Stumbling through the 3D Realms Anthology - 1987-1992

[davidn]

Wow, do I really care about this journal so little now that I haven't posted a single one of the video series I've been doing over the last few weeks? Here are the first three parts - they're basically my attempt to substitute for my obsolete dream of becoming a games programme presenter on television.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X60j-TWn414&hd=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMOSgepPNDY&hd=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQsIhIoIur0&hd=1

Comments

[lupineangel.livejournal.com]

So which do you prefer to be known as, the furry Noel Edmonds or the furry Dominik Diamond? :P

This third video is about the era when I started getting into Apogee games; we got our first PC about this time, just breaking out of the BBC Micro era and after a disastrous flirtation with early Macs. My first introduction to Apogee was Monster Bash, and dad enjoyed it enough that he looked into their back catalogue. Secret Agent, Commander Keen 1 and 4 and Word/Math Rescue were the ones I remember most; Wolfenstein 3D was when I first noticed the difficulty I have with motion-sickness in first-person shooters (specifically when strafing along walls hitting the spacebar looking for hidden passageways).

On a vaguely-related note, I miss the days when the stars in space were made up of every colour the graphics card was capable of. :P There's something about that style that just hits all the nostalgia buttons for me. :P

D.F.

[crassadon.livejournal.com]

"Wow, do I really care about this journal so little now that I haven't posted a single one of the video series I've been doing over the last few weeks?"

:' (

What is the name of the top down shooter game in the montage sequence of the first video. That game was excellent.