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> the "first person" thing was just an adjective added to the base genre, "shooter". To be fair, calling them first person shooters wasn't really a thing until
by boomlinde 10y ago
> the "first person" thing was just an adjective added to the base genre, "shooter".
To be fair, calling them first person shooters wasn't really a thing until a couple of years after the release of Doom. By the time it became the dominant term I think this type of game had already diverged far enough from your concept of a first-person SHMUP that I don't think that your theory on the origin of the term is accurate. Genre taxonomy can't easily be reduced to a simple analysis of the particular words used.
- dspillett 10y ago> To be fair, calling them first person shooters wasn't really a thing until a couple of years after the release of Doom. In fact up until that point they were generally referred to as "doom style" games or similar (because while Doom certainly wasn't the first, not even the first out of iD, it was the first that really made it big and caught the general public's consciousness).
- int_19h 10y agoIt was "Doom clones": http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/File:Doom_clone_vs_first_person_shooter.png http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/File:Doom_clone_vs_first_person_s... And real-time strategies were "C&C clones".