Duke Nukem 3D

But anyway, I, I, I have other thoughts about the top 10, but what, what do you guys have to say?

Well, if, if I can go next, um, I just think that after, you know, reading through these lists, and also, like, just so folks know, um, the same site that, uh, that, uh, Nick mentioned, they also published the top, uh, what is it? The top 100 or top 50 from, uh, official Sega Saturn Magazine UK, which is, you know, western publication, and their top 10 was stuff like Virtua Fighter 2, Sega Rally Championship, Nights into Dreams, Duke Nukem 3D, Fighters Megamix, Virtua Cop 2, Marvel Super Heroes, Exhumed, Tomb Raider, and Street Fighter Collection.

So, like, you can kinda just see it's almost completely the opposite.

You've got visual novels and strategy RPGs over here, and, like, dating sims.

Right.

Right.

Right? Uh, Exhumed/Power Slave, Duke Nukem 3D, and Quake.

Uh, now Duke Nukem 3D and Quake did not come out in Japan at all.

And development is ongoing for a MiSTer core for the Apple Macintosh Quadra 800.

And the Z486 core was also updated, and it's now 22% faster than the AO486 MiSTer core as well, with improved support for stuff like Duke Nukem 3D, Humpty Scramble, and a couple of others.

So that's awesome to see faster support for x86 stuff.

For old 486 stuff, I mean.

wasn't.

You were playing Duke 3D and you were going up to the strip club and you're like, shake it, baby.

That was happening.

I was

I took a shot.

Man, I love Duke Nukem 3D.

I

really love that game.

Next up, on August 31st, 1999, Duke Nukem Zero Hour was released for the Nintendo 64, developed by Eurocom and published by GT Interactive.

Rather than continuing the freewheeling alien invasion of Duke Nukem 3D, Zero Hour sent Duke through a time travel plot that dropped him into the Old West.

Feudal Japan, and Roswell in 1951, all in pursuit of aliens rewriting human history.

It swapped the series' usual open exploratory level design for a more linear, console-friendly structure, and added a rudimentary lock-on targeting system to make combat work with a controller instead of a mouse.

And so I tried to play four funsies because I didn't really have many ambitions of beating it unless it actually was good.

But I was like, I got to see what Duke Nukem 3D, 3D on the game com looks like.

Honestly, it doesn't look that bad.

But here's the thing.

...

Duke Nukem 3D was not as funny in, uh-

Feels weird now

... 2008 as it was in 1998.

That 2016 was like, wow.

And Duke Nukem 3D for me.

I should have thought of that.

Fuck.