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		ehaliewicz2 on July 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Are People Still Playing Ultima Online? To be fair, Doom did not use raycasting either, but yes, the underworld games were significantly more advanced at the time.

crwll on July 1, 2015 [–]

Agreed. What's even more staggering is that Ultima Underworld 1 was actually released before Wolfenstein 3D, the predecessor to Doom! (March vs May 1992). Doom only came out December 1993.

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