Post by trog @ 10:03am 06/05/12 | 39 Comments
It is utterly bizarre to me to think that it was 11 years ago when I wrote this brief tribute to Wolf on its mere ninth birthday, but I still remember the first time I played it and how completely blown away I was but not only what it offered at the time, but what it promised for the future of video games. Certainly it was a pivotal moment for me personally as it began my long trek down FPS lane which ultimately culminated in my involvement with QGL and AusGamers.
If you want to relive the old days and don't still have a copy of it lying around, it's available on Steam by itself for USD$4.99 or in the Wolf Pack (with Spear of Destiny and Return to Castle Wolfenstein) for USD$14.99 - and of course available in a huge variety of other formats and on other platforms.
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Posted 11:28am 06/5/12
Oh and who could forget lending your discs to your mates for them to try, 20 something floppies? Oh and the first time you bought an actual sound card and speakers after playing the game for all those months / years using the on-board speaker.... holy f***. Only one of 2 times I've ever been blown away by games in my life, the sound effects in wolf 3d when upgrading to a soundcard/speakers and the graphics in quake when buying my first voodoo card and running GL quake with transparent water.
S*** you take for granted now with video games eh!
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Posted 11:42am 06/5/12
I was never a massive Wolfenstein guy, was probably just too young at around 6 years old, but enjoyed it when I was older, Doom is what really got me hooked. For years and years I've been a massive fanboy of Doom and ID software (and still am).
I remember making custom levels and customs sprites for Doom and god damn was that fun. I remember making levels consistently and my very last Doom level would've been in year 12 just before Doom 3 was released. Even in 2004 I was still utterly obsessed with ID's classic games, they just seemed to hit home where no other game could.
If anyone hasn't checked it out I seriously recommend you have a read of Masters Of Doom.
Posted 11:55am 06/5/12
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Posted 01:07pm 06/5/12
I have a soft spot for the range of 'firsts' games I played as a kid, and I was just old enough to get right into these bad boys!
I don't seem to enjoy AAA titles as much anymore, instead I seem to get a much bigger kick from a 'new gaming experience' (in recent years stuff like Braid, Shadow of the Colossus or Portal).
I'm REALLY not fond of 'grinding' in games, and for the most it never really 'featured' in any of the old school games.
Cheers for the post Trog!
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Posted 08:03pm 06/5/12
I didn't really understand what was going on in the game at that young age and it wasn't until I played escape from castle wolfenstein in 2003 that I realized it was all about nazi's lul.
Posted 10:19pm 06/5/12
LOL yep... I remember saving up $200 as a teenager and buyinig a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 (16 bit card!@#(#$(#$$) and it was ZOMG
No more PC speaker *pew pew pew* it was ACHTUNG!! KABLAMO!! MEIN LEIBEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wolf3D came as shareware on our 486DX-33 PC, I was about 13 since I am now 33 and its 20yo.
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Posted 01:35am 07/5/12
This is why we can't have 'remember old things' days.
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It just felt right to me
Posted 10:11am 07/5/12
some of the best gaming years of my life.
Posted 10:23am 07/5/12
ahaha remember when the 16mb voodoo were goin for like 700$
Posted 10:25am 07/5/12
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Posted 10:30am 07/5/12
The first game on my Dad's 486 DX 33 with 4 megabytes of RAM was Wolfentein 3d. I have fond memories of playing this as a kid when I was about 10 years old. I remember using cheats to get the gattling gun and going around blazing with it. I miss the days of having to modify config.sys and autoexe.bat, editing the DMA and IRQ to get sound working.
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Posted 04:46pm 07/5/12
There was also Heretic which was on the DOOM engine and the precursor to Hexen. Hexen was a better game by far.
Also, STUNTS!
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Posted 07:41pm 07/5/12
I wouldn't have cared about videogames at all if i didn't wares so many of them as a <10yearold child. I remember taking photo copies of the grid's that you had to line up to get into games like Zool or captain comic or whatever. Thanks to so many awesome 'shareware' and wares games i grew up to buy hundreds (soon to be thousand+ i'm sure thanks to steam) of them in the future.
Posted 07:47pm 07/5/12
Was still f*****g fun getting all the way there, though.
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Posted 06:03am 08/5/12
Haha, the first person I knew who had a computer, I used to go to his house all the time to play Red Baron and Hero's Quest, and the copy protection for Red Baron involved looking up various riddles with answers in the manual - we only knew the answer to one of them, so had to keep re-launching it until the question came up.
Le Sigh, I always wanted to be a pilot because of that game, growing up was supposed to be so much more awesomer than it turns out. :P