MIDI Maze is a networked first-person shooter maze game for up to 16 players. The game area occupies only roughly a quarter of the screen and consists of a first-person view of a flat-shaded maze with a crosshair in the middle. All players are shown as Pac-Man-like smiley avatars in various colors. Bullets are represented as small spheres. The game is said to have introduced deathmatch combat to gaming in 1987
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A very curious technical showpiece that heralded the era of multiplayer deathmatch. It had a surprising number of features beyond the 16 player LAN capability including bots, player settings that allowed for FFA or team deathmatch, and a map editor. The gameplay itself is as basic of a shooter as it gets, but it's technological accomplishments are the real star here.
Very novel. Very cute. Probably would've blown my asshole out if I played it in the 80s but so would a lot of things