[smashed pumpkin]

Myself, like countless others, was first exposed to Apogee/3DR through Duke3D.

At the time, Doom, Heretic, Wolf3D, etc. was all the rage, and I had never heard of the company.

A friend of mine had the shareware version of Duke3D, and I remember going to his house and playing the shareware for hours on end. I eventually acquired the shareware myself and seemed to wait an eternity for the full game to be released.

Of course the great thing about Duke3D was that it came with Duke 1 & 2, and all of the shareware versions of the other games like Wacky Wheels, Terminal Velocity, ROTT, etc.

Glad I got to experience those too!

I do remember playing Wolf3D before I played Duke....so I guess Wolf was my first exposure to Apogee, even though I didn't really recognize it at the time.