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Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software and FormGen.Originally released on May 5, 1992, for DOS, it was inspired by the 1981 Muse Software video game Castle Wolfenstein, and is the third installment in the Wolfenstein series.
Wolfenstein 3D was the first game to feature William "B.J." Blazkowicz, an American spy of Polish Jewish descent, who would become the main protagonist of the series. [19] id Software was hoping to make around $60,000 from the game upon its release. [8]
Games in this category utilize the Wolfenstein 3D engine or its predecessors. Also included are games based on the Raven Engine, which is based on the Wolfenstein 3D ...
William Joseph "B.J." Blazkowicz (Polish pronunciation: [blasˈkɔvit͡ʂ]) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Wolfenstein series of alternate history video games starting with 1992's Wolfenstein 3D. An American spy of Polish Jewish descent, he specializes in one-man missions behind enemy lines.
Wolfenstein 3D spawned a prequel and a sequel: the prequel called Spear of Destiny, and the second, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, using the id Tech 3 engine. A third Wolfenstein sequel, simply titled Wolfenstein, was released by Raven Software, using the id Tech 4 engine.
MachineGames developed Wolfenstein: Youngblood, the follow-up to The New Colossus with a focus on co-operative gameplay, and Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot, a virtual reality game, both released in 2019. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] MachineGames created a further Quake episode, Dimension of the Machine , for the game's re-release in 2021, as well as Call of the ...
Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967) [1] is an American video game developer.He co-founded id Software and designed their early games, including Wolfenstein 3D (1992), Doom (1993), Doom II (1994), Hexen (1995) and Quake (1996).
Wolfenstein 3D (1992) increased the color palette from 16-color EGA to 256-color VGA and also adopted raycasting.The game engine was also licensed out to other companies. The source code to Wolfenstein 3D, along with its prequel Spear of Destiny, was released on 21 July 1995 under a proprietary license, and then later under GPL-2.0-or-later.