u/howisthisacrime

I was playing Dead Island 2 and while looking at the tip on the loading screen about your weapon wheel I was wondering about which game started using it first. It then got me thinking about ubiquitous game mechanics that are almost second nature to us and who started them. Which game started the weapon wheel, or mini map, or any of these other quality of life things that have become so ingrained in video games that it's funny to see a tip on a loading screen explaining it to you?

I was gifted a book called The Butcher Boy and it's kinda difficult to get into. It reads like a young ADHD boy talking a mile a minute. No quotation marks, hardly any paragraph breaks, just on and on of "well joe said this and then I did this but said that and ole Mrs. said this then did that." I feel like I'm not giving it a fair chance considering I'm only a few pages in, but I don't know if I can stomach reading a whole book like this.