What the First FPS Game REALLY Was (Not DOOM or Wolfenstein)
id Software's land mark first-person shooter franchises, DOOM, Wolfenstein, and Quake, are often credited with creating the genre, but did they?
From Fallout to Bioshock to Call of Duty, the FPS genre has defined a wide array of video games. id Software, the developer behind DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein, is regularly credited with creating the first-person shooter, as those games are seen as the granddaddies of the genre. The history of FPS games doesn't begin with id Software's most successful titles, however, and diving into the games that actually created the genre reveals a much longer path to market domination.
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