History of FPS

Technology and Gaming
#1

Did you get to play classics like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D back when they were brand new? Share your thoughts and memories on first person gaming,

Here’s a five part interview with John Romero, one of the people who revolutionized the first person shooter genre.

Matt Chat 51: Interview with John Romero (Early Days)
Matt Chat 52: Wolfenstein 3D with John Romero
Matt Chat 53: Doom with John Romero
Matt Chat 54: Quake with John Romero
Matt Chat 55: Daikatana with John Romero

#2

I actually liked Daikatana back in the day.

#3

So did I to be honest. I beat the game twice or so when i was little.

#4

History of fps always reminds me of this

#5

Quake was 15 recently, I’m replaying it and it rocks as much as the day I bought it, not knowing whether it would run on my 486 DX4 100. This is the first FPS I bought relatively soon after release AND IT CHANGED ME LIFE

#6

:stuck_out_tongue:

#7

I remember getting the shareware version of Wolfenstein 3d, loving it, then getting the shareware version of doom and shitting my pants, it was f-ing scary back in the day.

#8

Everything reminds you of that.

#9

I spent much of my time in university playing Wolfenstein 3D. I played the original version on a commodore 64 back in the early 80’s. Man, I feel old now realising how long ago that was.

#10

The first FPS is ever played was UT99. I played that a lot when I was younger.

I wish I could have been around to enjoy these games in their full glory when they were released, I’ve played all the original Doom and quake and love them though. Old school shooter still entertain me more than Modern shooters today minus a few.

#11

I played the Doom games back in the day, but I never really got into FPSes until Jedi Knight. Then I was hooked.

I loved everything about that game: huge levels, groundbreaking graphics, a good (by FPS standards) plot, lightsabers, force powers…hell I might re-install it tonight.

Pre-JK I was more into Lucas Arts adventure games and shitty on rails shooters like Rebel Assault. It’s entirely possible that I might have been a huge Star Wars fan as a kid and early teen.

#12

Alas, no; I’m not that old. My first FPS was GoldenEye 64 (played on various friends’ N64s, because I wasn’t allowed to have one (also, with general disapproval from the 'rents because I wasn’t allowed to play violent videogames (and thank god they protected me, because I could have become a MURDERER))).

#13

I did the necessary steps.
I started with Wolfenstein 3d when I was 7-8, than the next one was Doom 2, later I was introduced to Duke Nukem 3d.

I clearly remember what did that gaming magazine wrote about it… it’s a Doom clone all right… … Doom’s days are counted etc.

Seriously, it was around this time when the very word ‘FPS’ was born, before that, fps-es were called doom clones.

#14

I’m not very old, but I still played Wolf 3D first. From that to Blake Stone, from that to Duke 3D, from that to Return to Castle. (Omitting in-betweeners.)

#15

First FPS games I ever played were Doom and Turok Evolution, both on the same day.

As everyone knows Halo was the first FPS game to hit the market

#16

Oh man, Blake Stone, I remember playing the shareware version for hours…

What?

Also, does anyone remember, Rise of the Triad? (a.k.a. ROTT)

#17

you must be new here

#18

kids “firsts” are gonna be shit like portal 2, or COD bs, “my old intel i7 was such a POS” we can skip a generation right?

#19

I was trying to figure out if he was trolling or if I missunderstood

#20

I was right in my assumption

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