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| | Sinclair User 25 - Software Scene |
 | | The game can be made more difficult but the initial playing level is sufficient for beginners. | | | Other games on the cassette include a 3D version of Noughts and Crosses, two invader-type programs, a version of Conway's Game of Life and Snakebite, in which you have to avoid a poisonous reptile which wants to cut short your life. | | | It is incredible that anyone with a sense of what the market expects should produce another maze game in which you move round collecting treasure and gaining points. |
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http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/025/softwre.htm
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| | 3D Monster Maze |
| | Rendered using low-resolution character block "graphics", it has a remarkable place in the history of computer/video games, being the first 3D game for a home computer. | | | When the game ends, the player can either "appeal" or continue playing again in the last maze. | | | This is augmented by several tens of BASIC lines for less critical tasks, such as the initial greetings and the game legend animation. |
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http://3d-monster-maze.wikix.ipupdater.com
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| | Lee's Peek n Poke |
| | Maze games on the DTV don’t seem to suit it though. | | | The game started (you could hear the machine going into FAST mode and it built the maze) and that was it, you were alone. | | | The game however is nice to play again with something players might enjoy. |
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http://peeknpoke.gazaxian.com
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| | In The 80s - Vintage Computer Games of the Eighties |
| | An astounding furious two-player first-person 3D game with a simple premise: Get the ball and shoot it into your opponents goal. | | | The game itself was pretty simple, but if you beat the game you got to go to a room with a large amount of components to make your own Rube Goldberg-esque machines. | | | Quite simple, used to scare us to death and probably can be called "the grandfather of 3d games". |
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http://www.inthe80s.com/compgame.shtml
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| | Preview - Neverwinter Nights // PC /// Eurogamer |
| | Also, for the first time on the PC, a player can become the Dungeon Master, as one would on a pen and paper game, and control NPCs and monsters during a multiplayer game over a LAN or the Internet. | | | Neverwinter Nights also marks a return to the Forgotten Realms setting, although this time the game will utilise the Omen graphics engine, which is also being used in another of Bioware's current projects - the incredible looking third person action game, MDK2. | | | It may have brought international recognition to the style of game, but the award for the first one must go to - pencils ready? |
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http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=419
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| | [No title] |
| | The game is actually very similar to the game which featured on BBC Television's "The Adventure Game" at some point (the one involving the DOGRAN, which you had to guide through a maze to get something and bring it back to you....), although I think that was running on a BEEB rather than a Speccy. | | | Although I've never played it, numerous people have commented upon this game's similarity to 3D Monster Maze on the ZX-81. | | | THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE 3D MONSTER CHASE PUBLISHER Romik AUTHOR Unknown YEAR 1983 CATEGORY Arcade Adventure DESCRIPTION One of the first full colour 3D maze games to be available. |
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http://www.cclassic.szu.pl/files/ZxSpectrum/Cheats/GAMEDBS/0/3DMONSCH.TXT
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| | Evolution of FPS Renderers [Archive] - Beyond3D Forum |
| | How about the star wars game that was basicly 3d back on the apple 2g. | | | You could look up and down, jump, you had diagonal walls, fog, some level of perspective correction, some 3D objects etc. The technology was so advanced for this time that the real, immersive 3D environment got countless players (me included!) completely hooked to the game. | | | Technically its not a shooter because you don't have a gun (you have to avoid the T Rex) but still the game mechanic is basically the same. |
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http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-13625.html
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| | GameSpot:Video Games PC Xbox 360 PS3 Revolution PSP DS PS2 PlayStation 2 GameCube GBA PlayStation 3 |
| | Expect to pay a bit extra for this card, however, as the price tag is a bit higher than the rest, and that doesn't include a graphics card that you already have to have in your system. | | | There is no question that this card, along with the Orchid Righteous 3D, is absolutely the best 3-D game card on the market today. | | | MechWarrior 2, another title ported specifically to this chipset, played better than on any other non 3Dfx board. |
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http://www.gamespot.com/features/3d/monster.html
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| | BBC - h2g2 - Computer Games - First-Person Shooters |
| | Not that this was an issue, as Quake was not only the first (successful) 'true' 3D game, but it was also the first to include purpose-built multi-player levels. | | | Common variations on the theme include squad-based games - where you command a group of soldiers, and role-playing games — which tend to have a much deeper plot and rely a lot less on running around and blowing stuff up. | | | Although there were very basic editing programs available for Wolfenstien 3D, modding really exploded when Doom came out. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3539090
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| | Legends of Valour |
| | Unfortunately when the game arrived I realized that to get any acceptable kind of performance out of it on my coughing and spluttering A500, I was going to have to play with the smallest display size, but that seemed okay in exchange for full, real-time 3d texture-mapped gameplay. | | | I'd recently played Ultima Underworld on a friend's PC, and was very happy when It looked like us Amiga users were going to get a game that made that look like 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81. | | | Unfortunately, the game failed to live up to its promise. |
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http://www.angusm.demon.co.uk/AGDB/DBA1/LoVal.html
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| | Jeff Braine |
| | 3D Graphics is a definate NO There's already too many 3D games out there that don't expand on the format enough - a 3D Sabre Wulf wouldn't work very well at all - at least not Tomb Raider/Doom style. | | | Do you plan to continue developing classic games or was Sabre Wulf PC your last game? | | | How long have you been remaking classic Spectrum games? |
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http://zxplanet.emuunlim.com/jeff-braine.htm
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| | Computing.Net - First 3d game on PC |
| | I just want to know which is the first ever 3D game that was made for the PC. | | | Subject: First 3d game on PC CPU/Ram: 3.06/1GB | | | Subject: First 3d game on PC Original Message |
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http://www.computing.net/gaming/wwwboard/forum/4133.html
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| | AtariAge Forums -> Atari 2600 Skeleton Released |
| | From: Austin, TX Eric Ball has released a new Atari 2600 3D maze game that you can download and try, titled Skeleton. | | | Yes, this is another game that can scare the pants off you (like Haunted House). |
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http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=13518
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| | Re: MSX 3D games |
| | Re: MSX 3D games Ricardo Bittencourt Vidigal Leitao | | | Re: MSX 3D games Marco Antonio Simon dal Poz | | | Any more 3D games > > I've never heard of? |
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http://www.mail-archive.com/msx@stack.nl/msg00471.html
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| | BB Game remakes - BlitzCoder |
| | You have to have the original game to use an emulator - you don't with a remake. | | | Well, the only thing I disliked 'bout Escape is that it's stuck to 640x480, but at least it looks a HELL lot better with 4x Anti-alising on... | | | I don't personally think it affected the game very much at all. |
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http://www.blitzcoder.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001976.html
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| | Requiem for a Z80 - Topic Ars OpenForum |
| | Software Farm produced some fabulous hi-res games for the '81 that actually managed to squeeze 256x192 resolution out of the black cheesewedge. | | | - a 3D space exploration and adventure game where you started in a 10x10x10 grid of galaxies, then zoomed in to a 10x10x10 grid of stars, then zoomed in to a 10x10 grid of planets (unfinished, for obvious reasons) | | | Remember 3D Monster Maze - The Quake of its time? |
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http://episteme.arstechnica.com/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=48409524&m=5950910035
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| | Goldfrapp Message Board - what pre 1985 video game character are you |
| | The T-rex from the ZX81 version of 3D monster maze (the tag 3D is quiet funny when you see how far computer games have come.) I actually jumped out of my skin when it first go me - all 12 pixels!!! | | | Heard a great story the other day about a new computer game they tested out. | | | Alison-'i try not to delve to deeply into it but i have seen some of the mucky stuff on the message boards, but as long as there having fun..i dont mind the pervy ones that much-its the wordy, intense ones i dont like' |
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http://www.goldfrapp.co.uk/msgboard/printthread.php?s=d331dcd6f85c0c14317ecd33bfbbc95b&threadid=2532
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| | BBC - h2g2 - The Wonderful Computers of Clive Sinclair |
| | A simple labyrinth is generated, and the player has to find their way out, all the while being stalked by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. | | | A quick play of this game on an emulator is recommended to all fans of Doom, Quake, Unreal, Half Life and all the other FPSs which are now so popular, as it really is the literal grandaddy of them all. | | | Most importantly, from the point of view of video game history, the ZX81 was the computer which hosted the world's first ever 3D game on a home computer - JK Greye's 3D Monster Maze. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A821648
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| | The May 2005 Episode of Retrogaming Radio - MonroeWorld.com Forums |
| | The clue was "southpaw" and that was suppose to tell you where to start and in what directions to go in. | | | I was in a room that was a weird maze and the only way to get past it was to know where the starting location was and then go around the bases (like in baseball). |
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http://www.monroeworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1606&page=3
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| | Remake Culture |
| | Witness the nightmare of modern game development, where if a game is not true 3D, with truecolour, gouraud-shaded, dynamically-lit polygons, and coated in an inch thick layer of trademarks, copyrights and End-User Licence Agreements, it will not get written. | | | In the modern world, games are commissioned by the people who sell them, not by the people who write them. | | | Given this, it's not surprising that most remakes come from old Speccy users. |
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| | List of computer and video games - RecipeFacts |
| | List of 3D computer and video games ported as non-3D games | | | List of best selling computer and video games |
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http://www.recipeland.com/encyclopaedia/index.php/List_of_computer_and_video_games_by_name
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| | Sinclair User 8 - Spectrum Software |
| | The maze is generated randomly at the beginning of each game. | | | The game was written by the author of the J K Greye 3D Monster Maze and is one of the best and most original games we have seen for the Spectrum so far. | | | To do that you must also keep out of the jaws of the monsters. |
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http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/008/ssoftwre.htm
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| | Rosy Puck N Monster 3D |
| | Actronics seemed to be the distributer for these 3D games in Germany. | | | Rosy also made a 4th VFD game called Space King (the rarest of the Rosy games). | | | Pac Man clone, screen scrolls as you play the game. |
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http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Rosy/PuckNMonster.htm
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| | Gmane -- Mail To News And Back Again |
| | Does this mean the guy who wrote 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81 can patient 3d first person games? | | | I would not fear them, I use a cut down version (found that just switching some stencil stats and the winding order worked fine) so am I in trouble. |
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| | Meet Rosemeyer ... |
| | Can't remember where or when I found it but it was probably after going to www.emuunlim.com looking for a spectrum emulator to play Bubble Bobble, only to find I could play the real thing! | | | (3D monster maze!) Spent way too long in the arcades every summer in South Shields. |
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| | Pac-Dude |
| | The game play is virtually identical to the original arcade game, although navigation is slightly different when you go around corners. | | | Brian O'Neill later went on to write Pac-Dude 3D: Monster Maze, a horizontal and vertical scrolling Pacman game based on the arcade game Pac-Mania. | | | It went beyond the original arcade game, and borrowed the technique from Ms. |
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| | ZX81 Welcome Back |
| | I hope the game reawakens the early enthusiasm we had as youngsters for these very basic but distinctive games at the start of the home computing era. | | | The game had ranked in my top five ZX81 games as a boy, along with MAZOGS, GULP2, 3D Defender and 3D Monster Maze. | | | Fungaloids - ZX81 Gaming for PC Inspired by the remakes.org 2003 competition, I decided to rewrite the ZX81 classic Fungaloids by Michael Orwin for PC without needing an emulator. |
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http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mart03/zx81fungaloids.htm
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| | ZX81 Games |
| | Arguably the original first-person survival horror game that spawned any 3D game since, eg. | | | Bonus feature: this game came with a maze construction kit enabling you to create your own levels. | | | Despite having no sound and crap graphics the playability and lastability were more than adequate for solid gold gameplay. |
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http://www.themonkeysbrain.karoo.net/ZX81Games.htm
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| | ZX81 Chart |
| | Galaxians is the big winner shooting up to a clear fourth place. | | | 1K Chess just hangs on to second place, and 3D Monster Maze recieves a shock vote of 1! |
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http://www.honneamise.u-net.com/zx81/zx81cht.html
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| | PC PLONKER - Reviews |
| | Black and white so-called graphics (actually large black squares), no sound (subtitles warn you of the monster’s approach), infinitely repetitive and simple gameplay. | | | Kirk and Spock had a few run-ins with the prehistoric monster from this fossil of a game.... | | | THEREFORE: do not let the monster reach you. |
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http://www.planet-zhadum.com/pl_rprev.html
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| | The BITS Online Geek Fest! |
| | My Mom knitted me a jumper (MANY years ago) which featured the logo's from my fave Speccy game companies - see photo. | | | The fact that I *still* spend quality time playing the classics like Space Invaders, Asteroids, Rastan Saga, Out Run etc. on MAME. | | | I still think 'Doom' is a rip-off of '3D Monster Maze' on the ZX81! |
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| | CRASH 5 - New Generation |
| | Soon after this Sperry Gyroscope closed down in Bristol and rather than move to Bracknell Malcolm took voluntary redundancy and concentrated on computer games. | | | Malcolm designed his first game in 3D, really just to see what his ZX 81 could do. | | | From the outset New Generation and Malcolm Evans have become synonymous with 3D graphics, of which his second game, Escape, is a famed example. |
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http://www.crashonline.org.uk/05/newgen.htm
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| | This stops games with only one vote from going straight to the top. | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The latest version of this chart should be available at: http://www.honneamise.u-net.com/zx81/zx81cht.txt Comment: 3D Defender and Flight Simulation are the big risers this time around. | | | Mazogs just managas to stave off a stiff challenge from 3D Monster Maze to hang on to the top spot. |
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http://www.honneamise.u-net.com/zx81/zx81cht.txt
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| | Rage3D Discussion Area - View Single Post - Who is John Carmack? |
| | yea, I played 3D Pacman on my 3x86 w/ a monocrhome graphics card lol. | | | Just ought to say, that JC didn't event the 3D gaming scene. | | | I seem to remember 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81 way before JC came on the scene. |
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http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost.php?s=838a8bfed74cae8717541a723dc4e81e&p=1331279800&postcount=35
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| | ZX81 THE ARCHIVE |
| | I can remember coping a hand written program from some one at school and looking forward to getting home to program it in. | | | When the great games like 3d Monster Maze and ZX Galaxians came out it moved to another level. | | | Included on this site are images of some 1000 zx81 programs stored in "p" files. |
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| | ZX81 support? 3d monster maze.... - Emuboards |
| | Wow! I can't wait to playing the all-time classic 3d monster maze on my GBA. | | | Device: GBA,F2A 256,DS I was looking in the readme for version 1.0.1 and i saw that you said you were close to supporting ZX81 and ZX80. | | | I just picked up the source again today, and did a bit of work on the next release. |
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| | IGN: Monster Maze (tabletop) |
| | Not yet ranked -- see 0 rated LCD games | | | Click now to win big on IGN Sweepstakes! | | | Most recent posts on the Tiger Electronics Handheld Games board: |
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| | Monday competition: Games we miss from Guardian Unlimited: Technology |
| | I think the game I miss most and used to love so much as a kid was Mr EE. | | | What was that game that featured a maze with a dinosaur that needed to be avoided - hilarious! | | | Arcade games such as Defender were, and still are, great fun but does anyone remember Tempest? |
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http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/online/archives/2005/07/04/monday_competition_games_we_miss.html
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| | Article |
| | It was presented as an incredible advancement in gameplay mechanics despite the fact that it was simply a short-term distraction from stagnant, tired, standard and uninventive gameplay. | | | You could slow down time at irregular intervals but the other sections of the game used a formula first established in 1981s 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81 then rehashed and popularised by ID Software's seminal Doom. | | | The formula consists of walking around a defined area, killing enemies and picking up items and weapons until: |
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| | Wonderland: "I don't really like talking to most people" |
| | I bought my first PC pretty much specifically to play Quake (and I bought Doom for the hell of it). | | | I have a small list of games that I think would work out well, but what I decided to work on is DoomRPG – sort of Bard’s Tale meets Doom. | | | Step based smooth sliding/turning tile movement and combat works out well for the phone input buttons, and exploring a 3D world through the cell phone window is pretty neat. |
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http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/03/i_dont_really_l.html
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| | Prince of Persia 2: The Warrior Within - Prince of Purgatory, Prince of Paradise Chatbacks |
| | I've been playing games for a long time now - look, I can remember playing 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81, that's how long Iíve been playing games. | | | i cant get past the part in the beginning where u beat the bitdy monster 2ice. | | | For all those readers unfamiliar with the ZX81, ask your parents. |
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| | Epinions.com - Blasts from the Past - The Speccy |
| | My main memory of this game is it crashing as the power pack fell off, but someone’s done a brilliant remake – (grab it from the retro-remakes site listed below) - now there’s a real Blast from the Past!! | | | The games I remember on the ZX81 include a geography quiz game, a flight sim (your plane was a dot on the screen…), and Asteroids (which had to be typed in from scratch each time – once it was typed in wrongly and you only scored points for hitting the asteroids!). | | | But of course there is one game that will forever be synonymous with the ZX81 - 3D Monster Maze. |
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http://www.epinions.com/content_3950485636
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