Geekssential #20: First-Person Shooters

This week I’m doing a more general post than usual. (For reasons of current interest.) Instead of a specific (named) something, I’m singling out a whole genre of somethings. In this case, the video game genre known as First-Person Shooters.

id Software’s venerable Quake.

In the Beginning…

While a lot of credit is given to the games Wolfenstein 3D (which I played extensively) and Doom (which I played a bit) for launching the genre, the truth of the matter is that these two games were not the firs...