10 Video Game Franchises Where Nobody Played The Original

10. Castle Wolfenstein

Despite being the granddaddy of the FPS genre, Wolfenstein 3D never became the mega-hit Doom was. It wasn’t until Wolfenstein: The New Order that the series garnered the success it always deserved, thanks to a surprisingly compelling story and great run and gun action.

There’s a good chance most gamers have never touched Wolfenstein 3D, but the odds are even better they didn’t know about the very first Castle Wolfenstein.

That’s right, the series stretches all the way back to 1981, where the original was a stealth-based action game, seeing you guide a soldier through the eponymous castle while hiding or shooting down Nazi soldiers.

It looks insanely crude by modern standards, but the game was praised for its design and strategic gameplay.