This is a memory I remember very vividly. I had a 14.4k modem when I was 13 and my friend had a 56k modem and I remember when he downloaded the Duke 3D demo and it “only” took him half an hour. I have a vague recollection of what the modem looked like too. Anyway it was super impressive and we played the demo a lot at his house. Not a lot of people owned the full version of many games back then because of all the shareware stuff we’d just play over and over again. Because of that I don’t remember ever seeing much further than the first levels of Duke 3D
The reviews are coming in and people are blasting Duke Nukem Forever because it seems like it’s a game very stuck in the time period it was relevant. I think Serious Sam is the only modern game so far that was able to take an old school game feel and make it relevant today. But if the buzz out there is any indication I’m going to stick with my plan of playing the demo of Duke Nukem Forever and leaving it at that. In a way it’s entirely appropriate since that’s all I really did with the original.
I think most of the Sierra point and clicks could definitely have a good comeback.
Heh, funny thing you mention Sierra because for some reason I was thinking about King’s Quest VI this morning. I loved the old Sierra games but they’d have to make them less punishing in order to be accepted by today’s audiences.
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I played all the way through Day of the tentacle on my phone. Time well spent.
Oh noooooes, amazon free app of the day already means my games collection has at least tripled and now this??
Aw I remember playing the demo’s way back then. I finally got the full version when they announced “Forever” was coming out. That was like, ’97.
The Duke world changed when they ported it to multiplayer, and then changed way again when they came out with the real 3d models and hi-res packs. I still to this day play the old school Duke3D.
Part of me kind of wants to play through the original just because, but not sure I’d be able to go back to it. I was watching a youtube video of the first level and there are parts where I remember that back then I was thinking “WHOA! You can jump here and here and here!” But now I’d probably think “Really? You want me to go there?”