Re: DOOM 2: Hell On Earth

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From: count zero
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:54

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On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:24:51 -0500, Chris Odorjan <codorjan@gmail.com>
wrote:

>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),

Wow that's weird... Catacombs 3D came out in 1991 but I never heard of
it, even though I played other Carmack games like Commander Keen
around the same time... I guess it didn't make much of a buzz around
the BBS's at the time... (I would've loved to own a 14.4 Kbps USR back
then!) 

>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...

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From: count zero <countzero1942@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: DOOM 2: Hell On Earth
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:54:51 -0500
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