385: First Person Shooters: Exploring 40 Years of History - The Retro Hour EP385
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
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The Origins of Battlezone
There's a lot in Maze that we'd recognize from first person shooters. And I took most of my cues from the interviews with co-creators, Greg Thompson and Dave Lebling. But if you look at maze, you can see online deathmatch. There's even there were bots, AI controlled bots. You could name your avatars, which was just an eyeball that was added later before that it was just your name kind of floating around.
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