how did the WASD keys become the norm for movement on pc games? Couldnt it have been ESDF or some other set of keys?
In: 1807
On early computers like Spectrum, you could play two player by assigning two sets of keys on the same keyboard. One way on the left, the other on the right so both players had space to play.
I suspect it was due to that as for a while after this there was usually a WASD and another option, think it was IJKL, arrow keys or some games/gamers went with QAZX & NMLP. WASD became dominant as everyone navigated with left hand and left the right have open for mouse work later.
NOTE: This was all LONG before Quake.
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