I think Quake was the first fps game to use no sprites at all.

There are squillions of flight sims that chucked around some impressive polygons. TFX and the space-sim Inferno are two of my faves.

lo

as already mentioned DRILLER pre-dates quake by
some years. what you may see though is a lack of
any major action since CPU power was minimal back
then. it was so slow on the c64 i didn't play it.

i notice that there are some 5.25" floppy versions for
the PC on ebay.

if you have read the wikipedia entry about driller
and are curious about it's map, then here it is in
it's full 3d glory:

bye

I just remembered a space flight sim game out of my childhood, Mantis XF5700 (1992), 🤣 thats so long ago. Did not play this one much but i remember i liked it.

sklawz wrote:

i notice that there are some 5.25" floppy versions for
the PC on ebay.

Or you could just try Ovine's retro remake.

MaxWar wrote:

I think Quake was the first fps game to use no sprites at all.

Quake used 3 sprites - explosion, bubbles, and the occassional light globe. Ironically they had an enhanced sprite renderer with various types of sprites (Half-Life REALLY exploited this for making beams and huds)

Well yes I would probably be more interested in Action/Action-Adventure type games (including FPS or Arcade Racing) that utilized 3D because those genres were what I played most on console. Unfortunately I never could get into Sims that much. Those Terminator shoots look very impressive indeed.

Future Shock is decent indeed. It's pretty buggy though. I wish a company would make another Terminator game like that.

Unfortunately the Terminator universe has become rather convoluted since then.

Oh I saw your Rendition thread swaaye, looks nice. Is Indy Car II only accelerated through Rendition? What other games only have support for Rendition? (I only had voodoo)

Games with ONLY Rendition support? I'm not sure. Most of the games that support it also support Voodoo and/or others. VQuake / VHexen2 only support Verite. 😉

So can Indy Car II be accelerated with other cards?

Xenphor wrote:

So can Indy Car II be accelerated with other cards?

Sorry, the way I worded myself it probably sounded like IndyCar Racing II was only for Rendition cards. It is one of the games that is frequently mentioned in any discussion concerning the Rendition cards, not necessarily one that is a Rendition-Verite exclusive so that is what I meant by a showcase game.

swaaye wrote:

Games with ONLY Rendition support? I'm not sure.

Rebel Moon, which is notable for hardware accellerated colored lighting and 32-bit texturing on the PC platform in 1995

Don't forget SODA Off-Road Racing which also only supported the rendition verite for accelerated graphics. It would be nice if there were a Rendition wrapper...

I like Grand Prix Legends. It's a better racing sim than IndyCar 2 and visually a lot better too. Voodoo and Verite support.

One day I will try Rebel Moon out....

Wow SODA actually runs in WinXP. Anybody know if the other Papyrus games do?

What about Syndicate Wars? Qualify as 3D environment?

Also, I think that Terminal Velocity was not really 3D. When you went inside a tunnel, it seems like you enter or teleport to another zone (same trick used in DN3D)... or at least I remember so.

NASCAR Racing was 1994, wasn't it? At the time it was quite impressive.

Hater Depot wrote:

NASCAR Racing was 1994, wasn't it? At the time it was quite impressive.

Yes with the polygonal tires on the cars. Doh! 🤣

Zup wrote:

What about Syndicate Wars? Qualify as 3D environment?

Yep, I still think it looks very impressive and sets a great atmosphere even to this day.
You could also try EarthSiege which is kinda like Mechwarrior 2. No texture mapping but it's still impressive for 1993(?).