My brother wanted to get the latest NHL game. The nostalgic feels were too strong and I caved. It wasn’t cheap per se, especially for an older game, but seeing it suddenly brought back good memories of that weekend I spent with Wolfie back in March of 1994. It was there I saw Wolfenstein 3D for $30. One night my dad took my brother and me to FUNCOLAND. Unfortunately that guide is just another childhood thing lost to time… I even made a mini strategy guide where I rated the enemies and guns. So the SNES port was my first taste for all intents and purposes. I only briefly played it at my friend’s house in mid 1992, but mostly I remember watching him play it. I loved Doom at the time but I had yet to play Wolfenstein 3D thoroughly. It’s funny - I ended up playing the game more than he did. Wolfenstein 3D was one of those games my brother directed me to rent. The adrenaline rush shooting through my nine year old body at the time was damn near palpable.īack in the day my brother would always ship me on the weekends to go rent a Super Nintendo game of his choosing. Even nearly 25 years later, I remember it vividly. It was one of those awesome gaming experiences that stay with you for the long haul, not unlike the first time you saw the likes of Doom, Resident Evil or Super Mario 64. It felt like we were playing something taboo… something we weren’t supposed to be playing. The blood, the carnage, the sheer mayhem - it was unlike anything I had ever seen before.
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I thought he was just blowing smoke up my you know what, but I quickly became a believer of the hype the second I saw Wolfenstein 3D in action. As he booted it up he flapped his gums excitedly about this killer new game that was supposedly unlike any other video game he had ever played. The first time I experienced Wolfenstein 3D was at my friend’s house.
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TRAILBLAZER We knew we were embarking on a whole new journey While Doom gets most of the accolades and glory, there might not have been a Doom without a Wolfenstein 3D. What a great time it was to be a kid in those days. Growing up in the early-mid ’90s meant living through the 2D fighting game golden age, the 16-bit wars and the Doom era. It’s a raw, visceral kind of experience no other genre offers! It provides the kind of thrill you won’t find in any other genre.
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Something about being a one man strike force mowing down gun-toting soldiers and mutants one after another. Something about the genre really appealed to me. When this came out in early ’94, I was just beginning my torrid obsession with first person shooters.
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Pub: Imagineer | Dev: id Software | March 1994 | 8 MEGSĪhh, Wolfenstein 3D.