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Technical innovation

Software concept

Innovately uses technology to produce something that hasn't been done before (at least on the platform).

16
games
11
platforms

Alternate name: Technological innovation

Hellcats Over the Pacific (Macintosh OS Classic)
Hellcats Over the Pacific
MAC 1991
Hellcats: Missions at Leyte Gulf (Macintosh OS Classic)
Hellcats: Missions at Leyte Gulf
MAC 1992
Dragonfire (Tandy Color Computer)
Dragonfire
COCO 1984
Duke Nukem 3D (MS-DOS)
Duke Nukem 3D
DOS 1996-01-29
Prey (Windows)
Prey
WIN 2006-07-10
Outcast (Windows)
Outcast
WIN 1999-07-31
Space Travel (DEC PDP-1)
Space Travel
PDP1 1969-12-31
Exile (BBC Micro)
Exile
BBC 1988
Severance - Blade of Darkness (Windows)
Severance - Blade of Darkness
WIN 2001-02-21
Galaxian (Atari 2600 VCS)
Galaxian
VCS 1983
BBC Vik: The Baseball Demonstrator (custom platform)
BBC Vik: The Baseball Demonstrator
CSTM 1961-01-03
Trespasser (Windows)
Trespasser
WIN 1998
Related:
* Gameplay innovation
This does not include standard features of toolkits like OpenGL or DirectX (e.g. use of tessellation in DX11). However, this does include using some of the standard features for something that they weren't meant for (not originally, but after this it may become "official" feature of it).

These may have little impact on gameplay.

Like any innovation, use of this tag in any game without explanation will appear like it was done in error and should be removed.

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Games by year

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The first Technical innovation video game was released on January 3, 1961.

Electronic Arts and Apogee Software published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 4
Mac OS Classic 2
Linux 2
Apple IIGS 1
custom 1
Apple II E 1
Atari 2600 1
MS-DOS 1
BBC 1
DEC PDP-1 1
Tandy Coco 1

Most common companies

Electronic Arts3
Apogee Software2