Introduced 1 mechanic · Shenmue 1
Shenmue
Forecast-driven weather and NPCs on real timetables, at a cost nobody has repeated.
Mechanics this game introduced
These are recorded as first appearing here. Each links to a full history of where the idea went next.
Mechanics it built on
Ideas Shenmue inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.
The Shenmue series in this dataset
1999
Shenmue this page
2001