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Ken's Labyrinth is a first-person shooter DOS game, released in 1993 by Epic Megagames. It was mostly coded by Ken Silverman, who went on to design the Build engine that was used for rendering a first-person viewpoint in Apogee Software's Duke Nukem 3D. It consists of three episodes, the first of which was released as shareware. Ken's Labyrinth is... 103

In Pursuit of Greed (also known as "Assassinators") is a science fiction-themed first-person shooter (FPS) game released in 1995 on DOS, developed by Mind Shear Software and published by Softdisk. Greed was written in C and Assembly and based on the Raven Engine (also used in Shadowcaster) by Id Software. This engine was roughly between Wolfenstein... 190

HoverTank 3-D is a first-person action game developed by id Software in 1991 for Softdisk's Gamer's Edge line on PC DOS. As the mercenary Brick Sledge, the player drives a hovering tank through 20 cities threatened by a nuclear missile, rescuing people from mutants and enemy tanks before time runs out. It is id Software's first 3D game: the walls are... 192

Ancient Land of Ys is the first installment of Ys, an action role-playing video game series developed by Nihon Falcom in 1987. The hero of Ys I is an adventurous young swordsman named Adol Christin. As the story begins, he has just arrived at the Town of Minea, in the land of Esteria. He is called upon by Sara, a fortuneteller, who tells him of a great... 138

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is a 1990 horror blend of adventure and RPG, developed by the British studio Horrorsoft and published by Accolade. The player arrives as a hired ghostbuster at Killbragant Castle, which Elvira has inherited and where the minions of her great-great-grandmother, the witch Lady Emelda, are preparing for her return. The goal... 533

Jagged Alliance is a 1995 turn-based tactical game with role-playing elements, the first part of the series, made by the Montreal studio Madlab Software and published by Sir-Tech Software. The player is tasked with freeing the island of Metavira from Lucas Santino by hiring mercenaries through the A.I.M. agency and taking the island back sector by... 391

Star Wars is a first-person rail shooter designed by Mike Hally and released in arcades by Atari, Inc. in 1983. It uses 3D color vector graphics to simulate the assault on the Death Star from the 1977 film Star Wars. Assuming the role of Luke Skywalker (Red Five), the player pilots an X-wing fighter from a first-person perspective. The player does... 434

FX Fighter was an early realtime 3D fighting game to be developed for the PC. The game features 8 different characters, eight different arenas, movie cut scenes, and 40 attacks per fighter. The player selects a character to face against eight of the best fighters in the universe for a prize consisting of the most powerful weapon in the universe... 172

Duke Nukem 3D is a 1996 first-person shooter by 3D Realms that moved its muscle-bound hero from two 2D platformers into first person. It runs on Ken Silverman's Build engine, which allowed looking up and down, jumping, swimming and flying with a jetpack, and it became known above all for how much of its environment the player can actually use. The... 2576

CyberMage: Darklight Awakening is a cyberpunk first-person shooter with role-playing elements, published by Electronic Arts for PC DOS in 1995. It was built by ORIGIN Systems to a design by D. W. Bradley, creator of the Wizardry role-playing series, and alongside conventional guns the player wields the powers of a Darklight crystal embedded in his... 152

Another World, known as Out of this World in the US and Outer World in Japan, is a 1991 cinematic platformer designed and developed by Eric Chahi. The graphics and box art were designed by Chahi, while the music was composed by Jean-François Freitas. The protagonist of the game is Lester Knight Chaykin; a young, athletic, red haired physicist. Lester... 597

Fade to Black is the sequel to Delphine Software's Flashback, released by Electronic Arts in 1995. It takes the series from 2D platforming into full 3D: players again control agent Conrad B. Hart, now viewed over the shoulder through fixed camera angles reminiscent of Alone in the Dark. Fifty years after destroying the Morph homeworld, Conrad awakens... 139

Flashback, released in the US as Flashback: The Quest for Identity, is a 1992 cinematic platformer by France's Delphine Software and a spiritual successor to Another World. Players control Conrad B. Hart, an agent who wakes up amnesiac on Saturn's moon Titan and uncovers a plot by shape-shifting aliens - the Morphs - who have infiltrated humanity.... 344

Descent II is a 3D first-person shooter video game noted for popularizing the use of true 3D rendering technology and providing the player with six full degrees of freedom (often abbreviated `6DOF`) to move and to look around. Originally planned as an expansion (and not a sequel) to Descent, Descent II added more weapon types, vastly improved robot... 737

3D first-person shooter has a strong following due to its unique "six degrees of freedom" gameplay. However, because this gameplay can be challenging and strongly favors the use of a joystick, Descent never gained the popularity of more conventional ground-based 3D first-person shooter games... 273

Corridor 7: Alien Invasion is a first-person shooter released in March 1994 for PC DOS by the American studio Capstone Software. It runs on the licensed Wolfenstein 3D engine, which made it look technically dated just 3 months after Doom. The player is a Special Forces soldier clearing the underground Delta Base floor by floor of the aliens that reached... 226

Corporation (originally released for Amiga in 1990) is one of the earliest 3D first-person shooter games, predating ID Software's Wolfenstein 3D (1992). It was also the first of its kind to utilize dynamic lighting. Gameplay was very complex for its time, featuring role-playing, stealth and hacking elements, similar to the later System Shock and Deus... 95

Chasm: The Rift is a first-person shooter by the Ukrainian studio Action Forms, released in October 1997 for PC DOS and distributed under the Megamedia, GT Interactive and WizardWorks labels. The player is a soldier hunting the Timestrikers, mutants who tear holes in time and invade the present day, ancient Egypt and the Viking middle ages. The engine... 350

The Catacomb Abyss is a fantasy first-person shooter developed by the in-house team of Softdisk Publishing and released for PC DOS in November 1992 under the Gamer's Edge label. After the defeat of Nemesis, the wizard returns to fight the minions who built a mausoleum in his honour, blasting his way with magic missiles from the town graveyard through... 382

Blood is a horror first-person shooter developed by Monolith Productions and published by GT Interactive in 1997 for PC DOS. The undead gunslinger Caleb takes revenge on the dark god Tchernobog and his cult across 4 episodes full of gore, black humour and horror film references. It runs on the Build engine known from Duke Nukem 3D, was the first game... 1917