Stumbling through the 3D Realms Anthology - 1987-1992

[davidn]

Wow, do I really care about this journal so little now that I haven't posted a single one of the video series I've been doing over the last few weeks? Here are the first three parts - they're basically my attempt to substitute for my obsolete dream of becoming a games programme presenter on television.

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[lupineangel]

So which do you prefer to be known as, the furry Noel Edmonds or the furry Dominik Diamond? :P

This third video is about the era when I started getting into Apogee games; we got our first PC about this time, just breaking out of the BBC Micro era and after a disastrous flirtation with early Macs. My first introduction to Apogee was Monster Bash, and dad enjoyed it enough that he looked into their back catalogue. Secret Agent, Commander Keen 1 and 4 and Word/Math Rescue were the ones I remember most; Wolfenstein 3D was when I first noticed the difficulty I have with motion-sickness in first-person shooters (specifically when strafing along walls hitting the spacebar looking for hidden passageways).

On a vaguely-related note, I miss the days when the stars in space were made up of every colour the graphics card was capable of. :P There's something about that style that just hits all the nostalgia buttons for me. :P

D.F.

[davidn]

Oh dear god, I'd forgotten about Dominik Diamond - I suppose that's pretty much who I am here, but without the sheer aggression of constant innuendo.

There's definitely a feeling that comes with the limitations of these graphics (and the capability of the engines made to run on the computers of the time) that can't easily be replicated now :)

I know I had the shareware episodes of Dark Ages, Secret Agent and Duke Nukem - I think it was just whatever got distributed on magazine coverdisks at the time. My dad borrowed the registered disks of Commander Keen 1 from someone at his work, and it was the best thing to ever happen, finally getting to see the worlds beyond the confines of the shareware episode of something :) I remember having Monster Bash as well, but it was a cut-down version of even the first episode because at the time, a full 1MB was seen as a bit much for a game coverdisk!

How... disastrous, exactly, can a flirtation with Macs go? :X

[kjorteo]

[davidn]

Oh, great Saint Pigeonation himself :X

[crassadon]

"Wow, do I really care about this journal so little now that I haven't posted a single one of the video series I've been doing over the last few weeks?"

:' (

What is the name of the top down shooter game in the montage sequence of the first video. That game was excellent.

[davidn]

That's Raptor! I loved it when it came out and it'll be in the 1994 video :)

[canadanne]

Ha, I was reminiscing about Raptor quite recently. I think I recognise the clip just before that, too - Mystic Towers?

Loved those old Apogee and Id games. Didn't like Wolfenstein 3D with all the dog shooting, but Blake Stone was awesome. And Monster Bash!