History NewerThanTheyThink / GamesAndToys

* This is at least a major source of the accusations in the ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' fandoms that one copied the other, particularly in the case of the Zerg and the Tyranids--both being a HordeOfAlienLocusts. Most of it comes down to OlderThanTheyThink, as the two are both heavily inspired by the Bugs in ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'' and the xenomorphs in ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''--however, one particular point of contention is that the Zerg look so much like the Tyranids that they had to have copied their designs. In reality, though Tyranids do predate Zerg by quite some years, the modern Tyranid ''designs'' do not: for much of the 90s, they looked [[https://i.imgur.com/Hl95n1I.jpg significantly different]]. Their modern look only showed up in the 2000s, meaning that if anything, they were redesigned to look closer to Zerg.

* The first known mention of the alleged 1981 arcade game ''VideoGame/{{Polybius}}'' dates to February 2000, when it was added to coinop.org's database by owner Kurt Koller, probably as an intentional hoax.

* Ouija (yes, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija it's a board game]]) was invented in 1890.

* Many fans of the Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection believe that modern dolls have always been able to be designed or customized to look like the recipient. However, American Girl didn't offer custom-design dolls until ''2017''. The dolls that many people remember as "designed" to look like them are actually picked from a pool of options which aren't modified by the company--often with more options for white children--and are still a separate line from the design-your-own dolls. Even ''those'' are from a select set of options--options that are not or no longer available cannot be selected. The claim of dolls to look like them often is [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer claimed in news articles]] due to people legitimately thinking a doll they received when younger was designed from their looks rather than selected by the purchaser to match their looks.
** There's also the possibility of people mixing their memories with the [=MyTwinn=] company; that brand ''was'' marketed on ordering dolls to resemble the purchaser, including having purchasers send in copies of photographs to have the artists pick the doll's features. The brand existed in the late 90s (but only sold larger dolls until the 2010s and later went defunct) and, considering many brands sent catalogs to target audiences (if your child wants one doll, they may want this one!), a person could easily misremember the marketing of [=MyTwinn=] as applying to AG.

* While earlier variants appeared in France as early as the late 19th century, the first example of the game now known as Sudoku was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku#History invented in Indiana in 1979]].

* The first [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonogram nonogram]] (a.k.a. picross) puzzles were published in 1988.

** If you were of game-playing age in 2002 but did not have an Xbox, or a friend with that game, this is more likely an OlderThanTheyThink as paid DLC wouldn't become a common gripe until it was actually a common practice a little later.

* While the now-universal ''Handbuch''-style [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_notation_(chess)#History algebraic chess notation]] ("1. e4", etc.) was introduced in 1843, it was only used in the German-speaking world for over a century, the Anglosphere continuing to use descriptive notation (e.g., "Pawn to King's Fourth") until the 1970s, and FIDE only adopted ''Handbuch'' notation as its official style in 1981.

* While the now-universal ''Handbuch''-style [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_notation_(chess)#History algebraic chess notation]] ("1. e4", etc.) was introduced in 1843, it was only used in the German-speaking world for over a century, the Anglosphere continuing to use descriptive notation (e.g., "Pawn to King's Fouth") until the 1970s, and FIDE only adopted ''Handbuch'' notation as its official style in 1981.

* Many of the features taken as standard in the ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' series today, such as FogOfWar, weapon exp and rescuing, first appeared in the ''fifth'' game in the series ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Thracia 776]]''.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whac-A-Mole Whac-a-Mole]] may seem like an old-timey carnival game, but it was only invented in 1975 (in Japan), and first imported into America in 1977.