Note: read “first” as “first popular/important”, not just for this thread but for most conversations across media like this.

Spelunky was the first “Roguelite” that brought permadeath with meta progression to another genre, starting the modern wave of Roguelites.

Pokemon kicked off “monster collection” as a mechanic

To my knowledge, Halo was the first major game to do regenerating health

Lightning Launcher if it still exists

Climb to the top of F1 and jump into the middle spiderweb

There’s also a puzzle somewhere with a ladder you gotta shoot with the slingshot, that’s a little out there

Edit: I was describing the deku tree. Sorry bout that

TIL what an NAS is - I’ve only worked with SAN systems for work. Let’s see about your MQTT and NGINX running 9n the PiHole

Is cert based auth an option?

Every time you solve a puzzle, you feel like you’re cheating and that can’t be the intended solution. It’s such a tough game

I still listen to the OST sometimes. What a great game

This is another game I wanted to like, but it just didn’t click for me

I really liked the idea of this game. I played it a lot. I feel like there was no progression, like I was getting nowhere fast. Eventually I stopped playing.

It scratched a similar itch to Kingdom of Loathing

I always got decimated online, and the community didn’t put up with my lack of skill very well. Not great memories. I still found the premise pretty fun

I loved this game. I remember finding out about double- or triple-binding the turn keys so you could do fancy u-turns and other maneuvers. I always got beat online, but I never came in last