~ and consoles

[ribbon13]

Does anyone know the very first game in which ~ (tilde) was a keyboard shortcut for opening the console?

 

[Colt45]

half life?

 

[ATLien247]

Doom? Or Quake maybe?

 

[illustri]

i remember it in quake 1

 

[clamum]

Quake 1 was when I first came across it.

 

[RudeBoie]

Maybe a game like Rise of the Triad supported it as well.

I'm sure it was in one of the 2D FPS games before Quake.

 

[Alkaline5]

Quake