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KanzarisKelshen posted...

Very detailed games existed in the first and second generations, just not graphically. Colossal Cave is from 1976 for example, only four years after Pong. It's hard to say exactly what divides 'actual, real game' games from the first generation from the ones in the second in terms of depth, but they did exist. It was just a hard tradeoff between graphics and gameplay depth is all.

I mean you're right; it amazes me that Colossal Cave Adventure, among the first (if not the first among) text adventure games, was written to be played on a mainframe and was usually played via teleprinter without a monitor. It might be safe to say that the biggest leaps were the earliest.