Duke Nukem certainly did that, with a near-endless stream of toilet humour, and posters of big-breasted women adorning every wall so that the environments look like an extended teenage boy’s room. When this game was new the games industry was a different place – it was a relentlessly juvenile boy’s club and targeting the teenage male ego was the priority in order to see commercial success.

What made Duke Nukem 3D awesome back in the day was its attitude. It is also available on the PlayStation Vita. Related reading: Gun Commando is a modern game that deliberately looks and plays like a retro FPS. Playing the game now through Megaton Edition, it’s easy to get nostalgic about what it achieved back in its day, but it’s equally difficult to enjoy it as a game. Whether it’s Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Heretic, Hexen, or even the likes of Goldeneye, it’s harder and harder to go back to these games and enjoy them as games.ĭuke Nukem 3D is much the same.

If there is one genre that ages more sharply than any other, it’s the First Person Shooter, or FPS.

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