So how were you Introduced to DUKE NUKEM?

[Huib]

Originally Posted by MusicallyInspired

I played the shareware episode of the original Duke Nukum as a kid. I think it was on a Gamefest CD. I also have a bunch of old shareware disks (3.25") and Duke Nukum is among them.

Do i see a math rescue disk over there?
I also like the 'type a:go ' frase... batch files where great!

[William Gee]

I started duke with hundred of LAN DM matches, around 10+ years ago.

[Esham]

my grandpa showed me it on the PC when i was like 3

[CLxJames]

Duke Nukem 64 was my first FPS. Loved it and then I went and bought Duke Nukem 3D

[Mr Bear]

Through a mutual friend at a party.......

[magaz]

early on at high school, my friend bought the kill-a-ton collection and started mapping... I was introduced to it one day after school when he showed me the map of our school he'd been working on... I was instantly amazed

[NutWrench]

Duke Nukem 3D was the first game I bought when I got my first PC. I had never seen any reviews or played the shareware. I had a Pentium 150 with 16 megs of ram and a 1.35 gig hard drive. I used AOL to connect to the Internet (such as it was in 1995) using a 28.8 modem.

[Ras]

The local grocery store had a spinner rack with all kinds of shareware games. I started buying a couple at a time and quickly discovered that the Apogee games were vastly superior to the other companies on display, so I started buying as many of their games as I could. One of them happened to be the original Duke Nukem. I liked it, but it wasn't my favorite. I preferred Cosmo and Keen and some others.

The one I put off until the end was Wolf3D. From the pictures, I thought it was some kind of Hogan's Alley thing where the Nazis popped up and you used your mouse to simulate a light gun. Well, it finally got to where it was the only one left, so I bought it. Totally blown away. It was the kind of game I could only have dreamed about before.

By the time Duke3D came out, I knew all about FPSs, naturally. I followed it from the time Apogee had some images on a shareware release. It was one of those games where I was just dying for it to come out and would think about it every day, reading the magazine articles over and over. I had a warehouse job at the time, and I'd find a quiet corner and draw maps I intended to build and stuff like that.

Early on, I was obsessed with DNF, too. I was kind of cured of that. Also, I tend to have more patience waiting for games in general--partly from growing up, partly from learing the lesson of DNF--so there aren't really any that I just wig out waiting to play.

[gamerfreak]

I had saw Duke young and played Duke Nukem 3D first, then atomic second, DNI third, and DNII last. DNF will be soon.

[marioman360]

my father, my brother and even my mother we're all into duke nukem 3d way back when i was a little skipper and we ended up getting duke nukem zero hour for the n64 at an age when i could actually comprehend video games, after i played that i went back and played DN3D and was in love. it's my favorite game to this very date.

[TmEE]

My first Duke experience was Duke Nukem : Time to Kill on PSX. Then it was DN3D on PC, and DN2 and DN1 sometime later. DN3D on MD is my last Duke game so far. I'm waiting for DNF... hopefully my gaming machine is good enough for it (I could beat Crysis so it should be sufficient).

[fast-1]

Originally Posted by TmEE

My first Duke experience was Duke Nukem : Time to Kill on PSX. Then it was DN3D on PC, and DN2 and DN1 sometime later. DN3D on MD is my last Duke game so far. I'm waiting for DNF... hopefully my gaming machine is good enough for it (I could beat Crysis so it should be sufficient).

same as me.

[bobthefish]

I was REALLY young. my uncle brought over dn3D shareware on a disk and told my dad that he HAD to see it. i walked in on them playing it and laughing. my dad, being the great dad he was said "you can watch us play this, just dont tell your mother". i kept my lips sealed. Eventually i got a turn and loved it

[AnemoneRiot]

I was introduced to Duke Nukem through a friend while I was in 5th grade, Dukematch on the N64.

[Nick_Zravre]

I started off playing Duke Nukem 1 on my dad's Tandy 2500 XL/2 when I was 5 (didn't beat it until just a few weeks ago, however.) After the packard bell was bought I learned of Duke 3D and the rest of the KillATon collection, many a fun hour were spent playing those games.

[Pigeon]

I remember a while back i played duke nukem 2 all the time (it was when i was like 6 so don't expect me to remember where i got it, probably dosgames.com) I loved it so much, so i was on dosgames.com when i spotted duke nukem 3d, i downloaded it and freaking loved it, yes, i was about 8 when i started playing duke nukem

[DissidentRage]

I think I was in the 6th grade when Time to Kill came out. I wanted the game after seeing the commercial. Much to my parents' protest my uncle bought me the game. I was given Zero Hour a couple years later, then someone gave me their copy of Duke Nukem 3D which includes Duke Nukum and Duke Nukem II. At a computer show I bought the Atomic Edition and Blood. It came to be a couple years ago that I could no longer install from the Atomic Edition disc so I bought a second copy of it.

[Martin Howe]

Shareware disk that came with Personal Computer World in 1996. Simple as that

[Weses]

All I remember is going to my friends house and playing the first couple of levels of DN 3D over and over again on a crappy PC with the shareware disk. I was young, so I didn't really understand it. But the memories of the level design and old graphics stuck with me.

[Dominator]

I was introduced to it when my dad put a copy of the really old dos version on my sisters computer when i was about 2. Before that i was a doomer and played ultimate doom ALL the time but when he came home with the copy i became addicted to duke then years later as i became more "computer-wise knowlageable" i got a cool version of it to run on windows xp and now i play it all the time but now i need rancidmeat to play dukester x

[dumbdude]

about 10 or 11 years ago. i was 5 or 6 years old. ya really young to play duke nukem lol. but i became addicted so did my older brother.
that was the first fps i ever played on the pc.

**** yea. im pretty sure that qualifies me as being a true gamer.

[Spiker]

I was sitting on a toilet and suddenly a slimmer bit me in the ass!

[Phayzon]

Hmm trying to remember, I think my dad got floppies of the Duke 1 and 2 shareware somewhere and thats when I first played Duke games. Then we got Duke3D on launch day
I was about 4 or 5 at the time

[The Carnage Man]

I got introduced through Shareware disks.. We bought those games for 50 cents by the gasstation and thats how Duke Nukem came on the pc and me, my brother and dad loved it..

[Dukeman]

At the time I loved Duke Nukem 2. I never heard of Duke Nukem 3d. My Dad showed it to me and he let me play it. I had the most fun ever. You could walk ,jump, shoot things and it was a 3d world. Which at the time was a big deal. PS1 was the thing then so I played Duke Nukem Kill-a-ton on there and loved it.

[skylined]

I first discovered Duke3D in a game store back in 96 when the shareware version had just come out.
Someone working in the store was installing it and began to test the game as I stood there alone to watch it. I was amazed...
Later that day more and more people came to the store wanting to play it and soon the store was totally overfilled with people.
Everyday after school me and some classmates went directly to that same store to play it, and we had to wait in lines of other people since the hype never seemed to end
Kind of a nice memory back then..

[Micky C]

About ten years ago, I had a shareware cd with lots of games including Duke Nukem II. I loved the game back then and only recently played Duke 3D.

[Damien_Azreal]

My oldest brother Chris bought me Duke Nukem 3D for Christmas in 1996. He said he went into Best Buy and asked them what the best new computer game out was, and the guy pointed right at DN3D and said... get it. Trust me, just get it.

[FrenzalBop]

The shareware version of the original duke nukem was pre-installed on my first pc when i got it in the early 90's. When duke 2 came out i brought the full version and must have finished it 100 times.

I then got duke 3d when it came out. me and my friends used to do late night duke matches fairly often.

[KaptnGraves]

I remeber back in 96 - 97 in my 6th grade class I befriended a new kid who I began talkin about video games on snes and finally the pc. Now the only pc game I played prior was a jurassic park rts although I had heard of doom and wolfenstine the games were never available to me. Till one day my friend's estranged father picked up duke 3d for my friend who let me borrow it. I was so hooked I went out (every $20 I had was worth one mowed lawn ) bought the atomic version twice cause the only available was the parental content gimped one and finally the duke kill a ton kollection as well as any add on I could find. Eventually I bought unreal doom and quake but they never held a candle to my addiction to the duke games.

[Broly]

tbh, ive never heard of DN3D until a few years after its release me and my mom and sister went to walmart (back in the 90's) and we were at the elctronics section and i saw DN3D for the PC i picked it up and look at it, i couldnt buy it cause i didnt have the money, but i love gore and violence, so 1 night my brother comes home with DN64 and Duke Nukem became my fave of all games, then i got total meltdown then DN3D 1.3d then the Atomic Edition, i even have the Action Figure i found it on amazon XD, then i got into map building then eduke32 and xduke, even today its still my fave now im just waiting for DNF

[Arveja]

A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away) i was a little boy who loved playing Doom I and II until some day I bought a magazine that cames with a CD with a bunch of demos, and there it was, THE DUKE NUKEM 3D SHAREWARE VERSION!!!

[Mike359]

Grade 3. My dad got me the Atomic Edition. I played Shadow Warrior and Doom around that time to (1997ish)

[Zavage]

nothing like a good old christmass tree with duke nukem 3d underneath it when you are six, what a feeling never put that game down until computers couldn't run DOS anymore that's why I have it for xbox live now hail to the king baby.