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What was the original first-person shooter? Two largely forgotten computer games from the 1970s ushered in the genre

theconversation.com/what-was-the-original-first-person-shooter-two-largely-forgotten-computer-games-from-the-1970s-ushered-in-the-genre-290696

The first FPS wasn't "Doom" or "Wolfenstein": it was built in 1973 on a NASA minicomputer most people never touched. Here's how "Maze War" and its rival "Spasim" faked 3D space years before the hardware existed to do it properly.

— via The Conversation — Science, Mark J. P. Wolf, Professor of Communication, Concordia University Wisconsin

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