It was popular in competitive Quake play, was included as an option in Quake II and the original Half-Life was the first game to ship with the standard WASD + m

It was popular in competitive Quake play, was included as an option in Quake II and the original Half-Life was the first game to ship with the standard WASD + mouse scheme that every game uses today. Here's a more in-depth article on the history of WASD: http://www.pcgamer.com/how-wasd-became-the-standard-pc-control-scheme/ http://www.pcgamer.com/how-wasd-became-the-standard-pc-contr...