Before Duke Nukem Became An FPS Icon | Trav Guy

[@Cardthulhu]

At 3:11 "This was like 20 years ago." I'm sorry trav, it was 31 years ago. We're old.

[@ThatTravGuy]

oh my god how

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

OOOLD

[@TheReZisTLust]

This man chews bubblegum and kick asses, when he's out of gum he goes on a search for his Froggy.

[@SQGReviewShow]

I'm surprised throughout this game and its many time warping instances, Duke doesn't say "Let's do the time warp again." Such a missed opportunity

[@GiselleGauthier]

That was before he quoted pop culture non-stop. 😜

[@SQGReviewShow]

@@GiselleGauthier Ah. Fair enough

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

I'm surprised not a single back to the future joke was made

[@johnnycruelty5195]

It's Warpin' Time

[@s.p.d.magentaranger1822]

@@johnnycruelty5195 DRAGONZORD!

[@mushymcmushington7176]

11:49 Ah yes, I remember collecting the D.O.N.G. in Donkey Kong Country.

[@theoanderson2042]

Favorite part of the game

[@lilwyvern4]

Really expands the gameplay. Makes it feature length.

[@ayrtonjoga]

@@lilwyvern4 Yeah, it's so fun to find those thick letters

[@pandable8657]

Came here to say this, lol

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

HE HAS NO _PINGAS_

[@metalhellspawn]

It's okay, Trav Guy. When fighting Dr. Proton just remember what Deadpool once said: "Just so everyone knows, the guy in the wheelchair started it!"

[@Chconroy]

I didn't know there was anything before Duke Nukem 3D, so this is an interesting game to look at. Reminds me of how way more people know about Gex 2 over Gex 1. Also, either I'm hearing things or he says "D O N G letters" at 11:51.

[@PAINBRINGER]

yeah, he said D O N G letters.

[@KertaDrake]

It's even weirder coming from the other side to learn that there were 3d games after a decade of only knowing the 2d games and downright surprising that these games of all things merited the awesome 3d sequel!

[@spinyjustspiny3289]

Articulate Dong

[@Mr.BreadLord]

I can't hear it.

[@StubzTurner]

Man, I played the crap out of the first episode of Duke Nukem 1. It was a really fun game that I didn't realize that it didn't have an actual soundtrack until years later. Also at the time, I had no clue what the word shareware even was or what it meant. So whenever I beat the first episode and saw a quick ad for the second episode, I though it was going to be the next full game.

[@prof_kolorado]

"Undertale" - Dookus Nookus (2022) Duke 1+2 were games that I was always tangentially aware of, but didn't know much about besides "Once upon a time, Duke was in a platforming game". So this was an interesting dive into the history of the series - and your commentary and the snappy editing made it all the better. Keep on doing your thing, Trav Guy.

[@ZomBro_BOSS]

Worlds best character, the coolest guy character, is literally a brick

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

I always took his design as elmo in the military

[@ZomBro_BOSS]

@@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32 sounds about right

[@JoeSmoPedro]

11:50 "kinda like the D-O-N-G letters in Donkey Kong" Not sure if that was intentional but it made me laugh regardless

[@SuperfieldCrUn]

He can't sneak the dong past me.

[@dullish988]

I don't hear it...

[@johndoe7270]

Seeing your support for Metal health and suicide issues... I got a pet duck for an ESA recently. It really brightened my day. House ducks aren't for everyone, but I am so glad to have this guy in my life now. It's created some really wonderful moments. Anyways, I hope you're doing ok. As usual, you made some really good content.

[@s.p.d.magentaranger1822]

That's adorable! I hope the duck is helping.

[@goldskarr]

What's the ducks name?

[@johndoe7270]

​@@goldskarr Narcan, Narcan the duck. Hes a manky mallard or hybrid between a swedish black and a mallard.

[@genuinesaucy]

There's just something so wholesome about the image of Duke sitting down on the couch in a nuclear-patterned bathrobe and bunny slippers with a mug of tea and tuning into Oprah.

[@Hush.Elementz]

"ladies, gentlemen, and enbies" My appreciation for this knows no bounds

[@s.p.d.magentaranger1822]

"Enbies" is non-binary, right?

[@Hush.Elementz]

@@s.p.d.magentaranger1822 ye

[@s.p.d.magentaranger1822]

@@Hush.Elementz Ah, I saw this comment before I connected the dots with another video, and wanted to ask. Maybe incorporate into my vocabulary lol

[@justandrew5641]

Coming back to this video, the analysis is still great, and the humor is top notch-but what **really** makes it is Trav absolutely hamming it up with Proton’s lines. Great work as always!

[@GeekMasterGames]

At least Trav is earning his stars following in Civvie's footsteps. Bravo.

[@ThatTravGuy]

I ain't trying to be like Civvie, but I'll take the stars.

[@ericrhodes5174]

@@ThatTravGuy You're you, I'm me!

[@CricetoFunni]

@@ericrhodes5174 No, I'M you.

[@kingbash6466]

I’m glad people are talking still about Duke Nukem nowadays. He’s definitely one of my favorite video game characters, and it’s nice that he remains relevant even after shot like Forever.

[@kazekamiha]

I liked Forever, but I will say it released five years too late.

[@BugsyFoga]

“It’s time to kick @ss and chew bubble gum, and I’m all out of gum”

[@jcplays5831]

I never knew this is how Duke Nukem started, but I kinda appreciate it cause it’s awesome seeing how series once were

[@Athesies]

That was a pretty good sponsor transition ill give you that Also 11:50 nice I love collecting DONG in my nintendo platformers

[@nemtudom5074]

2:10 Thats incredibly incorrect actually. It was Duke Nukum, because they were aware of the character and wanted to avoid a lawsuit, and then later they realised it wasnt copyrighted, hence the change TO 'Duke Nukem'

[@some_random_person3502]

First weaponized epilepsy Next weaponized hearing damage

[@teneesh3376]

With the era duke nukum 3d was released, I'm not surprised people don't know that it was the 3rd game. 3d was usually placed in names cause 3d was novel and is not usually a pun with it being a 3rd game. But it's a nice surprise seeing that there even were games before 3d

[@danielsgames8810]

Dude I use to play dangerous Dave when I was a kid and I completely forgot about this game

[@Greenskull]

I grew up on these titles. Good times. Please do Duke 2!

[@epichuman3198]

I just just searched up “Duke Nukem 3D” on KZbin and then I just happen to see this.

[@jfuebel]

10:26 full Chespirito energy

[@hebonky]

Realizing now that "Duke 3-D" is a pun title :( because it's the third game.

[@theholyman491]

Me:hey ill ask if trav will ever do a vid about duke nukem Travguy: already five steps ahead of you

[@poilapan]

Ah, now if only you would do a review of the Evercade versions of Duke Nukem 1 and 2.

[@Shimmeringashes.]

Those are pretty good Duke Nukem impressions I can barely do better

[@larrylaffer3246]

Ah extra crispy and crunchy DOS graphics.

[@superluigi018]

Can’t wait for the Duke NUKEM 2 review… right?

[@mpettengill1981]

I played through the shareware episode (Shrapnel City) multiple times as a kid. And a lot of the other shareware platform games of the time. Purchased episodes 2 and 3 a few years ago and played through them since I never did as a youth. I thought they held up pretty well and was happy to complete the unfinished business of eliminating Dr. Proton.

[@BR1SK33]

Consuming uranium-328 fills you with determination

[@TitaRussellTrails]

The journey of the duke begins. Is it because forever 2001 got leaked? I dunno.

[@mrbri6463]

Now that I think about it, maybe the moon is terraformed cause in Duke 3D, Duke goes to the moon in episode 2 without a space suit.

[@aweirdwombat]

The space suit was a planned item. It was in the shareware version of the game. For some reason they just decided to have the moon sections take place inside force fields, which explains why you can breathe.

[@Roobar_Plays]

His shirt is not pink, but purple. And it's purple just because of the limited colors/resolution, so it can stand out in the front while there is not much purple in the background. There's a mod that adds glasses.

[@ThatTravGuy]

If we wanna get into specifics, it's closer to Magenta.

[@Ruckus707]

Yooooo been waiting for this one, always wanted to learn more about dukes origins, can’t wait!

[@jakecross6212]

Already a fan of you and knowing you and your friends made the duke nukem meme we quote all the time is even better

[@infinite_sun_rays]

I don't think I'll ever unsee Duke Nukem using a few tiles from Mega Man DOS now that you've pointed it out

[@machineaphex]

IF YOU DUKI YOU NUKI Jokes aside, amazing job as always,Trav! Can’t wait to hear your feelings on 3D :)

[@OfficialDJSoru]

Your friend did the peanut allergy meme? I was absolutely wheezing!

[@christiangottsacker6932]

5:55 it was meant to be 😂😂

[@sarahebris]

I can't believe this video came out the same day a Duke Nukem movie was announced to be in the works!

[@michaelmartin4874]

I miss the original Duke Nukem games. They, along with other Apogee titles, need to make a comeback.

[@deatharsenal6311]

Build Engine Trinity: Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, and Ion Fury.

[@lionocyborg6030]

26:09 Time limes! Now on sale from Aperture Science.

[@smittywerbenjagermanjensen8674]

It’s time to kick gum and chew ass. And im all out of ass

[@CacoOscar02]

wow what a badass character, I wonder he likes Oprah

[@cubeflinger]

"This was like 20 years ago" That's cute.

[@wingzer012]

I'm surprised this was delisted off steam, good thing I got it with the 3D Realms Anthology when it was still available.

[@starrystreams3642]

I believe the reason for why Duke looks so…red….is because they didn’t want Duke to have a case of the Commander Keens due to the limited palette the EGA(?) Provides. Due to the reds occupying the shading of his skin, they chose the next best thing. (I think) At least it’s better than having only baby blues, pinks, black, and white as your only colors.

[@ThatTravGuy]

Of course that's the reason lmao. My bit was a joke.

[@starrystreams3642]

@@ThatTravGuy Oh. I may be stupid.

[@orwin5445]

"This was like 20 years ago" I think you mean 30 bub. And I was one of the one's playing it on the original release :D Edit: Saw you talked about this later on, yeah, we are that old. I really liked Duke Nukem 2. It expands on the original in a lot of ways and I'll always love flying via flame thrower. Hope ya have fun.

[@christopherwall2121]

19:18 "Mmmm, love that Moon air!"

[@TheRadFungas]

I kept watching the all of his doom videos including wolfenstien for weeks until I finally broke out of the loop Now I'm back because of Duke Nukem

[@connorburris4846]

10:30 The D-O-N-G letters in donkey kong, lol.

[@ghosty4116]

23:10 I was not expecting a DBZ abridged reference here. you are man of culture

[@SarahWattCA]

11:50 D O N G

[@Nightmerica]

This is great. Really looking forward to this series. Blood is one of my favorite games ever, so I’m DEFINITELY looking forward to that one.

[@lmcgregoruk]

An arena FPS? Just an FPS surely? Isn't an Arena FPS an FPS game where the main idea in both single and multiplayer is to win "match" type scenarios in arena's, i.e. control the most points, get the most kills, capture x y amount of times before the other team(s). Whereas DN3D has a story for Single Player mode. I mean Surely UT99 and Q3A were the first "Arena FPS" games

[@somebadbatter]

If it matters, Duke 1 has a sourceport called ReDuke. If you're searching for a Duke 2 Port theres the Rigel Engine

[@chaosvolt]

I vaguely remember playing this when I was younger. For some inexplicable reason, my grandfather had it set up on his computer at one point, my guess being presumably one of the step-cousins I had back then set it up.

[@Nicholas_Steel]

I think those breakable blue bridges only break if you land on them while not holding across. Also for Duke Nukem II there's now the Rigel Engine to enhance the experience.

[@ordersol5221]

Listen, Trav. You might not sound as good compared to Gianni, but that's still muuuch better than me. So, good impression. I think you got it.

[@bouncingbluesoul5270]

Try the 'Re-duke' source port for this.

[@elijahgames192]

24:48 what they could've done is get the vertical scrolling, and when its at a value like lets say 800 pixels, if thats true then change the background sprite from future world to underground lair.

[@bluefates58]

I was also confused on the no music on the title screen but in my case I was playing Mario 3

[@simondaniel4028]

Way, way less excited about a Duke movie now than I would have been 20 years ago. Do like this channel though, found it the other day.

[@sonickitch]

Great video :) as far as the side platformers go , Duke 2 is such a huge upgrade from the first one. The sound effects and music are so cool in Duke 2. One of my favourite old Dos classics along with Hocus Pocus.

[@Morgil27]

I was/is mostly a console gamer my whole life, but Duke 3D is one of the few PC games I played a shit-ton as a kid.

[@nowaytoisop8776]

20 years ago? This games 30 years old

[@JeffreyPiatt]

Duke 1 was.before adlib and sound blaster took off. Most pc's were EGA with PC speaker

[@leftovernoise]

I got duke 1 and 2, and I believe Halloween harry on floppy disk from a computer repair shop, that I rode my bike to while listening to the misfits on a cassette tape. good times

[@imbecileinc.9424]

Finally someone else admits that Duke Nukem wasn't always the perfect game saga

[@nemtudom5074]

3:41 Actually that was dangerous dave *in copyright infringement* The original dangerous dave games were Romero's own games from before the times of ID

[@KrazzeeKane]

While there isn't exactly a Duke Nukem 1 source port, there is a reverse engineered version called 'ReDuke' that has been around since 2011 and makes the game run and look a little better, and even has some higher quality borders and UIs so it doesn't look quite so rough, resolution-wise. It even has music support, so you can actually play Duke Nukem 1 with music (the game has no music of any kind, only grating computer sounds). I personally used level songs from Duke Nukem 3D--hearing Grabbag makes Duke Nukem 1 so much more fun!

[@respecttheyoshi]

Finally, finally finished binging your backlog. Subscribed and looking forward to your next vid!

[@Meta_Mage]

Please do play Turrican as well, its a classic in europe. Youll be amazed by the music

[@Emberson-9000]

I've just ordered an Evercade EXP-R to play these games again. I can't wait to see these games scrolling smoothly.

[@matttyree1002]

oh man this takes me back. i played a shareware copy of this

[@KayX291]

Trav, if you are going to take on Duke Nukem 2. Try it out with Rigel Engine, a reverse engineered DN2 which includes widescreen support along with smooth scrolling, quick saving, modern controller support and more.

[@kitafalha6579]

so looking forward to seeing you cover duke 2, it was a big part of my childhood growing up ^-^

[@SaMiK81]

I feel old now. Back in the day this was common knowledge.

[@hemangchauhan2864]

My childhood game was Bio Menace, a heavily reworked version of DN 1 and 2 Give it a look

[@nemtudom5074]

13:49 I'd argue that the map in, i think, episode 2 with the excessive conveyor belts and grappling hook ceilings was so much worse

[@comicaze8238]

lol the drawing of you as duke nukem

[@CMONCMON007]

Just played through Duke Nukem 1 and 2 this year and really enjoyed them

[@offrails]

I remember buying the shareware version of this as a kid (as was common practice at the time) and playing it a lot. I later found a level editor for it and had a blast making my own levels. Back in the early 1990s those PC speaker sound effects were perfectly acceptable

[@Paleto-A1]

This man dosent deserve 58K subs He deserves more

[@dicewrites]

When I was a kid my family had an old windows pc with duke 1, all the og keen games that I know of and nethack. those were some of the best gaming years of my childhood. wish i knew where the old install disks are but I think they are lost to time now

[@nick-0579]

Omg Its the dookie nookie himself!!!!

[@TheRedSpartan]

Babe, wake up, new upload

[@Galilupottepeak]

My name is duke nukem, I'm an nuclear shark

[@Islandswamp]

we didn't have a lot of money growing up, but my dad ended up being into computers and my mom got one went she went back to school, so I had the ability to play shareware games almost more than consoles. so I played through a lot of old games. demo CD roms with tons of slightly older games were pretty affordable too.

[@fallouttoonlink]

Well now, put up your "Dukes" and let's fight

[@beautifulmeeses]

HES GONNA REVIEW BLOOD LETS FUCKING GO

[@WolfDarkrose]

the king is back babbby

[@jess648]

explains why Duke Nukem 1/2 reminded of Turrican

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

I think I lost it at the ducktales joke

[@puffythedestroyer8878]

Ya know I’d be down for a Metroid-style duke gat.