/vr/ - Retro Games

I had played a few games like Spectre and Wolf 3D by the early-to-mid 90s and they were thoroughly "neat" but did not change my life. There is a WW1 flight sim called Red Baron released in 1990 but I did not play it until a few years after that. Red Baron had defined missions but the flying was completely free roam and open ended. Flying endlessly over fields and farmhouses made of extremely primitive polygons felt like inhabiting a new world that went on forever. Even though I had played several "open world" games like Ultima, the immersion in Red Baron was the first moment I felt like something had fundamentally changed.

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