[Duke Nukem IV Guy]

Now i am 15, i started playing Duke 3D v1.3D shareware with 3 or 4 years. Later when i was 8 or 9 i got full Version v1.3D, then small when i was 10 or 11 i got Atomic Edition, Nuclear Winter and Caribean. In which age you started playing and which version (i mean shareware, full version, atomic editon) I hope i am not trolling with this topic. If i do plz remove it Admins!

[Hank]

not sure how this could be trolling ...
39 1/4 old; - Duke Nukem 3D 1.3 in the office lan death matches.

[faked]

I've started playing Duke 3D at age 50.Long,long ago,and far away.....

[Nukeaholic]

I originally played Total Meltdown at the age of 6. PC version; around 2005.

[Kathy]

13

[Loke]

9 or 10. Tried the shareware version at a friends house, this was probably in like '96 or '97.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

7 or 8.

[Lunick]

Too young

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Hey, I'm not that messed up in the head.

[Duke Nukem IV Guy]

I even started with 3 or 4!

[Radar]

I was 9. The year was 2005.

[OpenMaw]

8 years old, so sometime in 1996/1997.

[Sangman]

Got the game on Christmas 1999, I was 8 then.

[SuperFudd]

At work in 1996 when age 52.
We regularly played death match of Doom, Heritec and Hexen. Then came DN3d. Good times.

[Ronin]

I don't really know any young kids but I can't imagine a 3 year old being able to play Duke 3D, maybe they can I don't know but it sounds strange.

I first played Duke 64 when I was 16 I think at Christmas when it came out, I didn't know what was happening to me it was so awesome. I had never played a fps game before.

I'll never forget how Duke said at one point "What are ya waitin for Christmas!" Me and my brother were blown away, and like a pair of goons were thinking that Duke knew it was Christmas and that was the joke.

I played Duke 3D a year later.

[Fox]

I probably played it for the first time when I was 9 or 10, so it was in 97-98. It was on a Playstation, which is a little different from the PC. A few years later I managed to get the Nintendo 64 version, and in a few years I finally played the Atomic Edition version and put my hands on Build.

[Duke Nukem IV Guy]

Ronan, on 02 May 2013 - 10:28 AM, said:

I don't really know any young kids but I can't imagine a 3 year old being able to play Duke 3D, maybe they can I don't know but it sounds strange.

I first played Duke 64 when I was 16 I think at Christmas when it came out, I didn't know what was happening to me it was so awesome. I had never played a fps game before.

I'll never forget how Duke said at one point "What are ya waitin for Christmas!" Me and my brother were blown away, and like a pair of goons were thinking that Duke knew it was Christmas and that was the joke.

I played Duke 3D a year later.

ok my really playing started at age 4, but i did know some knowledge at age 3 that why i said i started somewhere about age 3 or 4. But when i was 6 or 7 i finally managed to get thought the Abyss and kill Battlelord. After that i got v1.3D full version and later i also got v1.5 atomic edition.

[Ronin]

Duke Nukem IV Guy, on 02 May 2013 - 12:40 PM, said:

ok my really playing started at age 4, but i did know some knowledge at age 3 that why i said i started somewhere about age 3 or 4. But when i was 6 or 7 i finally managed to get thought the Abyss and kill Battlelord. After that i got v1.3D full version and later i also got v1.5 atomic edition.

You started playing when you were 3 and beat Battlelord when you were 7? You must be a quick learner, how many years did it take to find the poster you could walk through in Death Row?

[Duke Nukem IV Guy]

Ronan, on 02 May 2013 - 12:54 PM, said:

You started playing when you were 3 and beat Battlelord when you were 7? You must be a quick learner, how many years did it take to find the poster you could walk through in Death Row?

That wasn't my problem at all, my problem was Toxic Dump complicated structure in that time, and also The Abyss structure. When i was shareware user i was really sad because Lunar Apocalypse and Shrapnel City is disabled! But when i got them, i got them but i also some user maps that come with v1.3D Origianl CD! Ah good times! V1.3D will always be in my memories, v1.5 atomic not that much because it's just adds an episode.

[Jimmy]

Started playing the game, and Shadow Warrior around age four in 1997. I always hung out with my older brother and he got the games from a friend. He gets motion sickness from FPSes, and no one else wanted to play it. So it was all mine. Started playing with CON when I was like ten or eleven. Started mapping around fourteen. Never done anything.

[Steveeeie]

First played it when it came out, so I was around 6, I never got far on it though.

[blackharted3]

Starting playing round about 7.

Good times.

[Tea Monster]

I was 33 when I found out about the shareware version right after it had come out. A friend of mine had a small LAN and he introduced me to the game. "Why would you want to play Doom? Check out what I just downloaded." I basically lived over at his house for the weekend and we blasted through the shareware episode in coop.

I remember waiting what seemed like a million years for the full game.

I remember one of my first modding projects was to give the Quake II marine a Duke Nukem skin.

[Mike Norvak]

At 11, must be in 2000 more or less. What a good memories!!!!

[xPreatorianx]

I started playing Duke3D, Doom, Hexen, Heretic, Blood, etc when I was around 4. Ok sorry I was wrong I first started with Doom at 3-4 because that's when it was released. I would wake up at night and watch my dad play on our old computer and because I would already watch horror films with him and sometimes he would let me watch softcore porn (or rather when boobs were on the screen he'd say "Point out the titties kid!") so he allowed me to play without any problems. Then I moved on to each game that followed. So I played all of them including Wolfenstein by the time I was 7-8 years old. As we already had Wolfenstein and as soon as each new game came out we got it and played it. So I grew up with the classic shooters.

Ronan, on 02 May 2013 - 10:28 AM, said:

I don't really know any young kids but I can't imagine a 3 year old being able to play Duke 3D, maybe they can I don't know but it sounds strange.

I first played Duke 64 when I was 16 I think at Christmas when it came out, I didn't know what was happening to me it was so awesome. I had never played a fps game before.

I'll never forget how Duke said at one point "What are ya waitin for Christmas!" Me and my brother were blown away, and like a pair of goons were thinking that Duke knew it was Christmas and that was the joke.

I played Duke 3D a year later.

When you grow up with computers practically as soon as you can walk, yes it's possible. I was practically born with a computer in front of me thanks to my grandfather and father. So I started Doom when it was released and I was either 3-4. Of course I sucked at it for awhile so my dad would put cheats on for me. But soon after that I completed it without any cheats. So ya I'm the definition of a geek. If I could of had a computer while I was in the womb I would have had one.

Heck I learned how to fully work MS DOS when I was learning Doom. Before then I would just sit in either my father or grandfather's lap and ask them questions when I wanted to know something. So I was taught how to use a computer just as much as how to eat, read, etc.

[High Treason]

Around 1996 when the shareware had not long been out - it was on a Focus disc called "Duke Nukem Plus" along with the full Duke Nukem II and a shareware of Terminal Velocity. I would have been 5.

I wasn't very good at it... Still thought it was the best thing since my Super Nintendo though.

I have posted it before, but I have a picture of myself playing the game for the first time (save for me messing with it in Makro before my father bought the disc). I remember that picture being taken, I remember where I was - the atomic health near the start of Hollywood Holocaust - and who would have known then where it would lead, my repeated deaths in the projector room and having to turn the game off at 8PM or when my dad wanted to use AOL, getting in trouble at school for saying things like "Get that crap oudda here" and "Eat shit and die!", at age 7 we had to do sewing and make a cushion with a name on it, I couldn't think of one so I put the 3D Realms logo on mine. When I was 10 a girl wouldn't talk to me again because she came around to my house and all I did was play Duke 3D and then found the trailer for DNF (2001) which didn't impress her (I didn't care, DNF was coming out), then at 13 I got in trouble at school again for getting all the other kids to walk around saying things like "Blow it out your ass" and turning ICT into a LAN Party, at 14 I was in social services and had my original disc and the full version confiscated (along with Blood and some others) that I since had to buy again as I never got them back (except the focus disc), at 16 I refused to play Halo at college and got into trouble for running Duke 3D on their machines.

Now I map and mod for the game, DNF came out and failed. Damn. (Edit: The game, not the mod, the mod was good).

My parents took that picture because back then people said I never shut up... Maybe I didn't, but I did when Duke 3D arrived.

"Damn, those alien bastards are gonna pay for shooting up my ride!"
And they still are.

[Kathy]

Wow, that's awesome. Great stories guys.

I remember my brother was playing The Abyss while I was hiding under the blanket from time to time because the whole buildup towards Battlelord was scary as hell.

[Person of Color]

Twelve.

[Jimmy]

People forget how atmospherically scary Duke3D is. I was probably like 15 when I finally played all of Lunar Apocalypse.

[Fox]

High Treason, on 08 May 2013 - 07:06 PM, said:

getting in trouble at school for saying things like "Get that crap oudda here" and "Eat shit and die!"

Funny as hell.