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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. Not Gmail invites! Not work friendly! by mh101 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Too bad it wasn't modded down 30 seconds earlier, before I clicked on it. =(

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  2. Re:Not Gmail invites! Not work friendly! by DoorFrame · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hmmm,

    it appeared to be a guy (girl?) with crap on his (her?) face, but the screen kept moving too fast for me to really see it. Also, I didn't get the whole thing becuase my window wasn't big enough. Also, it started talking, but as it's somewhat late I turned it down right away. What did it say? And what horrible thing was I supposed to see?

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  3. Re:Not Gmail invites! Not work friendly! by Three+Headed+Man · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That, my friends, is the infamous "Last Measure", a project of the GNAA. Read about Last Measure in the "Last Measure" section of the shock sites article. The voice was saying "HEY EVERYBODY, I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORNO."

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