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Here's the full Battlelord art by an artist at toy maker, Resaurus, that was used on their retail packaging (from 1997). Apogee Entertainment

This Game Informer article from 2008 covers a lot of Apogee/3D Realms history and even touches on the birth of the bullet-time gameplay mode in Max Payne. Also there's a sidebar on DNF where it's pretty easy to see the project is in real trouble at this point. Apogee Entertainment

PC Gamer visited Apogee in '95 to play Terminal Velocity, and we showed Duke Nukem 3D too. TV made the cover! But I think Duke stole their hearts. Both journalists were enraptured while playing an early version of the shareware game. And this was even before Duke talked in the game. Apogee Entertainment

Let's never forget PC compatibility issues that were rampant in the 1990's that caused us so many headaches, from memory issues like extended and expanded memory (above 640k RAM), and especially sound card compatibility issues. We got 1000's of calls at our tech support! Apogee Entertainment id Software

Apogee's cavernous storage is full of boss loot, like these 1996-era Duke Nukem 3D games still in protective wrap around the jewel cases. We'll be giving one of these away next week on our twitter account -- we have one or two historic giveaways like this every month. We do this partly for the goodwill to our fans, but it's also a terrific way to increase followers. It's very much a win-win for everyone. Apogee Entertainment

In 1998 I wrote this guide on writing a resume. I recently read that people are using AI to write their resume and cover letters now, and they're all coming out looking same-y. It's really easy to write one, so don't turn to AI for something that really needs a personal touch.

It was this 1995 issue of PC Gamer, showing Descent on the cover (a game started w/ Apogee partnering with the dev studio), that had the first usage of "first-person shooter". Back then I called these games "3D shooters". But FPS finally caught on as the name everyone used. BTW, the magazine article that used the "first-person shooter" phrase was not the Descent article... it was an article about Heretic.

On this day way back in another century, Apogee released the last of four Build engine games we originally started in 1994: Blood, Ruins (released as Powerslave), Duke Nukem 3D, and Shadow Warrior. For us, it was the end of the Build era. Apogee Entertainment

My two latest book buys to add to my library of the history of video games. The Supercade book is the second one in the series (and still wrapped in plastic--the way it arrived). Look forward to slowly paging through both soon.

From my 1982 issue of Electronic Games, this article covers the early dominance of Commodore home computers. I was a Commodore guy, starting with the PET, then the C-64, the the Amiga 1000--all stellar for their time. We no longer live in an era when a new computer would come out with exciting new specs that we'd pour over and dream of all the new possibilities this computer would allow.