May 5, 1992: ‘Wolfenstein 3-D’ Shoots the FPS Into Stardom
Today in 1992, Id Software releases Wolfenstein 3-D, and it launches a huge computer-game category. Wolfenstein 3-D may not have been the very first “first-person shooter,” as the genre came to be known, but it was by far the most successful
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