What was the first 3D game you ever played?

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Raduque

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I played wolf3d before I played doom, but I also played Flight Sim 5 before I played either of them... Wouldn't a flight sim be a 3d game? Heh.... the first 3d accelerated game for me, would probably be SiN in OpenGL when I got my ati rage128 card.... :D
 

oboeguy

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I'd say either Descent or System Shock, not sure which was first. Both were great!
 

CraigRT

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Jun 16, 2000
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Originally posted by: mugs
If we're considering Wolfenstein 3D to be 3D... that would be it.

Yeah, that would be my first too if that was the case..... Q2 for an actual openGL game
 

CheesePoofs

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I think it was a star wars dark forces demo we got with our really old mac. If I'm remebering this correctly, all I did was walk down a corridor; I was too small to know how to do anything else.
 

oddyager

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The arcade Battlezone, with those giant goggles you have to rest against as if you're being given an eye exam.
 

Train

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Wolfenstain 3D, cant remember if it was a 286 or 486

It was cool but not OMFG cool, Then not long after came DOOM, which was like, OMFG.

But then, thinking back further, I believe it was F/A-18 Fighter for the Amiga, a pretty decent combat flight sim for it's time.
 

Mickey Eye

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Xwing on my old sx33. Great game, to my shame I never completed the trench run. Stupid turrets.
 

Shadowknight

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The cowboy hologram game someone mentioned above. After that, Duke Nukem 3d. It wasn't true 3D, more like 2.5d. Monsters weren't 3d but the levels were sort of 3d.
 

0roo0roo

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wolf 3d on a friends dads pc:p yes its 3d, the levels are 3d. u just can't look up or down:p

first useful 3d accel, 3dfx monster 3d:) $300:(
 

Malak

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I think mine was Descent too. That game was tha bomb! I still have Descent 2 somewhere around here...
 

BSEagle1

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Mechwarrior 2! :D

Though Doom 3 was the first, technically, but I say Mech 2 because it didn't use sprites for enemies.
 

amdhunter

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Tomb Raider 1 on the PS1.

I remember being blown away by the graphics, until I saw the 3Dfx version. :shocked: