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Genre Popularizer
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Basically, before these works came along, a genre either didn't exist, or was niche. After these works hit the scene, either the genre became popular (usually by being a Gateway Series to the rest), or we got loads of ripoffs which may or may not have gone From Clones to Genre later on. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Heck, these works might instead create a Genre Relaunch of a once popular genre (whether or not the popularity lasts). Being a Genre Popularizer is not proof that a work is awesome. Some might think these works are overrated, and if Nostalgia Goggles or Quality by Popular Vote are in play, they may even be right. Being an example of this only speaks to the response it gets in Follow the Leader works, not to its quality. Please Note: while some Genre Popularizers are also Trope Makers or Codifiers, not all Trope Makers and Codifiers are Genre Popularizers. Keep this in mind when adding examples—just because it was the first to use a trope doesn't mean it made the trope popular. Compare Trope Makers, Trope Codifier, Genre Turning Point. Contrast Genre-Killer. |
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While it was not the first computer role-playing game, Wizardry was one of the most influential titles of the golden age and the direct ancestor of the Eastern RPG. A year before Wizardry, Epyx released Temple of Apshai, a more direct attempt to digitize a tabletop RPG. Though it lacked Wizardry's immersive atmosphere, it was highly praised for translating the tabletop Dungeons & Dragons experience to a personal computer; the Apshai series was popular enough to outsell both Ultima and Wizardry. Rogue also came out a year earlier, but it spawned its own genre which had very little influence on mainstream RPGs until Diablo and Arena. |
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Watchmen and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns were this for the "Grim'n'Gritty" works of the late 80's and early 90's. | |
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Dream Theater is generally considered to have helped define the Progressive Metal genre, combining the speed and heaviness of Thrash Metal with the variety and musical complexity of Progressive Rock. | |
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The Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa popularized Alternative Rock. | |
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Astro Boy (a.k.a. Tetsuwan Atomu) launched anime itself. Tezuka is an interesting case, in that his works encompass so many genres, that imitators had to figure out which Tezuka to imitate, which resulted in the rather large amount of diversity in anime and manga (also helping stave off the Animation Age Ghetto in Japan). In short, Tezuka is the reigning king of this trope. | |
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What started as a popular Custom Map genre for StarCraft and Warcraft has become the Tower Defense genre. | |
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Although The Real World and Cops came first, they did not define the Reality Show genre. These two ran for years prior to the introduction of Survivor, but were not in a format that could easily be adapted to other subjects. Survivor's format was easily adaptable, and it went on to define the most common form for Reality Shows. | |
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Toy Story was the first All CGI Film, and was far more popular than Disney's film released that year, the stunningly mediocre Pocahontas. | |
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The Care Bears popularized a more sugary-sweet type of toy-driven 'toon than He-Man, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Thundercats and Transformers, but like He-Man, its popularity has been usurped by My Little Pony, especially after its most recent relaunch gained a HUGE Periphery Demographic. | |
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Elvis Presley smuggled Rock & Roll and other styles of African-American music over the race barrier and into the mainstream. | |
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The Pogues blended Irish traditional music and punk as what became the first example of Celtic punk, a style taken up by Irish and Scottish inspired bands in both Britain and North America. | |
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Kevin & Kell was the first webcomic to manage a consistent, reliable daily schedule. The cartoonist, Bill Holbrook, had not one but two daily comics in newspaper syndication when he started K&K, and brought the same degree of professionalism and discipline to the new distribution medium. | |
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Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior sparked the whole Scavenger World genre. | |
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five helped to properly launch Political Rap. Before them were 1970s political preachers such as The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron. | |
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beatmania may not be the first Rhythm Game, but it set the standard that many rhythm games would soon follow—games such as Dance Dance Revolution, DJ MAX, Guitar Hero, among others. Guitar Hero in turn brought instrument-based rhythm games to the western market. | |
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) invented the idea of zombies as cannibalistic, undead monsters that recruit their victims into their ranks. In doing so, it also popularized the concept of the Zombie Apocalypse, even if it wasn't the first work to use it (that would be Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, which used vampires, and indeed served as inspiration for George A. Romero). | |
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Ultima Online was thought of as a graphical Multi-User Dungeon. Now we refer to it as a Massively Multiplayer Online RPG. Of course, the genre reached new heights of popularity (and another, even larger wave of imitators) after being popularized by Everquest and World of Warcraft. | |
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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) was one of the first 80's cartoons made to sell toys after the FCC lifted the ban on such programs. However, one of the other cartoons in the genre, The Transformers, has had the biggest impact on pop culture thanks to many high-quality relaunches and an incredibly successful film series. The Care Bears popularized a more sugary-sweet type of toy-driven 'toon than He-Man, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Thundercats and Transformers, but like He-Man, its popularity has been usurped by My Little Pony, especially after its most recent relaunch gained a HUGE Periphery Demographic. |
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While the first person dungeon crawler was a rather popular genre at its peak, Etrian Odyssey has caused a new wave of such games to appear, making it a Genre Repopularizer. | |
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Dominion and the "deckbuilding game". Thunderstone, Puzzle Strike, Race for the Galaxy... The list is large. There are also even upcoming licensed deckbuilding games based on Blood Bowl, Resident Evil, and Gundam (since Japan seems to love the genre). While Dominion is still regarded as the best and most balanced of them, the others do all feel different and have many new mechanics, keeping the Follow the Leader to a minimum. | |
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Tenchi Muyo! popularized the Harem Genre. Before that, there was Ranma ½. | |
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British rockers Motörhead are widely recognised as one of the first bands to blend punk and heavy metal, creating what later became known as "Speed Metal", the forerunner of Thrash Metal. Frontman Lemmy Kilmister characteristically dismisses such labels, declaring that "it's all just rock and roll". | |
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Two of the very first films to tell a complete story unwittingly created new genres. A Trip to the Moon (1902) was the first science fiction movie ever made and brought the idea of space exploration to the big screen. The Great Train Robbery (1903) introduced us to The Western. | |
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All Music Guide has described Job for a Cowboy as both the Genre Popularizer and Genre-Killer for Deathcore. | |
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The Little Mermaid prompted a new wave of Disney musicals, desperately needed by the company after being stomped during most of the 80s by the work of Don Bluth. | |
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Homestuck and MS Paint Adventures have spawned hundreds of imitators not just of the Interactive Comic genre, but of the Text Parser presentation style of MSPA itself; some of these are followed by hundreds of people and come close to matching MSPA's legendary update rate. | |
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Spitting Image launched political puppet shows in numerous different countries, many of which are well-received amongst the audience. | |
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Penny Arcade: started a thousand couches. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars added some more life into the CGI action cartoon trend and spawned Transformers Prime and Green Lantern: The Animated Series. | |
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7 years before Gundam was first aired, Mazinger Z did the same thing for Super Robot shows. | |
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Grand Theft Auto III for Wide Open Sandbox games. Often with Villain Protagonists or at least the option to play like one. | |
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Azumanga Daioh, though far from the first of its kind, popularized the Yonkoma Slice of high school girls life series, especially outside of Japan. | |
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Freeman's Mind launched the "X's Mind" genre, showing what Heroic Mimes are really thinking. | |
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Super Mario Bros defined the side-scrolling action platformer genre as we know it. Super Mario 64 is the predecessor to almost every 3D platformer in existence. | |
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Twenty years before EVE Online, Elite on the BBC Micro paved the way for all 3D space simulators, and particularly space trading and open sandbox games. And before Elite, Star Raiders on the Atari 800 took the basic Trek-style top-down gameplay from the mainframe era and created the 3D space sim. | |
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The X-Files started a new trend of conspiracy and paranoia shows. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons began as an offshoot of the miniature wargame Chainmail and became the first Tabletop RPG, launching the genre. Unlike many other popularizers, it's still the alpha dog. Ditto for Magic: The Gathering and collectible card games. | |
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Tomb Raider was the game that kicked off the 3D Action-Adventure genre. | |
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And Getter Robo popularized the Combining Mecha. | |
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Seinfeld, aside from being unfunny, isn't all that far removed from the other Slice of Life TV shows and webcomics that followed. | |
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Burzum pioneered atmospheric/ambient Black Metal, although some have pointed out that a few scattered ambient black metal projects existed before Burzum, thus making him a codifier/popularizer rather than a creator. | |
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The Flintstones with prime time animated sitcoms. Then after it faded, brought back by The Simpsons (who lampshaded their debt to The Flintstones more than once). | |
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Neglected Mario Characters was the original Sprite Comic, and spawned a swarm of imitators. Bob and George, however, is usually thought of as the father of sprite comics, with thousands of imitation comics coming out (and often promptly dying) in its forums. | |
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Going back to the earliest days of any video game, Colossal Cave (also known as Colossal Cave Adventure, Adventure, or simply ADVENT) was the first Adventure Game, leading into both Interactive Fiction and Point-and-Click adventure games, as well as sparking the whole Dungeon Crawling genre. One could even argue that ADVENT was the first computer game ever to be more than just a puzzle or sports game—while it's pretty light on story, the wide variety of environments, objects, and NPCs, even if they were just described in text, was far beyond anything else at the time. | |
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Star Trek and Lost in Space were Dueling Shows for a while, and BOTH helped shape the Wagon Train to the Stars genre as they became massive hits. | |
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DoDonPachi (1996) set the standard for not only CAVE's later titles, but also for the entire genre, and is credited with making bullet hell shooters more visible in arcades. | |
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Although it wasn't the first movie about a giant rampaging animal, the 1954 film Gojira was successful enough to launch the Kaiju film genre. | |
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Champions is responsible for creating the point buy system. | |
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Once upon a time, we called them Gundam ripoffs. Now we call them Real Robot shows. 7 years before Gundam was first aired, Mazinger Z did the same thing for Super Robot shows. And Getter Robo popularized the Combining Mecha. And Raideen the Transforming Mecha. |
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The series, Albedo: Erma Felna EDF and its idea of primarily serious Funny Animal stories for adults was so distinctive that it had its own newsgroup, "alt.fan.albedo". Now it's recognized as the first of the Furry Fandom genre. | |
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If Lost didn't popularize modern-day speculative fiction, then it certainly started "weird shit with much emphasis on characters." | |
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Sailor Moon made the Magical Girl Warrior type of Magical Girl into a genre (even though Cutey Honey came first). It's gotten to the point that it's almost the only type of magical girl show you see licensed for release in America nowadays. | |
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Norwegian band Mayhem, and specifically their original guitarist Euronymous, are usually said to have created Black Metal as we now know it. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series inspired a new slew of more serious western animation, much of which being updates of superhero comics. Besides the future shows produced by the same team for the DCAU, among the more successful ones are X-Men, Spider-Man: The Animated Series and Gargoyles. BTAS also made cartoony stylization respectable for Western action-adventure animation, rather than the uneven attempts at realism that had dominated the genre since Jonny Quest. | |
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British band Skyclad began adding folk elements to their otherwise rather ordinary Thrash Metal, creating Folk Metal in the process. | |
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Donkey Kong defined the platformer as we know it. Then... | |
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Mike Nelson's RiffTrax helped popularize the fan film commentary genre. | |
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Shrek ended up popularizing an all-too-common trend of CGI movies that are full of snark with celebrity voice actors out the wazoo and modern pop cultural references everywhere. However, the genre developed a backlash and Disney decided to lead the charge in reviving 90's-style animated musicals with The Princess and the Frog and Tangled. That said, Tangled was advertised as a Shrek knock-off... | |
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time started the whole "parkour platformer" sub-genre that includes Assassin's Creed and Uncharted. And before that, the original started the Cinematic Platform Game sub-genre. | |
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Bewitched's popularity in Japan was enough to spawn the Magical Girl genre. | |
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The Elder Scrolls for Wide Open Sandbox Western RPGs. Starting with Arena way back in 1994, TES was one of the few series to survive the genre crash in the late 90s. A massive Newbie Boom came along with Morrowind in 2002, being both a critical hit and being the first game in the series to receive a Multi-Platform release on console as well as PC, getting it into the hands of a wider audience. The series' popularity would only increase with the the subsequent releases of Oblivion and Skyrim, cementing its genre as a bastion of western gaming. | |
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Devil May Cry began the "spectacle fighter" genre, with such other entries as God of War, Viewtiful Joe, God Hand, MadWorld, and Bayonetta. Some reviewers have even questioned the labelling of God of War as a spectacle fighter (due to its focus on story and atmosphere, the adventure gameplay and the noted lack of any "score" beyond the amount of orbs), and started calling it part of its own genre, joined by Dante's Inferno, Heavenly Sword, Darksiders, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Conan. Current name for said genre? "Being God of War". Currently, not many other series are good at it. This has led to a degree of hostility between fans of the two archetypal series | |
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Any game that has Mons and a collecting mechanic will be considered a Pokémon ripoff, even if Pokémon wasn't the first game to do so. | |
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Settlers of Catan introduced Euro-board games to the United States. | |
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AMV Hell started a style of Gag Dub. It even quotes the last line from the Cowboy Bebop text at the start of AMV Hell 4. | |
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Magic: The Gathering in 1993 resulted in an explosion of Collectible Card Games. | |
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Double Dragon set the basics for the Beat 'em Up genre, but it's Final Fight that caused games of this type to flood the market. And Double Dragon was the technical and spiritual successor to Renegade, made by the same company, and whaddaya know, it's the predecessor to River City Ransom. Granted, Renegade wasn't actually good, but it still counts. | |
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Teen Titans jump-started a trend of Animesque action cartoons which were more comedic than the DCAU. After its cancellation, many of its cast and crew went on to do some of these cartoons, such as the Ben10 franchise and Transformers Animated. One of the best of these cartoons, however, was Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender, which was less cartoony in tone than Teen Titans and was successful enough to greenlight a sequel and followers like the relaunch of ThunderCats. | |
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Superman: The Movie was the first proof that a comic book-based film could be serious, popular, and good. X-Men essentially re-popularised the genre in the 21st century. |
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Big Brother, while not the first Reality Show of its type, popularized it. It was itself based off The Truman Show', which was, itself based on a Twilight Zone'' episode from 1985. | |
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There had been a smattering of Reggae songs that became hits in the UK and US in the late 60s and early 70s, but Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley were the ones who really brought it out of Jamaica to a worldwide audience. | |
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X-Men essentially re-popularised the genre in the 21st century. | |
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Ruby Quest launched the co-operative image board genre. To the point that the games being called quests. | |
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In the mid-1980s, Warhammer and Battletech popularised fantasy and science fiction settings, respectively, in Wargaming, which had previously been dominated by historical games. | |
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Slowbeef's let's play of Super Metroid made Let's Play a video and live-commentary based internet sensation, as opposed to what it used to be where you just took screenshots every few minutes of gameplay and had typed commentary on it. | |
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Minecraft is very much like Doom in that, while it was not the first sandbox cube building game, it was the first to make it big and inspire numerous clones and 'clones'. | |
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First there was Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series. Then there were imitators. Now The Abridged Series is a genre unto itself. Sturgeon's Law still applies, but since there are so many, there are now plenty of gems to find. So LittleKuriboh has now gotten into a (joke) war with the other creators. | |
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Killswitch Engage, Trivium, Atreyu, and As I Lay Dying popularized Metalcore (specifically the melodic kind) after Nu Metal died out. Years later, Issues popularized fusing metalcore with nu metal together with their debut EP to create what is referred to by fans as "nu-metalcore". | |
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Fantasy Zone and Twinbee were the first Cute'em up. | |
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When YouTube first came out, some amateur filmmaker decided to put two parody video game reviews for some old NES titles up on it. Now it seems like every third gamer or so insists on trying to become the next AVGN. Likewise, The Nostalgia Critic has gotten quite a few imitators - and quite a few so good, he's teamed up with them! Most of the genres on YouTube have been created this way, for example the Slice of Life vlog style made famous by Kevin Nalts, aka Nalty. | |
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CSI popularized the Forensic Drama genre. | |
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King's Quest popularized the graphic Adventure Game genre. | |
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Amazing Stories, the first English-language Science Fiction Pulp Magazine, created and popularized the genre. (The slightly earlier American pulp Weird Tales published general fantastic fiction: Science Fiction, ghost stories, horror fiction, et cetera.) | |
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Dragon Ball popularized the Fighting Series and the Shōnen genre as we recognize it, focused on developing as a fighter and the triumph of Japanese Spirit. Both One Piece and Naruto pay homage to Dragon Ball with their main characters. | |
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Superman launched the super-powered hero genre into the mainstream. | |
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Jonny Quest started Hanna-Barbera's line of cartoons that feature realistic depictions of the human figure, including the original Space Ghost and Bird Man. | |
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Suede's self-titled debut album may or may not have been the first Britpop record, but it was the first popular Britpop record and thus codified and fostered the genre. Ironically, the band think little of Britpop and have since tried to distance themselves from it. | |
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Rogue also came out a year earlier, but it spawned its own genre which had very little influence on mainstream RPGs until Diablo and Arena. | |
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Worms was certainly not the first artillery oriented game, but it is both the most well known and generally best designed of the bunch. | |
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Similarly, Defense of the Ancients: All-Stars paved the way for the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (or MOBA) genre. | |
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Xiao Xiao spawned a lot of stick figure fight scenes (and perhaps fight scenes for Flash itself) as soon as the third installment got Weekly User's Choice at Newgrounds. | |
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The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells took an existing genre speculating about foreign armies invading the United Kingdom and gave it a twist by casting as the invaders a race of highly intelligent alien beings invading Earth from another planet. This idea of an Alien Invasion proved somewhat influential. Similarly, H. G. Wells' novel about a man who built a machine capable of travelling through time got people interested as well. The idea of Time Travel itself wasn't new; the idea of someone actually using technology to build a means of travelling forwards and backwards in time was, though. E. E. “Doc” Smith, and the Lensman series, created Space Opera as we understand it. It is scary how much modern sci-fi writers in some cases outright stole from him, or copied without even knowing they had. To put it into perspective, reading the Lensman novels seems horribly cliche now, because every Sci-Fi trope associated with space operas came out of it ranging from inertialess drives, to Dyson Sphere megastructures, to the very idea of the "Neglectful Ancient Master Race" seen in...well every sci-fi series made since. In fact it is generally accepted that the Green Lantern Corps is the Lensman Corps, top to bottom. They even have a member named Arisia, after the planet where the Lensmen went (their Oa) to undergo training to use their Cosmic Lenses (GL rings). |
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Jokingly, aha launched the new genre of 'Pof' during an interview in which the German interviewer badly flubbed the words 'synthetic pop of the eighties'. Moments later it became New Pof, much to Magne's surprise and delight. | |
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Dragon Quest took cues from Wizardry and Ultima but specifically simplified those games for a wider audience. The result defined the JRPG genre, and created most of the major tropes used therein. | |
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Tetris pioneered Falling Blocks puzzle games. And, as mentioned above, the "simple puzzle" genre. | |
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The first three Touhou games on Windows (Touhou Koumakyou: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (2002), Touhou Youyoumu: Perfect Cherry Blossom (2003), and Touhou Eiyashou: Imperishable Night (2004)) are known for having humanoid characters rather than military machines, bullet patterns that fit the themes of the boss characters, boss attacks that are named, and indirectly being the cause of a massive universe of fan works and memes, not only further widening the popularity of the genre (especially in the West where less people are less likely to have heard of CAVE, 8ing/Raizing, or the like) but also setting some standards of its own, with many modern Bullet Hell games employing some of these iconic elements. | |
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Even though Sweet Home and, to a greater extent, Alone in the Dark, were the first to use the classic gameplay model, it was Resident Evil that launched the Survival Horror genre and gave it a name. Similarly System Shock for the... uh... "other Survival Horror genre". | |
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Doom launched the First-Person Shooter genre, to the point that other games in the genre were simply called "Doom-clones" or "Doom-likes" until more innovative games needed a more neutral name to be coined. However, its predecessor Wolfenstein 3D was the first really successful example of the genre. | |
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Myst is often credited with starting the trend of adventure games set in a Beautiful Void. An earlier Cyan game, The Manhole, introduced us to Pop Up Video Games. | |
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The Zero Punctuation review of Mercenaries 2 comments on this phenomenon; Yatzhee decides to not use the term "GTA clone" when the Wide Open Sandbox has become so common, and compares it to what happened with Doom, above. (But then goes on to say that many such games, including Mercenaries 2 itself, do still deserve to be branded as "Grand Theft Auto clones" because of how directly they copy the formula.) | |
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The Metal Gear and Thief series defined the Stealth-Based Game genre for years to come. | |
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The Sherlock Holmes series popularised the idea of the cerebral, aloof detective examining clues and forensic evidence in order to solve the mystery. The stories helped introduce the public to this new idea of studying clues and information to solve crimes rather than just asking people what they saw and shaking up suspects until a confession fell out. This was true not just in mystery stories, but in real life: the Metropolitan Police, frequently dismissed up until that point as an inept and corrupt force, began to improve in success rates and public reputation upon taking some cues from these stories. | |
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Kaizo Mario World and I Wanna Be the Guy did this for Platform Hell. Sure, it existed before in the form of a SMB 1 hack and a Japanese flash game, but once those two came around, the flood gates opened and clones were springing up all over the place. There's a reason I Wanna Be the Guy has a fan game section, or that Kaizo has become a generic term for any ultra difficult Super Mario World hack... | |
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The Lord of the Rings proved that High Fantasy could successfully and seriously be adapted for the big screen, despite sever doubts. | |
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Despite Marvel's Secret Wars debuting earlier, DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths proved to have a much greater impact on the creation and evolution of the Crisis Crossover. | |
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And Raideen the Transforming Mecha. | |
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Babylon 5, along with The X-Files, popularized the Myth Arc in live-action television series: Babylon 5 did it better, but it was The X-Files that took it mainstream. | |
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Hill Street Blues introduced the idea of multiple, intertwining Story Arcs to prime time television series. | |
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Norwegian black metallers Bathory switched out the over-used Satanic lyrical content of their compatriots for Norse Mythology and history, creating and popularizing the thematic genre viking metal. | |
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Rammstein are usually considered the codifiers and/or popularizers of Neue Deutsche Harte, either a a sub-genre of Industrial Metal or a fusion genre of Industrial Metal and Trance, depending on how one views it. (They originally called it dance metal.) The actual creator was Oomph!, who formed five years before Rammstein. | |
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The runaway success of the Super Smash Bros. series inspired a number of other developers to make Platform Fighter games, which distinguished themselves from other fighting games by allowing more than two players at a time, platformer-like stages and jump physics, a score- or lives-based goal, randomly-dropped items, and usually (but not always) a cast pulled from a number of different games or all over the timeline of one series. | |
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