This is a question for video game history nerds that have better researching skills than me, Many of the games I play nowadays are sandbox-crafting games like Terraria and Oxygen Not Included and many of them have a Redstone-like wiring systems to activate components in the world automatically.

I noticed that all the games I can think of that have those kinds of systems in them came out after Redstone was added to Minecraft. It got me thinking... was Minecraft the first to do it? Was there a sandbox-type game with binary wire mechanics?

There have been plenty of sandbox type games that existed before Minecraft, so if anyone is an expert on those types of game I'd love to know!