Duke Nukem 3D

Hello all. Once again with another post for you good old gamers, this time targeting a PC game made by 3D Realms. The game is Duke Nukem 3D, a somewhat breakthrough in that the game was in a way 3-dimensional. To you that have played you know what I am talking about, it is a funny attempt at 3D when it came to walking around monsters in that when you did it, you would see the same front part of the monster in the whole 360 degree movement. It was almost like the monster was 2D but nevertheless the environment was 3D. The environment was also different from Doom in that most of it took place in the city, with theatres, restaurants, grocery stores, etc, adding to a more realistic like feel.



As you can see from the screen to the left, the game was comical in that cops were dressed up as pigs and the main story line was based on saving girls from evil aliens. There was a whole new set of new things to do, as compared to Doom. The whole maps of the game where you play at, had hidden areas where you could camp around and give the element of surprise to your enemies. There were also a large variety of weapons including a rocket launcher, and a grenade that you could detonate when you wanted.





Back in the day to play you had to execute the game through DOS, which I am not too familiar with anymore today, but back then I had no idea how I accessed the paths to play and retrieve an IP address so later my brother could connect via another area and play in the same map as me against each other. Sometimes we would take turns playing in my dad’s repair shop with all the lights off, and with the other in the house.



(Duke Nukem 3D Logo to the right)I was a fan of placing pipe bombs in certain areas and hiding in some vent waiting for my bro to pass by only to blow him up. This game even had a jetpack that you could strap on to yourself and fly for a limited time, adding to all the fun it already had. Of course you could get blown up in the sky by a rocket launcher and see all your guts fall down to the floor, which happened to me many times.



Overall Duke is the man, and single player is equally as fun as multiplayer. There were many maps to go through and many girls to save. This game also got some controversy in that it was connected to prostitutes since many times in the game you would encounter slaved up women or strippers and you had the ability to hand out money to the strippers in order for them to flash and so on. The things I played at such a young age, lol.

Here is a youtube video of a guy beating the whole episode 1 as fast as possible, it is low quality but just so you guys see what the game is about.