First-person shooter

Game genre concept

A shooter from first-person perspective with fairly free movement (not locked to a grid, rails, or autoscrolling) and view direction. As such, despite the name, simply being from 1st person perspective and being a shooter is not enough to qualify.

1969

games

platforms

Alternate names: FPS
Name variations: 1st person shooter

SNES 1994

SNES 1993-05

PS1 1996-10-01

PS1 1997-11-17

Witchaven II: Blood Vengeance

DOS 1996

Alien Rage

X360 2013-09-24

Delta Force: Task Force Dagger

WIN 2002-07-10

Doom II

GBA 2002-10-29

PO'ed

3DO 1995-11

Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

XBOX 2002-11-19

Catacomb 3-D: The Descent

DOS 1991

Androman on the Moon

VCS 1984

Activision, Electronic Arts and Ubisoft published most of these games.

Parent group

Shooter

Child group

Doom

compare with these groups

Platforms

Linux		444
Windows		420
X360		101
MS-DOS		97
PS2		86
Xbox		80
PS3		76
Mac OS X		66
Wii		52
PS4		39
Mac OS Classic		37
BSD		34
PS		34
GameCube		26
Xbox One		24
iOS		23
Saturn		19
Arcade		18
BeOS		18
GBA		16
N64		15
Wii U		13
PSP		13
Amiga AGA		12
3DO		12
Nintendo DS		12
OS/2		11
3DS		11
Pandora		10
Dreamcast		9

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