Duke Nukem 3D was THE FPS game that broke the "Doom clone" curse for the category (Build engine was a bit more advanced). Released between Doom and Quake on April '96. Maybe it wasn't your time, but huge, huge miss.

I'll never forget getting Sound Blaster speakers for the first time ever back in 91/92. It blew my mind while playing WOLF 3D. I was 7 back then. Great memories.

I still love Doom, Heretic, Quake, and Quake II

Doom II, Heretic, and Rise of the Triad all in the span of three months. Fall 1994, what a time to be alive.

You forgot the ultimate vertigo-inducing FPS's: Descent I & II

It's less of a miss than e.g. Duke Nukem, but Bungie's Marathon was incredibly innovative in a lot of ways (including multiplayer modes) and set the stage for the entire Halo franchise.

Retro FPS is pure love!

The omission of Duke 3D is puzzling...

Duke Nukem 3d was a huge miss. 2 console ones I remember playing were Disruptor on PS1 and Zero Tolerance for Sega Genesis.

5:50. Hexen. First Person Puncher.

How can you not include Duke Nukem 3D???

Terminator future shock released 12.31.1995. maybe the first FPS with 3D character models/objects. So quite important to the history of 3D FPS

Back in a time where you could carry up to 30 weapons, usable items, jump, medkits, large colorful landscapes, fast and frantic gameplay, hidden secrets and play via LAN parties and couch coop with a buddy. Now it's brown n bloom, street grey, regenable health, checkpoints every 30 seconds, auto saving and only being able to carry two weapons. Sad how much times have changed.

Outta these, the ones i played most were: Doom 2, Hexen, Quake, and Duke Nukem 3D. WAIT!Wheres Duke?

duke nukem the king of 90s shooters came out in 1996 why isnt he here? also bad toys, and some game with haunted houses

I was surprised not to see "Blood", but I have to give you kudos for remembering Witchhaven (one of the best in my opinion) and Strife. Both excellent FPS of their time. Actually, I just remembered that "Blood" came out in 1997, so I guess that omission is understandable.

Quake 1 is still the best game I have ever played! So much atmosphere!

Some games that I forgot to include in this video are The Terminator: Rampage (1993), Ken's Labyrinth (1993), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1993), Nitemare 3D (1994) and Bad Toys 3D (1995). There are obviously several games missing for 1996.

The golden age of first person shooters ... for real men.

Shadow warrior???

would still rather play these than the games of today

Yeah buddy Duke Nukem!! :O surprised that one is missing :S

Agreed with the consensus, Duke Nukem 3D was a BIG miss in this video... That clearly was a FPS game like no other. Also, I think this might be another FPS from that era, Alien Trilogy (which I think was released on the PlayStation 1), I think that was a 1995 game.

Order: 1) "Wolfenstein 3D" (Apogee/iD Software, 1992) 2) "Spear of Destiny" (Apogee/iD Software, 1992) 3) "Blake Stone" (Apogee/JAM Productions, 1993) 4) "Doom" (iD Software, 1993) 5) "Corridor 7: Alien Invasion" (1994) 6) "Cyclones" (1994) 7) "Depth Dwellers" (1994) 8) "Doom II" (iD Software, 1994) 9) "Heretic" (iD Software, 1994) 10) "Rise of the Triad" (Apogee, 1994) 11) "Star Wars: Dark Forces" (LucasArts, 1995) 12) "Hexen" (iD Software, 1995) 13) "In Pursuit of Greed" (1995) 14) "Nerves of Steel" (1995) 15) "Witchaven" (1995) 16) "Final Doom" (iD Software, 1996) 17) "PowerSlave" (1996) 18) "Quake" (iD Software, 1996) 19) "Skynet" (1996) 20) "Strife" (1996)

Terminator: Future Shock or Skynet totally got me. It was so revolutionary game in many ways. Its sad lots of people forgot this games. Everybody remembers Doom, Duke, Blood, but Terminator is little bit forgotten today.

Doom has aged so well.

thank you so very much for the trip back to my childhood. very nice. underrated video.

I laughed when I saw Depth Dwellers on the list.

These games changed my life ❤️❤️❤️

Great video !

Dark Forces was awesome! I remember that was the game I was jealous of when I had Amiga 1200 and my neighbour bought a PC.

Ah so many good games in this video really tug at the nostalgia strings.

Good thing you included Quake. That was one of my favorite FPS games from that era.

I love these old straight forward box style worlds

I remember that, at the time, you couldn't turn around without finding a new of these games. AND YOU'D PLAY THEM LIKE THEY WERE CRACK.

Pure simple fun great vid

Operation: Body Count, released in 94 was also one that could've made this list. My brother and I (now in our mid 30s) had fond memories of playing most of these FPS games growing up. Dark Forces was so awesome at the time...we were blown away.

strike... i was looking this game for over 15 years, i could not remmember his name!!! thanks you very much

in "In pursuit of Greed" the music playing is a very similar song of what you get in Crusader: No Regret (song is called "Ninth Crusade" by Andrew Sega, aka "Necros")

Great video. Thanks

I had a floppy disk copy of Wolfenstein back in 1993. My PC didn't have stereo speakers, so the game had no music and generic sound effects. My PC wasn't even capable of connecting to the Internet. Damn, we've come a long way in 25 years.

I owned a lot of these when I was a kid! Very cool to see them again!👍

Blake Stone owned hard

I think Disruptor (1996) is really worth mentioning.

Blake Stone is one of my favorites, good to see it on here.

Luv those times when Doom came out. I was 11 years old and we played it a lot with friends. Duke Nukem 3D was jackpot.

Fun fact: System Shock 1 came out a mere 1 year after DOOM and was fully 3D.

Obviously, Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein 3D had by far the best floor-to-wall and environment-to-enemy contrast, providing the cleanest graphics for best-possible orientation. All the other games would have achieved that only at much higher resolutions, like 640x400. Watching them at low-res, I get lost or dizzy all the time.

Catacomb Abyss (1992).

Mostly the list of games in the videos is similar. You can always find the big and famous titles. I was happy to find games like: Pursuit of Greed, Depth Dwellers or Neves of Steel. well done.

I want them all as Redux versions like the new Duke 3d ,Shadow Warrior ,Blood and Brutal Doom. replaying Heretic and Hexen1 at the moment with the Doomsday Engine. I can highly recommend it. Alien Trilogy as Redux would be nice too. Damn i love em all those games. my all time fav games

So many unique FPS shooters back in the day..

Rise of the Triad was so great

It's just amazing to see what game developers could do on the hardware at the time!

Great overview, I miss shadow warrior.

Gamma brightness in the video option menue was extremely important for the doom franchise. Having this option turned too high will dramatically affect the game graphics detail. Playing in a dark room with brightness and gamma turned downed in the game; will bring out the best graphic detail. In this video the brightness was turned up way to high giving it a cartoon feel instead of a realistic feel.

OMG! This was-is perfect :)

Where is Alien Trilogy? Its released in 1996.

Quake... man i miss the days of quakeworld and such.

Anyone remember playing these when they were new?

Should have been called Final Doom: Nothing Final About It

Terranova (1995), squad based FPS, before its time

Heretic and hexen was my favorite games ♥️

so many on the list i don't even know. good work. i miss shadow warrior, and a games name started with S. i don't recall the name. System shock? yeah i think it was this. and descent freespace was also mid 1990s shooter.

Great video , All those is for Mac to ? some of them are port to Amiga to.

thx 4 the memories

I remember the disappointment my 386 DX 2 66 couldn't handle some these games as a child. Man what a time to be alive

I only have the dooms but I wish I had all these games. They are the reason why I love video games and also how video games became

And doom beats all. Honestly 26 years on and its 3D engine still kicks ass!

Jeez, after all these years, Wolfenstein 3D still makes my heart pump... Great game, for sure. But damn if the controls arent awful. You can never see where those nazis are coming from! lol.

Idk, games that use sprites instead of 3D models for enemies creep me out. And the Doom guy’s face used to scare me as a kid whenever he would get all bloody from low health.

Dark Forces was the first FPS to give me a slight case of vertigo and it just felt weird seeing and hearing the Star Wars universe turned a corridor shooter with a synthesized score. I wish I could better explain how I both wanted to play the game but also how bizarre it made me feel playing it.

I like how he includes capstone trash games but not Duke 3d shadow warrior or blood

Chex Quest, ShadowCaster, CyberMage, Magic Carpet & Descent. I could see how you overlooked Duke Nukem 3D, because the Atomic Edition came out at the end of 1996. In fact, I think I personally got it in 1997. I always wait for everyone else to suffer through the patches.

Where's Descent (1995), Duke Nukem 3D (1996), System Shock (1994), and Marathon (1994) ? those are all games that were pretty big back in the day. I don't think witchaven was big back then, but im glad you included that. Definately deserves more recognition.

The thing creepy about these games is THE CHARACTERS ALWAYS FACE YOU!

Very nice little desk reference. I love Skynet, but when I played it, it was called Terminator Future Shock.

Those Wolfendoom versions are the best way to control the classic Wolfenstein games.

you mentioned realms of the haunting but didnt put it in your list! Up there in my greatest games of all time list - compare it to the others from 1996 in your list for storytelling, depth and atmosphere. I just checked and it came out on the 31st December 1996....so it counts :P

Why did you turned off the music for Hexen?

Heretic and Hexen really knew how to put the High Fantasy into First Person Shooter. It was like playing ad Conan LARPing as The Terminator.

Rise of the Triad was a very good first person shooter. So was Duke Nukem. Warcraft II and Command & Conquer were amazing. Doom 2 of course. I think I played those 5 games more than any others in the 1990s. Loads of fun. Heretic, Hexen, Quake. Played those too. The old games were the best.

Witchaven

very nice vid to watch! but no Duke and no Terminator Rampage? How could you?

MEIN LEBEN!

We dont have games like that now...

When games had a soul.

The jump in graphics and level design in doom is just wow.I see why gamers still talk about it to this day.

My favourite fps from that era were bungie games. I only had a mac as a kid. The marathon series was the best, precursor to halo for sure. But the first fps I fell in love with was pathways into darkness also by bungie.

The golden age of the FPS!

1990 fps are pretty scarier than todays fps games

You missed out duke nukem 3d, marathon, and blood

I'm playing Quake II these days. It's still nice.

Id Sowtware guys were just dropping new revelation bombs with W, D1\2, those Q were like frigging spaceships compared to competitors only Duke cold somehow stand near D1.

I just got Wolfenstein 3D in VR and it's awesome!

the first blood is amazing.too.

I'm surprised to not see System shock on here! Came out right after DOOM . Could actually look around, jump, and crouch. You even had to hack doors and terminals to get to certain places. The cyberspace sections are weird but fun.

And here i am in 2019 playing Firewall and Farpoint with my PSVR-headset.. We've came a long way..

Cool

4:50 when the old fps hand looks more realistic than Call of Duty on high graphics