Introduction to Maze War Maze War was the first networked, 3D multi-user first person shooter game. Maze War first brought us the concept of online players as eyeball “avatars” chasing each other around in a maze). From its 1974 origins on the Imlacs PDS-1 at the NASA Ames Research Center in California, to its life in project MAC at MIT, on Xerox Altos and “D* Machines” running on early ethernet, to versions ported to Mac, NeXT and PalmOS, Maze War started it all. Today’s massively multiuser 3D games owe a great debt to Maze War and those who created and kept on porting it to new systems for the past 30 years. Maze War or “Maze” as it is affectionately known, is the reason why nobody can claim ownership of the rights to the invention of a multi-user 3D cyberspace. (via DigiBarn Games: Maze War Retrospective)