:Trashman was never isometric. You can see from the screenshot that it's almost, but not quite, top-down. There were other isometric games preceding Knight Lore though   

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 I take issue with this conclusion, pulled off a website and presented as a straight fact by Wikipedia: 

 "While this routine has been found to be optimised in all of Ultimate's games from Knight Lore onwards, the optimisation is not present in Sabre Wulf. Given Tim Stamper's chronology for Sabre Wulf, one would expect otherwise if it had truly been completed after Knight Lore" 

 The only fact that's suggested by the variations in the keyboard routine is that the keyboard routine for Sabre Wulf was written before the corresponding keyboard routine for Knight Lore. Since it's obvious that a number of Ultimate's games were being written in parallel at any one time, there's no reason to extrapolate that the entire Sabre Wulf game was written before Knight Lore. I'm not sure how to take the bogus conclusion out without necessarily removing the whole of the (interesting to a saddo like me) factoid.