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Decades later, John Romero looks back at the birth of the first-person shooter (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Shadywack@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

Game development wasn't nearly as corporatized back then. At that timeframe the discovery of what's possible was still being invented, let alone formulated. The sheer discovery back then of what you could do in gameplay was a brand new frontier.