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As one of the oldest members of Dtoid, (I'm already over the big 4-0) I've been gaming since the Atari 2600 was a brand new item, and thousands of my teenage hours were dedicated to gaming on the Commodore 64 and messing around with the new 300-baud modems. (That's .00003 of a megabit per second, for those of you who only know broadband.)

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The original Duke Nuke 'Em at GOG!
John B | 3:40 PM on 02.26.2009 10 comments


I hate sounding like some kind of a GOG sales rep, but in fairness I did submit this to the D-toid guys this morning. The front page has been pretty busy with other stuff. So, I'm not surprised that they didn't get it posted.

I just got my regular e-mail from the folks at Good Old Games and it turns out they they made a deal with Apogee to get Duke Nuke Em (the original one, not the vaporware one), Rise of the Triad, and Blake Stone! I can't even think about how many hours I burned up playing the original Duke Nuke Em!

No, these obviously don't have ZOMG HD GRAFX, but I don't care. I bought Duke immediately. For $6 and no DRM, f*ck yeah!!! What's funny is that the extras that come with it take up more MB than the game itself!

Since they have Apgoee on board, I hope that Commander Keen is next...



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Hamza CTZ Aziz's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/26/2009 16:22
Hamza CTZ Aziz
It's coming up yo! DAMN THE DAY IS NOT OVER!!!!!
John B's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/26/2009 16:30
John B
:D God damn it, that's twice!!

No biggie. The more people that get the word out, the better! Beside, I'm on the east coast, so the day is over for me.
Jordan Devore's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/26/2009 16:47
Jordan Devore
HAHAHAHA. I did this much earlier on but the day was filled up with stories until this time slot. Talk about timing.
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/26/2009 16:50
mix
Cool!

I got the e-mail as well but I couldn't read it all as I had to jet for work!

?

!
sickNasty's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/26/2009 17:12
sickNasty
Actually, this is the original Duke Nukem.



It was a 2D sidescroller. They made 3 of them this way.
humanbattery's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/26/2009 20:14
humanbattery
Sicknasty:There was one game split into 3 episodes, then there was Duke Nukem 2, which was also sidescrolling (but with different graphics and slightly different gameplay).

I wish my floppy of Duke 1 still worked. Maybe GOG will get the actual original up.
John B's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/26/2009 20:16
John B
This certainly is a good sign. If the current (and soon-to-be) Apogee lineup sell well, maybe Apogee will release the rest. GOG is going to force me to use my credit card a lot at this rate -- and I love it!
Demtor's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/27/2009 06:56
Demtor
As much as I love Duke Nukem 3D (I use to absolutely school bitches at LAN parties) I would rather have the side scroller run and guns.
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