VinsaneOne, on Feb 19 2010, 07:42 AM, said:
Wait! Not so fast! 55 in December. Got a few months yet. My first computer was a Tandy 1000. Had just enough umph to play simple crap that fit on 1 floppy disk. Don't even remember its OS. Had no money for a new pc so I went dumpster diving for computer stuff. Learned quite a bit while I put all the parts into this one Compaq w/DX2 and 32mb ram on a 150mb hd w/win 95. Then found a cd for a dollar in a supermarket made by GoldStar i think. It had 100 action games in it including Dn3d demo. Was hooked ever since! Almost fell off my chair the first time I heard Duke say, "Holy shit!" That was late 1997, early '98. Liking Duke was easy. We're alike in many ways. The main thing about Duke, well he's one very cool guy too!
Hehe, cool story; I always enjoy reading how and when people first experienced classic games, especially the likes of Duke Nukem 3D.
Personally I first saw the game at a friends house to my brother who is 3 years older than I am. He had bought this magazine that had a CD with tons of cool demos with it and, of course, DN3D being one of them. He had played it before we arrived and thought it was just pure awesome so he decided to show it off to us two. Yeah, I can say that I had never witnessed such a massively detailed and gory game before; hell, the only games that I had played before were the likes of Mario, Donkey Kong and Stunts! Yeah, you can say that a game like DN3D wasn't really suitable to a nine year old but still it didn't stop me from watching my brother fail and die on the first level.
I have very strong memories from that experience; I could easily describe it piece by piece the instant we started the game, it's quite scary really.
Anyway, this was like mid to late '96 when I first saw the game. We later went home and bought the magazine together with the CD. My memories are a bit shadowed when trying to remember when we later bought the full version though, but I reckon this was a few months later. My parents of course didn't appreciate that my brother and I would play such a gory game especially with the sexual content but luckily they didn't really do anything from stopping us playing it apart from voicing their concerns. Hah.