Subject: Re: [stella] Doom for the Atari 2600 From: Nick S Bensema <nickb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 13:14:52 -0700 (MST) |
>Omar Thameen wrote: > >> My question is this. Am I the only person who views Escape from the >> Mindmaster as the mother of all Doom-type games? It was 3D, it had >> smooth scrolling (though you could only move a "segment" at a time), >> but I've never seen any mention of it in a "Doom" context. > >It doesn't predate Castle Wolfenstein, right? Wolf came out in 78? 79? The 2D version, maybe. But in 1978/79, there were probably a few Labyrinth-style games for the Apple II or PET machines. Nothing texture'mapped, or even involving full 360-degree rotation, could have been possible in thise days. -- Archives updated once/day at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsubscribing and other info at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/stella.html
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