The earliest 3D games I played were on my first computer, the Atari 800XL. "Rescue on Fractalus"[1] (1984) had very impressive 3D fractal[2] mountains at ~1-2 f

The earliest 3D games I played were on my first computer, the Atari 800XL. "Rescue on Fractalus"[1] (1984) had very impressive 3D fractal[2] mountains at ~1-2 fps. It's The graphics in "Ballblazer"[3] (1994) were a lot simpler, which was mainly sprites over a checkerboard perspective-rendered plane with no camera rotation. However, this was rendered fast with a split-screen for two players. LucasArts was "faking" the 3D in both cases, but they achieved very impressive results in both games given the extremely limited hardware (MOS 6502 at 1.79 MHz, 64k RAM). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kNxy6UIX_k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kNxy6UIX_k [2] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358553 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358553 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qri5xavBdh4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qri5xavBdh4 (first half only?)