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Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:12 pm
by Mat Linnett
Mercenary or its sequel Damocles maybe?
Possibly Skyranger, but I don't think that had vector graphics.
There were also a couple of fully polygonal games on the speccy too, Driller and Total Eclipse, but they were measured in seconds-per-frame
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:18 pm
by Doombrain
ah, good times. i had damocles on the st along with driller.
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:25 pm
by surgeon62
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:43 pm
by Transient
Mat Linnett wrote:I think you're talking about Dungeon Master, or one of its many clones such as Bloodwych or Eye of the Beholder.
I played Dungeon Master too, but never really think of it as a first person shooter. Still one of my all-time favourites, and I've actually been playing it again recently thanks too
Dungeon Master Encyclopaedia.
It serves as a reminder that games back then were a LOT harder than they are now.
It wasn't any of those three, but you've reminded me of a few more details. I remember fighting some humanoid monsters with long necks and dog/deer-like snouts. There were lots of ladders leading further down/up the dungeon, and I remember now that it definitely wasn't 3-D even in the fake sense like Wolfenstein 3D was. I would press up on the keyboard and move forward a square, left would turn me 90 degrees, etc. I wish I could remember more, I want to play it again!
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:48 pm
by Captain
Κracus wrote:Captain Mazda wrote:Heretic and Doom
Oh man I remember Heretic, I beleive it was one of the only fps games you could play 4 players at once on the console that was a fun one.
I forgot Wolf 3D, but Heretic and Doom 2 on PC were my first and biggest gaming obsessions. I played the Heretic shareware version thousands of times until my brother got me the full version with all 5 episodes. Good times
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:59 pm
by bon
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:14 am
by werldhed
First true FPS must've been Wolf3D for me,
probably followed by Doom, Duke Nukem, Heretic, Quake, Hexen, etc...
The earliest game with "first person POV" was probably Bard's Tale or a space combat game for Atari 2600 whose name escapes me for the moment.
There were probably some shitty game on a Tiger handheld as well, but I wouldn't remember any without hypnosis.
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:34 am
by +JuggerNaut+
Fender wrote:Wolfenstein 3D
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:36 am
by bon
werldhed wrote:The earliest game with "first person POV"
Speaking of this, mine would be as follows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcO0Gu37NhE
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:40 am
by 4days
lol, i remember a mate of mine blazing away whole evenings on the editor for that.
btw, aren't you banned?
@db, mat:
mercenary and the sequels are available here:
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/7150/mddclone.htm
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:32 am
by bon
4days wrote:lol, i remember a mate of mine blazing away whole evenings on the editor for that.
I'm still banned.
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:40 am
by 4days
http://www.cheatscodesguides.com/playst ... d-trilogy/
Map editor and Invincibility
Press Right, Up, Down, Square. Press Start and select "Use Map Editor" option to begin editing the current level. Press Start to return to game mode with all changes in place. (Note: The camera is adjustable in edit mode. Press Select for First-person view, Up and Down to zoom in and out, L1 and L2 to look up and down.)
..but i'm pretty sure you couldn't save any of it.
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:48 am
by Κracus
Must of been for development.
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:54 am
by Bilirubin
scared? wrote:battlezone...i win...
+1
I spend the entire proceeds from a paper route on that damn game, one quarter at a time...
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:55 am
by Bilirubin
First one on a computer was Quake. Watched a friend play Doom, but never did myself but for five minutes or so.
Am currently playing through Blood for the first time.
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:07 am
by Tormentius
Wolfenstein 3D. Ah, nostalgia.
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:53 am
by feedback
Geebs wrote:Marathon
I can't remember if it was Marathon or Doom... but we all know which one is better
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:31 am
by GONNAFISTYA
Doom II multiplayer
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:12 am
by Dr_Watson
Fender wrote:Wolfenstein 3D
werd
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:39 am
by axbaby
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:Fender wrote:Wolfenstein 3D
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:04 am
by Whiskey 7
AmIdYfReAk wrote:I'm trying to think if it was Wolfenstien, or ROTTS...
Meh, one of the two
Who could forget Rise of the Triads
I started on an Atari I recall playing that tank simulator Battlezone...
But for true fps it must have been Wolfenstien/Doom.
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:08 am
by r3t
Wolfenstein 3D, although the game that probably made the biggest impression at the time was Star Wars Dark Forces.
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:51 am
by MKJ
as actual shooter, Wolf3D.
as first firstperson game,I think DungeonMaster on the atariST. ownage back then and still a solid rpg in this day and age.
or perhaps that old starwars game, with the vectors. pretty terrible
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:58 am
by Doombrain
I think the first vector for me was Elite. first shooter was wolf 3d.
Re: Your first FPS
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:49 am
by Geebs
I've just remembered "The Wreck" for the MSX. Unplayable piece of shit...