My 1st First Person Shooter: Hadron

This game blew my mind when I was a kid. Hadron was released in 1981 by Sirius Software, and was the first "3d" immersion-style game I can remember playing, except for maybe Atari's Battlezone (at the arcade). I'd play this over at my friend Dan's house - fortunately they had a joystick hooked up to their Apple, otherwise I'm sure I wouldn't have had the patience for it. I loved slowly sneaking up on the two robots talking... they seemed to start casting glances in your direction with greater nervousness as you got closer. Then, BAM - you let 'em have it. You could follow the green and white scout ships to the mother ships, or just be patient and one would eventually appear. If you were extra patient after finding one, another two might appear behind the first - and if you were being hassled by an enemy, well, just move them off the screen and you'd erase them. Ah, those were the days.

Here's a short clip of me zapping said robots...

And here's a couple of pages out of the eight page manual...

I like that red on black Traveller-esque text.