Way back in 1997, the year I graduated from high school, 3D Realms was apparently a Big Deal amongst the proto-Master Racists of the era. While the rest of us were enjoying the glorious Golden Age of RPGs and offering propitiations to the Eternal King, the SNES, even as its foul, bastard child sought to dethrone it, PC gamers were obsessing over the nascent FPS genre in all its depravity, with titles like id’s “DOOM” and 3D Realms’ “Duke Nukem 3D” floating to the surface of the cesspool. I played the ShareWare version of “DOOM” on a friend’s PC (shout-out to Stu, even though he’ll likely never even see this), “Quake 2” thanks to getting it as a freebie with a Voodoo2 GPU, and somehow accumulated “Heretic,” “Hexen,” and “Witchaven” into my small-and-soon... |
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