Wolfenstein 3D (1992)

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Anyone remember the Wolfenstein 3D game that was released back in 1992? I was rather young when this game came out for the computer, I was around 2 or 3 but my mom allowed me to play it all the time. I wasn't very good at it but I remember that I had a lot of fun with it. The graphics were pretty bad (looking back at them now and comparing to todays games.) but I really want to play teh game again, but i don't have teh game anymore and i don't want to play the newer versions because i don't like the way they are set up.

Anyone else a fan of Wolfenstein?

Oh hell yeah. It wasn't as good as Doom, but I have some fond memories of gunning down the SS in preposterously difficult to navigate corridors.

Or, alternatively, being gunned down by the SS in preposterously difficult to navigate corridors while screaming like a girl.

Didn't doom come out after Wolfenstein? Because i see too much similiarties in both those games that i just think DOOM is mimicing what Wolfenstein did which irritates me (unless they are by the same maker then i will think more openly about it.) not to be picky .. but ia m super picky.

Wolfenstein 3D and Doom were created by the same company, Id Software. Doom came out after Wolfenstein. There are even a couple of secret levels in Doom II which were designed to look like levels in Wolfenstein.

I played it when I was eight and nine and then the game stopped working on my Dad's computer. I think it was a demo we had because I could only do the first level, not the others. But I played it in Montana when I was eleven and twelve until my uncle too the computer because it was his. Then I never played it again until I was an adult and I got it for my Game Boy Advance. They re released the game for it.

I used to know where all the secret passages were because one of my other uncles made the map for each floor. I can't remember if it was my mom's brother or my dad's.

The game is on "Return to Castle Wofenstein" You have to look around the discs to find it though

I used to play that game, I did not like doom it just seemed nasty to my senses.

But DukeNukem was much better, I used to like to blast away at the aliens with the computer sound turned down and some soft gentle music playing on my stereo at the same time.

I used to play that game, I did not like doom it just seemed nasty to my senses.

But DukeNukem was much better, I used to like to blast away at the aliens with the computer sound turned down and some soft gentle music playing on my stereo at the same time.

I got bored with Duke Nukem 3D until I found a Hi-Resolution Pack or (3D models that use Direct3D) much better...

Wolfenstein was the forerunner of the great FPS Games for the PC. Doom got all the credit but it was wolfenstein that broke the ground.
Either way, it was ID who got the credit. (though I feel like Apogee should have gotten some too).

There's a lot of great add-ons for Wolfenstein, Doom, Duke 3D etc .... and some new open source engines.
If you own the original games, you can often download a new engine for Windows, Linux or Mac and play them with High Resolution Graphics.

(and of course there's Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory available for free).

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I remember Wolf 3D because it was the first game to make me nauseous

Actually that would've been Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss.

I'm not really sure Ultima Underworld counts as an FPS, it only predated Wolfenstein by two months, and certainly the technology it employed wasn't suitable for an FPS. However, there were several possible precursors to the FPS genre, but Wolfenstein really "broke the ground" as they say, in much the same way that Pong broke the ground for videogaming in general.

Actually, if you're going to credit Origin with it, you could go all the way back to Ultima IV (or maybe back to 1).

But I don't think that underworld really counts as a FPS,

Nor was it "the first." Even before Ultima Underworld, there were others, like Catacomb 3D (also created by the Id guys, back in 1991.) But in my opinion, the game we really have to thank for the FPS genre is Doom. With modem-supported multi-player, high modifiability, and other features, Doom popularized FPS action more than any other game. Wolfenstein was also very popular, but it was overshadowed by Doom.