First shooter with a snipper riffle?

super_furry

The 'Best FPS weapon' thread had me thinking about this. As far as I can tell, it might have been Outlaws on the PC - an old and overlooked Lucas Arts Wild West FPS. The next I can remember is MDK's, but can anyone remember one before either of those?

po0k

With a proper zoom etc.?
The first FPS i can remember was, as you say, MDK.

Retr0gamer

It was definitely Outlaws for the PC. Next was Goldeneye on the N64 about 3 months later and then MDK.

Actually not sure if MDK or Goldeneye came first but Outlaws definitely had it first.

Lenny

jasus, remmebr that MDK years back on the p166 with 16mb ram lol

Retr0gamer

you think thats bad. It ran nicely on my p100 16mb ram.

Then i remember the Direct 3D patch came out and my new powerVR card with a whole 4MB of video Ram ran it beautifully. The games system tester said my PC was a 700Mhz machine

Mr E

A snipper rifle? Is that one where you aim just above the head and try to shoot some hair off?

I remember MDK when it came out (and the 3D card patches). Fantastic game. I also loved outlaws to death. Found the soundtrack on usenet a few months ago - brought back some memories!

Stephen

Outlaws was great indeed. Ran fine on my P200. (Ran like an absolute dog on my old 486/100 though)

honru

Nah, definetly must be Duck Hunt.

abccormac

Hostages on the amiga had one.

JackKelly

outlaws was great. Still have the cd lying about somewhere. Used to spend hours on it. Double CD and all.

MrPinK

There was game for the NES called 'Rescue: The Embassy Mission' where you picked off terrorists from building windows with a sniper rifle. Gamefaqs tells me it came out in 1989.

Any advance on '89?

abccormac

That's the NES version of hostages.

stevenmu

I think Delta Force was out before MDK and Goldeneye, that had a sweet Barrett .50 Cal

edit: and 4 sniper multiplayer on the volcano map was seriously good fun

Retr0gamer

Delta Force was out well afterwards.

stevenmu

My mistake, my memories from back then are a bit fuzzy

Canis Lupus

Did Marathon have a sniper rifle? Or is it too late a game anyway?

Retr0gamer

Marathon was before them around the same time as the first doom. It didn't have a sniper rifle but it did have a good few weapons that are now standard in all fps games. It also have rudimentary physics for rockets, grenades and flying bodies:)