two intererting questions

[rib]

1. which arcade game was the first that used a vertical oriented screen and if it was no shmup which was the first vert shmup?

2. which consol game was the first with a tate mode, and if it was no shmup what was the first tateable consol shmup?

rb

[CIT]

1. which arcade game was the first that used a vertical oriented screen and if it was no shmup which was the first vert shmup?

I'm not sure what the first game with vertical screen was. Maybe Breakout (1976)?

Space Invaders (1978) was both the first vertical screen shooter and the first shooter.

2. which consol game was the first with a tate mode, and if it was no shmup what was the first tateable consol shmup?

All Vectrex games have vertical screen orientation. Not sure which games were released first, but Minestorm is a good bet, since it is built into the hardware.

The first home-system shooter with vertical screen thus was Scramble for Vectrex, but interestingly it is a horizontally scrolling game.

[rib]

ok, so which was the first vertical oriented and scrolling console shmup with a tate mode?

[CIT]

Raiden Project on PlayStation.

[SuperGrafx]

ok, so which was the first vertical oriented and scrolling console shmup with a tate mode?

Raiden Project (PSX)?

That's the first game I remember reading about that had a user-selectable tate mode.

[rib]

wow, very interesting!

[Eps]

Yep, a magazine here in the UK showed the PSX running it in the optional vert mode, before the launch of the PSX. First time I could remember that happening with any shoot-em-up on a home console.

I remember thinking that it was the future. I was right -- but just not for the mainstream.

[doctorx0079]

Is there a list of console games that have a Tate mode?

[DEL]

On a side note;

CIT wrote;

Space Invaders (1978) was both the first vertical screen shooter and the first shooter.

The first shooter was "Space War", and it was the first video game as well. Can't remember which year? 1960s...?

[Shocky]

Space War was "released" in 1962. Folks didn't have to think about tate or yoko then, because the screen was round.

[CIT]

The first shooter was "Space War", and it was the first video game as well. Can't remember which year?

It depends on your definition of shooter. It doesn't have the limited direction of movement that is usually associated with genre. Plays more like Senkou no Ronde.

http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/ ... /spacewar/

[Dale]

On a side note;

CIT wrote;

Space Invaders (1978) was both the first vertical screen shooter and the first shooter.

The first shooter was "Space War", and it was the first video game as well. Can't remember which year? 1960s...?

I think Tennis for Two(1958) was the first Video Game and Space War was the Secound. It was made at the same Unizersty as SW, TFT was made for guests they were having for an open house at the school,a few kid's played it and said it was fun,But shortly after it was Dismantled along with the old room sized computer they played it on. I think it was made by a guy named Steve I can't remember his last name.

In for the record I think SW is a Shmup.

[Arcatech]

Was Tennis For Two similar to pong?

[Dale]

Yes but it was not completly like Pong or Ralph Baer's Table Tennis

[rib]

and which was the first vertically oriented and scrolling arcade shmup?

[CIT]

I guess that would have been Galaxian (1979), with the scrolling star field in the background.

[rib]

ok, and which was the first vertically oriented and anything but starfields scrolling arcade shmup?
you see my point.

[Eps]

I'm thinking Xevious, but I'll probably get a load of people telling me about 100 obscure scrolling shooters that were out before that

[doctorx0079]

Maybe technically Scramble (1981), but it actually scrolls horizontally.

[CIT]

The first one with a scrolling "landscape" was Defender (horizontal, 1980), and the first vertical one with it was Xevious.

[Tony Gradius]

Maybe technically Scramble (1981), but it actually scrolls horizontally.

Wasn`t Scramble one of te first horis which used a vertically orientated screen?

[rib]

wow, now xevious is the one that matches my idea.
i found something interesting about it:

"Atari actually produced a TV commercial, specifically for Xevious. They touted it as "The Atari game you cannot play at home." This may have been the first TV commercial for an arcade video game."

can anyone confirm this?

[sffan]

wow, now xevious is the one that matches my idea.
i found something interesting about it:

"Atari actually produced a TV commercial, specifically for Xevious. They touted it as "The Atari game you cannot play at home." This may have been the first TV commercial for an arcade video game."

can anyone confirm this?

I saw that commercial somewhere. Somebody on a forum linked it, maybe on this one.

[zaphod]

well, let's see (fires up mame annd sorts by year...)

Vanguard came out in 81, and has vertical scrolling sections in it. it predates Xevious (82).