What's the very first FPS game you played?

[Gothic Sponge]

Mine was a game called "Marathon" made by Bungie. (Halo) It was a FPS for the Mac. That was back in 1994, before i made the switch to PC. Very fun game!

[Mojambo]

1. Wolfenstein 3d n/t

[Caution]

19. Same here

[Maestro]

25. Another vote for Wolfenstein 3d

Back in '90 or '91 I believe. I played it on a smokin 486SX @ 20mhz. Oh and I had a whopping 2 meg of RAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Of course now I am playing this:

[NuttyFluffers]

34. same here, way back when too, as you.

played it for 4 hours, was later on then motion sick for 8... ugh. even to this day i cannot play FPS games because of the motion sickness. very weird because i could probably live on rollercoasters, rapid spinning mini-rides, and the Revolution (a big boat ride that goes rocking forward and back, and then finally upside-down a few times). heck, reading in the car doesn't bother me. i love airplane rides, and i think air turbulence is the highlight of a plane trip. leave me on a dinky ferry boat and i'm a happy clam, riding the waves. and yet FPS games render me green and plastered on the couch.

[Maestro]

36. Make sure the refresh rate is at something like 72hz

or above if you use a CRT monitor. That might help.

[Enraged_Ape]

30. Another Wolfenstein 3d

Great game.

[justa]

32. same here Wolfenstein.

Just finished return to castle wolfenstein on x-box.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

35. Wolf 3d here too, followed by Doom. Mein Leiber!

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. Wolfenstein 3D...

way back in 1992 or '93...

[lazarus]

3. Doom, of course

But the first one I really, really got into was System Shock 2.

I only play FPS on the PC. Can't beat that mouse/keyboard combo for FPS.

[Huckebein the Raven]

4. For me, it was Goldeneye for the N64.

[Worst Username Ever]

5. Doom 2, followed by castle wolfenstein 3d, then doom 1.

Been hooked since. Duke Nulem 3d, Quake, Quake 2, then UT tournament (the original. don't like '03 or '04). Oh and can't forget Perfect Dark for the N64 and Goldeneye. I still play UT at least weekly. ever play Red Faction? Kind of lame but still fun. Serious Sam ROCKS. MOAAA is great plus the new Wolfenstein. Right now I am addicted to Halo 2.

[ZenLefty]

6. Wolfenstein

I played that even before it was a FPS shooter.

[Mojambo]

17. As did I

on a Commodore 64 without a manual.

That game was tough to figure out without the manual.

[ZenLefty]

23. Did yours shriek whenever you walked into a wall?

We couldn't determine if the walls were electrified, or if it was a glitch in the programming. That shriek was annoying as hell, though.

Ah, the golden age of computer gaming. Back when we all had high scores on Pong, and remembered them.

[PittPoliSci]

7. Rise of the Triad

Still one of my favorites.

[Caution]

18. this one was terrific!

[SheepyMcSheepster]

27. awesome game

:D

[Fleurs du Mal]

39. I loved ROTT!

I was always surprised it wasn't more popular. Great game. I think I still have it hanging around somewhere. Might need to check it out again in the near future.

[Chovexani]

8. Same here.

The first, and the best IMO. I still say if Marathon had come out on the PC instead of the Mac it'd be the FPS everyone talks about instead of that crap-ass Doom.

[Gothic Sponge]

9. Yep

It was a great game! All 3 of them were great.

Have you seen this?

http://resurrection.bungie.org/

The demo is cool! Brings back memories.

[Chovexani]

10. Whoa that is cool.

Might be the thing to get me back into the genre again.

[0rganism]

11. Battlezone in an arcade, back in the early '80s

C'mon, people! We can get back before Wolfenstein-3d! I know it!

[Gothic Sponge]

12. That's true

Battlezone was a FPS!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

13. Wolfenstein 3d

[Endangered Specie]

14. The original MOH on PS1.

that game had some great features that I dont understand why they arent present in today's MOH or other FPS...


you throw a grenade and the nazis will try to throw it back. if there are alot of them, one guy will 'sacrifice' himself and cover up the grenade, only killing him. If you threw a grenade at a dog, he would pick it up and take it back to his master, OR he would take it to you.

[Xithras]

15. Doom

Way fun. We even used to have an IPX over POTS that we'd run in the background that allowed us to play multiplayer Doom via a local BBS...pre-Internet deathmatches :) We also used to have Doom lan parties where you'd bring your PC in, grab an ISA coax NE2000 card and a Lantastic boot floppy from a pile, and network your DOS machine in two minutes (in those days 14400 baud modems were hot properties and it was very rare for a home user to have his own network card).

Ah, to relive the days when my only goal in life was to squeeze an extra 5 megahertz out of my 486 DX/25:freak:

[toddzilla]

42. ever play on DWANGO?

those were the days..

[Fleurs du Mal]

16. Doom

[Caution]

20. Anyone remember Heretic and Hexen?

Nothing like turning an opponent into a chicken. Also assembling a super weapon for your character...I wonder why there weren't more of these types of games?

[lazarus]

21. Loved those

better than Doom, IMO.

[Maestro]

26. Yup!

Played them then got bored with the genre until Half-Life came out.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

22. First FPS: Doom

I remember seeing Doom for the first time and wondering "what the hell is this?" The first first-person game I actually saw was Ultima Underworld (or was it Underground) and thinking that was really neat.



Favorite (I have four):
System Shock 2 (Scariest game I've ever played)
Deus Ex (Massive scope and flexibility in playstyle)
Half-Life (Enemies with exceptional AI)
Half-Life 2 (Not surprising, but this game is in-freaking-credible. Character animations and lip-synching is perfect, and the effects are magnificent. Even runs good on lower systems.)

[architect359]

24. Doom

...and that was the end of me. :D Actually I remember seeing the older students at school playing the original Castle Wolfenstein and wanted to play it. Than my room mate got a copy of Doom - and it was fragfest allnighters during weekends. Since than, I went to Marathon (all 3 series), Hexan, Descent, and now it's CoD. I'm doomed.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

28. Doom

[geomon666]

29. Doom

Used to play it all the time. Then in highschool, we played it during internet class, you know...to pass the time. Not really impressed with the latest FPS though. I think Halo is overrated, haven't played Halo 2 though so it might be better but not from what I hear on the Xbox forums.

[Book Lover]

31. Doom here too

But I am one of those who get sick after 5 minutes of FP-perspective gameplay, so I stick to resource games now... and paper RPG-ing of course!

[jayfish]

33. "Escape For The Mind Master"

It was a game for the Atari 2600 w/ Starpath(Acadia) Supercharger and there wasn't really any shooting but it was first person and 3-d





It was awesome.

Jay

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

37. I used to play multiplayer DOOM on the DWANGO dial up network.

Anyone else do this? Good times...

[name not needed]

38. Wolfenstein 3D

[Ladyhawk]

40. Why Wolfenstein 3D of course. :D

I currently love Enemy Territory.

[DrGonzoLives]

41. Castle Wolfenstein

Mein Leben!