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Game » consists of 12 releases. Released May 05, 1992
The sequel to Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold has futuristic secret agent Blake Stone infiltrating an abandoned training facility on the planet Selon, where elusive mad scientist Dr. Goldfire is believed to be creating a dangerous mutant army in a final attempt to conquer humanity.
An unusual remake of Hugo's House of Horrors, done up as an FPS.
One of the last first-person shooters to use the Wolfenstein 3D engine, Corridor 7 takes place in a top-secret American underground facility that is overrun by aliens in futuristic 2012.
Exact's Geograph Seal, released for the Sharp X68000 computer in 1994, is a precursor to Jumping Flash! Rendered in 3D polygons, it was the earliest first-person shooter with platforming mechanics. It also allowed the player to aim the weapon, and took place in free-roaming outdoor environments rather than the corridor labyrinths of contemporary FPS games like Doom.
As a member of the UN Elite Force, players must infiltrate a government building seized by terrorists and take out the numerous threats inside.
You are the sole survivor of a plane crash on a jungle island.
Early first-person-shooter where the player must explore a derelict spacecraft and splatter hostile aliens.
Lethal Tender is a first-person shooter action game.
An early first-person shooter developed exclusively for the 3DO. Explore a haunted mansion filled with evil spirits to restore a magical talisman that banishes them!
Bethesda's fourth Terminator game. Play as a lone soldier sent to the past to stop a Skynet takeover of a sprawling military complex.
When a rogue scientist plans to enslave humanity in the 22nd century (using soldiers, robots, aliens, and mutants), it's up to British secret agent Blake Stone to infiltrate his facilities and sabotage his plans.
Bungie's first foray into the nascent FPS market of the early '90s, Pathways into Darkness is a 1993 first-person action-adventure game set within and underneath an ancient pyramid in the Yucatán Peninsula.
When Sparky the dog is kidnapped by aliens, his owner chases after them to rescue his dog.
Also known as Star Cruiser II: The Odysseus Project, Star Cruiser 2 was released in 1992 for the NEC PC-98 and Fujitsu FM Towns computers.
A 1992 first-person shooter for arcades, developed by Taito. It pioneered several features before they became standards of the FPS genre, including circle-strafing and multiplayer deathmatch. Its control scheme, where the player moves with a joystick and aims with a lightgun, was also a precursor to modern FPS controls.
An action game set in the Middle East, based on the military operation "Desert Storm".
A high-fantasy first-person shooter based on the Catacomb duology of action games from id co-founder John Carmack. It is a precursor to id's Wolfenstein 3D.
A first-person tank-combat game and a precursor to Wolfenstein 3D. Pilot the titular hovertank and rescue refugees while taking on mutants, aliens, and enemy tanks.
Known as Gun Sight, this first-person shooter was released in Japan before the renamed Laser Invasion was released in the US, it released in Japan on March 15th 1991.
Play as an Zodiac Agent investigating a series of murders around Universal Cybernetics Corporation's factory in London in this early FPS/RPG hybrid developed by Core Design.
A light-gun rail shooter similar to Operation Wolf and Cabal, but with more detailed three-dimensional environments. The original arcade version's sprite/texture manipulation engine anticipated FPS ray-casting graphics and the look of texture-mapped polygons.
An arcade game released by Sega in 1988, Last Survivor is the earliest known free-roaming, three-dimensional, third-person shooter, and one of the first shooters with a network multiplayer deathmatch mode.
An early first-person role-playing shooter released by Arsys Software. Ahead of its time, it had 3D polygon graphics, FPS gameplay, strafing controls, open-world space exploration, and an epic sci-fi space opera plot.
Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode is a mature-themed game with revolutionary design implementing multiple game mechanics, including platforming, first-person shooting, and sniping, and is one of the only games to feature sex on the NES.
An early 3D, first-person, role-playing shooter, released by Bullet-Proof Software in 1985. Ahead of its time, it was an early example of both the Action-RPG and FPS genres.
Golgo 13: Ōkami no Su, also known as Golgo 13: Wolf Schanze ("Golgo 13: Wolf's Lair"), is adventure game, developed Pony Canyon and released in 1984.
Designed by Yoshio Kiya and released by Nihon Falcom in 1983, this was possibly the first action RPG. It introduced real-time combat, sci-fi elements, a persistent open world with day-night cycle, and survival mechanics. This was a precursor to Falcom's seminal action RPG franchise, Dragon Slayer.
One of the most popular arcade games of all time, Pac-Man was released in arcades in 1980 and became a pop culture icon for the decade.
Space Invaders, released in arcades by Taito in 1978, is one of the most influential and successful video games of all time, laying the foundations for most shooters and action games that followed. It revolutionized the game industry and has become a pop culture icon.
Created by Steve Colley, some time around 1974-1975, at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, Maze War is a first-person maze game where the player is represented as an eyeball.
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