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What was the first ever first person shooter to feature a secondary fire mode? I can think of a couple of 1997 examples (Outlaws, Blood) but I wouldn't be surprised if it had been done a year or two earlier. I think Duke Nukem 3D had a secondary fire for throwing additional pipe bombs, but I'm not sure that really qualifies.
While Marathon (as per @bruhmoment12's answer) is considered the first one to introduce secondary fire, I found that Pathways into Darkness, released in August 1993, had two different keys for triggers in its control page:
For combat, the player may use fists, explosive land mines and thermal detonators, as well as blasters and other ranged weapons. All weapons, with the exception of the fist, have a secondary mode which makes it have a different effect than in primary mode.
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As a child of the 80s, I enjoy a good nostalgia trip with some MAME arcade emulation, SNES, NES, and even Atari 2600 emulation. Many others agree. The NES Classic was a huge hit this past Christmas, so huge, it became scarce and hard to find. I also own an Atari Flashback which was a similar concept from years past, just not as popular.
Since I didn't want to wait in line for a NES Classic or pay the extortion rates to get one on eBay, I figured that my Amazon Fire TV would be a suitable retro gaming device to scratch the itch, and then my retro gaming system would not occupy more space in my entertainment center or more HDMI ports on my TV.
Amazon Fire TV is actually an Android device after all. So any Android app can potentially be installed on it. Amazon has unfortunately created a walled garden ecosystem with their own app store and prevent use of the standard Google Play store, so we have to jump through a few hoops to install apps that are not part of their approved list. You could purchase a different Android TV device without these restrictions from an off brand vendor or an NVidia Shield. However the Shield is expensive, and the Amazon Fire TV is a very good, powerful Android device for the money, which works well with most streaming media apps. The following steps should work the same with the Fire Stick, except that it may be less powerful for emulation and it does not have a micro SD card slot.
The micro SD card can be a convenient place to store tons of ROM images and not use up your internal storage. However these ROMs will be pretty small and a micro SD card is not required. Keep in mind, when looking at the Amazon Fire TV filesystem, that the path /sdcard is actually the internal storage location. The path to the micro SD card is actually /storage/sdcard1. When configuring a ROM file path, you will need to know the correct path to find your ROMs.
For controllers, while the Fire TV can support bluetooth controllers such as the PS4 controller, in my experience there was too much lag when I used PS4 controllers, which causes them to not be suitable for gaming. The Amazon game controller works much better with emulators. The drawback is that it is kind of pricy and it seems to go through batteries pretty quick.
There are a few different ways to get apps installed. The most handy way is to use the Android Debug Bridge, adb. The first step is to install adb on your Mac or PC. This may already be present on your system if you previously installed the Android SDK. Make sure it is in your system path so you can run it from anywhere. Then you need to enable debugging on your Fire TV by going to Settings->Device->Developer Options, then set ADB debugging to on and Apps from Unknown Sources to on.
Once adb is ready to go, locate the APK files for the apps you want to install. Use caution when installing APK files from unknown sources! Only install APK files from sites and sources you trust. They could contain malware or viruses, or otherwise damage your Fire TV. APK Downloader is one way to get your APK files from the Google Play Store. Use the Settings app on your Fire TV, then select device, and network to display your device's IP address. Then use the adb commands push and install to install apps remotely.
At this point you are connected to your Fire TV. If you cannot establish a connection, try to make sure your computer is on the same router as the Fire TV, otherwise you may be hitting firewall port blocking issues.
You can even open up a shell to the Fire TV with adb. This comes in handy to move files or directories, or delete files. Just use this command to use many of the standard Linux commands you may already know.
If you are not familiar with MAME, you may want to try installing and running it on your PC first. The MAME interface is somewhat crude and might be confusing for new users. MAME is an emulator for actual coin op arcade machines, from old school Pac Man and Donkey Kong to 90s classics like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat to newer machines like Golden Tee. Some refurbished or multi-game arcade cabinets you run into today are actually running MAME. Building a real looking MAME arcade cabinet is something on my to do list, but that requires space in the house and a bit of investment in parts and hardware.
For MAME on Android, I recommend MAME4droid Reloaded. Search for it in Google and download the APK from your favorite emulation website to you local Mac/PC. To install, use the command
Now you are ready to play! Fire up the MAME app, and select Yes for the default ROM location, otherwise you will struggle to get it to find your ROM files. Then press the menu button on your controller and go to Settings, then disable Touch controller visible under Landscape, and then select Input Settings to configure your controller for the important buttons, such as the coin in button and the start button, and the A, B, X, Y buttons. Be sure not to remap the Back, Home, or Menu buttons on the Amazon Controller. You will need these to bring up the app settings menu, switch ROMs, or exit the app. I used L1 and R1 for coin in and start. Unfortunately MAME4droid does not let you map the L2 and R2 Amazon controller buttons. It also sadly only works with one controller, so you are limited to only one player at a time.
For SNES and NES gaming, I recommend the SNES emulator Snes9xPlus and NES emulator NES.emu. Find your APK files and follow the same install process as above. These emulators do work with micro SD card file paths, so you can pop out your card, copy all your ROMs on a PC, then put the card back in to the Fire TV and leave your ROMs there. Turn off the on screen virtual controls, configure your controller, and you are good to go! Again remember to not remap Back, Home, or Menu. For these emulators, I used L1 and R1 for Select and Start, and left L2 and R2 for the L and R buttons, since they are more comfortable for trigger buttons on the Amazon controller. These emulators do support 2 player action with a 2nd controller.
For Sega, I recommend the MD.emu emulator. The Genesis was known in some regions as the Mega Drive, hence the MD name. The same emulator works with other flavors of Sega such as the older Master System games, and some Sega CD games. I had previously recommended Gensoid because I initially could not get my controller to work with MD.emu, but it appears that was user error or a configuration problem (make sure to map your start button!) because it is working great for me now. These also support ROMs on micro SD.
For really old school gaming, use the Ataroid Atari emulator. Again turn off the virtual screen controls and configure your controller for select, start, and fire. You only need to configure one fire button here! Each ROM is super tiny (from 2 - 16KB!) so they use almost no storage space. I was not yet able to get two controllers working at once, so for now I am stuck with one player games.
There are ways to install these emulators with Kodi, but these come with launchers that re-download ROMs each time you use one and it forces you to watch super annoying ads for unscrupulous games that are hard to dismiss even when the ads are over, so I would not recommend use of those launchers. They are not making new games for 80s and 90s systems after all (unless you count homebrew games), so just take the time to set it all up once with every ROM you want (or all of them) and make your life easier.
I would really love to get Hyperspin working on the Fire TV because their UI is amazing on the PC as a launcher for emulator games. There is an Android port which appears to work on some Android devices, but I have yet to get it to work on my Fire TV (it crashes).
Now you can get your retro game fix for multiple platforms all in one system, the same system you may already use to watch Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Go! You don't even have to select another HDMI input on your TV, you can just sit on your couch with no wires on the controller and enjoy the full pixelated glory on your 65 inch flatscreen.
I'm glad Sea of Thieves finally came along to conclusively win the battle that has raged on in gaming for years. Which game has the best water? That's over now. That's done. Sea of Thieves wins by containing what I assume is some sort of magic that permits a real ocean to exist inside it.
But alongside the water war, there was the fire war, and that was won years ago by Far Cry 2. And then won again by Far Cry 3. And Far Cry 4. And so on. The Far Cry games do fire gud, and the first time I experienced it in Far Cry 2 it was like witnessing a real fire: It was alarming and fascinating and almost immediately out of control.
Far Cry 2's fictional African country was the perfect setting for a great fire propagation system. It was sun-bleached and arid, dry and dusty, with fields of dead grass and trees of brittle branches. Its combat was chaos, with psychotic mercenaries who'd ram your car off the road and fill the air with lead at the drop of a hat. The entire game was a powderkeg just waiting for a match.
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