Last Survivor

January 1, 1989 Sega Enterprises, Ltd., Sega Enterprises, Ltd. CSK Research Institute, Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
Shooter Arcade
Arcade FM Towns
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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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Release Date January 1, 1989
Developer Sega Enterprises, Ltd., Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
Publisher CSK Research Institute, Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
Game Modes Single player, Multiplayer
Perspective Third person
Themes Action, Fantasy