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count zero said the following on 3/9/2007 4:54 AM:
> 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...
> 

There were three games of Catacombs 3D: Catacombs abyss, Catacombs curse 
and Catacombs terror. I don't remember which order they were released 
but I think abyss was the first one.

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