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Scott Miller hired an artist in 1991 to make the logo for Apogee. He told him that he wanted a comet tail in the logo.

These were the first drawings. They went on to become the digitized logo for Apogee.

I mushed the images together for easy viewing, but you can see the originals in Scott's tweet.

NOTE: I'm not affiliate with Apogee & earn no referral fee.

The biggest discount is for Blake Stone and Rise of the Triad in this Throwback Pack.

You can see all the games on sale here: https://apo.gg/sale

P.S. I keep my library public so people can see what I own. I don't own all the Apogee games, but a good chunk of them between Steam and GOG.

There is a fun article here about the name-confusion of Apogee vs 3D Realms

TL;DR - Industry focus on 3D games + the availability of a 1-800 number: 1-800-3DREALMS

I just found out from u/sctran that Raptor Call of the Shadows Remixed was a thing.
The original developer (Scott Host) did a successful Kickstarter that is listed as launching soon.

Check out the developer's site for more info: https://www.mking.com/RaptorRemixed.html

EDIT: Developer said the project is on hold as he is taking care of his mother full time at the moment.

I included 9 images in the gallery, so be sure to click through them if you are interested.

Super Boppin isn't one of the first games I think of when I think of Apogee, but I do remember playing it once at my cousins' house. I didn't have a copy myself.

Might be one I should revisit as an adult.

Dan Peterson has been making Voxel art of some games, including Duke 3D.
Check out this one he tweeted of the Battlelord Sentry from Duke Nukem.

If you want to learn more about the Battlelord, you can check out the wiki.

I wanted to find something appropriate to post for Star Wars Day, but Apogee Entertainment had already served up the perfect vid in a tweet!

This game game out May 1st, 1995 and was the first game released under the 3D Realms branding of Apogee's umbrella.

The working title, while it was still in development, was "Velocity Brawl."

It's a combat flight simulator and is most commonly compared to Descent.

It also featured an 8-player networked mode, allowing for some epic LAN parties!

Duke Nukem Forever 2001 (not D-Day as I erroneously put in the title) was in development from 1997 - 2011 (shifting tones drastically as it switched dev teams and eventually released under 2K/Gearbox)

Someone found this Easter Egg (see their vid here).

It's a callback to an Easter Egg in Apogee's 1993 hit, Bio Menace.
Here is a vid on the orig Easter Egg from Bio Menace.

I read the story of Monster Bash and play the first 2 levels.
In level 2, I'll show you a secret area way off to the right and way up high :-D

I always enjoy seeing the artistic design and what they were able to do given the technological constraints :-D

I made 45 emoji for this subreddit spanning several Apogee games :-D
We can have 100 total, so if you have a request I can try to make one (obviously it needs to be something that can display well at a very small size)

If you want to set one for yourself, go to the right panel in r/Apogee and look for "USER FLAIR". Hover over your user, and click the Pencil icon that appears to set or edit your flair!

This video isn't new, but it's still a fun look at how Scott Miller managed to snatch up a team of super talented developers to grow the Apogee umbrella.

This is Part 2 of the video

In 1994, Mark Klem made the music for Wacky Wheels.
That same composer has recently released an updated soundtrack for the whole game! This is the first track, but he also has playlist for the entire OST.

Scott Miller tweeted that they licensed the song for $10k in this 2006 game.
Ah the simpler times when games could afford licensed music, haha