The almost complete history of First Person Shooters and similar Influential Games. Footage of each individual game, shown sequentially by the date it was released. Multi platform, all games from all systems.
Maze War through to the present day. watch each volume to find out what lies behind the genre.
Games listed in Vol 1:
Spasim
Mazewar
Tail Gunner
Star Raiders
Akalabeth
Battlezone
Stellar 7
3D Monster Maze
Dungeons of Daggorath
3D Maze
Phantom Slayer
3-D Maze
Maze
Amazing
Alien Maze
Quetzalcoatl
Corridors of Genon
Way Out
Capture the Flag
3D Death Chase
3-Demon
Encounter
Rescue on Frectulus
Questron
3D Monster Chase
Tau Ceti
Koronis Rift
The Eidolon
The Bards Tale
Alternate Reality
Cholo
Arctic Fox
Aliens C64
Micronaut One
Driller
3D Midi Maze
Backlash
Dungeon Master
The Colony
Mercenary 1
Phantasy Star
Dark Side
Missing here:
Castle of Tharoggad
Treasure of Tarmin
Wizadry
The Sentinel
Disclaimer:
Some dates may be wrong, so if anyone can advise me on the correct dates. Many of these games release dates are recorded only by the year of release, so it would be nice to get them in the right monthly order.
The new Vol 2 will follow shortly, and so on........
Purists may point out that some of these games are not proper FPS, the reason for this is because this is a History of FPS, which means I had to include games that can be considered to be influential. Such as most of the early RPG's. Also some of the flight games such as Rescue on Fractulus were important for their revolutionary engine, which was used later for a few FPS titles. RPG's mirror the development of FPS games throughout, both in rendering, and perspective. There really isnt much between a FPS with a mele weapon and an RPG with a crossbow.
Thanx for watching ;-)
