![]() Not bad for the price that was until I played the game. Anyways, after reading the reviews and waiting for the price to drop, I got the game on for 10 bucks. Too bad I lost my hold voucher from EBworld and now that gamestop bought them out. I remember I was 18 playing Duke 3D and now I am 30 and have moved on until an announcement about Duke Forever was coming out. I haven’t been out there since covid started, but the last time I looked it was still on display.Wow, Duke Nukem Forever finally came out at last. So out to Frisco I went on and handed him the game (after plugging into one of the 2600’s there to show him it was real). ![]() ![]() I contacted the owner of the place, as he’s a friend of Randy Pitchford (someone else whom I know), and he thought it would be cool to have that in the display. They had a display about home-brew video games I saw one time when I was there. That is until June 2017 when I took the real functioning silver Duke Nukem Forever cartridge and donated it to the National Videogame Museum in Frisco TX. So I had one of the fakes left in my possession in storage, and one real one. When that closed in 2009, the cases went over to the temp 3DR offices in the Gearbox building in Plano, and after that all stopped, I don’t know what happened to them (the physical models for the Rise of the Triad robots were there too, but also have gone missing in the years since). The fakes were used elsewhere – two of them were in a display case at the 3D Realms offices. I gave one of the real working copies to George Broussard, and kept the other one. Here’s a copy of that video (which I later stuck on Youtube). Said friend of my brother had a program that would downrez any JPG to a 4k 2600 image which could then be burnt onto a physical chip – making it really work as a 2600 game. I was accused of hooking my TV up to an external video feed, of faking the image on the TV – all wrong. I took a video of myself for that page, and released that, too. Put it in, and it would show you the Duke Nukem title image from the artwork on the front. But two honestly did what they said they did. By fake I mean if you put one in an Atari 2600, it would play Donkey Kong or Combat or some other super common 2600 game. Two of them were real, and two of them were fake. Some were in the red label and some were in the silver label. We ended up with several physical copies of Duke Nukem Forever for the Atari 2600. The friend of my brother came through big time. Releasing two things at once that was real, and one that wasn’t gave me the idea to bring out confusion there. I mean, we also released the source code to Duke Nukem 3D at the exact same time – and that WAS real. I mean – I was releasing this on April Fool’s Day so I knew it would be dismissed as a joke, but I wanted to put enough in there to make people think “Wait – maybe this is real?” – even for just a minute. I got some text written, and then I realized from my brother he knew someone who can make actual cartridges so it moved forward in a way I wasn’t expecting.Īt the time I hung out in the forums at the Atari Age website, so I knew a bunch of what the Atari community would find plausible, and I used that information to construct text that would be believable and not IMMEDIATELY dismissed as a joke or a fake. So I set out to work on the page linked above. This was something I thought of back in March of 2003, I thought it would be a funny idea to produce a Duke Nukem Forever game for the Atari 2600. The page I released for that is still online actually, you can see it here. But I wanted to take a moment and mention a few things about it. It was an April fool’s joke I released on the 3D Realms site back in 2003. 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.
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