mike tyson's punch-out!! (1987) is a rhythm game
@mavica_again arguably more of a rhythm game than the other occasionally-cited NES title Dance Aerobics which doesn't seem to care about timing as much...
I still have a hard time believing that there's *nothing* between these and PaRappa The Rapper on PS1. The formula was feasible since the NES, and the SNES had good enough audio.
@clyde it's less a case for lack of technological capacity and more "nobody thought about this until parappa" i think
@clyde i mean hardware wise, in the early 2000s general stores where i lived were flooded with famiclone DDR pads that all played the same 3 songs
@mavica_again this minigame from Miracle Piano Teaching System on NES might as well have been a Rhythm Heaven minigame 16 years early.
@mavica_again though TBH my actual quest isn't something as academic as "fill in the gaps in the historic record left by anglocentric reporting"
I'm just searching for prior art to connect with in preparation for making a rhythm game on a certain low res 8-bit system... 👀
@mavica_again That's definitely plausible, though I'm curious about what kinds of things came close during those ten years.
An article I found claiming to be a comprehensive history of rhythm games included "aside from a few arcade games that never saw the light of day outside Japan" as a throwaway line. That seems a pretty significant area of gaming history to sweep under the rug.
(Also they didn't even mention NES Miracle Piano Teaching System!)
That seems a pretty significant area of gaming history to sweep under the rug.
surprises me none coming from the country that still cries over the """video game crash""" of 1983
@mavica_again everybody knows the sun only shines where English is spoken 🥲
@mavica_again now that you've mentioned it, that makes sense actually