The Alto was introduced in 1973. It was one of the first bit-slice machines, using the Texas Instruments 74181 bit-slice processor. Multiple 74181s were linked together to form a microcoded 16-bit processor. Bit-slice architecture is well-suited to multitasking, which is what the machine was designed to do. It had the first graphical user interface of any production computer- it would later form the basis of the X Window System, which is still in use today.
@DXSnake : oh, it had hackers. I played it on GEnie, and we guessed the dev admin password for the program, and edited the maze so we could go outside the map. Tey had a good sense of humor tho (thankfully).
That magnetic cartridges was obviously at one point "state of the art" and probably had no more than a few megabytes.. and today we have micro SD cards being made for sizes 1 Tera bytes.... I love you technology.
I used this computer at PARC Palo Alto research center in 1983 that was 2 years before Apples mac hit the market. it was windows GUI mouse drivin and link to a internal xerox internet ethernet. Xerox's marketing people did not see the future and fail to market it. they lost 100s of billions of dollars not forseeing the pc market. the were 10 years ahead. the let steven jobs access to the alto for the option to by 100000 shares in apple at 10 bucks . They are sorry now.
Meant to mention, I was also asked who wrote Maze. According to what I've read it started with Steve Colley, and then Howard Palmer and Greg Thompson joined in the effort at NASA. Greg brought it to MIT, and made it multi-player. Dave Lebling developed the multi-player server on a PDP-10 running ITS (Incompatible Time-sharing System).
Jim Bowery claims that his game, "Spasim," is the first 3D first-person shooter, since it was released in March 1974, on the PLATO System. It was also multi-player, accommodating up to 32 players. The two-player version of Maze was created in the summer of 1973. According to Greg Thompson, one of the people who worked on it, "Soon the idea of shooting each other was added," but he doesn't say exactly when. It was brought to MIT in Feb. 1974, and was made multi-player sometime after that.
I got a response from somebody asking about video footage of the original IMLAC version. I don't have any, and I don't know where any would be. You can look up the history of it under "The aMazing History of Maze".
This is a port. The original version was called "Maze," developed at NASA/Ames Research on a minicomputer called the IMLAC in 1973. It was just like this, a 3D first-person shooter. At first it was only 2-player. Then some students in the Dynamic Modeling Systems group at MIT made it multiplayer using IMLACs connected to a time-sharing system in 1974.
Very cool. A game like this must have been hard to believe at the time it came out-1976? Although you could say this is the first FPS, I consider DOOM to be the first real FPS. Both very breakthrough games.
I used to play this at PARC after hours in about 1983. It wasn't just 2 people, but might be 10 people from around the campus. It was captivating. And with your fingers and hands poised over the movement keys and the shoot key, after an hour or so the muscles in the hands were almost frozen. I remember having a hard time driving home with numbed hands. A lot of fun.
@DXSnakeEater Maze War is an old game. It could not even remotely compete with modern FPS titles. The only way you could call Maze War a better game is out of blind nostalgia.
@ReachForTheHalo So? Still an amazing game, at least Maze War doesn't have lag, whining little kids, hackers, and a lot of other things that we don't like these days.
@gamezonic Dude, shut up. All you Fratboys care about, is your freaking graphics, games having to be a first person shooter based off wars that happened years ago, and nothing else! The games of nowadays, at least almost all of them is terrible. I do NOT care if you agree or not!
@DXSnakeEater dude Doom 2 is better than Black ops, the deathmatch is much more fun. But come on this game could be recreated fast. Give me 1 good reason why its better.
@gamezonic Well in this there's no whiny little kids, hackers, or anything like that. And yeah, I agree that Doom 2 is better then Black Ops. Doom 2 is one of my most favorite games of all time.
Listen, im 14, and im not one of those annoying ass kids on Call of duty or shit, so will you guys be kind and just count me out of those annoying kids that you talk about? Thank you youtubers.
@qwertishman12345 Good to know that there are some people at your age that show some interest in history :) I have a game called Chasm:The Rift and its better than all Halo games combined lol.
he he im about to learn valve hammer editor and make a multiplayer mod where you run around as just a black model with a round one eyed head just as these ^^ i think im gonna call it MAZE-WARZ (there will also be only one gun that kills the enemy in one or two shots depending if you shoot the eyeball or not) 1 kill one point simple as that ^^
From this to Crysis in a timespan of just over 30 years? Next up in the upcoming 30 years: FPS's directly broadcasted to your eyes and brain. :O Now that's virtual reality.
Bomber, as a Mage, needs to stack up on INT and Spell Power. Those are important for his class. On the other hand, Killer should concentrate on Armor and STAM because he will be the Tank in the maze. When you get to the boss battle, you need to stand out of the black circles that appear on the ground. Also, the healer (you'll need one, so find one) needs to put all healing efforts on the Tank and cast cure-poison when the party is poisoned. The boss for this level drops a nice sword.
The great-grandaddy of modern shooters. Pretty cool if you ask me. But the ignorant, 13 year-old fucks who have no respect for history piss me off. How the hell you guys think you get shooters like Halo and Call of Duty? Jeez.
@BecomeSomeone I'm 14 and I'm sick of all my classmates who have no respect for the classics. I play Wolfenstein, Doom, etc all the time! I think they just care too much about the graphics
Yeah, the same happened to me when I was in high school. I used to play classic games like Wolf3D & DOOM. However, my old classmates showed no sign of respect towards these games and simply said the word, "Lame". *sigh*
@BecomeSomeone im 13 yr old and i seem 2 be the only one my age appreciates this lol. the others are too dumb to realise that the Havok graphics engine wasnt always there like god made it or something
@BecomeSomeone This was also the First networked game and the first game ever to be classed as a Massively Multiplayer game. So without things like this we wouldn't have any number of MMOs and shooters.
Technology really has come along way in the past 40 years.
@BecomeSomeone Ah you mean those 13 year olds ho think that Halo was the first FPS shooter? lol. A history leason like this sould be shown to these youngsters. One thing to note about these youngsters is that they tend to just play a game when it has ''good'' graphics, not the story, lousy litte junks. XD
Hmmm, makes me think of something cool, what if someone would port a Windows version of this game and make it a hit?
@BecomeSomeone Oh for gods sake! Everyone brands us all as retards. Some of us actually like to learn stuff like this! We're not all cursing angry aggressive mean butthurt idiots who get angry at others over a game. You know, some of us just aren't what you classify us as.
@BecomeSomeone Ya, I agree with that comment, Maze War may be like some old dinosaur. But still, young people need to respect history more. Man, I wouldn't want to play maze war, but I still think it's cool looking.
@BecomeSomeone Halo and Call of Duty are good games. Just because they were released recently doesn't mean that they are somehow terrible. Maze War invented the FPS genre, which is a great achievement in its own, but it just can't compare to modern shooters. Technology has advanced by a long shot since the release of Maze War, allowing for better graphics, more accurate mechanics, and many other things. Just because it's older does not make it better.
peaple will ya please stop sayin things like "From Maze War to Cod: MW2" cod is just an overated shootin game! jeez there will be better shotin games comin out in the future ya know!
Ugh, once again the ignorance of people stuns me. How the hell do you think you get shooters like Modern Warfare and Gears of War? Baby steps. We didn't just rocket people straight to the moon, we had to have tens of thousands of hours of testing, training, and developing. Try thinking a little bit before spouting off things you think are funny, but only serve to make you look like a dumbass.
@Mundilfari You know what the problem is... nowadays, any idiot can call itself "hacker" or ''computer wiz''. Back in the days, you could only find the smartest people in the internet, only the morons from AOL polluted the net with their insufferable stupidity and even then, you have to have some acceptable level of intelligence to go online usin AOL. This video shows the fundamentals of online gaming, inter-networking, how it all started, only and idiot would no see it's importance.
About this time we had an Atari console that worked great for alot less than what this dinasaur cost. The internet is what really made the computer take off and become affordable.
It may not be much for todays standards, but back then that was plenty. 2.5MB is a lot of software code. In school I had to write a program and the program was about 1500 lines of code, and that was about 10-15 KB. So 2.5 MB back then was plenty.
Well technically it still -is- a whole lot, it's just that people don't realize that the video they watch is a WHOLE FUCKING DAMN HUGE LOAD WITH SWEARING AND CAPS. :p
amazing how far fps games have come along...then again I don't know if I can say the same about the gamers who would have spelled bomber/killer as b0mxoR and xxki113rxx..lol
Its hard to actually call it "frame rate" since it isn't really 3D in the same sense that Battlezone or Doom were 3D. This game shares more with the old first person RPGs like Eye of the Beholder where you just sort of move through static pictures of a maze one step at a time. This is the first time I've seen this game though. I'm extremely impressed that someone created this so long ago.
Oh the obviously young noobs around here are funny.
1: This game shown here is a remake. It was originaly designed in 1973 by people working at NASA's Ames Research center and ran on Imlacs PDS-1 computers.
2: Frame rate had nothing to do with anything. Even in the 80's early 3D FPS's on home computers were no better and quite popular. This game was infact quite with the people who were able to play it, which wasn't many because of the limited types of platforms it ran on, not frame rate.
Holy shit that disc is comically large...
Fopenplop 4 days ago
Так было!))
TheSilentPhil 1 week ago
Look at the size of the DISK ! I remember using those on a Qantel and IBM s/34 !
qafmbr 1 week ago
Who thinks this game needs to be re-released on Steam, XBLA and PSN? Complete with achievements.
Buccura 2 weeks ago
That devices looks like a microwave!
Septaro 3 weeks ago
There's no aliasing.
Tala2n 3 weeks ago
Holy Crap! It went from Maze War to Battlefield 3!Look how the FPS has Changed!
drier123q 2 months ago
i bet it runs faster then my computer.
ReinZow 2 months ago
Whoa this is WAY to powerful for the Wii.
ilikepancakes555 2 months ago
wow look at those framerate funny because back then that framerate would be good
hunterslolvideos 2 months ago
Bether than black ops
kakio14 3 months ago 23
@kakio14
That's not a hard achievement
Presidentsmartass 2 weeks ago
The disc drive looks like a oven ._.
LakoonPlay 3 months ago
Will it run Crysis?
RoflMcCopterson 4 months ago 2
ETHERNET? Fucking witchcraft!
mrdaym 4 months ago 22
u suck grampa!
bubbasbuddy1 4 months ago
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such exciting narration
zander46 4 months ago
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zander46 4 months ago
but can it blend?
MrGhostphone 5 months ago 3
can you imagine if machinima commitators do a video of this game
sjk5000 6 months ago
Pizza's done! :D
jumonji123 6 months ago
HAHAHA THE DISC!!!!!!!!
imrandaredevil666 6 months ago
THIS IS A MASTERPIECE !
imrandaredevil666 6 months ago
first MMO ever apperently
ProTeabagger 7 months ago
The Alto was introduced in 1973. It was one of the first bit-slice machines, using the Texas Instruments 74181 bit-slice processor. Multiple 74181s were linked together to form a microcoded 16-bit processor. Bit-slice architecture is well-suited to multitasking, which is what the machine was designed to do. It had the first graphical user interface of any production computer- it would later form the basis of the X Window System, which is still in use today.
douro20 7 months ago
@DXSnake : oh, it had hackers. I played it on GEnie, and we guessed the dev admin password for the program, and edited the maze so we could go outside the map. Tey had a good sense of humor tho (thankfully).
mgabrysSF 7 months ago
could you imagine over clocking your Computer back then to play this .
VooDooAssassin2 8 months ago
Killer used hacks.
propriodaroma 9 months ago
That magnetic cartridges was obviously at one point "state of the art" and probably had no more than a few megabytes.. and today we have micro SD cards being made for sizes 1 Tera bytes.... I love you technology.
BlancoMexicanos 9 months ago
This is the first FPS ever
Crazyarmadillo15 9 months ago
That beast is huge!!!
79902625 9 months ago
Bomber. World's first camper.
betonmolenislol 9 months ago 3
I used this computer at PARC Palo Alto research center in 1983 that was 2 years before Apples mac hit the market. it was windows GUI mouse drivin and link to a internal xerox internet ethernet. Xerox's marketing people did not see the future and fail to market it. they lost 100s of billions of dollars not forseeing the pc market. the were 10 years ahead. the let steven jobs access to the alto for the option to by 100000 shares in apple at 10 bucks . They are sorry now.
enduro250x 9 months ago
ROFL @ the magnetic disc
ktxed 10 months ago
@ktxed Hard drives still use magnetic discs. THAT'S what's hilarious.
bob333336 9 months ago
@bob333336 No. That's actually sad.
ktxed 9 months ago
@ktxed xD True true. But eh, I got an SSD, so it's ALL GOOD. :P
bob333336 9 months ago
@bob333336 damn! :D
ktxed 9 months ago
This was the precursor to Koreans playing and calling Starcraft matches.
wildblur 10 months ago
THE HORROR OF BAD QUALITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lasdoce23 10 months ago
Can it play Crysis?
Razuki 10 months ago
Meant to mention, I was also asked who wrote Maze. According to what I've read it started with Steve Colley, and then Howard Palmer and Greg Thompson joined in the effort at NASA. Greg brought it to MIT, and made it multi-player. Dave Lebling developed the multi-player server on a PDP-10 running ITS (Incompatible Time-sharing System).
mmille10 10 months ago
Jim Bowery claims that his game, "Spasim," is the first 3D first-person shooter, since it was released in March 1974, on the PLATO System. It was also multi-player, accommodating up to 32 players. The two-player version of Maze was created in the summer of 1973. According to Greg Thompson, one of the people who worked on it, "Soon the idea of shooting each other was added," but he doesn't say exactly when. It was brought to MIT in Feb. 1974, and was made multi-player sometime after that.
mmille10 10 months ago
I got a response from somebody asking about video footage of the original IMLAC version. I don't have any, and I don't know where any would be. You can look up the history of it under "The aMazing History of Maze".
mmille10 10 months ago
This is a port. The original version was called "Maze," developed at NASA/Ames Research on a minicomputer called the IMLAC in 1973. It was just like this, a 3D first-person shooter. At first it was only 2-player. Then some students in the Dynamic Modeling Systems group at MIT made it multiplayer using IMLACs connected to a time-sharing system in 1974.
mmille10 10 months ago
3:18 Bomber tried to 360.... but he failed :(
poppingbboy808 11 months ago
"And here the magnetic disk is loaded that contains the software for the g- wait, my mistake, that's dinner. Make mine pepperoni, Killer."
DAJ01 11 months ago 3
id like to see the people who made this playing bad company 2 XD
RawrNinjaBurgers 1 year ago
I do not want to carry the case to that disc.
J0P0Productions 1 year ago
I'm so happy they upgraded computers.
sin20t 1 year ago
lmao looks like an oven
ranpo677 1 year ago
bomber is a camping n00b... lol Call of Duty: Throwback Edition
willking410 1 year ago 2
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willking410 1 year ago
i used to play maze wars in middle school, it was kick ass, the whole computer class played!!
xxsniiipexx 1 year ago
Very impressive.
TheCohagen 1 year ago
that disc is fucking huge
OmriSama 1 year ago
oh my god. putting in the magnetic disk looked like putting a cake in the oven.
thatsagoodboat 1 year ago
Very cool. A game like this must have been hard to believe at the time it came out-1976? Although you could say this is the first FPS, I consider DOOM to be the first real FPS. Both very breakthrough games.
JakeEwing5 1 year ago
i don't know why but all this old computer stuff is badass
fergieboy10 1 year ago
better than Medal of honor.
nirva88 1 year ago
This is like..the progenitor of all shooters.
I feel humbled.
phocjame 1 year ago
wo wo wo i think a nerd hacked my account !
shaemay1able 1 year ago
I used to play this at PARC after hours in about 1983. It wasn't just 2 people, but might be 10 people from around the campus. It was captivating. And with your fingers and hands poised over the movement keys and the shoot key, after an hour or so the muscles in the hands were almost frozen. I remember having a hard time driving home with numbed hands. A lot of fun.
shaemay1able 1 year ago
@shaemay1able Maybe you are one of the first no lifers?
gromislaw18 1 year ago
Any way I can play this game on my computer?
TheRetroZombie 1 year ago
Wow, I cant imagine 2 hardcore gamers playing this.
joshjooh 1 year ago
I would love to try these games, and see this consoles first hand... pretty awesome how technology just rise up like a rocket...
mztguitar 1 year ago
Maze War > Modern Warfare 2
DXSnakeEater 1 year ago 69
@DXSnakeEater Maze War is an old game. It could not even remotely compete with modern FPS titles. The only way you could call Maze War a better game is out of blind nostalgia.
ReachForTheHalo 9 months ago
@ReachForTheHalo So? Still an amazing game, at least Maze War doesn't have lag, whining little kids, hackers, and a lot of other things that we don't like these days.
DXSnakeEater 9 months ago
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@DXSnakeEater Hmm, good point.
ReachForTheHalo 9 months ago
@DXSnakeEater wtf no
gamezonic 8 months ago
@gamezonic wtf yes Fratboy.
DXSnakeEater 8 months ago
@DXSnakeEater no wtf
gamezonic 8 months ago
@gamezonic Dude, shut up. All you Fratboys care about, is your freaking graphics, games having to be a first person shooter based off wars that happened years ago, and nothing else! The games of nowadays, at least almost all of them is terrible. I do NOT care if you agree or not!
DXSnakeEater 8 months ago
@DXSnakeEater dude Doom 2 is better than Black ops, the deathmatch is much more fun. But come on this game could be recreated fast. Give me 1 good reason why its better.
gamezonic 8 months ago
@gamezonic Well in this there's no whiny little kids, hackers, or anything like that. And yeah, I agree that Doom 2 is better then Black Ops. Doom 2 is one of my most favorite games of all time.
DXSnakeEater 8 months ago
I had Maze War for the old compact Macintosh computers in the mid 1980's.
It's pretty much the same as the one for the Alto workstation.
Well except it had 4 different characters and came out in 1986.
They had another game called Super Maze War for Color Macs but it was not as fun as the earlier version in my opinion.
m9078jk3 1 year ago
Everybody troll this guy.
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mynameisjonas45 1 year ago
@mynameisjonas45 you do know that law enforcement is beginning to take bullying seriously right?
tropicallanterns 1 year ago
@tropicallanterns Oh, well maybe trolling will be a different story. I didn't tell you all to bully him, I said troll him.
mynameisjonas45 1 year ago
without this game many fps maigh suck but this is better than call of duty
ninotimecrisisfan 1 year ago
That is the weirdest looking Pizza oven ever.
baggedyman 1 year ago
team bomber
candlewhiskey 1 year ago
Listen, im 14, and im not one of those annoying ass kids on Call of duty or shit, so will you guys be kind and just count me out of those annoying kids that you talk about? Thank you youtubers.
qwertishman12345 1 year ago 7
@qwertishman12345 Good to know that there are some people at your age that show some interest in history :) I have a game called Chasm:The Rift and its better than all Halo games combined lol.
Thumps up pal : )
Marekusa 1 year ago 2
@qwertishman12345
Can you count me out of that group too?
QWERTYCommander 1 year ago
I agree do people think that awesome games such as COD just happend, no they started out like this. dont hate, appreciate
codynepia91 1 year ago
he he im about to learn valve hammer editor and make a multiplayer mod where you run around as just a black model with a round one eyed head just as these ^^ i think im gonna call it MAZE-WARZ (there will also be only one gun that kills the enemy in one or two shots depending if you shoot the eyeball or not) 1 kill one point simple as that ^^
zyriuz2 1 year ago
Amazing how far gaming has come in the years, simply amazing.
DarkShadowRage2 1 year ago
Imagine if we take a game like Crysis to the 70's and 80's and show the game to the gamers of that time, they would freak out.
This was all achieved in about 30 years, I can't wait to see what the next 30 years will bring to gaming.
halo10001 1 year ago
Woooow the magnetic disc has roughly the same size as modern laptop from today!! Awesome!
BerserkBE 1 year ago
5 years before the first mac. :o
psychoclown420 1 year ago
WUUUUUH
they shot each other
deba94 1 year ago 3
From this to Crysis in a timespan of just over 30 years? Next up in the upcoming 30 years: FPS's directly broadcasted to your eyes and brain. :O Now that's virtual reality.
TheLFAS 1 year ago
0:34 WTF?
lol Compact Disc
BranislavDJ 1 year ago
We need a remake of this game. Except with RPG's and flamethrowers.
deathward4 1 year ago
@deathward4 and ac-130s, nukes, and giant ass mega vehicles
but keep the eyeball
love the eye ball idea
123omgwtfbbqX 1 year ago
when was released this game? xerox alto was very astronish !
sfourne2 1 year ago
why is he talking like that?
16mmDJ 1 year ago
2:30
HughGRektion 1 year ago
This is like the great, great, great grandfather of Modern Warfare 2, lol
worldofbong 1 year ago
Don't you mean FPS in general? MW2 sucked, BC2 is gonna own its ass
Arbiterisl33t69 1 year ago
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FUCK MW2 OWN YOU MAMA ASS
abomansoor055 1 year ago
So we agree, fuck MW2! High-five!
Douche.
Arbiterisl33t69 1 year ago
They had network dungeon games in the 70s and I was wasting my time reading and fishing?!
kristell9 1 year ago 3
Bomber, as a Mage, needs to stack up on INT and Spell Power. Those are important for his class. On the other hand, Killer should concentrate on Armor and STAM because he will be the Tank in the maze. When you get to the boss battle, you need to stand out of the black circles that appear on the ground. Also, the healer (you'll need one, so find one) needs to put all healing efforts on the Tank and cast cure-poison when the party is poisoned. The boss for this level drops a nice sword.
steeltoe1978 2 years ago 4
Wait, are we playing the same game? I thought Bomber was a Warrior...in that case his HP would be +30 automatically...
J7822H 1 year ago
MY GAD THIS GAME MADE BEFOR IKNOW PC.S
abomansoor055 1 year ago
The great-grandaddy of modern shooters. Pretty cool if you ask me. But the ignorant, 13 year-old fucks who have no respect for history piss me off. How the hell you guys think you get shooters like Halo and Call of Duty? Jeez.
BecomeSomeone 2 years ago 80
@BecomeSomeone These kids are unnaware that in 10 years they will be calling their beloved games 'old as fucking shit'
deftalulz 1 year ago 15
@deftalulz kids didnt like this very much
gamezonic 8 months ago
@deftalulz indeed or it will be someone else and they will get pissed off...i hope! then they will know what it feels like
digioverlord 6 months ago
@BecomeSomeone I'm 14 and I'm sick of all my classmates who have no respect for the classics. I play Wolfenstein, Doom, etc all the time! I think they just care too much about the graphics
Marco007Marco007 1 year ago 4
@Marco007Marco007
Yeah, the same happened to me when I was in high school. I used to play classic games like Wolf3D & DOOM. However, my old classmates showed no sign of respect towards these games and simply said the word, "Lame". *sigh*
NerdyNarutard94 1 year ago
@BecomeSomeone im 13 yr old and i seem 2 be the only one my age appreciates this lol. the others are too dumb to realise that the Havok graphics engine wasnt always there like god made it or something
LulzAreGud 1 year ago
@BecomeSomeone Agreed
sparkey989 1 year ago
@BecomeSomeone This was also the First networked game and the first game ever to be classed as a Massively Multiplayer game. So without things like this we wouldn't have any number of MMOs and shooters.
Technology really has come along way in the past 40 years.
DrMattsuu 1 year ago
@BecomeSomeone Yeah! if this wasnt build then wulnd xbox or pc exist!!
031281670 1 year ago
@BecomeSomeone Ah you mean those 13 year olds ho think that Halo was the first FPS shooter? lol. A history leason like this sould be shown to these youngsters. One thing to note about these youngsters is that they tend to just play a game when it has ''good'' graphics, not the story, lousy litte junks. XD
Hmmm, makes me think of something cool, what if someone would port a Windows version of this game and make it a hit?
Marekusa 1 year ago
@BecomeSomeone Oh for gods sake! Everyone brands us all as retards. Some of us actually like to learn stuff like this! We're not all cursing angry aggressive mean butthurt idiots who get angry at others over a game. You know, some of us just aren't what you classify us as.
crazyjak56 1 year ago
@crazyjak56 Successful troll was successful
Iamnotimaginative 1 year ago
@BecomeSomeone people like you piss me off too.
GTAVC2 1 year ago
@BecomeSomeone I'm 13 and I'm making a list of them. :) that's uuuhh, first person shooters not 13 year olds who have no respect for history.
anyway, informative video. definetely better than the wikipedia stub. :S
InsaneEvils 11 months ago
@BecomeSomeone Ya, I agree with that comment, Maze War may be like some old dinosaur. But still, young people need to respect history more. Man, I wouldn't want to play maze war, but I still think it's cool looking.
PyroChef12 10 months ago
@BecomeSomeone Halo and Call of Duty are good games. Just because they were released recently doesn't mean that they are somehow terrible. Maze War invented the FPS genre, which is a great achievement in its own, but it just can't compare to modern shooters. Technology has advanced by a long shot since the release of Maze War, allowing for better graphics, more accurate mechanics, and many other things. Just because it's older does not make it better.
ReachForTheHalo 9 months ago
Wow, that's the future modern warfare 3 o_O
ChoclateSailor 2 years ago
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peaple will ya please stop sayin things like "From Maze War to Cod: MW2" cod is just an overated shootin game! jeez there will be better shotin games comin out in the future ya know!
digioverlord 2 years ago
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lmao what the fuck is that abomination
D4mnShadows 2 years ago
Ugh, once again the ignorance of people stuns me. How the hell do you think you get shooters like Modern Warfare and Gears of War? Baby steps. We didn't just rocket people straight to the moon, we had to have tens of thousands of hours of testing, training, and developing. Try thinking a little bit before spouting off things you think are funny, but only serve to make you look like a dumbass.
BecomeSomeone 2 years ago 2
what, you don't think I know this?
I was referring to the disk
besides the size of that disk makes me laugh and reminds me how video games have evolved what makes me seem like a dumb ass to you, makes me laugh.
whats the problem here?
D4mnShadows 2 years ago
i think its your mom u douche
kidicarus2008 1 year ago
oh nice, your mom jokes.
D4mnShadows 1 year ago
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that dist weighs like 20 pounds AHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
-disco sucks
KartKing4ever 2 years ago
From Maze War to Cod: MW2. not so diffrent aye,
Oxhorn1337 2 years ago
That was a disc and disc reader!
Looked like a bagel going into a toaster oven.
Andthatswhymacssuck 2 years ago
The first multiplayer game!!!
DmitRU2007 2 years ago
Geeze, the disc is like putting in a piece of crap Easy Bake cake
Viperr101 2 years ago
unsurprisingly the first first-person shooter was also multiplayer-based
nooblet911 2 years ago 6
im trying to track down a existing copy of this...
JaelenBurt96 2 years ago 2
Revolutionary. When does it come out? :)
Mundilfari 2 years ago 51
@Mundilfari You know what the problem is... nowadays, any idiot can call itself "hacker" or ''computer wiz''. Back in the days, you could only find the smartest people in the internet, only the morons from AOL polluted the net with their insufferable stupidity and even then, you have to have some acceptable level of intelligence to go online usin AOL. This video shows the fundamentals of online gaming, inter-networking, how it all started, only and idiot would no see it's importance.
hubergeek 1 year ago 6
@Mundilfari lol sarcasm
LulzAreGud 1 year ago
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@Mundilfari please for the love of god be joking
sparkey989 1 year ago
Lol Bomber and Killer.
killamonkey 2 years ago
About this time we had an Atari console that worked great for alot less than what this dinasaur cost. The internet is what really made the computer take off and become affordable.
journeyquest1 2 years ago
GRAPHICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the heck was with that disk? It was like a pizza!
This game was probably like a tunna fun to play back then :P
Safor002 2 years ago 7
lool, wow, ancient first person shoteer!!!
aure232 2 years ago 3
this shit is probably worth millions of dollars now
johnTRAN93 2 years ago
thats awesome
thuggofdablock 2 years ago
so fuckin cool
lmbb20 2 years ago 2
killer sucks
aphexjh 2 years ago
nice, the origin of the first person shooter.
Hispanic00b 2 years ago
omg that disk is f*cking huge!
Aqwert76 2 years ago 5
It may not be much for todays standards, but back then that was plenty. 2.5MB is a lot of software code. In school I had to write a program and the program was about 1500 lines of code, and that was about 10-15 KB. So 2.5 MB back then was plenty.
MrTech40 2 years ago 5
Well technically it still -is- a whole lot, it's just that people don't realize that the video they watch is a WHOLE FUCKING DAMN HUGE LOAD WITH SWEARING AND CAPS. :p
Lioyd1rving 2 years ago
Dude, if i could find one how much would it cost?
Also, I am in love with my xerox star, would this be better or just a good?
FreudRulz 2 years ago
i think theyre releasing this on Wii platform late 3Q '10
skat1140 2 years ago
is that an oven 0:29 LOL
ikickbabies4fun 2 years ago 6
And they stored whopping 2.5MB.
alizta 2 years ago
Awesome
icoo44 2 years ago
i still find that wolfenstein is the first ever REAL first person shooter tho
Hey john carmack i know you got nasa connections...*me thinks* you got the fps idea from there : ) ?!
Vleesball 2 years ago
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crysis 2 will smoke this one
AloneUnknown 2 years ago
Crysis is gay. You can tell by all the fags that are professing their love for it in these old computer threads.
This is 1337. If you own one of these olden machinces you are 1337.
You don't have this do you? Naw, your just a sitting there using mickyshit windaz box and trying to look cool on your daddies internet connection.
Have some respect. Stop spamming these awesome videos with cyrsis faggitude.
devildad1620 2 years ago
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wtf ?!! that was a joke dumbass,, or u were too stupid to get it...I do really respect these old stuff
and what the hell r u ?! anti evolution maniac..? it's 2009 mr 1337 ,get over it
or u can just keep playing Wolfenstein n doom 1 lol
n guess what ?! i use Linux , n i create simple programs, so im probably smarter than u :p
AloneUnknown 2 years ago
@AloneUnknown And I create complex programs using raw GUI, as well as video games. I'm smarter than you. :P
zeroslashj 1 year ago
amazing how far fps games have come along...then again I don't know if I can say the same about the gamers who would have spelled bomber/killer as b0mxoR and xxki113rxx..lol
ramik81 2 years ago 5
woah
Skutieos7 2 years ago 2
dude thats getto
GEISTCAKE 2 years ago
LOL what a big disk !!!!
gasb911 2 years ago 6
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The bigger the disk; the more fun it is to shove up your drive hole. lol
devildad1620 2 years ago
PLAYSTATION 4!
xDDD
chibigatts 2 years ago 2
what a couple of noobs
RedFox10375 2 years ago
Screw Halo! I rock it old school! Maze War FTW
croat88 2 years ago 8
Fascinating bit of history!
BABABABA5555 2 years ago
Wow it's jaw dropping how far we've come.
slayer0273 2 years ago
Its hard to actually call it "frame rate" since it isn't really 3D in the same sense that Battlezone or Doom were 3D. This game shares more with the old first person RPGs like Eye of the Beholder where you just sort of move through static pictures of a maze one step at a time. This is the first time I've seen this game though. I'm extremely impressed that someone created this so long ago.
CaptNKILL 2 years ago 5
Oh the obviously young noobs around here are funny.
1: This game shown here is a remake. It was originaly designed in 1973 by people working at NASA's Ames Research center and ran on Imlacs PDS-1 computers.
2: Frame rate had nothing to do with anything. Even in the 80's early 3D FPS's on home computers were no better and quite popular. This game was infact quite with the people who were able to play it, which wasn't many because of the limited types of platforms it ran on, not frame rate.
TheRealFlyingPenguin 2 years ago 8
lol disco was already dead... lets play lanparty!
kinmanyuen 2 years ago