http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-st/midi-maze

Now this Atari ST exclusive game was really cool back in 1987 when it was first released, and it is possibly the first every multiplayer first person shooter on any home platform.

It allowed up to 16 players to compete simultaneously by linking up to 16 Atari STs together using a special adapter which daisy chained the STs together via their MIDI ports. Quite a cool use for the STs built in MIDI ports.

I used to play this game at a local video games gaming shop, which was setup with rows of STs and Amigas and you could go in and use the machines and play any of the games they had in the shop at the time. And they had 16 STs linked up for some proper full 16 player Midi-Maze tournaments.

The game is first personal perspective, using 90 degree angle filled polygon mazes to move around in. All players are represented on screen as smily pacman like faces and you all move around the maze trying to shoot each other with a basic gun. It was a great multiplayer experience at the time as nothing else like it existed.
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