[MrFlibble]

I've known about the three stand-alone Build engine games (Quest For Al-Qa'eda, Quest For Hussein, and Plunder & Pillage) for quite a while, although I only played P&P. But today I decided to do some proper research and dug up the original pages of these games:
http://www.questforhussein.com/
Terror X: QFA

I've always assumed these were just some "standalone mods" that just went under the radar but the second site contains a statement:

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Permission to distribute freely given by 3d Realms Entertainment. 20020204

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Number of downloads: 33
Is it true? Does anyone know anything about it?

[necroslut]

I don't know anything more about this, but wasn't at least one of them sold, and not just distributed freely though?

[Jimmy]

Thank God for Jesse Petrilla.

He's a somewhat prominent public figure, his social media and website are a touch abandoned but he might be easy to contact.

[Radar]

I just learned something new about Duke's history. I always thought Quest For Al Qaeda/Hussein were just some dumb mods. Apparently, Jesse Petrilla is a total chad in real life.

[Jimmy]

They're not the greatest but are fun for the time period they were released I think, and the maps have rather unique themes, not many maps set in the middle east. Plunder and Pillage showed promise but even calling it a demo is pushing it.

[MrFlibble]

It gets even more interesting apparently:
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Number of downloads: 38
source

(not to be confused with the cancelled Larry Laffer: The Quest for Bush fangame)

UPD: It turns out (according to this blog at least) that Quest for Saddam is a different game with the same premise, running on a true 3D engine this time (Pie in the Sky? can't tell for sure).

[Mark]

I played a little of the 2 later games but never Pillage and Plunder. I just downloaded it and without much fuss have it running under Eduke32. I haven't played it long enough to find if all the gameplay has remained intact. The log shows a few of the usual "else" and "if" warnings but nothing major. Duke3D.GRP not needed to play.

[OpenMaw]

I remember when this guy appeared on the news after 9/11, along with a short segment featuring the flash animation from Newgrounds.com:

https://www.newgroun...rtal/view/33641


One thing I do remember from that news segment was he briefly talked about a game in a "new" "fully 3d" engine. I don't know what that ended up being, though. I don't know if that was Quest For Saddam, it seemed to be some kind of a fantasy game or something,. Reminded me of the Unreal tech demo.

[HenitoKisou]

Looks interesting, sadly none of these links have working downloads. Only links from article seems to work but that captcha have a lot of wrong/expired numbers.

[MrFlibble]

I probably shouldn't be advertising this site (no, it's not abandonware; it just ripped off the content from another site I know) but you can get Petrilla's games from here. Note that the ZIP file names are not original, but the archives themselves are likely unaltered.

[MrFlibble]

Just for the sake of historical reference, here's an interview that DOS Games Archive did with Petrilla back in 2002:
http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/intviews/jpetrilla/index.html (Wayback Machine link)

And the MSNBC feature about him:
http://stacks.msnbc.com/local/KSBW/A1189750.asp?cp1=1

[Mark]

I'm still occasionally working on the updating of Jesse's Pillage and Plunder mod. Some new textures, 3d models, voices, minor map expansions, and of course my usual Polymer renderer that I can't live without. All 3 maps are still rather short so I guess it will continue to be demo length.

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  Number of downloads: 36

[JesseP]

Mark, on 16 November 2023 - 07:18 AM, said:

I'm still occasionally working on the updating of Jesse's Pillage and Plunder mod. Some new textures, 3d models, voices, minor map expansions, and of course my usual Polymer renderer that I can't live without. All 3 maps are still rather short so I guess it will continue to be demo length.

Outstanding! I'd love to play it. So cool to see someone revive my old game. How can I download it?

[Mark]

JesseP, on 06 November 2024 - 08:15 AM, said:

Outstanding! I'd love to play it. So cool to see someone revive my old game. How can I download it?

I'm uploading a zipped file of the project to my dropbox account. I'll send you the link in the private message area. Its heavily work in progress. I'll explain a few things you need to know in the PM.

[Mark]

PM with link has been sent.