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I remember watching my father play Descent and that was pretty much the first real 3D game I've seen (Germany, so there was a bit of trouble with Doom and Wolfenstein). And I was constantly trying to peek around corners by moving my head.

If you liked Descent, check out the radically different sequel Freespace 2. Somehow the devs snuck in a legal clause to make it freeware.

The control system is absurdly complex but exquisitely satisfying once mastered.

You should all check out overload by the original descent developers.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/448850/Overload/

The original Alien vs. Predator vs. pretty scary, too. Especially the Marine missions. I once didn't move in the game for what felt like an hour or so and refused to go down a particularly bad lit corridor.

I'm reminded of stories of how people were reacted when showed the first moving pictures.

They, like us, quickly got used to it, but both film and interactive 3d computer games are very powerful things!