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This is an index of notable commercial first-person shooter video games, sorted alphabetically by title. The developer, platform, and release date are provided where available. The table can be sorted by clicking on the small boxes next to the column headings.
- The beginning: Maze War, Spasism, WayOut. To think about the shooter’s origins is to think about labyrinths. Among the earliest pioneers of first-person videogaming is 1973’s Maze, a game cobbled together by high school students Greg Thompson, Steve Colley and Howard Palmer during a NASA work-study program, using Imlac PDS-1 and PDS-4 minicomputers.
- Into the '90s: Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D. id’s career as a first-person developer began with Hovertank 3D in 1991. A cockpit sim brought to life with ray casting and featuring animated 2D sprites, it featured players searching for civilians to rescue and tentacular UFOs to blow up.
- Going 3D: Metal Head, Descent, Quake. By the mid-’90s, developers had begun to shift from so-called ‘pseudo-3D’ techniques such as ray casting to fully-polygonal worlds, capitalising on the spread of 3D hardware acceleration and the arrival of the first mass-market graphics processing units.
- A new millennium: Unreal, Counter-Strike, Call of Duty. One of the greatest influences on first-person shooters at the turn of the millennium wasn’t a game, but a film: Steven Spielberg’s World War 2 epic, Saving Private Ryan.
Sep 14, 2022 · Historians agree that the first real attempt at a first-person shooter came in 1973 with Maze War for the Imlac PDS-1 computers installed at the NASA Ames Research Center. Steve Colley was...
Nov 19, 2023 · The DNA of Half-Life is ever-present in every first-person horror that came after, with its legacy still being deeply felt 25 years later. Half-Life is currently available for free on Steam.
Jan 7, 2010 · The path of the MMOFPS, or Massively Multiplayer Online First-Person Shooter, was paved in 2000 with 10Six, a Sega game that mixed FPS and RTS elements and boasted a capacity of up to a...
Jul 20, 2008 · First person shooters pioneered the use of 3D environments in PC games. It was an exciting frontier for developers, with continuous computer developments allowing for more detail, more effects, more speed.
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