First Person Shooter is a documentary raising money via Kickstarter.

FPS documentary will capture the history of first-person shooter games

I was around when Doom debuted as a first-person shooter in 1993. People stayed late at their offices so they could play the game on their work computer networks. While the graphics look primitive today, Doom was a scary experience. I still recall staring into the darkness and then hearing a demon growl before sending a fireball straight at me.

The creators of a new documentary, FPS: First Person Shooter, are reviving those memories. CreatorVC launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to finance the launch of what they say will be a three-hour retrospective documentary capturing the history of FPS games such as Doom, Halo, and Duke Nukem. The campaign has already received $42,000 in pledges, just shy of its $44,327 goal.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.