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[–] Kichae 5 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Tell me you played with strafe in 1993 and I'll never belueve another word out of your mouth.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I have distinct memories of my dad teaching me to strafe on his 486-powered laptop with a laggy monochrome screen. Maybe it was a modifier key that changed left/right to strafing? It was definitely a feature in the OG Doom and Wolfenstein 3D before it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah, it was Alt. i don't know what's wrong with these other people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

They don't want to admit they never bothered looking at the control options.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Me and my cousins absolutely used strafe back in the early 90s. And forwards. And backwards. We were so excited every time we got into a gunfight we would have moved vertically too if there was an option for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

There was an option for that. It was called "Descent".

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago

Nobody I knew in the early 90s played with strafe. That wasn’t a thing that existed. I couldn’t agree with you more.