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Precursor to Doom Racks Up 30 years of Fragging

Posted by michael on from the eye-of-the-beholder dept.

VirtualUK writes "Back in 1974 the first 3D networked multiplayer first person shooter game Maze War set the ball rolling for todays games like Quake and Doom. Initially written on a Imlac PDS-1 players represented as an eyeball fought it out inside what could be considered a minimalistic graphical adventure in comparison to the texture mapped, hi-res extravaganzas on the shelves today. On November 6-7 at the Vintage Computer Festival 7.0 held at the Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) there's a special 30th anniversary special event for Maze War. Brude Damer's digibarn site has a great article about it here."

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  1. Wait... there are other games? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been playing this game for the last 30 years and now I found out there are other options?

  2. Yeah but what FPS does it get on a GeForce 6800? by gatesh8r · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not going to consider it if it's not any faster than Doom III.

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  3. Just imagine... by rune2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    how many fps that puppy gets now?

    1. Re:Just imagine... by porp · · Score: 2, Funny

      how many fps that puppy gets now?

      With Anti-Aliasing turned on or off?

      porp

  4. Re:Yeah but what FPS does it get on a GeForce 6800 by mog007 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sure it allows for more than four people! HA!

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  5. C'mon... by Lee+Tacker · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean this little gem hasn't been ported to Windows? I already feel like I'm runnin' around in a maze all day. It's the perfect fit!

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  6. Re:Ultima Underworld by 3770 · · Score: 2, Funny

    OK,

    I'm going to stop rambling about Ultima Underworld after this post. But 3 minutes into this game I "angered a giant rat with my actions". I just find it hilarious that I've spent so much time killing rodents in modern MMORPGs and yet it isn't a "new concept". No wonder that killing rodents feels "old".

    I really hope that WoW and EQ2 will innovate in some way.

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  7. Wink Murder anyone? by tonsofpcs · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wink at you, you die. Muhahaha.

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