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Duke Nukem (PC)

GENERAL INFORMATION

GENRE/STYLE

Shooter/Platform Shooter

RELEASE DATE

01/JUL/91

ESRB RATING

DEVELOPER

Apogee Software Ltd.

PUBLISHER

Apogee Software Ltd.

TRAITS (member-attributed "LIKES")

THE SETTING #USES

near future 13
sci-fi 2

PLAYING AS #USES

Duke Nukem 22

PLAYING AGAINST #USES

HOW IT'S PLAYED #USES

GENERAL TONE #USES

DESCRIPTION

Duke Nukem is the first game in the series of Duke Nukem's adventures.The storyline is simple: Dr. Proton has taken over Earth's largest city (not mentioned by name, but apparently New York City), and is releasing Techbots in his plan to take over the world. Dr. Proton is a formerly respected scientist that went through an awful radiation accident. Now he is releasing the Techbots from his guarded underworld lair.

The only person that can save the world is Duke Nukem. His orders from the CIA are to stop Dr. Proton using an array of futuristic items and weapons. Duke is dropped from a plane onto a skyscraper and must find Dr. Proton in his underworld location and defeat him to succeed.

You progress through the game by accomplishing various tasks on each level, including collecting keys and computer chips, and finding the way out. All the while, you're evading (or preferably shooting) the evil robots and other enemies that have taken over the world.

You only have a certain amount of health. When a robot touches you or fires at you, you lose one health point. Luckily, you can pick up health points by picking up food and drink along the way. Duke can also jump and fall a great distance without being hurt. Progress through three full chapters to reach the ultimate showdown with Dr. Proton! ~ Mark Kanarick, All Game Guide

Duke Nukem (PC)

GENRE/STYLE:

Shooter/Platform Shooter
RELEASE DATE:

01/JUL/91
TOP TRAITS:

Duke Nukem, near future, platforming
DESCRIPTION:

Duke Nukem is the first game in the series of Duke Nukem's adventures.The storyline is simple: Dr. Proton has taken o... more

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Boxer a boon for Mac MS-DOS gamers by: dowekeller

“If your like me and you have a lot of old MS-DOS games around that you enjoy playing, and you own a Mac, you might want to check out Boxer It allows you to play DOS games with a click of a...”

created 23/NOV/2009

EarthboundX was the last to comment - 21 days ago...

“Is it easier to use then Dosbox? Dosbox can be kinda hard to use if you never used DOS, took me quite a while to figure it out.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - 21 days ago...

“Yes, they even have some sample programs already set up, DOS demos and such like Ultima Underworld, Epic Pinball and X-Com. And they give you some pretty detailed instructions on how to set up your own games so they launch just like a Mac App.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - 21 days ago...

“Well I've never used Mac, does it launch like Windows?”

dowekeller was the last to comment - 21 days ago...

“I think Mac and Windows launches applications the same way, but Boxer is a Mac OS-X app. There should be something similar on Windows however.”

Fallout2Forever was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“I really wish that someone would make a version of DOSbox or whatever that is more user friendly.”

Ashbelthor was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“*laughs at MAC users*”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“@Ashbelthor Lol”

dowekeller was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“@Fallout2Forever, here's the URL to a page that has a bunch of DOSBox front-ends, none seem to do EXACTLY what boxer does, but one might be what your looking for.

http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/DOSBoxFrontends
@Ashbelthor WTF?? ”

Ashbelthor was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“@dowekeller I seriously don't understand the use for a Macintosh.
I've been using Win XP for the last 3 years and haven't encountered a single virus.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“Lucky you, I've been administering my parents computer for about the same time and have regularly had to deal with viri, worms and other malware not just on their personal directory's, but spread across the whole system. If Microsoft had Microsoft at least warned customers that their security is a joke, and almost anything can gain root privileges and rape the system, I'd at least known to not use it on an internet connected machine. To pile insult onto injury, configuration is obscure, and documentation exists only for shallow problems that only the most computer illiterate users would encounter. I ended up having to wipe the drives and re-install the OS multiple times, not because this was strictly necessary (I don't know if it was or not), but because there was no intermediate to advanced system documentation on the box, anywhere.

At least with OS X, I have the man pages! I also have a real C compiler, Java compiler, perl, and a bourne compatible shell, not to mention GNU-emacs. I didn't have to buy them, I didn't even have to download them from the net, they come with the system.

BTW, I finally convinced my parents to let me install Ubuntu Linux on their system, they love it and there has been no more malware problems in approx. 6 months.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“I however have nothing against other people running Microsoft Windows, I just don't have patience for it.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“Yeah, I haven't had a virus is what? Over five years?

Yet the MAC ads still bring that up, god I hate those ads.

Anyone notice that the PC guy is a lovable goof, while the Mac guy is a Smug D-bag?”

dowekeller was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“I'll agree with that whole heartedly, the Mac adds are more off-putting than they should be, but Apple manages to sell boxes, so my complaining isn't going to matter.

I don't have any real Windows experience outside of a work environment, at least not since Windows 95 (A real dog, you couldn't even compile a program and play a game at the same time without it crashing). I know lots of people who have managed to use it for a long time with no failures. I do know that they have no decent documentation for computer literate users. All help files assume you have a PEBKAC error.”

Zedo-P-Mann was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“I personally don't like the Mac hardware. You have to use what's in it, and in the case that anything breaks, you have to buy a new unit, instead of replacing the broken part. This also kills off upgrades a little bit. Instead of being able to put a new GPU or RAM in, you Mac users have to, I don't know, plug something into your Mac?

The fact that the Mac software ONLY runs on Mac hardware keeps me away from the Mac OS.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“There already are lots of good Unices for those boxes that are free to download, I like FreeBSD (which the designers of OS X liked to apparently since that's what it's built on). All in one boxes, like the iMac are a compromise you get a compact package without a mess of wires and such (which is what made me purchase my machine), but you do loose upgradability. I am not a big modder, by the time I'm ready to go to a new faster gpu, generally my cpu and motherboard are obsolete too, so I might as well replace the whole box (replacing memory in iMacs is actually quite easy). But if I was interested in hot-rodding my box, I probably would have bought a separate computer and screen. If your interested in upgrading to Unix though, there are several options that are freely downloadable, my favorites are Debian GNU/Linux, and Free BSD.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“How much of the home computer market does MAC have anyway? A few years back, I heard they only had 5-10%.

That's what makes me really hate the ads, if more people had Macs, there would be just as many viruses for it.

What it really comes down to it, I'm a gamer, and Macs are not for gamers.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“They have about 5-10%, which makes them like the largest manufacturer of PCs unless you group all the little no-name box makers, then they dwarf everybody. Computers are a commodity, no one company is going to dominate that market.

As for the viruses thing, yes and no. The fact is that when your talking hardware, all viruses will run on all Intel based PCs, that's to be expected. And someone could write a virus that would infect a PC running OS X. However, there is NO excuse for viri to be able to get root access. That's what I was angry about re Windows, and if OS X had a hole like that, I'd promptly wipe my drive and install FreeBSD.

Macs aren't for gamers simply because, historically speaking gamer's haven't bought Macs. If the demographic shifted, then more games would be ported to the Mac. I am also a gamer, but if you looked at the amount of time I spent gaming compared to the amount of time I spend doing other computer related tasks, gaming ends up being at best a large minority of my computing time. I'm not going to put up with sub-optimal crap for the majority of my day, for a slightly larger collection of games.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“As it stands now, I probably spend too much of my time gaming.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“Aren't MAC much more expensive? What do you mean by Sub-optimal?”

dowekeller was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“Mac's are a bit more expensive compared to equivalent machines from other name brand manufacturers, but I'm not talking price or even hardware, but software. I find Windows to be inferior to every other PC OS. I don't want to have to build my own box, and a lot of PCs have (or at least at the time when I bought my Mac, had) peripherals that have no guts in them, the driver does all the work. The manufacturers only write drivers for Windows. So if I wanted a non-Mac machine, I would have had to carefully pick and choose only those peripherals that had drivers for BSD or Linux. The resulting box would cost the same or slightly more than the iMac, and it came with Unix and had a convenient form-factor for my small home as well. So for me it was a win-win situation.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“Have you used Windows 7? It kicks ass.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“No, It may be great, that's super if it is. Microsoft could have won me over when I had a Windows 95 machine, I found that OS to be so unstable as to be useless. I started playing with a small Minix in a box app at about that time, found I really liked Unix's structure, and the fact that it did for programmers what Mac OS and Windows supposably did for users, made everything easier. A little while later, I stumbled onto Linux and rather quickly chose to wipe my drive and install Debian over the internet (using a 28.8 mbps modem no less). I loved Linux and used it for a couple years when I got a new box and shopped around and found the FreeBSD was more of a fit for me. Sometime after that, I experimented with a friends computer running XP and my initial opinion was that MS had pulled their collective head out of their ass and built a decent OS. I didn't switch, because I was comfortable with what I had.

The only real experience I've had with windows outside of that was at work (where if the stupid box crashed it was somebody else's problem), and with my parent's box of horrors.

I would never have bought and Apple iMac if it weren't for some bad experiences trying to find FreeBSD/Linux drivers for a laptop I owned previously. I was tired of working around other peoples stupidity.

I think the computer market is big enough for everyone to have a piece of the pie, in fact I look forward to more OSes and architectures, as the market becomes less of a monoculture, viruses will die out (because there won't be one big fat stupid target), and software developers will be pushed to write portable code that will recompile and run on a range of machines.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“I think I may have used Windows 95 some when I was in grade school, and yeah, it was a piece of shit, haha.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“Windows started as a graphical shell that ran on top of MS-DOS (in fact you can run Windows up to 3.11 inside DOSbox (I've done it)). When they made Windows 95, they added multi-tasking, but rather than rewrite an OS with full protected memory and preemptive multitasking, they stayed with the old Windows over MS-DOS code, and wrote a botch of a task switcher into it. They managed to sell this same box of $#!% all the way up to Windows ME. Everything after that is based off of Windows NT, and although they both are called Windows, NT has no connection to Win95/98/ME. It is in-fact a near clone of DEC's old VMS operating system. As for Win 7, I don't know, but If I had to guess I'd say it's a new version of the NT code-base, like its predecessors.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“No clue, you seem to know much more about how computers work then I do, I know how to put them together, but not really what makes them tick.”

Zedo-P-Mann was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minwin”

Zedo-P-Mann was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“That is the Windows Vista/7 Kernel.

Here is the architecture of Windows NT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_kernel”

dowekeller was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“Most gamers are hardware literate because of their need for higher frame-rates. I've been into programming since the early 1980's, and have gotten into IBM PCs relatively late, being mostly a Commodore Geek. I know a lot of computer history, partly because I'm old enough to have witnessed it, but also because I am both a computer geek and a history buff.”

Quarex was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“Can we get back to talking about DOS games?!?

I tried to rally support on DOSGamers.com for people actually buying old DOS-based laptops/desktops for incredibly low prices rather than using emulation software, but oddly, the whole "free and incredibly easy in comparison" aspect of DOSBox and Boxer seems to be more appealing. Go figure.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“@Zedo-P-Mann, sounds like this Minwin is supposed to be a micro-kernel running NT on top of it. Micro-kernels are supposed to be better than monolithic, kernels, but I've not seen a difference from the user or programmer prospective, I've run systems with monolithic kernels, such as Linux and traditional FreeBSD, and I've run micro-kernels like OS X (which is based on Mach IIRC). Computer scientists like micro-kernels, but one of the big reasons the FSF had trouble completing the GNU system was that their fancy micro-kernel HURD was so hard to debug.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - 20 days ago...

“@Quarex, emulation wins IMNSHO, unless the original hardware was just so unique. Nothing will replace the feel of an old Atari VCS console, and the tiny 9-inch screen, long travel keyboard and boxy mouse of the original Macintosh cannot be replicated in software (yet), but most old MS-DOS machines were indistinguishable from modern systems except for their innards, so emulation is a definite win. Except the keyboards, IBM won my heart with the original PC keyboard!”

Fallout2Forever was the last to comment - 19 days ago...

“@Quarex Anyone here ever play the original Lands Of Lore: The Throne of Chaos? I think it still has one of the most unique battle systems I've ever seen in a game. Plus, the first party member to permanently join you was beyond awesomesauce, with 4 arms, letting him carry 2 weapons and 2 shields!

Too bad the sequels were massively dumbed down, and turned into action rpgs.”

Quarex was the last to comment - 16 days ago... show previous hide previous

“DoweKeller: I see your point about emulation in this regard; there really was basically no difference between the DOS computers of yesteryear and the Windows computers of today, at least none that nostalgia has much to work with ... other than those keyboards. And, of course, true to form, I still only use those PS/2 keyboards, even going so far as to continue installing keyboard serial port cards in my new systems just to make sure I have no trouble with getting them to work.

Fallout2Forever: I picked up one of the two aforementioned dumbed-down sequels this summer at an auction for $3, but I still have never played the original. I did hear that it was the best of the series.”

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Added by: monkeygrenade
Date: 14/SEP/2009
Views: 11
Votes: 0

created 14/SEP/2009

dowekeller played Duke Nukem on 19/JUL/09

“Getting reacquainted with an old friend. Drinking Cokes, eating turkey and collecting joysticks, TV sets and big giant letters.”

created 19/JUL/2009

Duke Nukem (PC) by: dowekeller

“Who doesn't want to blow dry their platinum blond dyed hair, pull on a pink sleeveless -T, grab a ray-gun and kick some evil robot @SS!!!! Feeling tuckered out, just grab a Coke or a turkey leg, they contain powerful curative properties you know.”

created 19/JUL/2009

Duke Nukem (PC) by: Raltar

“One of the very first PC games I ever played and still probably one of the best side scrolling action games ever made. Its too bad they don't make Duke Nukem games anymore. ”

created 02/JUN/2009

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Added by: ICEWOLFcp666
Date: 08/MAY/2009
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created 08/MAY/2009

Duke Nukem developer 3D Realms is shutting down by: QforQ

“The Duke Nukem developer, 3D Realms, is rumored to have closed down today. http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/06/rumor-duke-nukem-dev-3d-realms-shut-down/ Apparently their spin off studios making...”

created 06/MAY/2009

Imran was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“I was sad to read this, but when you have a game that you can't release for 10 years, its kind of expected.
”

Grinn was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“It's almost criminal that they've lasted this long. I wonder what the final straw could have been after 10 years of final straws? ”

mykalgaidin was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“The King is dead. Long live the King!

I remember when etc., etc..

Great developer, but when you announce a project then spend over ten years developing said game there's something wrong, especially if it's not the first time you've done that. I'm sorry people lost their jobs, but come on. What was the last thing 3D Realms even released? Prey. In 2006. Before that? Duke Nukem Mobile 3D, which wasn't even developed by 3D Realms, it was done by Machine Works Northwest. Sorry if I sound harsh but there are realities to the game development/publishing biz, and that's that you actually have to produce a product.

Again, my sympathies to those who are now without work. 2K Games still holds the publishing rights to Duke Nukem Forever, maybe some of you can get a job with whatever studio is called in to actually finish the game.”

ChangeAgent was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“Yeah something fundamentally broke at that company at some point.”

tibbon was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“I wish they could (and would) open source the project and allow the community to see what they had, and complete it. Unfortunately, they won't do it (as almost no game company ever has, as the are IP greedy and stuck in tons of contracts).

I also wish they hadn't pulled us along (lied to the community) and kept acting like it was right around the corner for... 10 years.

Both acts seem to be a smack in the face to the gaming community. I wish they'd had better project management on this. In 10 years with that team you should have been able to write a killer operating system from scratch, let alone actually release a game. Remember the open source mantra: release early, release often. ”

mykalgaidin was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“Hell, they could have designed, engineered and built a custom console to play the thing on, in addition to making the game, which would include all of the physics and AI code most devs turn to middleware for. It was like watching a star go supernova in slow motion, drawn out over an agonizing ten years.”

tibbon was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“I'm just waiting for the developers to sign book deals when they can, and talk about the 10 years of failure and development. Probably will make more money than the game would have. ”

Galacticus was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“Is anyone really that shocked? They should have shut down 10 years ago.”

Sarron was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“It is amazing they lasted so long. I guess it goes to show how motivated game devs can be when they simply love their work/product and/or the team they're working with.”

BJKBLAZE was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“To bad, I really enjoyed Major Stryker well when they were Apogee Software.”

Genreninja was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“I guess it happens... but 10 years on 1 project? I'm confident that investors are the ones who pulled the plug. Paying salaries for 10 years with no return on their investments. Someone had to draw a line, and I guess that was it.”

pongsifu was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“They haven't been inactive for 10 years. from 1999 to now they've published 9 games, like Manhattan project and some gameboy games, most recently being the arcade version of Duke Nukem 3D for 360. They also published the two Max Payne games and Prey.”

Wormy was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“This is sad news. I really do want more Duke Nukem.”

colliny2k was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“Well, I'm going to sum up what happened here with a few notable quotes from Duke Nukem himself:

"What are you waiting for? Christmas?"
"Uh, Uh, Uh. Where is it? "
"Shit happens..."

So yea, it's sad...but expected. I will still hold out a little place in my heart for the day somebody brings this project back to life.

I really would like to see some real view into what happened and what was actually going on in those 10 years. A book about it, as Tibbon suggested, would be pretty sweet to see (though a video documentary would be better...I want visuals!). It's kind of like after all this time, we just want to get something...anything...out of all the anticipation the gaming community has had for the game. It's not that we deserve it or anything...it'd just help to fill that emptiness left behind from the end of an era.”

duffmachine was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“Duke Nukem Forever will have to wait.....Forever~”

perlox was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“god damn, it's about time something happened with 3D realms. I mean it sucks their company died (or is dying), but at least now someone's bound to purchase the Duke Nukem franchise. Hopefully it's a bigger company that doesn't take 10+ years to release a game. :p
Props to 3d for making some pimp games though.”

Hagan was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“This really isn't surprising news when you think about it. For most of the community of gamers, many of the current generation don't even know who they are, let alone any of the games they released.

I can't say I'm saddened though, for the obvious reason of, 'why should I be?'. 3D Realms has been little more than a joke for years now, and I'm sure I'm not the only one whose surprised it took this long to announce calling it a day. I do wish their staff well, and hope they can find work elsewhere.

We can only hope that this will be the end for the rather tired "Duke Nukem: Taking Forever." gag.”

Imran was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“Is the Duke Nukem franchise even relevant these days?”

colliny2k was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“@Imran What are you? Some bottom-feeding, scum sucking algae eater? Of course Duke Nukem is relevant. Tis a classic and as such will forever be relevant.

Crazy long compilation of Duke Nukem quotes (Rated M for bad language): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZf64NfQATM”

MerrickM was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“Am I really the only one who thinks that Duke Nukem Forever has a far better chance of actually being made and released with 3D Realms closing their doors? Come on, I really can't be the only one.”

Hagan was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“3D realms would say so. After all, its about all they ever made barring Prey and Max Payne. My problem is that they had such a long development cycle and small production team trying to pull off large scale projects.

It was bound to backfire eventually.

As for getting it created by a 3rd party company: Do you honestly think that anyone will touch Duke Nukem with a barge pole unless they could make a few 'tweaks' to the character? After all, he was badass as hell, and just a 'touch sexist'... and when I say touch, I mean 'slapped arse on a stripper'.

After all, they killed Leisure Suite Larry by toning him down, Imagine what they would do to Duke. I feel the only people who would take on the franchise and not kill the character by toning him down would be Rockstar games, IF they would be willing to buy the rights. Only then do I think we'd see Duke Nukem, as nature intended...

Covered in the blood of his enemies, a beer in one hand and a stripper in the other.”

HighSimSim was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“I wish all those that lost their jobs good luck with finding a new one.

That seriously is a kick to the nuts. Maybe it really was "Duke Nukem Never".”

Imran was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“Actually, I forgot about Prey... I guess that means no more Prey 2!

Now I'm really sad!”

Hagan was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“Apparently someone called 'Rader Group' is now producing Prey 2. So provided they don't go under, we could still have it.”

pongsifu was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“A different developer is working on Prey 2.”

Retodon8 was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“3D Realms is no more... surreal. I needed a day for it to sink in fully.
Duke Nukem 3D was my favourite game for a long time, and every other year or so I felt hopeful towards seeing DNF again. Now I don't know what to think, need more info.
(Wow, this discussion actually survived for over 10 posts before somebody couldn't stop himself from making a "forever" joke.)”

Manystones was the last to comment - 7 months ago...

“That's crazy, I can not recall the show I was watching but they were interviewed and gave confirmation in imagery that they were working on a next gen Duke game and from what the monitor showed it was open environement full 3D. ”

QforQ was the last to comment - 7 months ago... show previous hide previous

“They had Duke Nukem Forever footage on the Jace Hall show (Web TV show) last year, you may be thinking of that.”