10 Prolific Video Games Kids Today Will Never Play

7. Wolfenstein 3D

The First Person Shooter genre has come so far in recent years, and the genre as a whole is still exceptionally popular with legions of kids sharpening their skills on the latest Call of Duty or Battlefield. For many of this generation the origins of the genre would be practically inconceivable - unless they saw it for themselves. Those who played it at the time know how revolutionary Wolfenstein 3D was. The title popularised an entire genre and paved the way for the likes of Doom and Quake, which in turn set the standards for FPS games that would follow. It was violent to a level that was still quite rare at the time and the graphics blew most contemporaries out of the water. Obviously the genre has evolved massively since those early days, meaning that kids today would simply not be able to enjoy Wolfenstein 3D as they should. The game has aged as you would expect, but the real issue is that the FPS games are now so prevalent that the 'shock' of seeing a game like this working at all no longer exists. Even though the core mechanics would still be familiar to anybody picking it up for the first time, younger gamers would still be turned off by the primitive AI and the fact that they have seen it all done a million times already on the current generation of consoles.