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pop wrote:
> Chris Odorjan said the following on 3/7/2007 10:24 AM:
> 
>> On 03/06/07 3:12 AM, count zero wrote:
>>
>>> THE first FPS was Wolf 3D... 
>>
>>
>> Wolfenstein 3D wasn't even id's first FPS, let alone the world's:
>> Catacombs 3D used a similar engine (although for EGA instead of VGA),
>> and the even older Hovertank 3D could probably be classified as a
>> first-person shooter.
>>
>> Nor was Doom the first multiplayer FPS. That honour probably goes to
>> MIDI Maze.
>>
>> Although it's probably true that Wolf3D, and to a greater extent Doom,
>> ushered in the modern FPS era...
>>
> ahhh... the 70's and 80's: mid 70's Adventure type games (Zork 1,2 & 3, 
> etc;) to the 80's ascii games that waited for input on a background 
> picture that depicted the current game environment. Then to the 90's 
> with id's first PC game with motion: Commander Keen - that got the ball 
> rolling with a new marketing method: give away part of the game free... 
> pay later for the rest of the game. And herewe are now fussing over 
> whether our video card can get a gazillion frames per second with the 
> latest game. How time flies when you're having fun  :-)
> 
Oh yeah, I remember. First monitor was mono B&W, then Hercules, then 
CGA, then EGA, then VGA, then SVGA.......