10th February 2017, 6:25 AM
Doom wasn't the first FPS I played. Lots of people will mention Wolfenstein, but that wasn't the first FPS either. Before that, the first I played was Catacomb 3D, where you were a wizard guy shooting spells, but even that isn't the first that company made. That goes to Hovertank 3D.
Doom was one that was born from experience though, and the level design finally matured by the time they got to that game.
I did play a lot of Apogee platformers back then too. I liked Commander Keen, and Monster Bash (Starring Johnny Dash), and Cosmo's Adventure. Heck, the DOS days were home to numerous gems like that, back in the wild west, the frontier days. But, I can't put Keen up on the same rank as Super Mario Bros 3.
Doom was one that was born from experience though, and the level design finally matured by the time they got to that game.
I did play a lot of Apogee platformers back then too. I liked Commander Keen, and Monster Bash (Starring Johnny Dash), and Cosmo's Adventure. Heck, the DOS days were home to numerous gems like that, back in the wild west, the frontier days. But, I can't put Keen up on the same rank as Super Mario Bros 3.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)