It’s no secret I worked for Apogee/3D Realms from 14 Dec 1992 through 23 May 2009.  In all that time, I wore a lot of hats for the company.  I’m not here to write about that – I’ve done that before elsewhere on this blog.  But I bring that up because I was there a […]

Now that the new HD re-release of 1995 Rise of the Triad is about to come out next month, I’ve started playing the game for the sake of playing the game for the first time in forever again.  Extreme ROTT has always had a reputation of being radically harder than the base game.  I mean […]

This past week a fun video about Rise of the Triad was released. Given my connections to that game, I watch all ROTT videos, and like all of them, I enjoyed this one from Ruby Ranger. Also like most Rise of the Triad videos, they spend time talking about the game’s soundtrack, which after all the […]

I’ve written about Duke Nukem a bunch, but one thing I never did was something I did ages ago – made a functional prototype of Duke Nukem Forever for the Atari 2600.   It was an April fool’s joke I released on the 3D Realms site back in 2003.   The page I released for […]

This is Part 8 of 8 of my History of 3D Realms / Apogee series.  When originally published, it was a single post, but over time WordPress ended up not liking a post that was 33,000 words long.  This segment covers from 2015 until the article was originally published in late 2020. 2015 also had […]

This is Part 7 of 8 of my History of 3D Realms / Apogee series.  When originally published, it was a single post, but over time WordPress ended up not liking a post that was 33,000 words long.  This segment covers 2011-2014. Duke Nukem Critical Mass Release Date: 8 Apr 2011 This is a game […]

This is Part 6 of 8 of my History of 3D Realms / Apogee series.  When originally published, it was a single post, but over time WordPress ended up not liking a post that was 33,000 words long.  This segment covers 2006-2010, and the downfall of “my” version of the company. 2006 – Once again, […]

This is Part 4 of 8 of my History of 3D Realms / Apogee series.  When originally published, it was a single post, but over time WordPress ended up not liking a post that was 33,000 words long.  This segment covers 1998-2005. 1998 was the first of the really slow years.  We had just a […]

This is Part 4 of 8 of my History of 3D Realms / Apogee series.  When originally published, it was a single post, but over time WordPress ended up not liking a post that was 33,000 words long.  This segment covers 1995-1997. 1995 was a historic year, was the first game released under the 3D […]

This is Part 2 of 8 of my History of 3D Realms / Apogee series.  When originally published, it was a single post, but over time WordPress ended up not liking a post that was 33,000 words long.  This segment covers 1992-1994 1992 is the year when Apogee exploded with the release of an industry […]