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[A Black Falcon]

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/661/661532p1.html

VE3D posted download links. I see the first one... 'Realms of the Haunting Demo'. I think, 'what the heck? Isn't that game ... (*thinks*) about eight years old? Why a demo now?' *checks link* ... 1997... (math! 2005 - 1997...)

And I've never played it. :D I just remember reading about it in PC Gamer. Which meant sometime between 1996 and 2001... and I picked the right year.

I just thought it was interesting... game release minutiae is hard to forget! :)

[Great Rumbler]

Realms of the Haunting was a pretty cool game back in the day.

[A Black Falcon]

I ignored it back then because it looked like an FPS... it was only later that I learned that it actually was part adventure game, but oh well...

[Dark Jaguar]

It's a little of both. It's actually the first first person adventure. :D (Sorry Retro...)

Metroid Prime still wins the title of first GOOD FPA. Yeah, I wasn't really a fan...

[Great Rumbler]

Realms of the Haunting is an adventure game with first person elements, while Metroid Prime is a first person shooter with adventure elements.