Duke Nukem 1+2 Remastered 30 Years Later! Evercade Collection Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- It's December! And while that usually means Christmas LGR things, these two Duke Nukem Evercade Collection cartridges were just released and there was no way I was gonna miss out on covering remasters of some of my favorite games. Especially since I got to be involved in their creation, just a little bit at least!
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● My LGR Blerbs video about Rigel Engine for Duke 2:
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● Background jazz music licensed from:
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00:00 It's Dukecember!
00:27 Duke Nukem Evercade Collection
02:36 The consoles and cartridges
04:10 Duke Nukem 1 Remastered
08:52 Duke Nukem 2 Remastered
10:42 Duke 3D Total Meltdown
12:00 Duke Nukem Advance
12:54 Duke Nukem Time to Kill
13:56 Duke Nukem Land of the Babes
14:44 A good time to be a Duke fan
#LGR #game #review #retrospective #duke - เกม
A correction to 07:15 - Mr. Paddock composed _the MIDI soundtrack_ for Prodeus that can be selected in-game as an alternative to Andrew Hulshult's OST www.jamespaddockmusic.com/2021/04/15/new-album-30in30-5-released-2/
Apologies to Andrew for the mix-up and I give him full permission to give me crap about it next time we hang out 😄
HULSHULT IS A GOD
Edit: go listen to his full DOOM OST remake!
Can Duke Nukem II on Evercade have both Soundblaster and Adlib effects selected? The DOS version is the only game I've ever seen that can do that. It makes the sound effects "fatter and richer" than either AdLib or Soundblaster alone.
This looks and sounds perfect... Sounds like the stuff I would have been glued to as a kid, struggling through with sweaty palms, a bowl of snacks and a soda.
@@greggv8yes, that's an option
Really good stuff LGR. That large screen experience seem nifty. Glad you enjoyed these epic remasters. Chrismaas..
Thanks again for your invaluable feedback during development Clint, and for reviewing the games on your channel! It was a really fun project, and I hope some of the passion we put into Duke 1&2 shines through. It's still a bit surreal for me sometimes how my little hobby project has lead to working on an actual official Duke Nukem release!
Sincerely my pleasure, Niko! The passion was clear from day one, both with Rigel Engine and with all the little nitty gritty details and thought that went into these ports. I'm still happy that you were on the same page as me with how picky I was about PC speaker characteristics, haha.
I hope you can continue to do similar work in the future! Perhaps even with some other shareware classics, the back catalog of Apogee and Epic is perfectly ripe, IMO.
Yeah I hope so too, that'd be awesome!
I'd kill for an updated Hocus Pocus!
Any chance of getting official support for Rigel Engine on RetroPie?
@@scottplank1012 that's ultimately up to the RetroPie maintainers. People in the community have already created the necessary scripts and opened a PR on GitHub, but it hasn't been merged yet.
It has to be absolutely surreal to see your name in the credits of a re-release of one of your favorite game serieses of all time, has to feel like a "coming full-circle" moment. Congrats to you and the team for the awesome work they did on these ports!
Thanks, it really is bizarre in the best way
Showing off your original physical versions of every single game in the collection is exactly kind of flex I'm here for
Cheers for the review, Clint! This was a really fun and exciting musical project to be a part of, especially with Lee Jackson's blessing to reimagine his DN3D music using AdLib synthesis.
Here's hoping that Bobby Prince's iconic music gets saved from licensing hell eventually.
Keep kickin' ass and chewing bubblegum!
Props for the excellent work here, James! I sure miss Prince's OG tracks but yours slot in quite perfectly with the early Duke vibe, I love finally having a DN1 soundtrack.
It's funny, when I began talking to Blaze about the project I actually had written in my notes to recommend you as a composer since your Secret Agent HD work was so spot-on. Then when Ryan was like "we have James on-board already!" I knew this project was legit 🤘
Love your music! Is the DN1 soundtrack for sale on your site? I couldn't find it at the link Clint provided or on your bandcamp.
Holy Sh*t! Clint you are now a part of official Duke history. This is not small. This is actually a very big deal. WOW! I have been watching since the beginning and even have signed floppy and talked with you at the retro expo's. I am sooo happy for you my guy!
Thank you, it doesn't actually feel real!
Hail to the king, baby!
It's super badass that the Evercade line is still supported. I was afraid it would fold after a year, turns out they're a solid bastion of classic gaming and that is RAD AF.
Oh hell no. I can comfortably assure you it’s alive and well.
What the barnacle is the Evercade anyway. Is it some shovelware portable thing? I’ve genuinely never heard of it
@@Detective_LModern retro gaming, only physical cartridges with full colour manual and case. Consoles have great controls, all games are officially licensed, and they have multiple cost/hardware options if you want to try it out. Cheapest is the Super Pocket, costs less than a new Ps5 game, but is Evercade cart compatible
@@Detective_L Do you watch a lot of retro gaming content? They've all been talking about it for a couple of years now. I figured it would die off, since you can get an Odroid Go Ultra for $60 and put literally every game from pong to N64/PS1 on it. People like physical media and legal products, though, I guess!
@@Detective_L Another ARM console based on the RK3328 (Cortex-A53 CPU), e.g an SBC in a fancy shell that can run packaged Linux ports from proprietary cartridges. Depending on how you look at it, it can be considered as either a glorified Rock64 or an under-powered Switch. Although i admit that with ports like these and all the legal effort put into licensing everything, at least the devs have demonstrated a lot of spirit for the thing.
Gosh, those remakes of DN1 and DN2 are _gorgeous!_ I can't get over the super-smooth framerate, the helpful widescreen and the faithfulness to the originals! Those were two of MY faves back in the day as well, and I still replay them from time to time. What an honor it must have been to be a big part of it!
Really glad to hear that! It was truly a pleasure to be any part of at all :)
When I was 8, my Uncle gave me a CD with a slee of games on it (Duke 1&2 among many others). My Uncle passed away in 2006 (my mom passed away July 2023). I wish both couldve been here to see this (my mom was the first to witness me gaming as a kid). Thanks for covering these gems.
Resident Duke Expert gotta be the best credit title out there
I will never not love the fact that LGR Christmas has become a full on nostalgic tradition for me.
If those Duke I + II remasters came to PC, I'd preorder it in a heartbeat.
Same for other consoles like Xbox, Playstation and Switch
And literally anything!
@@jasonmartinez5116 Personally I couldn't give a **** about those but yeah absolutely for sure. Whoever owns the IP these days would make a killing.
Or maybe just buy Evercade :)
@@black8jaac I'm not buying a console I've never heard of until this video just to play remasters of DM 1/2. Talk about a bad investment. I'll just wait until the inevitable emulator lol.
Classic everything with smooth scrolling option... sold. That was my ONE beef with 1 & 2!!
I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it…I NEEDEEEED IT NOW!!! Hail to the King baby!
I can’t tell you how much this represents Duke. The passion behind the project, wanting to share it with others. These are not only some of the best Duke games, but the ones most fondly remembered and it shows.
1&2 still live rent free in my heart and are why I love 16-32 bit games to this day.
"from a real human artist" hell yeah brother love to see projects like this just brimming with passion and integrity
Your name is the the credit sequence for a Duke Nukem game! That's so cool.
Clint, thank you for great content for over a decade and for always putting some great Christmas specials.
My pleasure, thank you for continuing to watch all this time!
4:24 Manhattan Project Grabbag is best grabbag, no contest.
Man, that first Duke game takes me back. I used to play that on my grandfather's PC that ran on an OS called GEOS. Typing in DUKE1.EXE, then spending hours just wandering around the levels shooting stuff was always a good time. This game, along with Commander Keen, Cosmos, and Captain Comic were some of my earliest PC gaming memories
Whew, Captain Comic. I always get excited when someone mentions that game (and its sequel, Captain Comic II: Fractured Reality), because I loved that game as a kid and so few people seem to know about it.
Heck yeah, but reading this also makes me feel old! 😂
I think that bit about being in the credits is the only actually humble "humble brag" I've seen all year! Way to go Clint, you deserve it!!
My first Duke Nukem was 3D. I didn’t even realize that there were earlier titles until years later
Duke 3D was my first but knew about 1&2 didn't like Duke 1 was like Commander Keen in gameplay Duke2 was more engaging
Oh Duke Nukum great times had.
Ah Shareware was amazing.
Same. I actually didn't know about the earlier ones until I watched LGR videos on them! I'm in my 30s..
I still have 3d...tinker with the level making from time to time
Mine too but i enjoy other much
Evercade exclusive or not, it's really awesome that these exist, and even cooler that they reached out to you to help ensure that they were the best they could possibly be. That's a nice level of dedication to see from a project like this.
Also I assume you've put "Resident Duke Expert" on your business cards.
It's pretty rad seeing older games on physical carts in the modern day. The platform restriction is a bummer, cause I'll never have an Evercade, but I'll hold out hope for other platforms in the future.
Duke is definitely your spirit character. I have always adored your Duke voice. This video brought to light some really cool things I never knew about. Congrats on getting to work with these guys!!
I got these in the mail yesterday, opened the manual and immediately saw Clint's name dropped in the opening paragraph and got immediately more excited.
A PC port of Duke Nukem one and two with a level editor like they did for secret agent HD and Crystal caves HD would be amazing!
I'm pretty sure your profile pic is from some cheesy 80s movie but I love how it can pass for Duke Nukem as well if he were originally an 80s movie icon.
@@therexbellator yes it does! 😂
It’s from a really bad sci fi movie called Space Mutiny that was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Very cool to hear you were involved! Fun video
Jimmy Paddock music? I'm sold.
Duke Nuken 3d was the first game (along with command and conquer & warcraft) I remember playing multiplayer, back when you had to play over the phone by calling your friend. It is also my first experience with mods/extra content, getting new maps etc.
Funny enough, I played NFS: Most Wanted this way. It lagged, but was still playable.
I remember lugging my 133MHz Pentium and 17" CRT monitor over to a friend's house for a LAN party in 1996 or so. I didn't even have an ethernet card at that point, so they had to lend me one. I remember we played Duke Nukem 3D and Command & Conquer.
i love how you have your name in the credits of duke games now no one more deserving of it then you!
Duke 1 was one of the first games I ever had contact with back in the 90s in my DOS computer, I remember only my dad could make it to the end of the first episode. I´m so nostalgic and glad to see this masterpiece remastered.
I know I'm old because my biggest excitement for this is "THEY FIXED THE SCROLLING ON DUKE 1 AND 2"
I also know that I'm old because I had to try very hard not to use "washed" in place of "old"
Ah btw, the Duke 1 story summary is also in the DOS original - it's just buried in the help menu there. So we put it before the Duke/Proton dialog
I was also one of the lucky 2000 to get the duke edition vs. That's awesome LGR had some input and mention in the credits I had no idea he was involved!
Now let's see a Commander Keen 1 and 2 collection, awww man I love Evercade stuff :)
Thought I was the only one who was going to post about the Atomic Edition. Glad to know you helped make these great remasters happen!
I was reading the instruction manual and saw your name mentioned. I had no idea! It was such a cool surprise
Bought an evercade just for this, and it's so worth it. Though we need a third collection with Duke GBC, Zero Hour and Manhattan Project.
Manhattan Project would be phenomenal to have but I've a feeling we'll need an Evercade 2.0 for such a port, considering it was a Windows XP PC game and Xbox 360 title. Quite a bit beefier than DOS and PS1 stuff.
I have to say, Watching this brings back so many memories playing these games. They did an amazing job with the remaster, and adding on the options to turn filters off like for the SFX makes it that much better. Thanks for vouching for that LGR!
I spent so many hours playing Duke 1 & 2. Good to see them again.
i didn't know about these till now, this is perfect i will be buying one of these ASAP. Thanks!
Love the LGR/Duke sprite they made for you!
I was gonna buy the collections anyway since I’m planning to collect every cart released for Evercade, but seeing a massive fan being so happy about how it turned out - that makes me more hyped to play them once I get them
Good to see Duke coming back, I've never heard of the Evercade though.
LGR Christmas videos are a tall glass of hot cocoa for my brain.
2:32 Clint's credit is before and more senior to Jon St. John, the voice of Duke. The padawan has surpassed the master.
if most remasters got a resident expert... they would probably be a lot more well received. thanks for what you do!
Creator Todd Replogle, along with Scott Miller and George Broussard would be quite proud of this work. And yes.. my #1 reaction to this video: please make it available to other platforms! My god would I purchase this in a heartbeat on Steam or Switch!
If the source code was lost, I assume the code and assets from the retail release was reverse engineered back to source code. If that's the case then that's impressive dedication to seeing a remaster happen.
Yep, the source code was reverse engineered from the Assembly code of the original EXEs.
@@lethal_guitar Any chance of the upgrades to Duke 1 being released on PC? I still have Duke Edit around here somewhere. I modified the inter-level safe room to actually be difficult. Also printed out the whole list of all the items so I could reference it.
@insparks782 As mentioned in the video at 01:25, yep! An impressive feat of reverse engineering while balancing/updating things with fresh features, I was over the moon with how good Rigel Engine was back when I covered that and things only got better from there :)
@@LGRwhat is the legality of the project? Were they able to license the property to produce and sell this? I wouldn't think something like this would be possible. It's really cool.
@@MistshinobiWhy do you care?
Wow, this is CLEAN!
I don't know about you, but hearing LGR do the Duke voice gives me all the holiday cheer I could want!!
I still haven't played Duke 3D but at least now I have it in my library. Going to play it after I finish Blood fresh supply and Slayers X.
Duke Nukem always seems to get the best remasters, and I'm happy he does! Duke Nukem 3D was one of my favorite games as a kid, and I grew up after the DOS era!
So many happy memories playing Duke Nukem over the years. I first played it on shareware from the demo disc included with _Computer Shopper_ magazine in 1996 then got the full game later. Duke Nukem 1 & 2 were included along with several Apogee/3D Realms demos and I played them almost as extensively as the full game.
I'm glad to see the original platformers get a proper remake and it's really good that you have a contributor credit.
Heck yeah! I got the first cartridge last week. The widescreen gameplay is so nice. It really makes Duke 2 a lot more playable in modern times
They really should have adjusted the pallet for Duke Advance, since it was clearly over pumped to compensate for the dim screen of the GameBoy Advance.
This can be a subjective thing IMO; some color correction filters I've seen make GBA games look overly dim and/or lifeless, but yeah I think it really would've been best to include options here.
Should've just recreated the images instead of using the GBA sprites. Had the assets for Duke 3D right there. Only had to do what they originally did.
Immediate tidal waves of nostalgia upon seeing the Duke Nukem gameplay. Duke Nukem 1 may have been the first game I actually fully completed as a child, and I played that thing into the ground. Countless hours spent with my eyes glued to the screen and my fingers on the keyboard. Definitely a formative game in my childhood, alongside Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Castle of the Winds, Raptor, and Crystal Caves.
I quite like the look of the evercade, I may even buy one
Well deserved crediting for Clint.
Good for the Evercade.
Even better for TH-cam.
Best channel + creator ever.
Long live LGR !!!...
P:S - Bring in the clones 😉🖤
So awesome you got to fulfill the dream of working on a duke game. Your absolute joy in making this video really shines through! Keep kickin ass and chewing bubble gum, Clint!
Thank you for the free high quality audio and visual treat Clint, better then ever, as ever!
Christmaaaaaaaaaaaaas!
Love your channel. From you Duke impersonations to your Sim City geekouts. This is my happy place.
Yeah this game straight up sold me on the Evercade. Wouldn't have gotten one if it wasn't for this collection. And I have no regrets getting it cause... I'll take any Duke I can get at this point.
If Blaze Entertainment is lurking in these comments somewhere and read this, release these collections for other modern day consoles/PC. The fans appreciate the hard and loving work that’s gone into those remasters and are here to absolutely jump for the chance to pick them up.
Also, awesome job Clint. On both the video and the supportive efforts towards these bad ass games. 👍
4:58 damn Clint. You took me back to being a kid again. I was five years old when this released.
Cant think of anyone better or more deserving to do this review.
Great video. Love my Evercade, has a great range of titles. Have both these carts on order.
This is awesome Clint! As a 90s kid you totally hit me in the nostalgia feels with this video.......I never really was a fan of playing DOS games on a TV (I guess my brain is wired to have that keyboard + mouse combo with DOS Games), but seeing you play classic Duke 1 and 2 on your TV seems like a fun idea. Maybe I should look into some old school Gravis Gamepads to use.
Here's hoping there is a PC release for these awesome games in the future!
How did I not know about Evercade until now
I've never wanted to play a retro game and games system more!!!!!awesome review Clint ❤
I know this wasn't meant as an advertisement, but this has made me want the system on my X-Mas list. The fact that they went through all the trouble of making this cartridge and doing the licensing, makes it worth it. I hope you and your clone are doing well. Looking forward to your present exchange with him.
I'm glad to see the Evercade doing good for itself, when it was announced I thought it was going to be dead on arrival but after seeing this I might pick one up.
Who would have thought that Duke Nukem one and two would become a System Seller one Day.
Loved watching your Stuff for years mate and having them treat you as professor duke is really cool and fitting hell yeah baby
I remember trading video games at school with my friend to get a duke nukem advance cartridge. That was my first duke experience
I'm seriously hoping the same love is given to Hocus Pocus from 3D Realms as well.. I want a modern platform release of that game with achievements so bad.
Now i just have to wait for commander keen collection and my life's complete
This makes me happy that you were involved in perfecting these, now I know these are good. A little annoyed that I'm going to have to get an Evercade now😆
I am glad they have an exclusive like this, I have I love my evercades.
This made me go on Amazon and look for an evercade on the first couple of minutes of the video. Good one. 👍
I think it’s time for me to get an Evercade
THIS is the review the internet NEEDED on this.
edit: disclosure was a big plus
I bought into the evercade back when it came out, and I never would of thought Duke nukem would have been ported to it, definitely picking these up for Christmas
@LGR fantastic video as always - love to see these games getting some love. Technical note: if you aren't already aware, the video chapter for Land of the Babes is titled "Duke Nukem: Zero Hour" by mistake. Not that I don't wish Zero Hour was included here!
the best part is you did this out of love for the game. Thats amazing, thank you Clint
I've always loved the 2d Dukes, and I thought they were just going to be emulating the originals. That's awesome that they did more than that. The pc speaker sounds were brilliant, too.
Keep the uploads coming for us!! Weve been good this year LGR!!
Mmm...don't have time to play with myself.
- Duke 😎
Also, I miss the Jazz Jackrabbit Christmas Intro.
It's refreshing to see the Duke Nukem Franchise not ether being whored out or poorly implemented post Gearbox.
Also, Zero Hour is by far, my favourite Duke Nukem game, the best weapons, atmosphere, music, theme song, settings, levels, there's a terminator Duke and it has the most orgasmic WMD weapon in all of video games, the BMF Thunderstruck, you fire that, you are in for a ear-gasmic BOOM.
The multiplayer was so good too. I loved some of those maps.
If it weren’t for this release I would likely never have considered evercade as a system. Considered myself extremely fortunate to have managed to get the atomic edition system and now with the knowledge you were part of what made these possible. Especially duke 1… Christmas is more than complete.
Amazing project, thanks for your contribution, Clint. Having James Paddok on the soundtrack is reassuring. The results are fantastic.
I love the Evercade. I really do. It is one of my absolute favourite retro gaming things to come out in recent years.
"Key art made by a real human artist"
Man, having to _genuinely_ make that clarification is really bizarre.
Duke: "Damn, those lawyer bastards are gonna pay for messing up my soundtrack."
You have so many neat things! Thank you for sharing them with us.
Merry Christmas!
Thanks for making entertaining content that makes me nostalgic for a series I never even played.
Also enjoyed seeing Noiselund 'watched' in the recommended feed.
Played through the first 2 as a kid and loved it!
if only they weren't exclusives! I'd buy these if they were on PC, or the switch, or xbox or PS5 or literally ANYTHING ELSE!!1!
if only they weren't exclusives! I'd buy these if they were on PC, or the switch, or xbox or PS5 or literally ANYTHING ELSE!!1!
if only they weren't exclusives! I'd buy these if they were on PC, or the switch, or xbox or PS5 or literally ANYTHING ELSE!!1!
This is the perfect kind of update, I was looking at it wondering "ehh what's new?" until you did the classic flip. I guess my brain was doing a lot of heavy lifting for the original DOS version :)
Can’t believe you had a Packard Bell too! My childhood was full of so much fun with mine!
Holy cow. I never thought I'd see a Duke I & II remaster.
And never get to play it unless you over pay a scalper online, RELEASE THIS ON MODERN CONSOLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!