Decades Later, John Romero Looks Back At The Birth Of The First-person Shooter

Kyle Orland, Ars Technica
Mon, 06/24/2024 - 4:00am

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Id | GDC) John Romero remembers the moment he realized what the future of gaming would look like. In late 1991, Romero and his colleagues at id Software had just released Catacomb 3-D, a crude-looking, EGA-colored first-person shooter that was nonetheless revolutionary compared to other first-person games of the time.

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