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Disruptor may not seem like a catalyst release on Sony PlayStation today. The place in history this game holds is due to the developer, not the game itself. This is the first game that Insomniac Games developed. Maybe you recognize them for their work on Spyro the Dragon on PlayStation. Maybe you are more familiar […]
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Disruptor Disrupts Sony PlayStation – November 30th, 1996 – Today in Video Game History
November 29th, 2020 
Carl Williams 
Posted in News, PSOne, Sony 
Tags: Disruptor, first person shooter, fps, Insomniac Games, sci-fi, Universal Interactive 
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Atari Jaguar Doom Port Sets Standard for Future Console Releases – November 28th, 1994 – Today in Video Game History
November 27th, 2020 Carl Williams Atari Jaguar Doom port. Not exactly two things that anyone would put together on their own. When Atari released the Jaguar the writing on the wall already said it was dead. While magazines of the time touted Atari garnering support from over 300 companies, very few came through with games. Magazines of the time were […]
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Posted in Atari Jaguar, News Tags: 1994, demons, Doom, first person shooter, fps, hell, November 1994, November 28th, November 28th 1994 No Comments »
Retro Gaming Steam Highlights June 2020
June 27th, 2020 Carl Williams Here are some fun pieces of retro gaming on sale with Steam right now. For those that do not know, this time of year is the annual Summer Sale. Tons of games go on sale for two weeks or so. For fans of older titles though, this can make it hard to find them. I […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Windows Tags: adventure, arcade, beat 'em up, brawler, Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle, contra, Contra Anniversary Collection, double dragon, Double Dragon Trilogy, fighting, first person shooter, fps, ikaruga, June 2020, metal slug, point and click, raiden legacy, sale, Sanitarium, shooter, steam, wolfenstein 3d No Comments »
Ion Fury Brings 90’s First Person Shooter to PlayStation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch
May 17th, 2020 Carl Williams Raise your hand if you remember 3D Realms First Person Shooters (FPS). Get ready because Ion Fury is not only a call back to the 90’s, it uses the same tech. Yep, you read that right, the Build Engine has been ported to modern consoles like the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. That […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Nintendo, Playstation 4, Sony, Switch, Windows, Xbox, Xbox One Tags: 3D Realms, Build Engine, Duke Nukem 3D, first person shooter, fps, Ion Fury No Comments »
Brutal Doom V21 Gold Trailer Released
June 12th, 2019 Carl Williams Doom. Anyone reading this that has never heard of this iconic game is probably on the wrong site right now. Seriously though, this is an iconic first-person shooter (FPS) that helped push gaming on PC’s forward quite a bit. Doom could not have been released at a better time as at that time, console gaming […]
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Posted in Comp, Linux, Macintosh, Windows Tags: Brutal Doom, first person shooter, fps, mod No Comments »
New Half-Life Total Conversion Released
October 1st, 2017 Carl Williams It is not all that often that we cover things like Total Conversions for games like Half-Life and Quake. When we do, you know it must be something special. While hackers placing Shrek in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is fun, it is not exactly a “newsworthy” ticket to write up. While […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Windows Tags: Cayle George, first person shooter, fps, Half-Life, Half-Life: Caged, steam, total conversion, windows No Comments »
Fans Port Wolfenstein 3D to Commodore 64 – Bandit Gaming
June 3rd, 2017 Carl Williams Okay, before we get too far into this article, this is not a normal Commodore 64 they ported Wolfenstein 3D to. There are a few pieces of additional hardware required to make this one run on actual hardware, or just use Winvice 3.1 if you don’t have actual hardware available. With that said, let’s discuss […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: c64, commodore 64, first person shooter, fps, id software, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, wolfenstein 3d No Comments »
Revenge of the License: Alien Trilogy
October 16th, 2016 Michael Crisman One of iD Software’s initial ideas for Doom was to make a first-person shooter set in the world of James Cameron’s ‘Aliens’. When a licensing deal couldn’t be worked out between iD and 20th Century Fox, Carmack and Romero’s team fell back on a more generic ‘space marine kills everything’ setting, and an FPS classic […]
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Quake Brings Gamers 3rd Dimension Death – June 22nd 1996 – Today in Video Game History
June 21st, 2016 Carl Williams Okay, where were you 20 years ago? Were you a PC gamer or were you a console gamer? Either way, you probably heard about Quake by id Software when it was released. It was a game changer for all of the right reasons. While Doom, id Software’s previous series, was iconic and popular, Quake took […]
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Posted in Comp, Dreamcast, Linux, Macintosh, News, Saturn, Sega, Windows Tags: 3d, first person shooter, fps, id software, John Carmack, John Romero, quake, Shambler 3 Comments »
Awful In Hindsight: PC Accelerator Issue 1’s Cover Story
April 6th, 2016 Michael Crisman PC Accelerator (abbreviated to PCXL within the mag) was a short-lived US publication devoted to computer games. Sporting a less-mature, more attitude-oriented style than other ‘zines, PC Accelerator was essentially the coverage of PC Gamer mixed with the male wish fulfillment fantasy embodied in Maxim. It launched in September 1998 under the tagline, “Bigger, Better, […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: Daikatana, duke nukem forever, first person shooter, fps, Half-Life, magazine, pc, pc accelerator, pcxl, quake, quake II, sin No Comments »
