I love first person shooters, I can’t get enough of them. There’s nothing like killing your fellow man and having him come back to life later and laughing about it. It must be the new Valhalla for the Viking inside all of us. We fight, we die, we feast on…. pop tarts!
When I look back and wonder what got me where I am, I can’t help but remember playing Wolfenstein 3D and loving every minute of it.
So it’s 1992, I’m in the third grade and went to my sister’s house to visit. Her husband brought up this game on his computer and stuck me in front of it. I was mesmerized for hours. Even at that tender age, there’s still nothing like killing some Nazi scum, to point you in the right direction.
The game is actually kind of comical when you think about it. The majority of the bad guys mumble something in German, run toward you and go for their weapon on sight. Then when you shoot them, they die very dramatically. After the digital dribble of your machine gun, there is a blast of pixelated of blood, a moan and a long, over exaggerated fall, like rejects from a dinner theater acting class. Just like in real life…
Then there were the “super soldiers” that had guns mounted in their chests, that only fired when they did the 1940’s version of the “running man.” I have to mention the rooms filled with chests of gold. Nothing like being on a mission to save the world from the Nazis and stopping to pick up a few thousand pounds of gold that you can’t spend, that are just there for points. Why?
It’s kind of funny thinking back to the game that started it all, back before we got tired of killing Nazis. What title kicked off your video game taste buds?
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14 responses so far ↓
1 Oscar // Apr 23, 2008 at 11:19 am
I played this game for PC around the same time - third or forth grade - and I have to say that it is what got me started PC gaming. I also remember screaming like a little school girl and nearly falling out of my chair the first time I came to a boss enemy. Having headphones on at the time was a new experience for me as well as it gave you a psuedo surround sound environment. Good times!
2 Solidus // Apr 23, 2008 at 11:33 am
i remember nothing..
3 Hoplite // Apr 23, 2008 at 11:47 am
Bought my soundblaster card before I bought my first proper PC. The PC was a humble 486SX25 with a ludicrously small amount of RAM. I installed the soundcard on the day I got the PC and prayed that it would not break. Back in those days installing expansion cards and drivers was like witchcraft.
The reason for it all? To play Wolf3D, happy simpler times.
4 Doro626 // Apr 23, 2008 at 11:47 am
Are ther any Wolves or wolf related creature in this game? I thought this was about about Werewolves.
5 Keith K // Apr 23, 2008 at 11:59 am
Wolfenstein has nothing to do with wolves..
Wolfenstein is actually a natural rock formation in Germany which Im told resembles a pile of bags.
Wolfenstein is also a not uncommon German last name. And the setting of the game is ‘Castle Wolfenstein’.. though I dont recall there actually being a character in the game by that name.
6 Doc // Apr 23, 2008 at 2:32 pm
wow
7 Lono // Apr 23, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Great game. loved me some wolfenstein in computer labs across my college campus…
8 Richard // Apr 23, 2008 at 4:11 pm
The best bit kicking adolf’s ass in the final level
9 Thunder // Apr 23, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Hey Hey now lets not forget Blake Stone or rise of the triad.
10 Riki // Apr 23, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I remember getting in trouble for loading this onto every computer in the school. It was worth it, because they couldn’t figure out how to get rid of it! They’d delete it, and it would just come back. Eventually they just gave up and told the kids not to play during class.
The game that really got me into the fps scene was Goldeneye. Wolfenstein was alright, doom was overrated, but Goldeneye was amazing.
However, the game that originally turned me into a gamer was the original Legend of Zelda.
11 instant // Apr 24, 2008 at 7:26 am
i was too young when wolfenstein came out…. but doom is what got me started.
12 Blades144 // Apr 24, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Geesh! I am old school! 3rd grade in 92′!? I think I was 22 then. I didn’t get my first PC until 96 and it was Doom that got me to buy that PC, I did go back and play Wolfenstein though, awesome stuff back then. Right after Doom though I got into the legacy we knnow as Duke Nukem, who has since, left the building.
13 dougb455 // Apr 24, 2008 at 9:28 pm
lol i was born in 92 but my first love was motocross for my ps1
14 Mizzl FashizzL // Apr 25, 2008 at 6:26 am
The Atari 2600 port of Pole Position got me hooked on videogames. Then came Super Mario Bros on the NES. Then came Super Mario World on the SNES and then I got hooked on PC games by Command & Conquer and Lands of Lore. God, I’m such a nerd.
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