A type of video game in which players shoot a gun or rocket at an ever-changing scene of "bad guys." Introduced in 1993, DOOM popularized the first-person shooter game with its 3D graphics. First-person shooter games are designed for single and multiple players. See
real-time strategy.
The Incentive for Speed
First-person shooter games require the screen to respond instantly to the gamer's hand movements on the controller. Ever-increasing speed on graphics processing units (GPUs) created more realism and made companies like NVIDIA hugely successful. The very same GPU hardware was then ideal for AI processing (see
GPU).