Claim: Chrono Trigger (Square Co., Ltd., 1995) was the first game with a New Game Plus mode (Oliver, 2020).
Chrono Trigger was the first game to implement a βNew Game+β mode, a feature reused in many, many later games that allows players to restart the gameβs story while retaining progress and items they have accumulated in a previous playthrough.
(Probably) False. Chrono Trigger originated the terminology, but earlier games had features to replay the game.
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However, do these earlier games let you keep equipment/levels/whatever, or do they just make the game harder?
Claim: Ogre Battle (Quest Corporation, 1993) "was the first game to include multiple endings with meaningful differences." (Oliver, 2020)
Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen, released in 1993, was the first game to include multiple endings with meaningful differences.
This feels very likely to be false. Surely some earlier RPG had meaningfully-different multiple endings. Ultima maybe?
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