Happy 9th birthday, Duke3D!

[TerminX]

Duke3D 1.0 was first released to Software Creations' BBS on January 29, 1996 -- it's been nine long years since this game changed gaming. How has Duke3D affected some of your lives? I didn't get my first computer until I saw Duke3D on a demo machine at a nearby Wal-Mart. I can safely say that had Duke3D not been released, I may not have taken an interest in computers at all.

You guys can use this thread for any semi-off-topic stories you may have about how Duke3D has changed your life in one way or another. I hope some of you reply, lest I feel like a gigantic dork who starts threads nobody replies to..

[wieder]

I spent my entire birthday waiting for them to upload the shareware of Duke 3D, and what a birthday gift it was. Duke 3D ultimately led to me becoming a game developer. Many people have their dream career or their dream place or their dream project, and I've been fortunate enough to land all three in one sweep. I can honestly say that Duke 3D has affected my life more than anything else, and so getting to work on the true sequel is a realization of a life goal. I'm not sure how how I'll handle it being complete. What will I have to look forward to then?

That said, I do have a special suprise coming for you guys very soon. Feel free to speculate away, but it's something that has been asked for many times since the Duke 3D source was released. Happy Birthday Duke!

[TerminX]

NotWieder3DR said:
That said, I do have a special suprise coming for you guys very soon. Feel free to speculate away, but it's something that has been asked for many times since the Duke 3D source was released. Happy Birthday Duke!

You and Frank got it working, eh? Great news.

[DLT]

*Speculation* shadow warrior code.

On topic

I still remember the first time I played it my mate brought his copy down mine and we loaded it up I must have been around 10\11 at the time , Anyway we played it for hours and at the one point my mam came upstairs duke decided to shout at the top of his voice "die you son of a bitch" she cam in asking what he just said....... Thinking fast on our feet we replied "dam I fell down a ditch" some how she bought it had we carried on playing.

I will have to ask her next time she visits if she really did buy it or not.

[Geoffrey]

I must admit that the idea to fill duke3d with babes was a great idea. The first time I played it it was on a pc that couldn't run it properly - leaving it unplayable. However, the knowledge that the game had babes made me install it the minute there was a faster pc available.
The first project I worked on was a nude patch for all the babes using editart, and even though it was a grand success I had to delete it when my brother came home because it was his pc. I decided to make maps with hidden babes so that I could show him what I made, without him noticing the overusage of babes ( that I hid in secret rooms and such ).

Now, alot of years later, I'm patiently waiting for the babe 3d model to be finished.

I like the game as well btw.

[Blade Nightflame]

Ah, heh, great news. I didn't get Duke 3d until I was sorta at the age of nine, I liked the game, probably even it's custom user maps that I downloaded. (2001 probably..) The strippers didn't bother me one bit though.

Happy birthday, ye ol' sonma gun Duke. (No offense though.)

[December Man]

DLT said:
Thinking fast on our feet we replied "dam I fell down a ditch" some how she bought it had we carried on playing.

I will have to ask her next time she visits if she really did buy it or not.

When I saw that "damn I fell down a ditch", I couldn't stop laughing You really should ask her if she bought it or not. I'm curious.

BTW: I have the same thoughts about the speculation.

[Blade Nightflame]

Me too, about the spectulation, if it's real. I'm either gonna drop on my knees and keep saying 'I'm not worthy of DNF!' to 3dRealms.

[Rider]

well Duke3D has to be the greatest sensation in my young gaming life. You see, my parents had always kept a close eye on what I played, to keep me a little 'protected' from too much gore/sex/violence. Since Wolf3D I couldn't play anymore shooters (long story) and when I convinced my parents that Duke3D had a Parental Lock function, I was finally able to buy it!

The Parental Lock function was never used ofcourse, but they didn't mind anymore

so without Duke3D, I still might be playing Puzzle/platformers and not know anything of the blessing that is to be DNF

[jimbob]

nine years already? wow time does fly.

i didnt got duke3d right away, but when i bought my first pc back in 1998. i did play it at school during computer class and i remember being blown away by it. there was no sound on the school computers so i didnt get to hear all those awesome one liners until a few years later.

after a while i loaded up build to see what it would do, and fumbled around for a bit, about a year later i was mapping for duke \o/

ahh, the memories

[edit] nifty coincidence, duke nukem 3d is exactly 6 years younger than my little sister who celebrates her birthday today ie:

[DissidentRage]

Happy Birthday to the greatest game ever.

[Chip]

When I first saw Duke3d I was 8, I remember it well. It was when we got a new PC but it was a second hand and the guy we brought it from never wiped the hard drive and Duke3D was on there. Shortly after when it was my 9th birthday I brought the game re-installed it and added sound to it and the game became something to never forget. And just think how old this game is and think how many people still play on it today.

3D realms did a superb job with this game, it truley is one of the best games of all times.

[yossa]

8 years ago I came to my friend's house and he decided to show me DN3D shareware, because he didn't know how to beat a certain level, which soon turned out to be the first one. I must admit I was a complete FPS newbie at that time. Anyway, Holywood Holocaust loads up, he starts to blast his way through and I'm thrilled and amazed at the same time to the point of exclaming: "Computers can do that!?". As my frind approaches the night club I'm counting money needed to be spent on a computer and he says: "now's the part in which I'm stuck". The doors to the night club open, pig cops squeal, strippers dance, liztroopers float, music rocks, lights flicker... "You go and try to find an exit from here, I checked everywhere else and didn't find it", he says. As I try to adopt to the unknown control scheme, I look around and my eyes catch a glimpse of a ventilation shaft. "Hey did you try there?" I ask, "Are you stupid, you can't just crawl in a ventiltion shaft in a game!". Man, was he surprised when I shot it open!

[KaiserSoze]

TerminX said:

You and Frank got it working, eh? Great news.

omg multiplayer? please..please...please!!!

happy birthday duke! your return shall be brilliant!

[December Man]

KaiserSoze said:

omg multiplayer? please..please...please!!!

happy birthday duke! your return shall be brilliant!

WHOA DUDE!!! MULTIPLAYER?! YEAH!!!

[Sir Lemonhead]

Multiplayer seems unlikely..as Ken and JonoF are taking care of that.

They got something working, 3D Realms staff..compiling the Shadow Warrior source code works?

Other than that, I have no idea what else there could be. Any actual enhancements for Duke3D would surely be left to JonoF and Ken...

[Semicharm]

My first exposure to Duke3D was when I was waiting for the after-school drivers ed class to start, a teacher let me hang out in the computer lab and showed me this new demo he got. One look at Duke and Doom has been dead to be ever since! Shortly before the end of the school year I got a copy of the demo from a classmate and installed it on my home PC. I was stunded as it was the first time I got to play it with sound and at 640x480 to boot!

[Beelze]

Happy birthday to one of the great games that introduced me to PC gaming when I was oh-so-young.

[drvarek]

i hope that complete hi-res textures, models and all other enhancments will be ready for 10th Dukes birthday

that whould be just great!

[jimbob]

drvarek said:
i hope that complete hi-res textures, models and all other enhancments will be ready for 10th Dukes birthday

that whould be just great!

with the curent rate of production that seems plausible

[Parkar]

First PC game bought. Still playing it. Need I say more.

[Ecmaster76]

Got it for my twelth birthday in Dec. '96. I remeber seeing it in PCGames and wanting it very badly. Unfortunately our comp at the time was a 33mhz 486 with no sound. It was still awesome, and fortunately we got a new comp less than a year later.

[Odin]

I have vauge memories playing Duke3D back when I was around 8 (blame my Dad :P). It was okay, but I was more intrested in platformer games at the time.

I started getting back into Duke3D when I found a copy of 'Quest of Al'Queda: The Hunt for Bin Laden' somewhere on a CD. I put it in and was kinda hooked. I read Jesse Petrilla (the creator of QfA) and read that the game was made using the build engine. So, I looked around and found a Duke3D demo. Played it, and was hooked. Then I rooted around in my CD stash and found Duke3D atomic. Put it in and was even more hooked. Found the forums here and here I am. :P

[December Man]

I first saw Duke3D on my friends PC. He was stuck in Death Row... I wanted to see the game from the beggining and I-WAS-ASTONISHED. Jesus, that was way,way,WAY better than Doom I played then. I just had to have it. When I got it, the friend showed me Nuclear Winter... Damn, I love this game...

[gamejunkie]

Roger said:
Happy Birthday to the greatest game ever.

WERD!

[Mr. Pink]

Parkar, same here. Although it is because I can't afford to upgrade.

[TerminX]

Mr. Pink said:
Parkar, same here. Although it is because I can't afford to upgrade.

It's about the only game I've run in the past month, and I have a 6800 GT. I think that says something.

[Roma Loom]

Best Game on this planet. Ever.
I have Doom3, Painkiller and FarCry standing on the bookshelf for a VERY long time but I can't get out of DN3D stuff to beat those ^ reatarded games.

[ADM]

Happy birthday Duke

[ADM]

TerminX said:

It's about the only game I've run in the past month, and I have a 6800 GT. I think that says something.

haha same with me.. except I have a Radeon 9800Pro :/

[ProAsm]

I have been programming since 1978 and my policy was always that computers were never designed for games and no game was allowed on my PC until December 1996 when my son insisted I installed Duke Nukem Atomic Addition as he wanted to show me what 3d graphics look like.
To keep him quiet I installed it and WOW that was it, even my wife agreed, it was the best thing since sliced bread.
We were hooked and have been ever since.

Happy Birthday to Duke3d and also my heartiest congratulations to JonoF, Ken and all the many people on this forum with their fantastic texture and model upgrades.

[Kef Nukem]

I first played this at my cousin and was like damn, cool. But I didn't know about the name of the game. Then my brother started talking about something that allowed you to make your own maps. He couldnt remember if it was Blood or Duke3D, then we went to the shop and bought Duke3D and yep, that was the one. First few months were hard and without having a good internet connection I was only able to learn how to map by looking at other maps and by asking friends. Then in 98 I first went to Dukeworld, 3DRealms forums and other sites and I downloaded tutorials on how to map. Slowely my knowledge and way of designing became better, made tons of maps, worked on too many Tcs, even made my own (Borg Nukem), worked on plenty of sites and now.. in 2005, Im still messing around with Duke while I dont know why. I feel like I've been here too long but it's hard to completely let it go.

[Water12356]

Roger said:
Happy Birthday to the greatest game ever.

[Nacho]

Water12356 said:

[Mblackwell]

Kef Nukem said:
Im still messing around with Duke while I dont know why.

Because it f***ing rocks... REPRESENT!

[Hudson]

Mblackwell said:

Because it f***ing rocks... REPRESENT!

Agreed 100%, i've been modding D3D forever now

[Killd a ton]

Happy anniversary Duke (note hes older then the game).

Been trying to think of a good story for my post here didn't really come up wit anything but this.

I remember seeing the shareware on my friends PC, he was trying to beet the boss, there was flying, babes, looking up and down - The game was amazing, unfortunately i have trouble remembering names, so it first after a few years of searching that i finally found the game (atomic editing) but for all that time the game had kept scratching the back of my mind.
About half a year later i tryd the build editor and have been editing games ever since, even worked as a pro for 6 month, witch i hope to return to when i finish my education and stuff

[Icarus2de]

Happy birthday duke

Ah, Duke! It was somewhere in Feb 96, I believe. There was just a review for the shareware in a magazine, raving and raving. But I got this line that said 'still 2d engine not the Quake 3d', and I thought "Oh, man, so who cares about this game then?" Anyway, we just got our first internet connection, and since there wasn't much else to do and the Quake demo was FAR too huge for a measily 56k modem, Duke it was.

"Let's rock." --> Hmm.

"Damn, those alien bastards are gonna pay for shooting up my ride." --> Duke is god!!!!

Only quit playing when windows no longer allowed me to play it, and now that it does, I'm playing it again.

We should all go to HL2 and D3 forums and such. "So you guys still playing those old dummy games? I'm playing the real game of the century guys: Duke Nukem 3D!!!!"

[Blade Nightflame]

There was also Wolf3d and Doom as 'God Games', not only Duke3d.