Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media, literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres. Many adventure games (text and graphic) are designed for a single player, since this emphasis on story and character makes multi-player design difficult. "Colossal Cave Adventure" is identified as the first such adventure game, first released in 1976, while other notable adventure game series include "Zork", "King's Quest", "The Secret of Monkey Island", and "Myst".
Time Traveler (video game)
Although Time Traveler (video game) was released in 1991 by Sega as the first holographic-like video game, Kathy Nelson (MIT, BSEE 1993) created the world's first true holographic video game in 1993. It was the first video game to use real holograms instead of optical effects, such as concave mirrors. The holograms were created and displayed by Holovideo (see Computer-generated holography), which was developed by members of the MIT Media Lab Spatial Imaging Group.
Kathy Nelson created the holographic video game for her undergraduate thesis in the MIT Media Lab Spatial Imaging Group. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology published her thesis here: style="color:#3366BB;">Real time holographic image rendering : improvements in lighting and realism