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What is the first FPS you played? Leave out Dungeon Master or Eye of the Beholder, they are tile based and not true free-look.

My first was Ultima Underworld if you can believe that. First gun-based FPS was Doom. My favorite FPS was Half Life 2 and F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon.

Yeah, I am a bit bored.
 
Too long ago to name the first. I played DOOM, Rise of the Triad, Wolfenstein 3D, and many others. Maybe one of those was first, maybe not.
 
I remember seeing Wolfenstein 3D at a office store in about "93" or "94" on a PC that probably cost over $2000.00 in the the early 90, that was so out of my reach I would have had to sell a kidney for it. I first played Doom in about "96" or "97" and due to this I never played Wolfenstein 3D.
 
pApA^LeGBa said:
Not actually first person because Commodore 64, but it was Fusion. I think. Might have been something else. It´s been a while since the 80ies. :P
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Commodore 64. My absolute first computer in 1988. I fell In love with RPG games, like Wasteland, Ultima III and Might and Magic: Secret of the Inner Sanctum.

Does Beam Gun: Duck Hunt in 1976 count?
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I mainly mean keyboard and mouse on a home PC, or I guess Consoles, but games you play at home not in an arcade. I did spend some time in arcades in the late 70s early 80s (and was really bad and lost a lot of quarters) and do not remember that game.
 
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bobrpggamer said:
I mainly mean keyboard and mouse on a home PC
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What I clearly remember
The duck hunt I mentioned was on a console, but it wasn't actually duck hunt, It may have been a console
clone.

I tried looking for it with a lot of queries, but no luck. I know it was in the 70s I think i was between 9 and 12
years old, when my mother bought it for me. The one thing I do remember is it was Heavy, looked like metal,
and had a gun addon, that broke easily.

Now I think I should have kept it, instead of taking it apart to see how it worked.

Gee, thanks a lot for driving me nuts trying to remember it. I would have to reverse engineer my thoughts
to do that deep dive.
 
4sheetzngeegles said:
Gee, thanks a lot for driving me nuts trying to remember it. I would have to reverse engineer my thoughts
to do that deep dive.
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Well sorry about that. I do not know of any console other than the Atari 2600 in the 70s. I was about 12 in 1979 when I really wanted an Atari 2600 as my friend across the street had one, but my parents said "absolutely not".
 
It's all good. I just hadn't thought back that far dealing with games in a long time.
A lot of it overlaps. I bought games, as soon as they were available. Then I realized that
they all were clones with different graphics, Doom, Duke Nukem, Shadow warrior, Wolfenstein
the original maze. Quake.

Because my mother had bought an open box toy, the gun would misfire so I took it apart.
Thinking back I was kind of lucky, But my atari 2600 came later; I had to buy it from my father
using my allowance and PT jobs for $500 with 16 cartridges.

I have had most consoles up to the my chipped original xbox and xbox 360, those I still have.
I switched to and stayed with pc games around diablo because of the flexibility.

Wow that is a lot of history and memories, but I digress. I will stick with Outlaws as the first that
I remember.
 
Probably was Wolfenstein 3D for me as well. But I actually kinda hate FPS games (largely because I'm terrible at them, but I wasn't allowed to play them really as a kid, which is my excuse for why I suck 😅 )
 
4sheetzngeegles said:
It's all good. I just hadn't thought back that far dealing with games in a long time.
A lot of it overlaps. I bought games, as soon as they were available. Then I realized that
they all were clones with different graphics, Doom, Duke Nukem, Shadow warrior, Wolfenstein
the original maze. Quake.

Because my mother had bought an open box toy, the gun would misfire so I took it apart.
Thinking back I was kind of lucky, But my atari 2600 came later; I had to buy it from my father
using my allowance and PT jobs for $500 with 16 cartridges.

I have had most consoles up to the my chipped original xbox and xbox 360, those I still have.
I switched to and stayed with pc games around diablo because of the flexibility.

Wow that is a lot of history and memories, but I digress. I will stick with Outlaws as the first that
I remember.
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Ah yeah. I also played Quake and Duke Nukem. Fun times.

My favorite back then was still Rise of the Triad. Having eyeballs randomly fly at you when killing things was fun. And you had both god mode and dog mode. Can't beat dog mode! :D
 
When you posted about ROTT it made me start digging through my archives.

Back then, it was a simpler time but also a more visceral time. I don't miss it,
because I still play most of those games, and MAME arcade. They are like comfort
food for my mind. Games and tech are what I hoard. Thanks for the reminder.
 
When I was a kid, I mostly played Crash Bandicoot on the PS1, but I also had a few FPS games. It might have been an old version of Call of Duty or Medal of Honor I’m not really sure. I was never really a fan of FPS games I only played them sometimes as a kid. I mostly preferred Tekken and Crash Bandicoot. Good old times.:)
 
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The early FPSs like Doom or Quake did not really hook me as a FPS player as I was still really into WRPGs like Wizardry and Might and Magic. But when I played Half Life (the original) I think that got me into FPSs more than the older ones. Once I played Half Life 2, I was checking the internet constantly every day for fan made missions and mods for Half Life 2 on File Planet and similar sites. I could not get enough and I was practically counting the days for Episode 1, especially after the tech demo Lost Coast. Now I have 100s of FPS games through Steam, GOG and GamersGate.

Turns out Episode 3 Never came out. I guess Gabe Newell was too busy counting the money he made via Steam.
 
In the 70s there were quite a few home video consoles that only played 1-3 preloaded games. My friend had a unit that played pong and a shooting game with an attached gun but that was it. My grandma had a unit that played a few variations of Breakout.

The Atari 2600 was the first that I remember playing where you could have a library of game cartridges.

My first FPS was Wolfenstein 3d, of course followed up by Doom. Doom was amazing.
 
Roland said:
In the 70s there were quite a few home video consoles that only played 1-3 preloaded games. My friend had a unit that played pong and a shooting game with an attached gun but that was it. My grandma had a unit that played a few variations of Breakout.

The Atari 2600 was the first that I remember playing where you could have a library of game cartridges.

My first FPS was Wolfenstein 3d, of course followed up by Doom. Doom was amazing.
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RCA Studio II had cartridges and came out a little earlier than the Atari 2600, but it didn't gain popularity like the Atari, so there weren't many games made for it.
 
In the 70s there were quite a few home video consoles that only played 1-3 preloaded games. My friend had a unit that played pong and a shooting game with an attached gun but that was it. My grandma had a unit that played a few variations of Breakout.

The Atari 2600 was the first that I remember playing where you could have a library of game cartridges.

My first FPS was Wolfenstein 3d, of course followed up by Doom. Doom was amazing.
 
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