870th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 2004 Developer: id Software Publisher: Activision Doom and Doom II were the two games that started the FPS genre – not the first to exist, but they defined a lot of how it worked. Being open sourced let to its life being lengthened, […]
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#585 Doom 3
Posted: 26th May 2020 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2004, activision, first person shooter, id software, pc
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#417 Quake III Arena
Posted: 9th April 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1999, activision, first person shooter, id software, pc
593rd played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 1999 Developer: id Software Publisher: Activision A bit of a jump in genre here. Somewhere around 2000 – and obviously, in case of this game, in 1999, several publishers and developers realised that the main thing that kept people playing FPS games was […]
#359 Quake II
Posted: 27th August 2016 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1997, activision, first person shooter, id software, Various
537th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Various Year of Release: 1997 Developer: id Software Publisher: Activision Following in our travel through first-person shooters, Quake II is the next on the list. Despite its current omnipresence in the list, it seems to have taken until the 2000s before it got that good. Before then, […]
#313 Quake
Posted: 30th July 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1996, first person shooter, gt interactive, id software, pc
444th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 1996 Developer: id Software Publisher: GT Interactive There were a couple of major steps during the development of the FPS genre that happened, it seems, in fairly quick succession. Doom was the notable one we already covered – the first to really go […]
#260 Doom II: Hell On Earth
Posted: 15th July 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1994, first person shooter, gt interactive, id software, Various
348th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Various Year of Release: 1994 Developer: id Software Publisher: GT Interactive We have (obviously) played Doom before, the granddaddy of all other FPS games. Not the first perhaps, but the first that made it Big and put LAN multiplayer on the map. The second was released not […]
#237 Doom
Posted: 29th March 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1993, first person shooter, id software, pc
318th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 1993 Developer: id Software Publisher: id Software One nice advantage of playing this blog are the excuses to go back to old games from our childhood, that we hadn’t played for ages, and give us a chance to play it again (I was […]