The reason for the names of the games censored is most likely the games being on the index back in the day for their display of violence. Germany still has some strict laws when it comes to that. That means the games are not allowed to be advertised in any form. In order to not get into trouble i guess the publishers of the CD censored the names. By the way, this is the most German thing I've seen so far on LGR...
Yep. That were the times when the BPJS (Federal inspection body for dangerous writings) took care of removing all media from selling to people under the age of 18 if it could harm the mental health and development of the adolescent. So only adults could get the hands on these media. If a game was „censored“ in that way it was (and is) not allowed to market or promote or sell it to non adults. Otherwise you can get sued.
I used to read German game magazines and they had monthly lists of best selling games. Often there were entries called "indexed game" meaning they were on the censoring list for violent games Everyone could pretty much guess the titles, but they weren't legally allowed to show them as that might count as advertising.
@@steffenrastaetter5019 Yeah, I still remember the times when you could mailorder "Dumm" or "Hundefelsen" :D. Thank god those times are over, nowadays they are far more relaxed ...
the first Voice says "ei verbibbsch" that is east german accent and means something like "say what" and the second is "Gründlich zielen, dann triffst du auch" means "aim wisely, than you will hit your target" greetings from germany
Except "ei verbibbsch" is most likely a west German invention when imitating Saxon dialect in a bad way. I don't know a single Saxon who says that. And I'm living here. ;)
I spend A LOT of time modding Duke3D back in the day. I replaced the lizards with Lemmings I created in 3DStudio Max. And I made several levels, including a kick ass arena map for multiplayer (which became very popular at my school). And of course the mandatory "myhouse" too. But the most elaborate thing I did went even further. I worked at a warehouse back in those days. And one day I actually asked my boss if he could give me the blueprints for the building, so I could recreate it in Duke with the exact measures. And not only did he agree to this, but he actually managed to talk the office into faxing the blueprints to our warehouse, so I could get them. Fun times! Just imagine that. A 15 year old warehouse worker, asking about blueprints for the warehouse, and actually getting them... Btw, imagine being the person who made the "myhouse7" from this video, if he or she watched this and that randomly showed up! That would be so friggin' awesome! Unfortunately I don't have any of my own Duke3D mods anymore. A real bummer to be honest, as they were really well-made. The Lemmings had all of the required animations and sound effects I made myself by pitching my voice. *sigh*, simpler times...
Good times for sure. Similarly, I made some deathmatch maps of the office our startup was in and the surrounding street level and buildings. Really enjoyed those creative times indeed.
@@AleksandrBekhtin Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately I never uploaded my Duke3D stuff anywhere. My Quake 2 stuff is still online thought, which is pretty cool. :)
Grown up House7 guy presented his D3D level to his architect and now lives in a house with 300 security cameras, a bathroom skull, and firepower laying around all over the place.
I remember playing a custom 'school' map for Duke, the readme for it even gave a backstory, something like 'Duke brought a gun to school to deal with a bully, but then the aliens invaded'. Yeah, those were simpler times.
The Doom games and Heretic (among others) were on the so called Index of games not to be sold to minors which also prohibited them from being advertised in any way. Thats why the names were crossed out on the back. I believe this is no longer the case in Germany now.
Yes and no. The index is still there, but they revised their policies rather radically over the past fifteen-ish years and also got way younger in that department, so an "indexing" happens way less now. Like: pretty much not at all, unless there is a third-reich-context.
@@Scarleaver the Third Reich stuff got relaxed 1 or 2 years ago. The Usk the german games Rating bord said that tjey finally will start to apply the exceptions for Nazi stuff that the german Anti Nazi Laws allow. Because of that the newest Wolfenstein game is the first game in germany that is allowed to have swastikas. But german Steam still gives you the choice to buy Wolfenstein Youngblood in an Censored or in an uncensored Version.
What I meant was that these particular games are no longer on the index. The system obviously still exists, they probably still clamp down on the whole nazi insignia stuff in games... Doom and Heretic got the ban for the satanic stuff and the - at the time - unheard of depiction of violence. 😅
@@Scarleaver although we start to get third reich context in games, i don't know the exact rules, but a publisher can get around censoring like in movies.
The content is „you have to aim better then you gonna hit better“ yeah not funny at all. The „fun“ was more in the god aweful East German dialect (lots of ö and ä 🤪). Grüße aus Deutschland 🇩🇪
@@StevenTeebone Wäs ïst däs? Hörst, höle mëinë Lëdërhösën (My German is bit rusty since I haven't used it in... 20 or so years, so my possessives might be off)
I remember one of my favorite things was to download people's house maps for Duke3D. It was fun exploring the houses and getting to see what people live in through the eyes of Duke.
So the build tutorial guy, Cho Yan Wong works at Guerilla games on Horizon Zero Dawn. I always like to see if people are still active in the game field.
21:29 My friends and I used to download a bunch of fan-made maps for Half-Life 1, one of which was a giant house where you were basically the size of a mouse, we had hours and hours of fun playing deathmatch!
The censoring was due to the fact that DN3D was on an index till 2017 which meant you couldn't advertise or mention the game on or in other media in germany. You could only buy it when you were 18+.
@@leonidas6682 Germany was effectively forced to heavily censor content after WW2. It was not the right move and continues to be a way to censor content and deny the past. It's all politics that has actually nothing to do with these games.
@@leonidas6682 This list is not abolished. Media deemed "severely detrimental to the development of minors" can still be indexed. Last time a game was put on index list A (a.e. banned from marketing) was in 2018, which was Marvelous’ "Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni" for PlayStation Vita. Last time a game was put on index list D (a.e. banned from sale, period and all known physical copies confiscated) was in 2016, which was the infamous "Hatred" by Destructive Creations. for more info: th-cam.com/video/UeUfNSD5YQU/w-d-xo.html
@@leonidas6682 Germany went conservative after the Second World War and decided that there was no was the new government was going to let people be influenced negatively ever again. Of course, being Germany, they went next level on the efficiency of the censorship. Just to be clear, it was Germany that restructured it’s laws after the war, not the allies making them.... sort of.
As for school maps - we made our high school as a map in.... Doom, I think? And used a modded version to remove the bad guys and items, and had a computer with our custom map at the entrance to the school on "open house" day so people could virtually walk around the school.
GDR/DDR national anthem in the RTS: Auferstanden aus Ruinen .. Just if anybody wondered! Read another post stating that the German accent was supposed to be East German.
Yet S.A.D. GmbH (the distributor) has both of its headquarters in Neu Ulm, Bavaria and Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, which are definitely not part of former East Germany.
The other commentor also stated is maybe was a mocking East German accent .. I have no idea, not that great in German accents on the account of being danish 😃
It's 1996, 5 years after the reunion. It's just "Ostalgie" at that point in German history. Memories are still fresh and they just rescued the "Ampelmännchen" in Berlin. RTL Samstag Nacht, Werner, ah good times. (The RTS sound made me remember of Werner Beinhardt)
As a german i can tell you, thats a very funny accent, from east germany 😂🤪 We would also laugh about it! Very funny, seems it was a hobby project, professionally produced!
Thanks a A LOT for posting that link in the description. AWESOME stuff I had mostly forgotten. Greetings from Germany "where everyone has a skull in the bathroom" ! ;-)
Exactly this. One of my favorites from magazines back in the day is "Hundefelsen" when referring to Wolfenstein. (And since neither Descent nor Warcraft were indexed, no need to censor them)
Yeah, that's pretty much the whole reason! If you wanted to sell your product (this CD, a cheat book with many cheats, etc.) you would have to censor the "evil game" titles. Wolfenstein, Duke, Doom, Quake all those good ID goodness was a BIG nono in ye old germany... Cheers from Germany (I had a great time back in the day when I found my first affordable PC-game importer and finally get my hands on all nonos X-D)
Advertising indexed games was not allowed - and "advertising" had a very broad definition going as far as even mentioning them in gaming magazines could have been seen as promoting those games. I don't know though if any magazines actually were sued on those grounds or if they were just especially careful. Of course putting the names on the back of a commercial CD was even more problematic. Soi the solution was to use Xes. At some point it just stopped though and the names were mentioned again. Not sure what happened and why.
I got huge nostalgia for these types of things because I remember going to computer fairs like 20+ years ago and these add-on packs were everywhere for all the popular pc games.
Well back then with limited speed and bandwidth, I used to buy all sorts of CD and Floppy disc add-on compilations from the local computer fair that used to set up in the local sports hall. Ah those were the days!
This is amazing. The sometimes-censorship (understandable, given Germany's censorship, still funny though), that amazing RTS menu, a useful Build tutorial... in English... on a CD for a German audience... wunderbar. I love that it's so well organized compared to most FTP scrape CD-ROMs, too. I'm pretty sure I saw a copy of Power Duke way back in the days of computer shows, so it's doubly cool to see the contents of this thing over 20 years later.
At first I thought the reload animation, Duke slapping a new magazine into the MP5 as if it were a pistol, was totally ridiculous. But that’s the kind of confidence and enthusiasm I expect from Duke, and I kind of love it.
The equivalent of you building maps on this game, was me building maps on Delta Force 2 and Delta Force BHD/TS. My dad and I used to spend hours building and playing our maps with each other. That was the best time of my childhood.
I know, dusting off a 2 year old video, but I love the memories this brings up of the old computer shows. Digging through boxes of cds and disks in a small hall oy gymnasium. Computer parts every where. I know there are still shows out there, but not near me
1:54 the kind of content I keep coming back to this channel for. Also amazing how 1mb cab completely change your game experience back then. I think this should have been a live stream. I would stick around to have Clint explore the whole CD.
Most of us making shit maps in the 90s would be dumbfounded that the things still existed and had somehow made it onto an LGR blerb after being scraped off of some godforsaken corner of geocities by someone trying to fill the last few megabytes of an addon CD. I'm in my 40s now as is most everyone who was making these things and I have no illusions about the quality of my Doom and Duke 3D map making skills when I was a teenager.
@@misterthegeoff9767 Yeah it'd be... sad if someone who made a rather crappy DN3D map like 25 years ago would go "argh how dare you insult my glorious map-making skills when I was 16."
Shout out to the Duke Nukem 3D Level Design Handbook. That thing was my freaking bible through out high school when it came to making levels, and started my love for game and level design. (Though it was the Duke Nukem 3D Strategy Guide Book that started me down that path with the final pages of the book dedicated to Build). It eventually lead to me and a friend faithfully recreating (Within the engine's limitations) Complex from Goldeneye 007, which is on the Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition workshop.
This is in an East German accent which sounds funny for us as well. Pretty cool! The names are censored because some of these games were not allowed to be sold or written articles about.
I love Duke Nukem 3D. I play Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition, Duke Nukem Forever 2013, and Duke 3D Forever. All the files for them were downloaded free off the Internet thanks to fan archives. Surprisingly, I've never heard of Duke Power.
Oh man, "DXXM" and "DXXM 2", they had to write DOOM like that because those games were still on the index back then, meaning you can't sell them to minors or advertise them in any way. I remember reading about graphics engines in a book that used the same names, and called Quake "QRSTE". Might be the same for Duke Nukem 3D, but that could also be ass-covering for the fact that they are releasing something for that game that isn't officially licensed.
speaking of the ancient net. My household my dad QUICKLY decided it was worth the expense to add a second phone line in the house. also it gave him a good excuse to rip out the cheap ass phone wire in the house and swap us over to the then expensive Cat5 cable that his work had tons of extra sitting in a closet they weren't doing shit with after they upgraded the building (it was a machinist shop that made molds so it had a good sized computer network for cad work... that also doubled as a lan party setup for Doom. intentionally so as well lol) also we never did AOL. we tried a trial and immediately hated how gated it was so we did more with prodigy and MSN
Also, it's a weird sort of disconnect that I'm downloading this 650MB archive today in just a couple minutes, when, at the time this was released, I would have been on dialup with a download speed of about 5 minutes/MB at 28.8kbps...
that cough I used to make giant space stations back in the day. There was just something about looking out of the windows and seeing other parts of the station in the distance. Also made heavy use of horizontal sprites for multi-level walkways.
I remember playing around with those map creators. It blew my mind that going underwater just teleported you to the ceiling in a room adjacent to where you came from, above your previous position.
The censorship of certain game names in germany stems from the fact that Quake, Duke 3D and many others were prohibited to advertise publically due to youth protection regulations. The „Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Schriften“ was a pain in the ass for everyone growing up during this period of time.
Hi Clint, the reason for that wrong naming in the directory tree and the generic package design was because of strong german laws this games were adult only and sellers / resellers arent allowed to distribute the games or add ons in its original names because they were blacklisted by law on the "Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle" or just short as "Index". Popular games which were blacklisted were Doom / Wolfenstein / and afair Duke3d / Half Life Add On Counter Strike was also listed shortly on index. The company SAD Distribution gmbh was very popular distributing Game Add - Ons in that way before the Internet was a "Thing" in germany.
ive played a bunch of doom, heretic, and quake custom maps, i kinda want try out playing custom maps for Duke3D (and maybe try to make one sometime because that sounds interesting), ill have to figure it out and try it sometime
I remember the Duke Zone CDs with loads of maps on and making some fairly basic maps myself. Could never get the lift working, like other things mentioned you had to build another room as the Build engine couldn’t have a room above a room. Good times.
This user interface was produced in NeoBook for DOS. A lot of the things where you'd think something is clickable but isn't, etc are due to the limitations of early NeoBook versions.
I think the reason for the pile of weapons, sparse enemies, and no exit in that MYHOUS7.MAP is that it was intended as a deathmatch map. I did make a couple campaigns back in the day, but mostly I made deathmatch maps to play with friends.
This reminds me of when my uncle lived with my family for a little while. Guy loved his PC games. He introduced me to a Quake pak called KQP, Killer Quake Pack which added a shit ton of weapons to the game. I don't remember a whole lot from it besides one weapon; the needle gun. Shoot an enemy and it would drain them of blood and they would die. I've found mentions of the pak online within the last decade but I've never been able to play it anytime recently. If I could mess with that shit again, I'd be so happy.
The reason for the names of the games censored is most likely the games being on the index back in the day for their display of violence. Germany still has some strict laws when it comes to that. That means the games are not allowed to be advertised in any form. In order to not get into trouble i guess the publishers of the CD censored the names.
By the way, this is the most German thing I've seen so far on LGR...
Yep. That were the times when the BPJS (Federal inspection body for dangerous writings) took care of removing all media from selling to people under the age of 18 if it could harm the mental health and development of the adolescent. So only adults could get the hands on these media. If a game was „censored“ in that way it was (and is) not allowed to market or promote or sell it to non adults. Otherwise you can get sued.
Had no idea you couldn't even display the _title_ of affected media on that list... wild!
Had the same thought immediately
I used to read German game magazines and they had monthly lists of best selling games. Often there were entries called "indexed game" meaning they were on the censoring list for violent games Everyone could pretty much guess the titles, but they weren't legally allowed to show them as that might count as advertising.
@@steffenrastaetter5019 Yeah, I still remember the times when you could mailorder "Dumm" or "Hundefelsen" :D. Thank god those times are over, nowadays they are far more relaxed ...
the first Voice says "ei verbibbsch" that is east german accent and means something like "say what" and the second is "Gründlich zielen, dann triffst du auch" means "aim wisely, than you will hit your target" greetings from germany
*then
that voice in that RTS files sound like SachsenLetsPlayer Randy :D
Except "ei verbibbsch" is most likely a west German invention when imitating Saxon dialect in a bad way. I don't know a single Saxon who says that. And I'm living here. ;)
Was zur Hölle....
That second one is damn good insult.
one of the MIDI tunes in the RTS files was Auferstanden aus Ruinen, the anthem of East Germany.
Ossies confirmed
oh neat! Thanks for that fellow James person!
Also known as the Rance theme, if you're a degenerate.
So the opposite of the Wolfenstein 3D theme? Horst Wessel Lied
@@ManiacalForeigner WTF, IT'S TRUE
Clint just absolutely roasting a german 9 year old kid some 20 years later. :D
Clint, I’d be interested in watching you try to build a Duke 3D level in a blerb.
Me too! That would be a lot of fun to watch, then he could upload it so we can all try it out
Or a live stream even. With sammiches.
I vote for it to be a 'myhouse' map! Maybe even a rat-type 'myhouse' map!
Yes!
I spend A LOT of time modding Duke3D back in the day. I replaced the lizards with Lemmings I created in 3DStudio Max. And I made several levels, including a kick ass arena map for multiplayer (which became very popular at my school). And of course the mandatory "myhouse" too.
But the most elaborate thing I did went even further. I worked at a warehouse back in those days. And one day I actually asked my boss if he could give me the blueprints for the building, so I could recreate it in Duke with the exact measures. And not only did he agree to this, but he actually managed to talk the office into faxing the blueprints to our warehouse, so I could get them. Fun times! Just imagine that. A 15 year old warehouse worker, asking about blueprints for the warehouse, and actually getting them...
Btw, imagine being the person who made the "myhouse7" from this video, if he or she watched this and that randomly showed up! That would be so friggin' awesome!
Unfortunately I don't have any of my own Duke3D mods anymore. A real bummer to be honest, as they were really well-made. The Lemmings had all of the required animations and sound effects I made myself by pitching my voice.
*sigh*, simpler times...
Good times for sure. Similarly, I made some deathmatch maps of the office our startup was in and the surrounding street level and buildings. Really enjoyed those creative times indeed.
Man recalling that story you could be a writer
whats the names of the maps? if you ever uploaded them anywhere on the net back then, chances it's in some archive or smtn
@@AleksandrBekhtin Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately I never uploaded my Duke3D stuff anywhere. My Quake 2 stuff is still online thought, which is pretty cool. :)
"Duke N*****" has, uh... unfortunate connotations.
You realistically are the best around at filming computer screens.
Fact
Grown up House7 guy presented his D3D level to his architect and now lives in a house with 300 security cameras, a bathroom skull, and firepower laying around all over the place.
and everything is double height with a 2.5 car garage
"If it is possible, please *come, get some* by noon tomorrow."
Yeah, at first I was like "Oh isn't that cute. Some kids made maps of their schools." and then after a moment I was like "Oh no!".
I remember playing a custom 'school' map for Duke, the readme for it even gave a backstory, something like 'Duke brought a gun to school to deal with a bully, but then the aliens invaded'. Yeah, those were simpler times.
The sentiment didn't age well, although the Columbine shooters originally made custom Doom maps instead of Duke maps.
20:34
`MYHOUS7.MAP`
`MYHOUSE.MAP`
`MYMAP.MAP`
`MYSTIFY.MAP`
I read that last one very wrong.
Are you saying that reading comprehension is... hard?
I actually had to read that last one 4 or 5 times before I saw it wasn't supposed to break after the MY 😂
@@OriginalPiMan It can be a _stretch_ for me to read.
The Doom games and Heretic (among others) were on the so called Index of games not to be sold to minors which also prohibited them from being advertised in any way. Thats why the names were crossed out on the back. I believe this is no longer the case in Germany now.
The Index thing still exist but the Rating Board has become So chill over the years that way less gets on the List.
Yes and no. The index is still there, but they revised their policies rather radically over the past fifteen-ish years and also got way younger in that department, so an "indexing" happens way less now. Like: pretty much not at all, unless there is a third-reich-context.
@@Scarleaver the Third Reich stuff got relaxed 1 or 2 years ago. The Usk the german games Rating bord said that tjey finally will start to apply the exceptions for Nazi stuff that the german Anti Nazi Laws allow. Because of that the newest Wolfenstein game is the first game in germany that is allowed to have swastikas. But german Steam still gives you the choice to buy Wolfenstein Youngblood in an Censored or in an uncensored Version.
What I meant was that these particular games are no longer on the index. The system obviously still exists, they probably still clamp down on the whole nazi insignia stuff in games... Doom and Heretic got the ban for the satanic stuff and the - at the time - unheard of depiction of violence. 😅
@@Scarleaver although we start to get third reich context in games, i don't know the exact rules, but a publisher can get around censoring like in movies.
“Had my morning coffee and took a power duke, now let’s mess with some power duke” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
And then the fart transition when he finally starts playing Duke
"Try to get off before somebody calls"
Teenage me relates
You win
Those RTS files are just perfect early 2000s German internet humor
Can you translate what they said?
They aren't really that funny. Ugh.. but truly early 2000s stuff.
The content is „you have to aim better then you gonna hit better“ yeah not funny at all. The „fun“ was more in the god aweful East German dialect (lots of ö and ä 🤪).
Grüße aus Deutschland 🇩🇪
Fake News, we don't have any humour
@@StevenTeebone Wäs ïst däs? Hörst, höle mëinë Lëdërhösën
(My German is bit rusty since I haven't used it in... 20 or so years, so my possessives might be off)
I remember one of my favorite things was to download people's house maps for Duke3D. It was fun exploring the houses and getting to see what people live in through the eyes of Duke.
'Why is there a skull in the bathroom?'
Well where do you keep your skulls then?
on the kitchen cabinet, like a normal person
the paris catacombs/ossuary?
I keep them in the skull room.
Bathroom, bedroom, wherever they can be conveniently desecrated...
Definitely the bathroom, by the three seashells.
His Duke Nukem Guy's voice keeps getting better.
I like how the reflection underneath POWER DUKE looks like it reads "bOMEB DnKE".
b0MEK DAKE
Ь0MEB D∩KE
he's like Red Superman. the Russian Duke Nukem
So the build tutorial guy, Cho Yan Wong works at Guerilla games on Horizon Zero Dawn. I always like to see if people are still active in the game field.
You’ve got like months of content here, there could be some real gems from the 90s in here
When a blerb is longer than a regular episode, you know it’s 2020.
Weekly map reviews are now mandatory
21:29 My friends and I used to download a bunch of fan-made maps for Half-Life 1, one of which was a giant house where you were basically the size of a mouse, we had hours and hours of fun playing deathmatch!
Oh yeah, rat maps!
The Power Duke is how you were conceived. You're welcome.
“This is the moment on Sprockets when we dance!”
"My name is Dieter, Auf Wiedersehen!"
Where is my monkey! I want to touch my monkey!
The censoring was due to the fact that DN3D was on an index till 2017 which meant you couldn't advertise or mention the game on or in other media in germany. You could only buy it when you were 18+.
Wtf wow.. what was the reasoning? And why did it take till 2017 to abolish this list
@@leonidas6682 it took so long because the rules for that list say that a placeing in that List last for 25 years and you get auto removed after that.
@@leonidas6682 Germany was effectively forced to heavily censor content after WW2. It was not the right move and continues to be a way to censor content and deny the past. It's all politics that has actually nothing to do with these games.
@@leonidas6682 This list is not abolished.
Media deemed "severely detrimental to the development of minors" can still be indexed.
Last time a game was put on index list A (a.e. banned from marketing) was in 2018, which was Marvelous’ "Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni" for PlayStation Vita.
Last time a game was put on index list D (a.e. banned from sale, period and all known physical copies confiscated) was in 2016, which was the infamous "Hatred" by Destructive Creations.
for more info: th-cam.com/video/UeUfNSD5YQU/w-d-xo.html
@@leonidas6682 Germany went conservative after the Second World War and decided that there was no was the new government was going to let people be influenced negatively ever again. Of course, being Germany, they went next level on the efficiency of the censorship.
Just to be clear, it was Germany that restructured it’s laws after the war, not the allies making them.... sort of.
As for school maps - we made our high school as a map in.... Doom, I think? And used a modded version to remove the bad guys and items, and had a computer with our custom map at the entrance to the school on "open house" day so people could virtually walk around the school.
GDR/DDR national anthem in the RTS: Auferstanden aus Ruinen .. Just if anybody wondered! Read another post stating that the German accent was supposed to be East German.
Yet S.A.D. GmbH (the distributor) has both of its headquarters in Neu Ulm, Bavaria and Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, which are definitely not part of former East Germany.
This RTS-crap is an over-sharpend kind of GDR accent. I'm a german, it sounds like 230% stereotype GDR dude.
@@DaneeBound True, but who says they only took things from West Germany?
The other commentor also stated is maybe was a mocking East German accent .. I have no idea, not that great in German accents on the account of being danish 😃
It's 1996, 5 years after the reunion. It's just "Ostalgie" at that point in German history. Memories are still fresh and they just rescued the "Ampelmännchen" in Berlin. RTL Samstag Nacht, Werner, ah good times. (The RTS sound made me remember of Werner Beinhardt)
i really wanna see him playing his old levels now
I wish I still had some to play! They've long been lost.
@@LGRBlerbs What about bringing some modern LGR into DN3D? Maybe a mini episode staring a Goodwill and your studio, perhaps? Could be a good laugh.
@@jaysoosbeans HOUS2020.MAP
@@LGRBlerbs If you can remember any of the names they were called, it shouldn't be too hard to track 'em down :)
@@LGRBlerbs You know they probably got downloaded and thrown onto some trashware at some point.
As a german i can tell you, thats a very funny accent, from east germany 😂🤪 We would also laugh about it! Very funny, seems it was a hobby project, professionally produced!
And it's also the DDR/GDR national anthem (Auferstanden aus Ruinen) in a weird, but beautiful, techno remix!
The "Gründlich zielen, dann triffste auch" had me in tears, it was so out of the blue! 🤣
Ei verbibbsch!
It reminds of the beginning of Bullyparade: Der Film.
@@EsbenSchjerning I was looking for that remix but none of the ones I found were as good.
@@rockapartie Hell, yeah!
Pretty sure I saw a "simcity" map in there. That one would be interesting to see. Maybe.
Thanks a A LOT for posting that link in the description. AWESOME stuff I had mostly forgotten. Greetings from Germany "where everyone has a skull in the bathroom" ! ;-)
come, sit down, get some...
* Duke voice *: Howdy sugar, sit a spell.
Stay a while, and listen.
Those games were
indexed in Germany at the time. I guess this is why they were not allowed to mention the names...
Exactly this. One of my favorites from magazines back in the day is "Hundefelsen" when referring to Wolfenstein. (And since neither Descent nor Warcraft were indexed, no need to censor them)
Yeah, that's pretty much the whole reason! If you wanted to sell your product (this CD, a cheat book with many cheats, etc.) you would have to censor the "evil game" titles. Wolfenstein, Duke, Doom, Quake all those good ID goodness was a BIG nono in ye old germany...
Cheers from Germany (I had a great time back in the day when I found my first affordable PC-game importer and finally get my hands on all nonos X-D)
Advertising indexed games was not allowed - and "advertising" had a very broad definition going as far as even mentioning them in gaming magazines could have been seen as promoting those games. I don't know though if any magazines actually were sued on those grounds or if they were just especially careful. Of course putting the names on the back of a commercial CD was even more problematic. Soi the solution was to use Xes. At some point it just stopped though and the names were mentioned again. Not sure what happened and why.
What does it mean to be indexed when it comes to Germany games? Edit: ok I see, its a list of games not allowed to be sold to minors.
A better term in English than "indexed" would be "proscribed".
Seeing so many references to myhouse is so odd given that a map for Doom II is one of 2023's most popular games...
"Maybe this was made by someone who was like nine" quality German pun there, sir.
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I got huge nostalgia for these types of things because I remember going to computer fairs like 20+ years ago and these add-on packs were everywhere for all the popular pc games.
I submitted this CD. Thank you for this cool review!
You ripping through that house level helped me out of a really bad day. I *do* hope you make a series!
Well back then with limited speed and bandwidth, I used to buy all sorts of CD and Floppy disc add-on compilations from the local computer fair that used to set up in the local sports hall. Ah those were the days!
This is like what PCGAMER included on CDROM with their magazines in the 90's
I remember downloading that MP5 off dukeworld in the late 90s and being disappointed. Also: ✓ school map, ✓ house.map
This is amazing. The sometimes-censorship (understandable, given Germany's censorship, still funny though), that amazing RTS menu, a useful Build tutorial... in English... on a CD for a German audience... wunderbar. I love that it's so well organized compared to most FTP scrape CD-ROMs, too. I'm pretty sure I saw a copy of Power Duke way back in the days of computer shows, so it's doubly cool to see the contents of this thing over 20 years later.
Please make a series going through those levels, lol.
At first I thought the reload animation, Duke slapping a new magazine into the MP5 as if it were a pistol, was totally ridiculous. But that’s the kind of confidence and enthusiasm I expect from Duke, and I kind of love it.
That was more fun than I expected it to be.
Happy New Year LGR, and all of us.
The equivalent of you building maps on this game, was me building maps on Delta Force 2 and Delta Force BHD/TS. My dad and I used to spend hours building and playing our maps with each other. That was the best time of my childhood.
Come on Clint, "Took a power duke..." 🤣
*dukie? :P.
hahahahahahah
Duke Dookem
@@brennyn Nuke Dookem?
All BMs shall henceforth be known as Power Dukes
It's time to kick Arsch and chew
Kaugummi
Niemand stiehlt unsere Küken... und lebt!
*euro dance techno intensifies*
I know, dusting off a 2 year old video, but I love the memories this brings up of the old computer shows. Digging through boxes of cds and disks in a small hall oy gymnasium. Computer parts every where. I know there are still shows out there, but not near me
1:54 the kind of content I keep coming back to this channel for. Also amazing how 1mb cab completely change your game experience back then. I think this should have been a live stream. I would stick around to have Clint explore the whole CD.
Yes, warning of a false Virus alarm with McAfee scanners :)
Because McAfee's McAfee.
Somewhere in germany, a dude is crying while watching this because LGR is roasting his map making skills. :P
Most of us making shit maps in the 90s would be dumbfounded that the things still existed and had somehow made it onto an LGR blerb after being scraped off of some godforsaken corner of geocities by someone trying to fill the last few megabytes of an addon CD. I'm in my 40s now as is most everyone who was making these things and I have no illusions about the quality of my Doom and Duke 3D map making skills when I was a teenager.
@@misterthegeoff9767 Yeah it'd be... sad if someone who made a rather crappy DN3D map like 25 years ago would go "argh how dare you insult my glorious map-making skills when I was 16."
"Had my morning coffee and a power Duke." 😂🤣😭
Take us on tours of the coolest/worst maps. Could be a recurring thing if you wanted. Would be popular.
That Tempest guy is currently working at Guerilla Games on Horizon Forbidden West.
Shout out to the Duke Nukem 3D Level Design Handbook. That thing was my freaking bible through out high school when it came to making levels, and started my love for game and level design. (Though it was the Duke Nukem 3D Strategy Guide Book that started me down that path with the final pages of the book dedicated to Build). It eventually lead to me and a friend faithfully recreating (Within the engine's limitations) Complex from Goldeneye 007, which is on the Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition workshop.
Are you James Duncan by any chance? He attempted to make 007-inspired TC back in the old days
@@manicware96 Nope, I was invovled involved with the 00 Duke TC however.
Those awesome happy hardcore samples for the sound effects straight from Germany make the Power Duke CD-ROM totally worth the buy for me.
As a german Duke3D mapper I approve! :D
Clint manages to make all his videos so interesting...I could watch you forever! Greetings from Italy :)
This is in an East German accent which sounds funny for us as well. Pretty cool!
The names are censored because some of these games were not allowed to be sold or written articles about.
I love Duke Nukem 3D. I play Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition, Duke Nukem Forever 2013, and Duke 3D Forever. All the files for them were downloaded free off the Internet thanks to fan archives. Surprisingly, I've never heard of Duke Power.
"It's Time For Power Duke"
-Me to my toilet every morning
Oh man, "DXXM" and "DXXM 2", they had to write DOOM like that because those games were still on the index back then, meaning you can't sell them to minors or advertise them in any way. I remember reading about graphics engines in a book that used the same names, and called Quake "QRSTE". Might be the same for Duke Nukem 3D, but that could also be ass-covering for the fact that they are releasing something for that game that isn't officially licensed.
speaking of the ancient net. My household my dad QUICKLY decided it was worth the expense to add a second phone line in the house. also it gave him a good excuse to rip out the cheap ass phone wire in the house and swap us over to the then expensive Cat5 cable that his work had tons of extra sitting in a closet they weren't doing shit with after they upgraded the building (it was a machinist shop that made molds so it had a good sized computer network for cad work... that also doubled as a lan party setup for Doom. intentionally so as well lol) also we never did AOL. we tried a trial and immediately hated how gated it was so we did more with prodigy and MSN
did your dad later upgraded to ISDN ?
@@superchiaki nah
Also, it's a weird sort of disconnect that I'm downloading this 650MB archive today in just a couple minutes, when, at the time this was released, I would have been on dialup with a download speed of about 5 minutes/MB at 28.8kbps...
Someone needs to post the full mix of that East German anthem haha
This is so East German, I love it. The nostalgia!
that 303 pattern in that techno background track was mental
great episode of "LXX Bluurbs" :)
Awesome!
When I saw this in the opening package video, I started looking forward to see the blerb for this disc.
Man, I love the "slow" videos like these where you just try out random retro/nostalgic stuff.
that cough
I used to make giant space stations back in the day.
There was just something about looking out of the windows and seeing other parts of the station in the distance.
Also made heavy use of horizontal sprites for multi-level walkways.
I remember playing around with those map creators. It blew my mind that going underwater just teleported you to the ceiling in a room adjacent to where you came from, above your previous position.
I had a disk called Power Duke. Best map on it was "bridges". Played it via modem against my friends for years.
Mein persönlicher Favorit unter den Patchen!!!
I love how internet peeps used to talk. we gotta get back to that. more keet, less street.
The censorship of certain game names in germany stems from the fact that Quake, Duke 3D and many others were prohibited to advertise publically due to youth protection regulations. The „Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Schriften“ was a pain in the ass for everyone growing up during this period of time.
Schmerzen im A***. Indeed!
Nothing like making everyone have green blood in Carmageddon TDR2000 to make it ok to run them down!
@@evilspoons The grunts in Half-Life were replaced with robots.
I don't ever recall MP5 reloads like that but the model looks cool.
Glad you did this, I tried looking it up when you got it, but I couldn't find anything.
Clint. You still do an eerily good Duke impersonation.
Hahaha... love the intro !
Big fan of your main channel and this Blerb channel is a new twist 😄
117k subs already ! 😬 ... Groooovy !!
Ahhhh this brings back memories
...and yup, you've said it now. Time to get working through that CD for some episodes :D
Hi Clint,
the reason for that wrong naming in the directory tree and the generic package design was because of strong german laws this games were adult only and sellers / resellers arent allowed to distribute the games or add ons in its original names because they were blacklisted by law on the "Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle" or just short as "Index". Popular games which were blacklisted were Doom / Wolfenstein / and afair Duke3d / Half Life Add On Counter Strike was also listed shortly on index.
The company SAD Distribution gmbh was very popular distributing Game Add - Ons in that way before the Internet was a "Thing" in germany.
ive played a bunch of doom, heretic, and quake custom maps, i kinda want try out playing custom maps for Duke3D (and maybe try to make one sometime because that sounds interesting), ill have to figure it out and try it sometime
You should go through the whole disc and make videos about it for sure. Would love to see that.
I remember the Duke Zone CDs with loads of maps on and making some fairly basic maps myself. Could never get the lift working, like other things mentioned you had to build another room as the Build engine couldn’t have a room above a room. Good times.
I would enjoy watching videos of you making Duke3d levels.
Alot of these RTS sound files were popular on german CS 1.6 servers. Brings back memories.
Yes!! I hope you continue to make more Duke videos! :D
*"Come, Get some..."*
Huh, that's a catchy phrase... :\
This user interface was produced in NeoBook for DOS. A lot of the things where you'd think something is clickable but isn't, etc are due to the limitations of early NeoBook versions.
I want a blerb of you binge playing each one of those RTS files please :)
I would totally watch a Blerbs series of you playing through old maps and mods if you ever fancied doing that :)
I think the reason for the pile of weapons, sparse enemies, and no exit in that MYHOUS7.MAP is that it was intended as a deathmatch map. I did make a couple campaigns back in the day, but mostly I made deathmatch maps to play with friends.
I'd love to see you play through some more of these crazy levels
This reminds me of when my uncle lived with my family for a little while. Guy loved his PC games. He introduced me to a Quake pak called KQP, Killer Quake Pack which added a shit ton of weapons to the game. I don't remember a whole lot from it besides one weapon; the needle gun. Shoot an enemy and it would drain them of blood and they would die. I've found mentions of the pak online within the last decade but I've never been able to play it anytime recently. If I could mess with that shit again, I'd be so happy.
I saw congo4 in the maps folder. Probably my favourite dukematch map.