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"Come get some!"
Duke Nukem released in July of 1991, making it 35 years old!
Comment with your favorite Duke quote to celebrate!

You can get the HD Remaster right now for $1.49 (85% off)

This sale is available on Steam and GOG.

The original (that runs through DosBox) is on sale for 84 cents on Steam.

The original is also on sale on GOG, but it's only half off right now for $2.49.

So if you haven't snagged a copy, this is a great time to get one for cheap.

P.S. A reminder that I'm not affiliated with Apogee, Steam, or GOG. If you want to see my game library, I keep it public: https://cynic.tv/game_library/
(NOTE: while I own the original on GOG & Steam, I only own the HD Remaster on GOG)

Every now and then the creators of Max Payne release some behind the scenes photos. This was from a picture they posted where they just laid the photo prints on a table and took a picture of them.

I extracted the in-game images from the *.ras files and looked through them to find similar pieces in the game to pair with each physical photo.

Hopefully it provides a fun little glimpse behind the curtain of the production of this excellent game!

Obviously Quake was a massive game, and some of the developers for it had some cross-over with Apogee. The rivalry between FPS games of the era pushed devs to be more creative to try to break new ground.

So kudos to Quake for being an innovative and fierce rival in the First Person Shooter genre... even if Duke pokes fun now and then ;)

From the Apogee Twitter Account:
Bobby Prince, the legendary composer behind the music of Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem 3D, and Quake, has sadly passed away.

His work helped define an era of PC gaming.

"Balls of Steel" was published at the end of 1997 under the label "Pinball Wizards," but it was another confusing synonym for Apogee, just like 3D Realms was.

They intended to publish a bunch of pinball games, but only ever made the one.

While I did watch a friend play this game back in the late 90s, I never played it myself. How about y'all? Any Wizards of Pinball among you?

I think the design choice was a mistake, myself. While it has a good look for a pinball game in general, the whole gimmick of the game was that it was based on one of Duke's catch phrases, so I like the initial design better. If they'd kept some tie-in to Duke on the cover it'd be fine, but as it is it just feels like a generic pinball game unaffiliated with Apogee at all (especially with the confusing "Pinball Wizards" label).

From Wikipedia:

In 1998, an evil alien race, the Rigelatins, plan to enslave Earth, and they kidnap Duke Nukem during his appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show in the city Neo LA (in GBC Nerola City), to extract his brain and use it to power an artificial intelligence that will ensure victory for their forces.^([8]) Duke escapes from his cell and fights across the planet's surface and underground, successfully destroying the Rigelatins' energy reactor and then their mothership before stealing a fighter jet to return to Earth.