Ok time to sit back and listen to a story from wayyyyyyyyy back in1996. When FPS games like Doom and Wolfenstein were all the rage. What's that? You're having fun in your two planes of freedom? Pffft. How about 360 degrees of mutha-effin freedom!
Descent puts you in the role of Material Defender, a mercenary tasks with cleaning out interstellar mines full of robots infected by a virus; a virus that turns the robots against their masters. As the MD, you fly the Pyro-DX, a ship capable of flying in any direction at any time, LOADED with futuristic weapons.

Got Lasers?!?! Yup
Need to home in on those small fast nimble bastards! Fire the homing missile!
Have to clear the room cause it's getting too hard to breath in here! Mega Missile away!

In the vane of Doom, you clear levels by collecting key cards to locked doors while trying to keep your hit points above 0 and reducing everything else's to it. Finally, you have to destroy the sector reactor. And when you do, you think you're jobs done, but NOPE. Countdown time! Get out before the mine self destructs!

This is also the FIRST game I played multi-player over the internet. Dial up! Yeah remember that!?!? This game was pure 90s, all with a rocking album to get the adrenaline flowing. I still go back and play this game every once in a while, cause it's like going back to the cookies you used to get as a kid. Activates all those tingly sensors in your brain.