I'm not trying start any flame wars here, but does anybody remember games like WizardyI thru III? Or for that matter, Aklabeth (If I remember correctly, written by Richard Garriott before the Ultima series)? I remember playing these vector baed graphics games (they heavily reminded me of battletank from the arcades in the way they drew the dungeons and some of the creatures). I think that they qualify as the earliest FPS (actually TBFPS as it was all turn based), but they did approach the displays from a first person perspective. Just a little bit of history from back when amazing things were being done with only 48-64K of ram (yes folks, that's right 'K' not 'Mb').
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I'm not trying start any flame wars here, but does anybody remember games like WizardyI thru III? Or for that matter, Aklabeth (If I remember correctly, written by Richard Garriott before the Ultima series)? I remember playing these vector baed graphics games (they heavily reminded me of battletank from the arcades in the way they drew the dungeons and some of the creatures). I think that they qualify as the earliest FPS (actually TBFPS as it was all turn based), but they did approach the displays from a first person perspective. Just a little bit of history from back when amazing things were being done with only 48-64K of ram (yes folks, that's right 'K' not 'Mb').