n. A type of computer game in which the player assumes the perspective of a gunman.
1999
The media-savvy retired Lt.-Col. David Grossman made headlines with remarks about video games being "murder simulators" that train kids to kill, spawning a potential generation of mini-Rambos.
He focused particularly on … the much-maligned first-person shooter genre of PC games—Doom, Quake and their many descendants.
He focused particularly on … the much-maligned first-person shooter genre of PC games—Doom, Quake and their many descendants.
1999
Id Software, the Mesquite, Texas, game developer, has built a powerful reputation with its "first-person shooter" games. Since its 1991 founding, the company has released Wolfenstein 3-D, Doom, Doom II, Quake and Quake II.
1994 (earliest)
One of the newest action titles on the Sega CD system is Psygnosis' sci-fi title, Microcosm. In this semi-innovative game, a whole army of shrunk-down enemies has been injected into the bloodstream of an important executive, and you must stop their assassination attempt from the inside.
You control a small fighter armed with an assortment of guns in a bland, first-person shooter that takes place inside the executive's blood vessels and bones.
You control a small fighter armed with an assortment of guns in a bland, first-person shooter that takes place inside the executive's blood vessels and bones.
This phrase first appeared online, and there are a number of newsgroup citations from 1993 (the earliest being an April 9, 1993 post).