Last Survivor
Last Survivor is an arcade game released in 1988 by Sega for the Sega X Board arcade hardware. It is the earliest known free-roaming, three-dimensional, third-person shooter, and one of the first shooters with a network multiplayer deathmatch mode. It pre-dates experiments by id Software (often credited for popularizng the first person shooter genre) by several years. Developed for the Sega X Board system, the same hardware that ran After Burner and Thunder Blade, the graphics are rendered using similar sprite-scaling and 3D programming techniques as Sega's other Super Scaler games. These techniques were further developed to produce the earliest known texture-mapping ray casting engine for Last Survivor.
Genre(s): Action | Puzzle