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It started as an experiment. Steve Colley had just figured out how to rotate a cube on the screen when Howard Palmer suggested they could make a three-dimensional maze.
The year was 1973. They were high school seniors in a work-study program with NASA, tasked with testing the limits of the Imlac PDS-1 and PDS-4 minicomputers. Their maze program flickered into life with simple wireframe graphics and few of the trappings of modern games. You could walk around in first person, looking for a way out of the maze, and that's about it. There were no objects or virtual people. Just a maze.
But Maze would evolve over the summer and the years that followed. Soon two people could occupy the maze together, connected over separate computers. Then they could shoot each other and even peek around corners. Before long, up to eight people could play in the same maze, blasting their friends across the ARPANET — a forebear to the internet. Two decades before id Software changed the game industry with Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, Colley, Palmer and MIT students Greg Thompson and Dave Lebling invented the first-person shooter.
This is the story of Maze, the video game that lays claim to perhaps more "firsts" than any other — the first first-person shooter, the first multiplayer networked game, the first game with both overhead and first-person view modes, the first game with modding tools and more.
http://www.polygon.com/features/2015/5/21/8627231/the-first-first-person-shooter
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2015, @06:06AM
Future generations became prudish, cranky, and belligerent due to lack of sex. War, man, is good for something. It's good for getting revenge on the world for incurable STDs! Can't fuck 'em? Kill 'em all! Who "they" are doesn't even matter. You can call them terrorists, you can call them freedom fighters, you can call them radical extremists, you can call them unpatriotic pacifists. It doesn't matter, as long as "we" believe "they" are getting laid more than "we" are, "they" gotta die.
(Score: 2) by rts008 on Saturday May 23 2015, @07:59AM
The problem with hitching the cart before the horse(or three-legged mule in your case), is it has been historically, scientifically, and common-sensically far more inefficient to reach your goal. You are going about it completely backwards.
Prudish, cranky, and belligerent caused their lack of sex. Chill out, open up your minds, drop the angst, and war-glory ideals, and you will find yourselves engaged with more sex than you can handle. Your heirs will not be able to pay the undertaker enough to wipe that smile from your corpse when you die of sexual intercourse overdose.
Silly AC, looking to fight a war, thriving on hate and conflict, drowning in FUD...well, as we used to say, 'Keep on Truckin', and I'll keep on fuckin'.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2015, @09:13AM
Dude! You're totally missing the point because you're on too many drugs. Fear of death by sexually-transmitted-incurable-disease caused their lack of sex. STIDs are much worse than STDs, man! Back the days of Free Love you got a shot of penicillin and kept on fuckin'. Penicillin doesn't do jack against AIDS, man.