[game_preservation] Fwd: Re: [GAMESNETWORK] Boss battle first ref
Devin Monnens
dmonnens at gmail.com
Tue Sep 28 23:37:41 EDT 2010
Wouldn't that also make Adam and Eve's exile from The Garden of Good and
Evil the world's first escape sequence? :D
And then Cain gets (predictably) Achievement Unlocked: First Blood!
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> wrote:
> EGM once ran a humorous timeline of video game history. It started at
> something like 500 B.C. with David defeating Goliath in history's first
> recorded boss battle.
>
> :)
>
> --
> -Mike Melanson
>
>
>
> On 09/27/2010 01:06 PM, Andrew Armstrong wrote:
>
>> Thought this was interesting and if anyone wants to pass along some
>> gem of knowledge I'll post a reply (or send it to the OP himself).
>>
>> Some other replies (not below) point to anecdotal evidence only really,
>> or the suggestion it was from a specific game, which is unlikely to me!
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [GAMESNETWORK] Boss battle first ref
>> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:19:12 +0100
>> From: Andrew Armstrong <andrew at AARMSTRONG.ORG>
>> Reply-To: Games Research Network <GAMESNETWORK at uta.fi>
>> To: GAMESNETWORK at uta.fi
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm tending to think it wasn't from Videogames originally either; "boss"
>> after all is a common enough word well before electronics, it'd not be
>> hard to imagine it as a term used in some kind of card games and board
>> games; although off the top of my head I'm terrible at the rules for
>> early games of this kind.
>>
>> Perhaps also a military term too? A lot of random things are taken from
>> jargon reused elsewhere.
>>
>> In any case I'd look outside videogames though for the first uses of the
>> term. To me it sounds like a pretty natural way of describing something
>> shorthand, better then "leader enemy fight" or "bigger monster fight",
>> perhaps ask what else did people use to describe such fights /instead/
>> of boss? I'm not that old so I don't have any anecdotes of that kind to
>> share!
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> On 27/09/2010 17:43, Claudio Franco wrote:
>>
>>> I remember using the term 'big boss' when playing Renegade / Target
>>> Renegade in ZX Spectrum with my mates - decades ago.
>>>
>>> Perhaps it originates ultimately from arcade machines? Possibly very
>>> hard to say for sure
>>>
>>> Clue:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_%28video_gaming%29
>>>
>>> where it says...
>>>
>>> The first interactive game to feature a boss was /dnd
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnd_%28computer_game%29>/, a 1975
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_in_video_gaming> computer
>>> role-playing game
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_role-playing_game> for the
>>> PLATO system
>>>
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_%28computer_system%29>.^[4]
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_%28video_gaming%29#cite_note-armory-3
>>> >
>>> ^[5]
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_%28video_gaming%29#cite_note-uvl-4>
>>>
>>> One of the earliest dungeon crawls
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_crawl>, /dnd/ implemented many
>>>
>>> of the core concepts behind /Dungeons & Dragons
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons>/.^[5]
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_%28video_gaming%29#cite_note-uvl-4>
>>>
>>> The objective of the game is to retrieve an "Orb" from the bottommost
>>> dungeon.^[6]
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_%28video_gaming%29#cite_note-5> The
>>>
>>> orb is kept in a treasure room guarded by a high-level
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_point> enemy named the Gold
>>>
>>> Dragon. Only by defeating the Dragon can the player claim the orb,
>>> complete the game, and be eligible to appear on the high score
>>> list.^[4]
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_%28video_gaming%29#cite_note-armory-3
>>> >
>>> ^[7] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_%28video_gaming%29#cite_note-6>
>>>
>>> The first arcade game <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_game> to
>>>
>>> feature a boss was /Phoenix
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_%28arcade_game%29>/, a fixed
>>> shooter <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot_%27em_up#Fixed_shooters>
>>>
>>> developed by Taito <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taito> in 1980
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_in_video_gaming>.^[8]
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_%28video_gaming%29#cite_note-7>
>>> /Phoenix/ includes five levels
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_%28video_games%29> ("Rounds")
>>>
>>> which pit the player against swarms of alien birds. During the first
>>> two Rounds, the player is assaulted by the pigeon-like "Scouts",
>>> whereas the more formidable "Soldiers" are introduced in Rounds 3 and
>>> 4. On disposing these enemies, a giant mothership
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothership> appears in the fifth and
>>> final Round.^[9]
>>> <
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_%28video_gaming%29#cite_note-ahistory1-8
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Claudio
>>>
>>> Researcher / London Knowledge Lab MA student
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 27 September 2010 17:32, jparker <jparker at ucalgary.ca
>>> <mailto:jparker at ucalgary.ca>> wrote:
>>>
>>> It may be lost in time, but I recall its use in Doom. Any further
>>> back?
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>>> Mike Reddy wrote:
>>>
>>> The son of a friend asked me last night if I knew where "boss
>>> battle" came from. I vaguely thought of Metal Gear, where the
>>> protagonist is called Big Boss, but that can't be right can
>>> it? Oh, if only someone on the webnetz could tell me...?
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_battle etc do not give the
>>> origins of the term. Is it lost in time?
>>>
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>>>
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