Their “awesome” idea was to cash in with Duke Forever and shed out a whopping $500,000 licensing fee for the game to be built on id Software’s Quake II engine. The announcement of Duke Nukem Forever back in 1997 came barely a year after Duke 3D was released and came from Scott Miller and George Broussard who were co-owners of 3D Realms, the developers of Duke Nukem. Having said that, my dad did hear about the announcement of Duke Nukem Forever by word of mouth at work, and so we started to keep an eye out for any other news on Duke Nukem Forever. You have to let me off here as I was only nine years old and didn’t actually get internet savvy till I was around fifteen. Both of these games were pretty poor, in my opinion, and didn’t give me the Duke Nukem fix I needed.īeing the young video gamer I was, I didn’t actually know that Duke Nukem Forever had originally been announced a year after Duke 3D’s initial release. Eventually, of course, Duke Nukem the Manhattan Project and Duke Nukem Land Of The Babes both came to the PlayStation and I was really excited for all of three seconds until I found out these were nothing like the first person shooter I fell in love with – Manhattan Project was a side scroller and Land Of The Babes was a third person shooter. Unfortunately, as with all games, they do eventually age and get very old and so I moved on from Duke 3D, got a PlayStation and had my weird phase of really enjoying extreme sports and wrestling games but, that aside, my heart did crave another Duke Nukem game to come round the corner. When I got a bit older, around ten or eleven, I then started playing Duke 3D myself killing aliens, watching pixelated boobs on the screen and even trying my hand at a bit of level editing on the Duke 3D level editor – I didn’t think this game could get much better. The variation of levels and bosses coupled with Duke’s bad ass attitude really made the game for me and I would spend hours watching my dad play when it first came out. Duke Nukem has always been a firm favourite of mine ever since I saw my dad first freeze a pig cop then kick it into a million pieces back on Duke Nukem 3D in 1996, I was hooked.

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