Which was the first game to use multiple Rock Paper Scissors mechanics?
There are many games that use a tactical or elemental Rock Paper Scissors mechanic. Some of them try to make things more interesting by modifying the mechanic, such as by changing the number of options or the relationships between them.
However, some games do this by using more than one separate Rock Paper Scissors cycle. The only example of this which I have seen is a 3–2 arrangement, where a classical Rock Paper Scissors triangle is coupled with a binary opposition system.
For example, from the mobile game Empires & Puzzles:
Fire (red) beats nature (green), which beats ice (blue), which beats fire (red).
Light (yellow) beats dark (purple), which beats light (yellow).
I do not consider Pokémon to be an example of this. There are 18 types and they cannot be divided into separate Rock Paper Scissors cycles.
Does anybody know the first game to implement a system of multiple Rock Paper Scissors mechanics?
Best Answer
The answer above has mentioned a game from 1995, but it's unclear to me from the answer if it's exactly what you're describing.
In 1996 there was a relatively obscure MuD called Realms of Kaos that had a divinity system, whereby every player at character creation chose a divinity (fire, ice, night, earth, storm) and every monster in the game had a divinity too. You'd deal more damage to people/monsters that your divinity countered and you'd hit them more easily, and likewise the reverse was true for making it harder.
Certain divinities were more difficult to play, because some had few monsters that you had divinity against which made levelling up difficult. Certain divinities were therefore popular with players, and thus you'd be able to kill them more easily if you took the time to level a character that had divinity against them.
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