

Last Survivor 1989
Developed by Sega Enterprises, Ltd., Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
- Shooter, Arcade, Action, Fantasy
Last Survivor (ラストサバイバー) is an arcade game originally released in 1988 by Sega for the Sega X Board arcade hardware. Last Survivor is one of the first examples of a 3D third-person shooter, and involves players traversing a maze shooting at opponents. It pre-dates experiments by id Software (often credited for inventing the first person shooter genre) by two years. It relies on rotary joystick controllers, and had then-revolutionary ray-casting graphics. As an early example of the genre, its gameplay is slower and less fluid than modern third person shooters.
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Character
Plot-driven, earnest, grave and cool.
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
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About the game
- Platforms
- Arcade, FM Towns
- Developer
- Sega Enterprises, Ltd., Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
- Publisher
- CSK Research Institute, Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
- Released
- January 1, 1989
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Perspective
- Third person
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