Related: Skyrim & DOOM: Pregnancy Test Edition Is the Best Thing No One Asked ForĭOOM released in 1993, one year after the seminal Wolfenstein 3D.
However, while DOOM may have popularized the genre, it was not the original first-person shooter. After all, throughout the 1990s, first-person shooters were known as ' DOOM Clones,' rather than entries within a larger genre.
But which one came first? And are these even the first first-person shooters?ĭOOM is often considered to be father of the FPS. From Fallout to Bioshock and RPG to action game, the first-person shooter genre has defined a wide array of video games. ID Software, the developer behind like DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein, is regularly credited with creating the FPS, with those games seen as the granddaddies of the genre.
