Happy Birthday Wolfenstein 3D

[CSN NewsBot]

The earliest successful FPS, Wolfenstein 3D, was released 16 years ago to the day.

"It was an incredible sensation, really unlike anything gamers had seen before," said Jamie Madigan, who helps operate the GameSpy Network's 3D Action website. "You could move smoothly in 360 degrees. You felt like you were there."[...]



Wolfenstein 3D did more than define a genre. It also launched a company, id Software of Mesquite, Texas, which leveraged Wolfenstein 3D's success into a franchise of wildly successful first-person shooters, including the seminal Doom and Quake series.

So, happy birthday to you Wolfenstein 3D! You launched the FPS genre into what it is today, spawned a number of extremely memorable and timeless classics in the form of Doom and Quake, and will forever live on in our hearts as the best Nazi eliminating FPS ever.

[Kira_zRo_]

"the best Nazi eliminating FPS ever"

I'll agree it is revolutionary but don't you think that was a little over the top? :P

[Admz]

Happy B-day! a reason to get drunk and play Wolfenstein!



/not that I needed a reason

[Linux]

Kira_zRo_ wrote..

"the best Nazi eliminating FPS ever"

I'll agree it is revolutionary but don't you think that was a little over the top? :P

Kill the Nazi!!!! But yes, drunk + Wolf3d = good times.

[-:Nighthawk:-]

Man, I feel old... I remember being B.J. Blazkowicz all too well... even made a clone of that old fake 3D engine back in my sophomore year Pascal programming class... been a while, hehe. :)



But yeah, some games are simply classic games, landmarks, pillars, however you want to think of them, milestones in the evolution of the FPS and Wolf3D definitely started it all off.