I just recieved an email with an idea for a future article:
"I was just thinking to myself that it would be a neat idea to put together an article detailing the various 16-bit first-person-shooters out there. There were games like Zero Tolerance and Blood Shot on the Genesis, Doom and Wolf 3D on SNES... you could even include strange, obscure ones like Drakken on the SNES, even though it wasn't really a FPS. You could include unreleased betas, too, like Duke 3D and Zero Tolerance 2 on the Genesis. Sometimes it's interesting to see what kind of crazy stuff developers tried to push these systems to do."
I thought it was rather interesting.
Can anybody think of any others to feature?
16-Bit First-Person Shooters: Help List Them
Well, maybe I can have them as an honorable mentionmarurun wrote:First person, yes. Shooters, no, therefore ineligible.
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Re: 16-Bit First-Person Shooters: Help List Them
While a minor detail, Duke 3D wasn't a beta, it was a fully released game...just only sold in Brazil. Here's what's on Wikipedia:racketboy wrote:You could include unreleased betas, too, like Duke 3D and Zero Tolerance 2 on the Genesis.
In 1998, it was also ported to the Sega Mega Drive by Tec Toy. The obscurity of this port (it was released only in Brazil) has frequently led to it being mistaken for an unlicensed "hack". It is not based on any other game made for the Mega Drive, instead it was programmed from the ground up by Tec Toy. 3D Realms claims that the port is not legal, but Tec Toy maintains that it was licensed by now-defunct publisher GT Interactive.
