3-Demon
Description
3-Demon is a single-player, first-person maze chase game, and is commonly regarded as the very first progenitor of the 90s first-person shooters.
The game places the player inside a wireframe maze viewed from a first-person perspective. The objective is to navigate corridors, collect point pellets scattered throughout the maze, and avoid roaming creatures that pursue the player. These enemies behave similarly to ghosts in a traditional maze chase game, like that of Pac-Man. Contact with one results in the loss of a life, but collecting certain temporary power items allows the player to turn on the creatures and eliminate them instead. The overall goal of each stage is to consume a required percentage of pellets before choosing to advance to the next maze.
Power items appear throughout the maze, offering short-term advantages such as the ability to defeat enemies or temporarily reduce the danger of pursuit. The game tracks score based on pellets collected, enemies defeated during powered-up states, and successful progression through levels. Extra lives may be awarded when score thresholds are reached. Once all lives are lost the run ends and the final score is recorded.
