Continuing on this slope, id Software themselves put out Hovertank 3D (1991) which was more about navigating a maze and finding humans to save than shooting the enemies and Catacomb 3D (also 1991) which was the third Catacomb game, a clone series of the arcade game Gauntlet. Same style of heads-up display, with the protagonist's face taking center stage.Įrroneously, people call Wolfenstein 3D the granddaddy of first person shooters, although there were several games of this kind before it, most notably MIDI Maze (1987) on the Atari ST and Mac which was actually a multiplayer game with up to 16 players through system linking.
Anyway, I saw a resemblance between Wolfenstein and another game I had at the time, DOOM II. For me, they came already installed on the PC. At the time, I did not know what a game developer was, or that you could buy games. Hello there! Today I want to take a look at a game I had tangents with in my childhood, namely Wolfenstein 3D.
