Fond Childhood Memories. 🙂
Retro
This Is What The Steam Deck Was Made For
Taking a break from my Metroidvania streak to appease my inner five year old, by playing Commander Keen on the Steam Deck! I always thought this would have played well on a GameBoy. I just had to wait a few years. :v
Hail To The Strange Secrets Baby
Playing Ion Maiden last night made me feel nostalgic for some Duke3D. Forgot how fun this was. It had jetpacks, pig cops and aliens, rocket launchers and excellent level designs with secrets to find varying from useful to slightly disturbing:
Anyone familiar with Duke Nukem lore will know that aliens and saving babes is pretty much the premise of this series (this was the 90’s after all, you don’t need a compelling story to market a game), so finding a woman trapped in an alien cocoon is just something that happens. Still, that doesn’t make it any less disturbing. What really added to it was her begging to be killed. I know in Duke Nukem Forever the Duke’s twin slut girlfriends get captured by the aliens and placed in a similar situation, where they were not only trapped in the cocoon but also impregnated by the aliens (all kinds of yummy :/ ). I’m guessing this is why I couldn’t find any way to save this literal two dimensional woman.
There is your nightmare/fetish fuel for the evening. Time for me to head off to work!
Got to properly celebrate April Fools after all
Today I celebrated pulling a prank on my co-workers by bringing in a USB key with DOSBox running Windows 3.11 running in fullscreen mode, in an attempt to freak out some of my younger co-workers. 😛 I left it plugged in since I do have to head back in tomorrow, but damn… I wish I could be there to see the looks on their faces when they try to find the start menu. 😛
Those of us who did use the older Windows actually had a good laugh at the old After Dark screensavers I had running. Every time we were near the system we’d change it from one to another. Flying Toasters, DOS Shell, Bad Dog, and Rat Race were favorites. Especially Rat Race, we set the rats to be as stupid as possible to make the race last a super long time. Here’s a short video that has all kinds of After Dark screensavers. Quite a few I never even saw before!
I hear you can get 4.0 to run on Windows 7 with a little bit of hacking… might have to look into that.