Hello Jonathan.
04 Apr 97 20:27, Jonathan Fingas wrote to Joe Siegler:
 > Ken).  Still... the point is that Duke 3D was at least partially
 > influenced by Doom.  After all, you probably wouldn't have had the
 > standard four weapons: pistol, shotgun, chaingun, rocket launcher.
OK fine.  Believe that.  :)
 >   It's a sprite with good ol' Luke hanging upside-down, and when you
 > step into the sector he's in Duke says "now THIS is a Force to be
That was the Dark Forces jab.  There was another *GAME* we took a jab at, I
just can't remember what it is at the moment.   Doom (Episode 1), Dark Forces
(Episode 2, I think), and I can't remember what Episode 3 was.
 > reckoned with!"  It pays to discover (TM). I also noticed a reference
 > to 2001.  But how come I didn't hear "Thus Spake Zarathustra" when I
Don't know what that is.
 > spotted the monolith? And, how come you didn't jab Descent?  That
 > almost equalled Doom's popularity.  Surely there could've been a
 > "you're going down... all the way down!" speech.  :-)
It would have to make us laugh, and I don't think that would have made people
laugh, besides, it's too obscure.
 >   But you can't say that Duke (as we know it) wasn't just a creation
 > of Ken and Apogee, either.  You know it, and I know it.  :-)
Yes, I can.  If you choose to believe that, then fine.  I'm telling you it 
as
not.
Joe Siegler
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