The humor and other things Duke brought to the table were just at the right time." "It just seemed to be the right game for the right time and I think that we really made some good decisions to not be like id Software and other super serious hardcore games. "I felt like it was going to do really well but it did even better than I thought," says Scott Miller, the co-founder of 3D Realms who worked on the Duke Nukem franchise going back to his first studio venture Apogee Software. The game that bears his name and launched a franchise spanning two decades comes full circle with Gearbox Software's Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour, a modern console and computer release of the original game with new weapons, enemies and levels constructed by the game's original designers. It felt like a very '80s action movie for me."ĭuke's a roided-up musclehead with a bleach blonde flat top who gleefully turns mutants and aliens into bloody piles of guts, spouts one-liners from movies like They Live and the Evil Dead trilogy and always gets the babes. "With Duke, you also got this Stallone or Schwarzenegger movie hero who's built into your video game. "In some ways, it's an extension of that same genre like Doom and Wolfenstein where you had those faceless characters when you didn't know who the characters were," says Trey Fondren, the owner of Plano's FX Game Exchange and co-founder of the annual Let's Play Gaming Expo. Unlike the leads of other first-person shooters, he had a personality bigger than the big bosses he disemboweled. Duke Nukem 3D also put players in the mighty feet of a real character who spoke dialogue in response to his surroundings. The game first released on PCs in 1996 from the Garland-based game studio 3D Realms had infinite playability thanks to its insane action, complex level designs, well-developed multiplayer mode known as "Dukematch" and a supremely adult sense of humor. Games like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, both of which were born in Dallas-Fort Worth's growing game studio community, may have birthed the first-person shooter genre but Duke Nukem 3D gave it character.
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