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- Shooting sports go back hundreds of yearsWashingtonPost.com: The History of Shooting Sports (1995)
- Can feature first-person perspective
- First FPS games debut in 1974TechRepublic: Geek TRivia: First shots fired (May 25, 2005)
- Early game Spasim developed and debuted at the University of IllinoisTechRepublic: Geek TRivia: First shots fired (May 25, 2005)
- Maze Wars developed by NASA and still available on the Palm OSTechRepublic: Geek TRivia: First shots fired (May 25, 2005)
- Early FPS games featured pseudo-3D environmentTechRepublic: Geek TRivia: First shots fired (May 25, 2005)
- Popularized by early adopters Wolfenstein 3D and DoomTechRepublic: Geek TRivia: First shots fired (May 25, 2005)
- FPS games among the most popular games on the marketTechRepublic: Geek TRivia: First shots fired (May 25, 2005)
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Shooting games are games in which the player fires a weapon at a target. Many shooting games utilize the role of first-person shooter (FPS), where the player isn't represented by a figure on the screen. Rather, the screen represents what the player's character sees within the game. There are many free online shooting games as well as more advanced games designed for consoles as well as the online MMORPG communities.
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Background
Shooting games draw their background from shooting sports, which go back for centuries. Shooting clubs date back to the 13th and 14th centuries in German. In the U.S. the first shooting games were rifle competitions called "turkey shoots" that took place in the early 1800s.WashingtonPost.com: The History of Shooting Sports (1995) The first FPS games had their debut in 1974 Maze War and Spasim both had their debut that year,but because documentation is slacking, it isn't certain which one actually came first.TechRepublic: Geek TRivia: First shots fired (May 25, 2005) -
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