The advent of first-person shooters introduced a wild frontier of unregulated video game level packs, and it ended in a lawsuit that changed copyright forever
Revisiting the forgotten fourth state of PC gaming.
The rise of first-person shooters in the 1990s brought forth a new category of PC games known as level packs. These packs contained collections of levels for early first-person shooters like Duke Nukem 3D and Quake, sold as boxed products on shelves. However, level packs occupied a unique and somewhat amorphous position between regular video games, expansions/DLC, and mods. While some level packs were sanctioned and created by third-party developers, others were unauthorised and of poor quality.
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