History Is Cool!: This Day in Gaming, May 5th
1992: Apogee Software releases Wolfenstein 3D for PC in the US. It might not have been the first FPS, but it's inarguably the game that sparked the genre. You are BJ Blazkowicz, an American escaping a Nazi fortress, kicking ass the way we only know how this side of the Atlantic (or Pacific...the world is round after all). Not only is the game huge—it's shareware—meaning that most of us played a good chunk of it for free.
But the best part? The violence is OK because you are killing Nazis. Really...why else do you think WWII games have taken off so well?
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