Prior knowledge of the medium based on certain cultural expectations yes. But it’s hardly the first or only game to do so. Hell Monkey Island 2 played with exp

Prior knowledge of the medium based on certain cultural expectations yes. But it’s hardly the first or only game to do so. Hell Monkey Island 2 played with expectations that way too and that was released a year before. It’s just that it was t until the early 90s that we really started to see games as a legit artfom generally.