It might not have been the original first-person shooter – that honour went to id Software’s previous release Wolfenstein 3D – but it was Doom that changed the world.
When we first saw Doom we were completely blown away. Join us as we countdown the top 10 video games from the 90s (and another eight that just missed the cut but we couldn’t ignore – call us greedy, we don’t care). Some of the games released in this decade changed the landscape forever, as first-person shooters were unleashed and developers finally got to take their creations into the third dimension. If the 80s were the birthing pool for huge franchises and some of the best-loved classic arcade titles, the 90s was the time games got serious.
