Why do early FPS that lacked mouselook such as Doom use CTRL and ALT for shooting and strafing as default?

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Its so annoying! Especially with how its show easy to accidentally press the windows key and escape DosBox! I already customized my controls but I’m so curious who’s the morons who decided this would be a intuitive default control? I mean have they ever thought someone might exit the game multiple times by accident?

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Back then, there weren’t “Windows keys” on the keyboard. There was an empty space between the two keys. With how basic games were back then, those controls seemed more than enough to play. I think you’re forgetting what it was like back then because you’re “spoiled” by today’s modern controls and games. You moved with the arrow keys with your right hand meaning your left hand, to be comfortable, would have to be on the other side of the keyboard which lands on the alt and ctrl buttons.

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