3D realms cracks me up
I was browsing around the 3d realms site, laughing at the teaser trailer for duke nukem: forever, and I came to a ridiculous discovery on their online store page:
http://3drealms.stores.yahoo.net/dowit.html
Unlike companies like Rockstar that have chosen to release their legacy titles as free downloads, 3d Realms is still selling theirs! That's right, for around 10 dollars a pop, you can get such exciting and graphically up to date games as:
Commander Keen
Rise of the Triad
Word/Math Rescue
Wolfenstien 3D
Duke Nukem 1
Some of them even come on floppy disks...and all of them have a note at the top stating that they will only run under MS-DOS. They're also selling CDs of Duke Nukem 3d and Shadow Warrior for like 20 bucks a pop...really a steal.
I want to say it's a company desperately hanging on to its old products while pulling the wool over everyone's eyes waiting for a new one, but really, they worked on Prey, Max Payne, Max Payne 2 and are working on Prey 2...why sell old games that 90% of the population's machines can't play anymore to begin with?
I guess the grade-school still rocking an army of dusty 286's market is still wide open...might want to get in on that.
- Jon
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Just as a follow up, their
Just as a follow up, their company profile page lists three things that make them awesome to work for, and number 3 may explain a lot:
"3. Freedom from arbitrary completion date pressures, which allows the game to be made on its schedule, and not some suit's schedule."
Freedom from arbitrary completion date pressures apparently means freedom from having to actually complete and release a game any time after it is announced, given a trailer, redone, and then given another trailer.
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Jon "slyfox" Spenceley
4th year Big Jerk
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Maybe Silicon Knights will
Maybe Silicon Knights will release a version of Too Human for the PSOne, or the n64.
Actually it's amazing how
Actually it's amazing how many old games are still on sale online, check out the Underdogs and notice how many old DOS games have "buy it" links. Dosbox certainly has helped to spark interest in DOS era games, considering it runs most DOS games perfectly. It's too bad the source for most of them isn't available, as those that are have mostly been ported to the DS as homebrew :)
Even iD has all of their old games for sale, and lists older parts of a series (Doom, Quake) along with their updated counterparts: http://www.idsoftware.com/store/index.php?view=vintage
I actually played through the very first Duke Nukem 1, I must have been about 10 or so. Great sidescroller.
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Andrew
I did too! and what kills me
I did too! and what kills me is i found it free back then too on some random BBS...
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Jon "slyfox" Spenceley
4th year Big Jerk
Treasonous Teeter-Tottering Traitor
BUTTS LOL