Those alien ba***ds!!! 20 years of Duke Nukem 3D
Those alien ba***ds!!! 20 years of Duke Nukem 3D
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Morningside

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24,144 posts

251 months

Tuesday 2nd February 2016
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Wow. Twenty years since the release of Duke Nukem 3D.
I remember being amazed by the original version and had nearly all the add on expansions and scoured the Internet for more playable maps.

Oh the joys of setting up your sound card. 220 5 1 ring a bell with anyone?

alock

4,471 posts

233 months

Tuesday 2nd February 2016
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First shared house at uni after first year in halls. A cheap coax cable snaked it's way in and out of every bedroom so we could play multi player duke nukem (and descent)

Best bit was the laser triggered grenade which you could set while falling. You could drop down a lift shaft and set it on the way down. The next person down would be blown up.

Haven't played a first person shooter since.

Negative Creep

25,768 posts

249 months

Tuesday 2nd February 2016
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Despite Duke Nukem Forever (which was bad but not the complete disaster most reviewers made out) I'd still like to see another game in the series.

Baryonyx

18,211 posts

181 months

Tuesday 2nd February 2016
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One of the best games ever and probably the one that had the most influence on me as a young lad.

willisit

2,167 posts

253 months

Tuesday 2nd February 2016
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Morningside said:
Wow. Twenty years since the release of Duke Nukem 3D.
I remember being amazed by the original version and had nearly all the add on expansions and scoured the Internet for more playable maps.

Oh the joys of setting up your sound card. 220 5 1 ring a bell with anyone?
220 5 1... soundblaster irq settings?

Morningside

Original Poster:

24,144 posts

251 months

Tuesday 2nd February 2016
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willisit said:
Morningside said:
Wow. Twenty years since the release of Duke Nukem 3D.
I remember being amazed by the original version and had nearly all the add on expansions and scoured the Internet for more playable maps.

Oh the joys of setting up your sound card. 220 5 1 ring a bell with anyone?
220 5 1... soundblaster irq settings?
yes

Port 220 Irq 5 Dma 1. Thank heavens we don't have to fiddle about with these things any more.

Guvernator

14,116 posts

187 months

Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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I fondly remember playing this at Uni on the campus PC labs after most people had buggered off for the day. The IT tech was a a mate so just let us get on with it and usually joined in once his shift was finished. Was my first introduction to network gaming and over a decent speed LAN too. It would be a number of years before I was able to replicate the experience in my own home. The trip mines were great fun and I can't tell you the number of times I was shot while "playing" with the strippers. biggrin

BaronVonVaderham

2,322 posts

169 months

Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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... and I'm all outta gum thumbup

Mastodon2

14,143 posts

187 months

Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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Massive influence on me as a young lad, I was already well into my gaming when this came out, but along with Quake, this was real next-level stuff.

TX1

2,870 posts

205 months

Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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What a great game that was.

Negative Creep

25,768 posts

249 months

Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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Almost quaint to think how shocking this was back in the day


toasty

8,184 posts

242 months

Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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Negative Creep said:
Almost quaint to think how shocking this was back in the day

Shake it baby!

RobDickinson

31,343 posts

276 months

Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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20 years I thought that was how long the follow up took..

PHCorvette

1,761 posts

124 months

Thursday 4th February 2016
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Morningside said:
Wow. Twenty years since the release of Duke Nukem 3D.
I remember being amazed by the original version and had nearly all the add on expansions and scoured the Internet for more playable maps.

Oh the joys of setting up your sound card. 220 5 1 ring a bell with anyone?
Address, IRQ and DMA??

Its hard to believe 20 years! I never got into Duke I was more into Quake and Unreal but all 3 are epics and where has the time gone?

PHCorvette

1,761 posts

124 months

Thursday 4th February 2016
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ah see the settings were discussed I was just too eager to go on about jumper settings! biggrin

boxst

3,806 posts

167 months

Thursday 4th February 2016
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I loved Duke Nukem 3D. I fondly remember dragging my PC around to a friends house with a cross-over cable to play multiplayer.

Even though I'm old, I was really looking forward to the sequel and was so disappointed.