a hidden unlockable within the first base game. Players could unlock it as an adoptable animal by completing the "Breeding the Panda" scenario, but it could also be unlocked earlier by renaming an exhibit to "Cretaceous Corral".

Notably, with the installation of the aforementioned Dinosaur Digs expansion pack, the Triceratops' sprite is modified to be much smaller in size and duller in color; it also now functions like the other dinosaurs, such as now requiring to be hatched out of an egg and be taken care of by a scientist (as opposed to a zookeeper), and will break out of all fences from the base Zoo Tycoon game.
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Bonus Content, First, Secret, Sprite/Graphical Animation, Update Difference
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Dragalia Lost
Dragalia Lost (2018)
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Dragalia Lost is notable for being the first Nintendo IP to be released on mobile devices without any prior appearance on Nintendo hardware.
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Development, First, General, Real Life
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Crazy Kong
Crazy Kong (1981)
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Attachment Crazy Kong's sound effects were plagarised from Crazy Climber, another game about scaling a building that featured gorillas as enemies, and predated Donkey Kong

If one is to count Crazy Kong as an official Nintendo release, it would technically be the first instance of Mario speaking, predating Donkey Kong Goes Home by two years, as he says "Hi-yah!" whenever he jumps over a barrel, using a slowed-down voice clip from the Crazy Climber gorilla.
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First, Plagiarism, Sound Effect, Voice Acting
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Mario speaks in Crazy Kong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOZZZvWYS20#t=32

Crazy Climber - timestamped to the gorilla's appearance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCrAAIEnSYI#t=59
Rampage Puzzle Attack
Rampage Puzzle Attack (2001)
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Rampage Puzzle Attack was the first Finnish video game to be released on a handheld video game console.
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First, General, Real Life
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month December 7, 2023
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"The Praised, The Loved, The Deplored, The Forgotten: A View into the Wide History of Finnish Games" by Elina Lappalainen (Page 103):
https://trepo.tuni.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/120127/978-952-03-1546-7.pdf?sequence=2
Just Dance 2023 Edition
Just Dance 2023 Edition (2022)
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Just Dance 2023 Edition is notable for being the first game in the series' 14-year history to feature a story mode, titled "Enter the Danceverses". When asked during a discussion panel with Ubisoft Paris, the game's content director Franck Chapelat stated that they added the story mode because they "wanted to make a link between reality and the Just Dance universe."
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Backstory/Lore, Development, First, General, Inspiration
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Poostall Royale
Poostall Royale (2023)
subdirectory_arrow_right Postal Babes (Game)
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The 2009 Java Phone game Postal Babes is the first game in the series to feature a female playable character, with the second game to do this being Poostall Royale in 2023.
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Development, First, Male/Female Gender
person Wingzzzzy calendar_month November 28, 2023
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Ryuu ga Gotoku Kenzan!
Ryuu ga Gotoku Kenzan! (2008)
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Ryuu ga Gotoku Kenzan! allows you to briefly play as certain bosses in the series like Majima Gorohachi and Ito Ittosai in certain battle scenarios. This would mark the first time the Yakuza series would allow you to play as a character besides the main protagonist.
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Bonus Content, Cameo, First, General, Moveset
person Kirby Inhales Jotaro calendar_month November 27, 2023
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The Adventures of Quik & Silva
The Adventures of Quik & Silva (1991)
subdirectory_arrow_right Sonic The Hedgehog (Franchise)
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Attachment Quik & Silva features many plagiarized characters as duplicated enemies, including characters from Nebulus, Bubble Bobble, Contra, and The Great Giana Sisters. Among these characters is Sonic the Hedgehog, whose first title had not released at that point, technically making it Sonic's first appearance in a home console video game, even if unauthorized and predated by the arcade game Rad Mobile.
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Cameo, Easter Egg, First, Plagiarism
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 23, 2023
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Sonic Retro article on appearance discovery:
https://sonicretro.org/tag/the-adventures-of-quik-silva/

Larry Bundy Jr. video on Sonic's first appearance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5uC0ymZK3s
Psycho Soldier
Psycho Soldier (1987)
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Attachment The Commodore 64 version of Psycho Soldier may be one of the earliest instances of a video game character having their race swapped, where Athena is depicted as black on the loading screen and box art, while also being depicted as having a red/pink caucasian skin color in-game.
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Box Art, Character Design, Console Difference, First, Loading, Race, Regional Difference, Theory
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 21, 2023
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 (2023)
subdirectory_arrow_right Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway (Game), The Legend of Korra (Collection)
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The 2023 game Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 was the first Nickelodeon product where Korra from The Legend of Korra isn't voiced as an adult by Janet Varney, instead being voiced by Jacqueline Grace Lopez, while Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway was the last time Varney portrayed the character in 2022. The reason for this is that Varney announced that year that she was stepping down from the role, because she wanted Korra to be voiced by a person of color, much as Korra herself is, following the announcement of a new Avatar: The Last Airbender movie starring Korra to be released in 2025.
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Adaptation, Credits, First, Last, Race, Voice Acting
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Janet Varney confirming that she was retiring from the role:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t8JCGLM85M

List of Korra's actors:
https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Avatar-The-Last-Airbender/Korra/

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 credits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCXOsq0UT-Y#t=10074

Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway credits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYu9BRfLSDE#t=4370
Garten of Banban 4
Garten of Banban 4 (2023)
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Sheriff Toadster is the first male English-speaking character in the Garten of Banban series to not be voiced by one of the Euphoric Brothers (Faris and Ghepo), instead being voiced by Paul Hikari.
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Credits, First, Voice Acting
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month September 21, 2023
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Ghosts 'n Goblins
Ghosts 'n Goblins (1986)
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The Famicom version of the game released in 1986 was the first Famicom game to utilize a 128 kilobyte cartridge.
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Console Difference, Development, First, General, Storage/Memory, Version Difference
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018)
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the first game in the series that requires players to select a stage before selecting a character in multiplayer matches. In previous entries, as is common in other fighting games, it was the opposite. This is an attempt by Masahiro Sakurai to change up the strategy of the game (specifically stage-character match-ups).
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First, General, Version Difference
person PirateGoofy calendar_month June 16, 2018
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