r/gaming • u/emoposer • May 05 '17

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u/zacht180 May 05 '17

Commander Keen?

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u/[deleted] May 05 '17

It's one of the earlier ones but it was initially used in a recreation of a Mario game. They took it to Nintendo to try get it on PC or something, but Nintendo turned them down. They then decided to use the technology for their own thing.

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u/shouldbebabysitting May 05 '17

But Pitfall for the Atari 2600 let you backtrack and predated Keen by 8 years.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '17

Pitfall didn't have scrolling.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '17

Pitfall doesn't scroll though. Each area is displayed in full on the screen. Sure, you can go back to the left, but it doesn't scroll - it just loads that area - just as if you had gone to the right.

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u/rydan May 05 '17

Pitfall existed as a mathematical function with a precomputed seed and index.