Man, I played the crap out of the first episode of Duke Nukem 1. It was a really fun game that I didn't realize that it didn't have an actual soundtrack until years later. Also at the time, I had no clue what the word shareware even was or what it meant. So whenever I beat the first episode and saw a quick ad for the second episode, I though it was going to be the next full game.
I didn't know there was anything before Duke Nukem 3D, so this is an interesting game to look at. Reminds me of how way more people know about Gex 2 over Gex 1. Also, either I'm hearing things or he says "D O N G letters" at 11:51.
It's even weirder coming from the other side to learn that there were 3d games after a decade of only knowing the 2d games and downright surprising that these games of all things merited the awesome 3d sequel!
"Undertale" - Dookus Nookus (2022) Duke 1+2 were games that I was always tangentially aware of, but didn't know much about besides "Once upon a time, Duke was in a platforming game". So this was an interesting dive into the history of the series - and your commentary and the snappy editing made it all the better. Keep on doing your thing, Trav Guy.
Seeing your support for Metal health and suicide issues... I got a pet duck for an ESA recently. It really brightened my day. House ducks aren't for everyone, but I am so glad to have this guy in my life now. It's created some really wonderful moments. Anyways, I hope you're doing ok. As usual, you made some really good content.
There's just something so wholesome about the image of Duke sitting down on the couch in a nuclear-patterned bathrobe and bunny slippers with a mug of tea and tuning into Oprah.
I’m glad people are talking still about Duke Nukem nowadays. He’s definitely one of my favorite video game characters, and it’s nice that he remains relevant even after shot like Forever.
Coming back to this video, the analysis is still great, and the humor is top notch-but what **really** makes it is Trav absolutely hamming it up with Proton’s lines. Great work as always!
With the era duke nukum 3d was released, I'm not surprised people don't know that it was the 3rd game. 3d was usually placed in names cause 3d was novel and is not usually a pun with it being a 3rd game. But it's a nice surprise seeing that there even were games before 3d
I played through the shareware episode (Shrapnel City) multiple times as a kid. And a lot of the other shareware platform games of the time. Purchased episodes 2 and 3 a few years ago and played through them since I never did as a youth. I thought they held up pretty well and was happy to complete the unfinished business of eliminating Dr. Proton.
His shirt is not pink, but purple. And it's purple just because of the limited colors/resolution, so it can stand out in the front while there is not much purple in the background. There's a mod that adds glasses.
I vaguely remember playing this when I was younger. For some inexplicable reason, my grandfather had it set up on his computer at one point, my guess being presumably one of the step-cousins I had back then set it up.
2:10 Thats incredibly incorrect actually. It was Duke Nukum, because they were aware of the character and wanted to avoid a lawsuit, and then later they realised it wasnt copyrighted, hence the change TO 'Duke Nukem'
The space suit was a planned item. It was in the shareware version of the game. For some reason they just decided to have the moon sections take place inside force fields, which explains why you can breathe.
I believe the reason for why Duke looks so…red….is because they didn’t want Duke to have a case of the Commander Keens due to the limited palette the EGA(?) Provides. Due to the reds occupying the shading of his skin, they chose the next best thing. (I think) At least it’s better than having only baby blues, pinks, black, and white as your only colors.
I think those breakable blue bridges only break if you land on them while not holding across. Also for Duke Nukem II there's now the Rigel Engine to enhance the experience.
Great video :) as far as the side platformers go , Duke 2 is such a huge upgrade from the first one. The sound effects and music are so cool in Duke 2. One of my favourite old Dos classics along with Hocus Pocus.
24:48 what they could've done is get the vertical scrolling, and when its at a value like lets say 800 pixels, if thats true then change the background sprite from future world to underground lair.
An arena FPS? Just an FPS surely? Isn't an Arena FPS an FPS game where the main idea in both single and multiplayer is to win "match" type scenarios in arena's, i.e. control the most points, get the most kills, capture x y amount of times before the other team(s). Whereas DN3D has a story for Single Player mode. I mean Surely UT99 and Q3A were the first "Arena FPS" games
Trav, if you are going to take on Duke Nukem 2. Try it out with Rigel Engine, a reverse engineered DN2 which includes widescreen support along with smooth scrolling, quick saving, modern controller support and more.
I remember buying the shareware version of this as a kid (as was common practice at the time) and playing it a lot. I later found a level editor for it and had a blast making my own levels. Back in the early 1990s those PC speaker sound effects were perfectly acceptable
While there isn't exactly a Duke Nukem 1 source port, there is a reverse engineered version called 'ReDuke' that has been around since 2011 and makes the game run and look a little better, and even has some higher quality borders and UIs so it doesn't look quite so rough, resolution-wise. It even has music support, so you can actually play Duke Nukem 1 with music (the game has no music of any kind, only grating computer sounds). I personally used level songs from Duke Nukem 3D--hearing Grabbag makes Duke Nukem 1 so much more fun!
"This was like 20 years ago" I think you mean 30 bub. And I was one of the one's playing it on the original release :D Edit: Saw you talked about this later on, yeah, we are that old. I really liked Duke Nukem 2. It expands on the original in a lot of ways and I'll always love flying via flame thrower. Hope ya have fun.
I got duke 1 and 2, and I believe Halloween harry on floppy disk from a computer repair shop, that I rode my bike to while listening to the misfits on a cassette tape. good times
we didn't have a lot of money growing up, but my dad ended up being into computers and my mom got one went she went back to school, so I had the ability to play shareware games almost more than consoles. so I played through a lot of old games. demo CD roms with tons of slightly older games were pretty affordable too.
When I was a kid my family had an old windows pc with duke 1, all the og keen games that I know of and nethack. those were some of the best gaming years of my childhood. wish i knew where the old install disks are but I think they are lost to time now
3:41 Actually that was dangerous dave *in copyright infringement* The original dangerous dave games were Romero's own games from before the times of ID
You should talk about the Gameboy Duke Nukem game. Because the Game Boy couldn't handle Duke Nukem 3D, they made a game that is similar to Duke Nukem 1 and 2 but in the style of Duke Nukem 3D, which is pretty cool. You should check it out after you finish Duke Nukem 2 and its video for the Channel.
@@agenerichuman You're correct that the Gameboy Advance has a Duke Nukem game in the Duke Nukem 3D style, but the game I was referring to was Duke Nukem for Game Boy Color.
Oh you gotta do Duke Nukem 2. I didn't bother to play through 1 and 2, even though they came with the original CD to 3d, it felt too much like a commander keen knockoff for me to care.
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At 3:11 "This was like 20 years ago." I'm sorry trav, it was 31 years ago. We're old.
oh my god how
OOOLD
I'm surprised throughout this game and its many time warping instances, Duke doesn't say "Let's do the time warp again." Such a missed opportunity
That was before he quoted pop culture non-stop. 😜
@@GiselleGauthier Ah. Fair enough
I'm surprised not a single back to the future joke was made
It's Warpin' Time
@@johnnycruelty5195 DRAGONZORD!
This man chews bubblegum and kick asses, when he's out of gum he goes on a search for his Froggy.
11:49 Ah yes, I remember collecting the D.O.N.G. in Donkey Kong Country.
Favorite part of the game
Really expands the gameplay. Makes it feature length.
@@lilwyvern4 Yeah, it's so fun to find those thick letters
Came here to say this, lol
HE HAS NO _PINGAS_
Man, I played the crap out of the first episode of Duke Nukem 1. It was a really fun game that I didn't realize that it didn't have an actual soundtrack until years later. Also at the time, I had no clue what the word shareware even was or what it meant. So whenever I beat the first episode and saw a quick ad for the second episode, I though it was going to be the next full game.
I didn't know there was anything before Duke Nukem 3D, so this is an interesting game to look at. Reminds me of how way more people know about Gex 2 over Gex 1.
Also, either I'm hearing things or he says "D O N G letters" at 11:51.
yeah, he said D O N G letters.
It's even weirder coming from the other side to learn that there were 3d games after a decade of only knowing the 2d games and downright surprising that these games of all things merited the awesome 3d sequel!
Articulate Dong
I can't hear it.
"Undertale" - Dookus Nookus (2022)
Duke 1+2 were games that I was always tangentially aware of, but didn't know much about besides "Once upon a time, Duke was in a platforming game". So this was an interesting dive into the history of the series - and your commentary and the snappy editing made it all the better. Keep on doing your thing, Trav Guy.
It's okay, Trav Guy. When fighting Dr. Proton just remember what Deadpool once said: "Just so everyone knows, the guy in the wheelchair started it!"
Worlds best character, the coolest guy character, is literally a brick
I always took his design as elmo in the military
@@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32 sounds about right
11:50 "kinda like the D-O-N-G letters in Donkey Kong"
Not sure if that was intentional but it made me laugh regardless
He can't sneak the dong past me.
Seeing your support for Metal health and suicide issues... I got a pet duck for an ESA recently. It really brightened my day. House ducks aren't for everyone, but I am so glad to have this guy in my life now. It's created some really wonderful moments. Anyways, I hope you're doing ok. As usual, you made some really good content.
That's adorable! I hope the duck is helping.
What's the ducks name?
@@goldskarr Narcan, Narcan the duck. Hes a manky mallard or hybrid between a swedish black and a mallard.
There's just something so wholesome about the image of Duke sitting down on the couch in a nuclear-patterned bathrobe and bunny slippers with a mug of tea and tuning into Oprah.
I’m glad people are talking still about Duke Nukem nowadays. He’s definitely one of my favorite video game characters, and it’s nice that he remains relevant even after shot like Forever.
I liked Forever, but I will say it released five years too late.
"ladies, gentlemen, and enbies"
My appreciation for this knows no bounds
"Enbies" is non-binary, right?
@@s.p.d.magentaranger1822 ye
@@Hush.Elementz Ah, I saw this comment before I connected the dots with another video, and wanted to ask. Maybe incorporate into my vocabulary lol
Coming back to this video, the analysis is still great, and the humor is top notch-but what **really** makes it is Trav absolutely hamming it up with Proton’s lines.
Great work as always!
At least Trav is earning his stars following in Civvie's footsteps. Bravo.
I ain't trying to be like Civvie, but I'll take the stars.
@@ThatTravGuy You're you, I'm me!
@@ericrhodes5174 No, I'M you.
I never knew this is how Duke Nukem started, but I kinda appreciate it cause it’s awesome seeing how series once were
With the era duke nukum 3d was released, I'm not surprised people don't know that it was the 3rd game.
3d was usually placed in names cause 3d was novel and is not usually a pun with it being a 3rd game. But it's a nice surprise seeing that there even were games before 3d
I grew up on these titles. Good times. Please do Duke 2!
I played through the shareware episode (Shrapnel City) multiple times as a kid. And a lot of the other shareware platform games of the time. Purchased episodes 2 and 3 a few years ago and played through them since I never did as a youth. I thought they held up pretty well and was happy to complete the unfinished business of eliminating Dr. Proton.
“It’s time to kick @ss and chew bubble gum, and I’m all out of gum”
Dude I use to play dangerous Dave when I was a kid and I completely forgot about this game
That was a pretty good sponsor transition ill give you that
Also 11:50 nice I love collecting DONG in my nintendo platformers
I'm surprised this was delisted off steam, good thing I got it with the 3D Realms Anthology when it was still available.
Already a fan of you and knowing you and your friends made the duke nukem meme we quote all the time is even better
Me:hey ill ask if trav will ever do a vid about duke nukem
Travguy: already five steps ahead of you
First weaponized epilepsy
Next weaponized hearing damage
Yooooo been waiting for this one, always wanted to learn more about dukes origins, can’t wait!
I miss the original Duke Nukem games. They, along with other Apogee titles, need to make a comeback.
His shirt is not pink, but purple. And it's purple just because of the limited colors/resolution, so it can stand out in the front while there is not much purple in the background.
There's a mod that adds glasses.
If we wanna get into specifics, it's closer to Magenta.
I don't think I'll ever unsee Duke Nukem using a few tiles from Mega Man DOS now that you've pointed it out
I vaguely remember playing this when I was younger. For some inexplicable reason, my grandfather had it set up on his computer at one point, my guess being presumably one of the step-cousins I had back then set it up.
2:10 Thats incredibly incorrect actually.
It was Duke Nukum, because they were aware of the character and wanted to avoid a lawsuit, and then later they realised it wasnt copyrighted, hence the change TO 'Duke Nukem'
I just just searched up “Duke Nukem 3D” on TH-cam and then I just happen to see this.
Now that I think about it, maybe the moon is terraformed cause in Duke 3D, Duke goes to the moon in episode 2 without a space suit.
The space suit was a planned item. It was in the shareware version of the game.
For some reason they just decided to have the moon sections take place inside force fields, which explains why you can breathe.
26:09 Time limes! Now on sale from Aperture Science.
Realizing now that "Duke 3-D" is a pun title :( because it's the third game.
Those are pretty good Duke Nukem impressions
I can barely do better
Build Engine Trinity: Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, and Ion Fury.
The journey of the duke begins. Is it because forever 2001 got leaked? I dunno.
I believe the reason for why Duke looks so…red….is because they didn’t want Duke to have a case of the Commander Keens due to the limited palette the EGA(?) Provides. Due to the reds occupying the shading of his skin, they chose the next best thing. (I think) At least it’s better than having only baby blues, pinks, black, and white as your only colors.
Of course that's the reason lmao. My bit was a joke.
@@ThatTravGuy Oh. I may be stupid.
If it matters, Duke 1 has a sourceport called ReDuke. If you're searching for a Duke 2 Port theres the Rigel Engine
I can't believe this video came out the same day a Duke Nukem movie was announced to be in the works!
I think those breakable blue bridges only break if you land on them while not holding across. Also for Duke Nukem II there's now the Rigel Engine to enhance the experience.
This is great. Really looking forward to this series. Blood is one of my favorite games ever, so I’m DEFINITELY looking forward to that one.
Can’t wait for the Duke NUKEM 2 review… right?
Great video :) as far as the side platformers go , Duke 2 is such a huge upgrade from the first one. The sound effects and music are so cool in Duke 2. One of my favourite old Dos classics along with Hocus Pocus.
Your friend did the peanut allergy meme? I was absolutely wheezing!
Consuming uranium-328 fills you with determination
Ah extra crispy and crunchy DOS graphics.
Ah, now if only you would do a review of the Evercade versions of Duke Nukem 1 and 2.
I kept watching the all of his doom videos including wolfenstien for weeks until I finally broke out of the loop
Now I'm back because of Duke Nukem
"This was like 20 years ago"
That's cute.
10:26 full Chespirito energy
Way, way less excited about a Duke movie now than I would have been 20 years ago. Do like this channel though, found it the other day.
It’s time to kick gum and chew ass. And im all out of ass
IF YOU DUKI
YOU NUKI
Jokes aside, amazing job as always,Trav! Can’t wait to hear your feelings on 3D :)
wow what a badass character, I wonder he likes Oprah
24:48 what they could've done is get the vertical scrolling, and when its at a value like lets say 800 pixels, if thats true then change the background sprite from future world to underground lair.
23:10 I was not expecting a DBZ abridged reference here. you are man of culture
My childhood game was Bio Menace, a heavily reworked version of DN 1 and 2
Give it a look
oh man this takes me back. i played a shareware copy of this
19:18 "Mmmm, love that Moon air!"
An arena FPS? Just an FPS surely? Isn't an Arena FPS an FPS game where the main idea in both single and multiplayer is to win "match" type scenarios in arena's, i.e. control the most points, get the most kills, capture x y amount of times before the other team(s). Whereas DN3D has a story for Single Player mode. I mean Surely UT99 and Q3A were the first "Arena FPS" games
Trav, if you are going to take on Duke Nukem 2. Try it out with Rigel Engine, a reverse engineered DN2 which includes widescreen support along with smooth scrolling, quick saving, modern controller support and more.
I was/is mostly a console gamer my whole life, but Duke 3D is one of the few PC games I played a shit-ton as a kid.
I remember buying the shareware version of this as a kid (as was common practice at the time) and playing it a lot. I later found a level editor for it and had a blast making my own levels. Back in the early 1990s those PC speaker sound effects were perfectly acceptable
I was also confused on the no music on the title screen but in my case I was playing Mario 3
so looking forward to seeing you cover duke 2, it was a big part of my childhood growing up ^-^
While there isn't exactly a Duke Nukem 1 source port, there is a reverse engineered version called 'ReDuke' that has been around since 2011 and makes the game run and look a little better, and even has some higher quality borders and UIs so it doesn't look quite so rough, resolution-wise.
It even has music support, so you can actually play Duke Nukem 1 with music (the game has no music of any kind, only grating computer sounds). I personally used level songs from Duke Nukem 3D--hearing Grabbag makes Duke Nukem 1 so much more fun!
"This was like 20 years ago" I think you mean 30 bub. And I was one of the one's playing it on the original release :D Edit: Saw you talked about this later on, yeah, we are that old. I really liked Duke Nukem 2. It expands on the original in a lot of ways and I'll always love flying via flame thrower. Hope ya have fun.
Finally someone else admits that Duke Nukem wasn't always the perfect game saga
Just played through Duke Nukem 1 and 2 this year and really enjoyed them
I got duke 1 and 2, and I believe Halloween harry on floppy disk from a computer repair shop, that I rode my bike to while listening to the misfits on a cassette tape. good times
we didn't have a lot of money growing up, but my dad ended up being into computers and my mom got one went she went back to school, so I had the ability to play shareware games almost more than consoles. so I played through a lot of old games.
demo CD roms with tons of slightly older games were pretty affordable too.
When I was a kid my family had an old windows pc with duke 1, all the og keen games that I know of and nethack. those were some of the best gaming years of my childhood. wish i knew where the old install disks are but I think they are lost to time now
20 years ago? This games 30 years old
Finally, finally finished binging your backlog. Subscribed and looking forward to your next vid!
5:55 it was meant to be 😂😂
Please do play Turrican as well, its a classic in europe. Youll be amazed by the music
Listen, Trav. You might not sound as good compared to Gianni, but that's still muuuch better than me. So, good impression. I think you got it.
11:50 D O N G
Duke 1 was.before adlib and sound blaster took off. Most pc's were EGA with PC speaker
I can't wait for Blood. The best of them all in my book, albeit also the hardest.
I used to LOVE this game as a little kid. Probably one of my most completed games just due all the playthroughs when I was like 7.
I feel old now. Back in the day this was common knowledge.
3:41 Actually that was dangerous dave *in copyright infringement*
The original dangerous dave games were Romero's own games from before the times of ID
13:49 I'd argue that the map in, i think, episode 2 with the excessive conveyor belts and grappling hook ceilings was so much worse
I grew up playing this shit. Duke Nukem 2 is actually pretty good
Try the 'Re-duke' source port for this.
HES GONNA REVIEW BLOOD LETS FUCKING GO
explains why Duke Nukem 1/2 reminded of Turrican
Ya know I’d be down for a Metroid-style duke gat.
You should talk about the Gameboy Duke Nukem game. Because the Game Boy couldn't handle Duke Nukem 3D, they made a game that is similar to Duke Nukem 1 and 2 but in the style of Duke Nukem 3D, which is pretty cool. You should check it out after you finish Duke Nukem 2 and its video for the Channel.
They did make a game that was like the light version of Duke 3d on the GBA though.
@@agenerichuman You're correct that the Gameboy Advance has a Duke Nukem game in the Duke Nukem 3D style, but the game I was referring to was Duke Nukem for Game Boy Color.
Well now, put up your "Dukes" and let's fight
My name is duke nukem, I'm an nuclear shark
lol the drawing of you as duke nukem
This man dosent deserve 58K subs
He deserves more
After watching this vid, I can't wait for Duke nukem 2, from what I've played of it that game slaps
Oh you gotta do Duke Nukem 2. I didn't bother to play through 1 and 2, even though they came with the original CD to 3d, it felt too much like a commander keen knockoff for me to care.