RockPaperShotgun Quake Article

[scar3crow]

RockPaperShotgun has an article up in their Gaming Made Me series, wherein an author relates how a particular title marked a changing point in their life. The current entry is Quake, as related by a "yung'in" who first played it in 1996 at the age of 8 and had his eyes opened to what video games could be. Go give it a and don't forget to post your own early experiences of Quake below!

[leileilol]

I was 17 when Quake came out, so............................. when I was 8 I was playing Vette, driving around virtual San Fran rather than racing.

Quake's atmosphere was awesome (especially pre-1.07 for some reason mostly regarding sound attenuation) and Pain Keep was awesome frosting to it. There's something special about its two blue rows in the palette that add a lot.

I wanted guns that could do everything. like a mountain cutter


now i feel old. and I still want guns that could do everything

seriously, in the era when Descent, Hexen and, Duke3D were the other big things, Quake is like........really relevant. you kids will never understand its influential role, beyond being a bootstrap kit for unoriginal copies of games

[ajay]

So I guess as I was over 30 I've got to go with Shub-Niggurath? Tut *ageism* etc...

[mankrip]

[scar3crow]

[leileilol]

[Baker]

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