It ran like crap on my 386SX; you needed a DX 40Mhz at least (actually, once I got a math coprocessor I believe it wasn't quite so bad). It certainly did seem novel at the time, so he may be right. Still, it wasn't much of a game and so I don't think it was ever installed on my 486+ machines which actually could have handled it. :P

So I'm posting here.

Years and years ago, I worked for a small indi game retailer.

I'm pretty sure that a game was released before Wing Commander (1990) that was 3D and had a coupon that, if you sent it back to the developers along with a photo, would return you a 3.5" floppy with your face on a file that could be used in the game.

Given that 4D Sports Boxing came out a year after Wing Commander, I'd say this guy is a tw*t.

If only I could remember the title of the game. I think it came out around the Starglider 2 release (1988) or soon after as it had solid 3D objects.

Neo: What is the Mattrickx? 
Inq: The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to. 
Agent Brown: What were you doing? 
Agent Sarkozy: He doesn't know. 
[Neo sees a Balkmer cat walk by them, and then a similar Otilene cat walk by them just like the first one] 
Neo: Whoa. Déjà vu. 
[Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
Agent Obama: Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress? 
Chorus: Anti-competitive behaviour gives rise to descension from the War on the Economy, which beggars thy neighbour's question.
Neo: Fujitsu? I'm gonna learn Fujitsu? 
Inq: The possibilities are infinite.
Microsoft: Our way... or the highway
[they all listen on their ear-pieces] 
James Bond: I really think you people should meet in a better place.

Neal Stephenson described this idea in his novel Snow Crash back in 1992. He exactly described a 3D VR representation of a real person, so it is hardly an original idea from this Microsoft clown. If it was it would be a revolution... an original idea from Microsoft! Stephenson didn't just mention it in passing - he used it as a central theme and fleshed it out in detail. (Going back further a 1986 RPG Habitat game was the first use of the term Avatar but that was text mode). I wouldn't have been suprised if they'd tried to patent the idea and got shot down: too much prior art.

No, Geppetto made me more than hundred years ago. Don Mattrick, watch your nose!

Although normal people don't particularly like that stuff it does seem to fascinate some journalist and assorted weirdos a lot and so it'll keep those off the street and away from the public, so a win situation you could argue.

But UO is a 2D game with an isometric view :)

(original client)

Like any bot in a shooter these days, then ?
May I be the first to welcome our live-action Dominatrix overlords in leather knee-highs.
Rrwooaarr !!

..sounds about right.

Microsoft invented innovation.

I was in Tangiers, when I was working for the OSS.