Re: Interesing list of historical firsts to RPGs

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From: Ross Ridge
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 20:39

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Spalls Hurgenson  <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Although there were already a lot of Ultimas in that list, Underworld
>really deserved a mention. It was the first real smooth-scrolling
>first-person ("Doom-like" we called it back then, even though it
>preceded Doom by several years) roleplaying game pretty and
>definitively put a nail into the coffin the first-person/step-based
>RPG genre 

Not only does Ultima Underworld predate Doom, it predates Wolfenstein
3D. And it supports looking up an down, something Doom didn't.

But this and other omitions are apparently due to the list being focused
on "more obscure stuff".  The omition that caught me by surprise, and
had me rechecking the criteria, was having Bloodwych on the list but
only mentioning Dungeon Master.

					Ross Ridge

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