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Historic Time line for Doom and other notable first
person shooters
id Software's Castle Wolfenstein
started the first person shooter craze. From then on it only got better, Doom
(First Multiplayer FPS) to Doom2, Hexen, Quake and then the hundres of Quake
based FPS games, including our current favorite, Call of Duty.
For those of you who weren't around,
here's some history on the evolution of FPS games:
Feb 4,
1993 - DOOM alfa 2 released
Very early release, one map only, one
gun (shot gun) which didn't actually kill any of the
monsters.
 Apr 2, 1993 - DOOM alfa 4
released
May 22, 1993 - DOOM alfa 5 released
Oct 4, 1993 - DOOM
Press-Release BETA
Dec 10, 1993 - DOOM v0.99 Shareware
Release!
-- Minimum System Requirments: 386/33, 4mb Ram - VGA
graphics
Dec 16, 1993 - DOOM v1.1 Shareware Release
1994 - Heretic Released
Dec 10, 1994 - DOOM 2
released
-- System Requirments: 386/33 DX minimum; designed
for 486 or higher
DOOM
2 wasn't much technology better than Doom. The real improvement was in the
multiplayer options. The other real difference was in the level design, the
levels were more realistic, especially the city ones. There was also a new
weapon, the super shotgun. Plus 7 new Bad guys, Commander, Hell Knight,
Arachnotron, Pain Elemental, Revenant, Mancubus and the Arch Vile.
Apr 30, 1995 - Ultimate DOOM
released
This was a retail version of DOOM 1 (which was never
release in box form) with a bonus fourth episode.
Aug 1, 1995 - DOOM 2 was ported to
the Mac (like anyone cares)
Nov 1995 - Hexen
Released
Nov 16, 1995 - DOOM 2 released on the
Playstation console
Jan 1996 - Duke Nukem
3D
Feb 21, 1996 - DOOM released on
SNES
March 1996 - DOOM released on
3DO
May 1996 - Final Doom
released
A standalone product, containing two very hard 32 level
episodes
May 1996, id unleashed
QUAKE, the most highly anticipated game since DOOM. QUAKE marked the
next quantum leap in game technology and set a new standard in multi-player,
true three-dimensional, combat action games. In 1997, the furor over QUAKE
continued with the release of two QUAKE Mission Packs, QUAKE Mission Pack No. 1:
Scourge of Armagon and QUAKE Mission Pack No. 2: Dissolution of Eternity.
December 9, 1997, id Software and Activision rocked the
continent with the release of the mind-blowing, QUAKE II.
Continuing id’s legacy of bloody deathmatches, QUAKE II offered wicked
multi-player capabilities allowing more than 32 gamers to compete online.
Players maneuver through intense environmental hazards and annihilate evil
enemies. The game’s improved vivid sound effects intensify distant combat and
destruction, while the use of OpenGL 3-D accelerator cards deliver smoother,
16-bit graphics and real time 
lighting
effects. QUAKE II exceeded expectations worldwide and has been hailed by
countless reviewers and gamers alike, as the best 3-D shooter game of the year.
Dec 3, 1999 Quake III Arena
released
Dec 5, 2000 Quake III: Team
Arena release
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id Software Time Line
