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[GeekyDad]

It never really occurred to me. I sure didn't know or ever even hear the word "parkour" when I was a kid. But like Mirror's Edge, you didn't really attack anything; you just kinda avoided stuff while keeping a flow. As memory serves, like Mirror's Edge, it was all about flow. You mess that up, and you don't survive.

(Just came to mind when seeing the "Activision patent" thread. I forgot that Pitfall is kinda where it all started for them.)

 

[Dr.brain64]

I feel mario 64 was the parkour game.

 

[Beer Baelly]

 

[RayBoy]

 

[Kikorin]

I feel mario 64 was the parkour game.

This. At least the first one that really make you feel you can do anything with the character movements. Playing Mario 64 was like connecting your brain to the controller, today is dated because of the camera, but I still enjoy it a lot and sometime go back to it.

 

[German Hops]

Fantastic box art.

 

[oldergamer]

that is closer

 

[Chronicle]

I used to play Pitfall way back in the 80's. Graphics were amazing to me.

 

[IFireflyl]

It never really occurred to me. I sure didn't know or ever even hear the word "parkour" when I was a kid. But like Mirror's Edge, you didn't really attack anything; you just kinda avoided stuff while keeping a flow. As memory serves, like Mirror's Edge, it was all about flow. You mess that up, and you don't survive.

(Just came to mind when seeing the "Activision patent" thread. I forgot that Pitfall is kinda where it all started for them.)

I don't think you know what parkour is. It's not just jumping over stuff. It's about how you move, and that isn't encapsulated in this old game.

The Parkour adventure began in France in the 1990s, in Lisses and Evry, in the outskirts of Paris. David Belle originally developed the Parkour concept according to precepts about the art of movement laid down by his father, who was a Parisian firefighter.

As teenagers, Belle and his friends from the Yamakasi group practised jumping and climbing over stairs, barriers, walls and other fixtures in his city. Doing so, he made up what they called the art of moving, taking advantage of all the constructions and obstacles that were not originally created for this purpose.

Source: https://parkour.sport/history.php

 

[AJUMP23]

Are we going to say that all platformers are parkour games?

 

[Majormaxxx]

Yes as stated above it was prince of Persia. In 3d it was sands of time, followed by tomb raider legend.

 

[GeekyDad]

I used to play Pitfall way back in the 80's. Graphics were amazing to me.

Yeah, it definitely stood apart on the 2600. Back then, it was damned near arcade-level visuals.

 

[Chronicle]

It's basically Uncharted on Atari. Lol

 

[GeekyDad]

It's basically Uncharted on Atari. Lol

That's all I'm saying. I know it wasn't no Mirror's Edge or anything. But you can kinda see the germ of the idea there.

 

[DeepEnigma]

And the very best one,

 

[Guardian's Light]

Jokes aside, be honest guys: the only real, first parkour game was Assassin's Creed, masses had known about parkour thanks to it

If anything, if we have to choose a real classic, old game, would be Prince Of Persia, tho

 

[CamHostage]

It never really occurred to me. I sure didn't know or ever even hear the word "parkour" when I was a kid. But like Mirror's Edge, you didn't really attack anything; you just kinda avoided stuff while keeping a flow.

I wouldn't say you "keep the flow" in Pitfall, although you do sometimes have to time jumps and runs just right to get over disappearing pits and sinking crocks. Not what I'd call parkour or even the influence of parkour (that's more a sport as well as a concept of "movement with style" than it is just action-hero mechanics; if Activision could have had Harry carry a whip, he would have.) I get where you're seeing the seedlings though.

Jokes aside, be honest guys: the only real, first parkour game was Assassin's Creed, masses had known about parkour thanks to it

If anything, if we have to choose a real classic, old game, would be Prince Of Persia, tho

I'd say there was real parkour before AC.
In fact, Core had a whole game dedicated to it called Free Running (although with delays and the downfall of Core, it didn't come out until the same year as AC.)