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Posts Tagged ‘John Carmack’

Quake Brings Gamers 3rd Dimension Death – June 22nd 1996 – Today in Video Game History

June 21st, 2016

Carl Williams

Okay, where were you 20 years ago? Were you a PC gamer or were you a console gamer? Either way, you probably heard about Quake by id Software when it was released. It was a game changer for all of the right reasons. While Doom, id Software’s previous series, was iconic and popular, Quake took […]

Posted in Comp, Dreamcast, Linux, Macintosh, News, Saturn, Sega, Windows

Tags: 3d, first person shooter, fps, id software, John Carmack, John Romero, quake, Shambler

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Wolfenstein 3D Pits Gamers Against Nazis – May 5th, 1992 – Today in Video Game History

May 5th, 2016

Carl Williams

Okay, back in the early 1990’s PC gaming was COMPLETELY different than it is today. We actually went to stores and bought games. We didn’t have online capabilities standard in games. Games back then barely had modem, land line, multiplayer. Direct, in the same room multiplayer was common around this time. We also would call […]

Posted in Comp, News

Tags: dos, Germany, hitler, John Carmack, John Romero, nazi, wolfenstein 3d, World War II, WWII

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Commander Keen PC Action Adventure Apogee

Commander Keen Proves Computers Can Game – December 14th, 1990 – Today in Video Game History

December 14th, 2015

Carl Williams

What do you do when you have spent a lot of money and time creating a pretty damn good rendition of Super Mario Bros 3 but for PC? First, you shop it out to Nintendo and when they say no, you take your superior engine and rework the graphics and levels to make something new […]

Posted in Comp, News

Tags: 14th, 1990, 2d, action, Commander Keen, december, dos, John Carmack, John Romero, pc, platform, shareware, side scrolling, super mario 3, Tom Hall

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Doom Ported to Automatic Teller Machine

July 29th, 2014

Carl Williams

We have seen Doom ported to all kinds of platforms over the years, everything from the ZX Spectrum and Commodore VIC-20 to digital cameras and the Microsoft Zune. Now, Youtuber “Aussie50” has added an Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) to the list.