Guns, guns, guns. Check out our brief look at the history of the First Person Shooter genre. Starting all the way back with maze games, passing through Doom & Wolfenstein, and then coming all the way back to Doom & Wolfenstein… wait, what? It makes sense in the course of it all, I swear.

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References:
MIDI Maze
Wolfenstein 3D
Doom
Duke Nukem 3D
Marathon
Quake WASD Article
Call Of Duty
Battlefield 1942
Half-Life
System Shock
Bioshock
Doom
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Duke Nukem Forever
Overwatch
Destiny
Anthem

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Music credits:
Song – My cue to leave
Artist – Steve Combs
Album – The Green Album

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