"My favorite bit of FPS trivia now and forever is that both Marathon and Rise of the Triad came out on the exact same day in 1994 - so neither can really claim to be the first game with dual wielding or rocket jumping."

Commander Keen doodle!

Turbo Overkill

Duke Nukem 3D (1996, 3D Realms)

Technically this is the 20th Anniversary World Tour version's GRP running in eDuke32 to fix basically all of that release's issues. No more baffling forced mouse acceleration and smoothing!

It's my favorite way to play Duke 3D now. The new lighting in every map is really, really nice.

Clyde's Adventure - registered version (DOS, Moonlite Software, 1992)

From the developer of Apogee's Hocus Pocus. You can play it in your browser - the first half and the second half.

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - “Um Sonho de Liberdade” 🇧🇷 - is an incredible movie. Perhaps one of the best ever made. If you haven’t seen this film, go away from here to avoid 🚨SPOILER🚨 and WATCH the film. It’s worth it. That said…

In Dukem Nukem 3D (1996) game, at a certain point (level 3 of the first episode), you will end up in a prison and need to get out of it. Paying homage to the film, your exit is in one of the cells behind a poster.

As you pass through it, you end up finding a sewage system, exactly where the character in the film reaches his freedom.

Details like this are what make this game so incredible to this day (just like the movie 🙂).

#pieceofcake 🍰🔫

gdi why did that one track from the Duke Nukem 2 OST have to go so hard.

Absolutely wild.

Really puts it in perspective.

This is what the US electoral map would look like if it were the title screen to the 1993 side-scrolling PC game “Bio Menace”.

The Devs just messing around having fun I love that.

Games i played in my childhood- Cosmo's cosmic adventure (1992)

I remember when some FPS characters (And others) showed up in this panel from a comic from the Turma da Mônica series.

Duke Nukem and Gordon Freeman are obvious but i'm also pretty sure above Duke is the Quake Shambler.

Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition (Shareware Demo) by Jo Li KMC on YouTube

Let's get ludicrous~

Content warnings: Copious amounts of gore and body parts, and also flaming skeletons.

Rise of the Triad: LUDICROUS EDITION - Launch Trailer by New Blood Interactive on YouTube

Eat toast.

If you love Rise of the Triad like I do, there is absolutely no reason not to get this game, that I can see. It even has its own Shareware Demo available for download.

What are you waiting for? Go play it!!

Controlled Demo-lition: A PC Gamer's Thesis on Shareware

As much as I love writing these articles from the perspective of a “PC Gamer” each June, the truth of the matter is that I’ve been running low on topics lately. Honestly, I was worried that 2020 might’ve been the last year I was able to keep up this ongoing yearly tradition, but I managed to come up with two more articles in line with the very first “PC Gamer’s Guide”. But while preparing the…

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Rise of the Triad (2013) - Blast Review

Developer: Interceptor Entertainment (now Slipgate Ironworks) Rrp: £10.79 (Gog.com) £10.99 (Steam)

The original Rise of the Triad was created by Apogee Software (who now go by the name 3D Realms) back in 1995. This remake was created by Interceptor Entertainment (now Slipgate Ironworks) and published by Apogee Software, LLC (which is not the same one that created the original) in July of 2013. Three months later the developers Flying Wild Hog would release the reboot of Shadow Warrior (of which the original was created by 3D Realms in 1997) through Devolver Digital. Why mention any of this? Well it's because I kind of feel bad for this game, it really didn't stand a chance. It was relying on the nostalgia of those that played the original only to be overshadowed by a much larger, and to be perfectly honest, much better release.

I know how harsh I'm being in the opening paragraph but I feel its justified. This game is a very lazy remake of the original complete with stupid AI, frankly dull combat and puerile humour. Compare that to the Shadow Warrior remake where the AI, while not the smartest, did try to dodge your attacks, the combat was fast and frantic and the humour... well it was also puerile but in a different way. I can't help but make the comparison.

I remember playing the original version of this game way back in the 90's and even then it felt like yet another attempt to ape the original Doom.

Honestly give this game a miss.