Rise of the Triad: The Story of | Nostalgia Nerd

As we enter a season of DOS games, we find ourselves with Rise of the Triad. One of my favourite MS-DOS games, developed and distributed by Apogee in 1994 as a shareware release known as "Rise of the Triad: The Hunt Begins", swiftly followed by the retail edition "Rise of the Triad: Dark War" distributed through Apogee's shareware model and by FormGen. In this episode we look at the origins of the game, how it began as Wolfenstein 3D Part 2; a Wolfenstein 3D sequel and changed into something much bigger. We look at the team involved, the stories behind the development and what happened after the game launched. We also take a thorough look at the game itself. The quirks. The "remote ridicules", the gibs, the endless blood soaked gibs, the crazy weapons such as the "Drunk Missle" and the crazy levels and quirks that made Rise of the Triad such an amazing DOS game in the mid 90s.
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[@JoeSiegler]

4:16 - This picture was at a party at Tom’s house at the time. Lee Jackson can be seen in the background. 8:48 - The collage is Tom Hall at yet another party, myself with my old Apple IIgs on my desk at Apogee, George pointing at my computer uploading Duke Nukem 3D, and a shot from our webcam we had in tech support with Scott Miller walking out of the office. Also the Shawn Green pic was not from his Apogee days as I recall. Willam Scarboro’s pic is with the Excalibat, the same bat used to model the bat in the game. In the team photo, you don’t mention Steve Hornback who died last year, and Tim Nuveu who right now I can’t remember what he did on the game. I’m getting old! :) 26:10 - HOLY CRAP. First person to do one of these things that actually went the extra mile and used a Red Dwarf clip for my character! w00t! 30:18 - “I could create many videos on Rise of the Triad”. Please do. Be glad to help out where I can.

[@Nostalgianerd]

Joe Siegler I remember hearing that name "Sebastian Doyle", and thinking, "hold up, I remember that name from Back to Reality". Probably my favourite Dwarf episode.

[@JoeSiegler]

The Back to Reality episode aired Mar 26, 1992, so ROTT wasn't too far after that. When Tom told me "Sebastian Krist", I instantly thought Sebastian Doyle Krist. I think I tried to get him to change the name to that, but he declined.

[@icedlain]

Hi Joe, glad to see you here!. I'm curious about the female enemy characters, there was a build including them?

[@JoeSiegler]

Not that the public has ever seen. They were taken out due to memory constraints at the time.

[@icedlain]

Thanks for your answer Joe (OMG the burping guy / Sebastian Krist answers me!, sorry, i've been playing ROTT since I was a kid in the 90s and it's one of my fav games). There's a chance to open source the unused material? it would be interesting for modding and implement the discarded original ideas due hardware limitations.

[@LGR]

Awesome video once again, and thanks for having me on-board!

[@Nostalgianerd]

Lazy Game Reviews many thanks for your help sir!

[@TobyIKanoby]

Hahaha, I just mentioned Nostalgia Nerd on some stupid beer induced comment on LGR's channel last friday, now I hear this voice very familiar to me on Nostalgia Nerd's video, got me confused at first. Keep up the good work!

[@cubeflinger]

oh god. my world is coming together. All i need now is an LGR Octav1us Kitten Nostalgia nerd DWANGO LAN game video

[@SomeOrangeCat]

Here's my ROTT story. Twenty plus years ago, My friend who worked at the local computer store at the time, had Comm-bat running on a few of the machines. My 50 something mother decides to sit in on a match and she DOMINATES us both.

[@drfloorpills]

Sherbert's World of Schlock That's hillarious

[@JoeSiegler]

15:03 - While Loki was George’s dog (the carpet wetting maestro), and was the on used for dog mode.... The dog in this picture was Doug, Tom’s late dog. In fact, Tom’s dog was who ‘Doug Wendt’ was named after. Tom paid homage to his late dog by calling the character Doug. Wendt was “went” as in he died.

[@marscaleb]

OMG, even after 20 minutes of watching this game, that "Where are you?" "Over here!" just hit such memories for me...

[@aguchamp7766]

The Nostalgia Nerd and LGR combo is strong! I'm far from a PC gamer, but this world of 90s PC games interest me so much! Love your channel!

[@frosty6845]

D-NetSavior The 90s were a magical time for PC games, many games on PC at time could rival the best that Sega and Nintendo were putting out during the same period.

[@aguchamp7766]

FrostyP Exactly! I love Sega and Nintendo, but it feels good to escape to a gaming platform that isn't as seemingly outward cut throat.

[@Nostalgianerd]

D-NetSavior thanks! Appreciate it. I cover a lot of platforms, because I went through a fair few in the 80s and 90s, so I find it nice to move about and cover as much as possible.

[@aguchamp7766]

Nostalgia Nerd Awesome! Can't wait to see what you have in store next!

[@JoeSiegler]

More ROTT videos! :)

[@reghin79]

Come on, 30 minutes and nothing to say about the excellent music in ROTT?

[@dedclownsRfunny]

I came here to be reminded of the music

[@saldefranco9362]

Yes! Nothing like blowing ludicrous gibs to a groovy bossa nova soundtrack 😁

[@LycanWitch]

As someone who had Doom, Doom II, Wolfenstein, Rise of the Triad, Heretic, Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Shadow Warrior, Quake, Quake II, etc, as a kid in the 90s, Rise of the Triad was one of my most favorite out of all of those. It's one I kept going back to year after year and reinstalling over and over and playing the crap out of it, until it became dated sometime around the millennium when games like Half-Life, Medal of Honor, etc took over. I just loved the uniqueness of it along with the unique weapons and the EKG excessive blood and gore code.

[@mikeschezwon5188]

omg this game is so underrated. love this game

[@Okusar]

+Matthew Champlain A lot of Doom's notoriety came from it's, at the time, extremely controversial violence and satanic themes' which garnered it a lot of press and free advertising. For many kids, playing Doom was like a secret taboo, a guilty pleasure. Basically, the same combination of factors that had made Wolfensein 3D a success and also launched Grand Theft Auto into the mainstream several years later. Controversy equals exposure and RotT was unfortunately eclipsed between Wolf and Doom becoming a bit lost in the deluge of all the other Wolf3D type first-person shooters released at the time.

[@noth606]

Manek Iridius Meh, I played both multiplayer back in the day and 1v1 DOOM was more fun but with RoTT you could have 11 players! And it was a crazy fun thing in the computer lab at school. DOOM was too slow a lot of the time to play at school and actually have fun.

[@ansionnachbeagrioga5260]

Yes, someone else who appreciates Rise of The Triad. Such an underappreciated game. I played this over and over as a child when it was released on disc.

[@AlexeiVoronin]

I couldn't possibly describe my 90's childhood without devoting a large portion to RotT - that's how much I loved this game, and how big an impact it had on me (alongside Doom and a few others). I was one of the very few lucky kids to have a PC at home in those times, so it was quite the privilege to be able to play and enjoy this. I agree with the Nostalgia Nerd about the engine - the game was done just right on that weird tweaked Wolf 3D engine and I don't think being ported to BUILD would have been an improvement in any way. The older and more primitive engine allowed the game to be faster, more visceral, and it gave it its unique look and feel. And most importantly - the game manages to create the feeling for a world it takes place in. You can use your imagination and truly believe you are plumbing the depths of that monastery, fighting evil cultists, robots and all sorts of crazy traps they've installed throughout. And this was achieved without any fancy effects, cutscenes or scenic vistas.

[@RMCRetro]

You do a great vocal impression of Mr Lazy Game Reviews. Impressive!

[@SianaGearz]

That was no impression, it was Clint from LGR himself.

[@7FoX]

wut is he doing content for multiple youtube channels ?

[@DracXBelmont]

+7Fox, no, but he contributes to a few of his friend's videos from time to time.

[@7FoX]

OH

[@Xilefian]

Some mistakes; 3:37 Tom Hall was not an engine programmer at that time - He did some menu programming for Wolfenstein 3D, but for Keen, Wolf3D and Doom he was the game designer and writer 5:32 id had actually granted the use of the Wolfenstein 3D name - id Software asked them to change the name for the reasons you mentioned and Apogee kindly did so 5:45 id Software wasn't turning a blind eye to the Wolfenstein 3D engine being used, they licensed its use; much like Shadow Caster, Hexen and Heretic from Raven 7:10 memory wasn't a factor on why the walls were grid constrained, it was more that the 286 wasn't wasn't fast enough to do anything beyond grid-based ray-casting 12:35 Bungie's Marathon, released at the same time as Rise of the Triad, also had rooms-above-rooms (and non-euclidean rooms) 13:45 I don't know what you mean by sky parallaxes, but the Build engine, like the Doom engine, could definitely have parallax scrolling with the skies. ROTT isn't doing anything special with this. Build engine also has fog (as does Doom; diminished lighting is just a fog effect) however, ROTT here has coloured fog (rather than fade to black) - but Build engine also has this (Shadow Warrior features it)

[@adamfrazer5150]

This game was special, it's history, the amount of work put into it - it had an attraction of it's own, offered an attitude and atmosphere not found in other titles - and it was a B L A S T to play. LUDICROUS GIBS !!!

[@FalconStkr1]

Our dad got us into this game shortly after we played Wolf3D. Lots of memories playing this masterpiece.

[@RichardServello]

I was a big fan of ROTT. I remember starting it up on Christmas Day...and there was a little easter egg...that I'm really surprised you didn't mention!

[@paul06660]

Ive played a lot of pc shooters during my younger years up through my 20s. I dont play much anymore but Rise of the Triad will always have special place in my heart. Quite frankly it is the most insane and difficult shooter I have ever played.

[@Kaden10]

I am so glad that classics like this are being re-released on all platforms so more people can play them thanks to the guys at Nightdive Studios.

[@adamsteelproducer]

Thanks for making this. This was my favourite game as a kid, but no-one seemed to have heard of it - it was doom or bust apparently! Now I can show people this and go "THIS IS WHAT MADE ME WHO I AM" 😀

[@losthatter123184]

I played. My dad worked for a computer company so we had tons of PC's at home. LAN RoTT was the SHIT! Lots of my friends came over and played. RoTT, Doom II, Descent, Descent 2, Heretic, Hexen and many more!!!!!! God i miss the old WAD days. I still own the "3D Game Alchemy for Doom, Doom Ii, Heretic, and Hexen" book. Party on!!!!

[@alastairward2774]

Hop Pole Studios I played the hell out of the shareware version of this, loved how nuts it was. God mode was literal, shrooms mode was trippy, drunk missiles led to actual ludicrous gibs, good fun. The "normal" weapons were good too, the MP40 felt accurate as a little machine pistol but the twin pistols were good and chunky. Didn't the Nazis also beg "Please no" when half dead? I always wondered why the game mentioned Triads and seemed to have Asian references like the looks of the bowls of food and strange non-European symbols, but had guys in leather trench coats and the look of a U-Boat commander.

[@rickdc7968]

Hours and hours and hours and hours. I first got Dark War from a friend who zipped it onto 25 1.44mb floppys and I played it on my 486DX66 33mhz pre-Pentium IBM clone I paid $1.350 for at a PC expo in 1995.

[@BudGreene87]

When this game came out it was incredible… I got such a hardcore nostalgia feeling when I saw him hold up that CD!!

[@RJrules64]

THANK YOU!!!!! SO MUCH! Ken's Labrinth has been my white whale for many years. I've posted on many gaming forums, searched high and low to try and remember the name of this game of my childhood. The problem was that everyone kept saying I was thinking of Doom or Wolfenstein since what I was describing was essentially the same thing. I'd even found my way to apogee's website and was scrolling through all their shareware games (the disc that I had with kens labrinth also had a lot of apogee games - Hocus Pocus, Jazz Jackrabbit raptor etc.) Thanks for finally getting me there!

[@oheyjesse9065]

I had that disc! Raptor was awesome! And Jazz Jackrabbit. ♥ "What are you doing?"

[@robleavold84]

Nice to have LGR as your voiceover guest. Rise of the triad was always one of my favourites as I felt it was so much different from Doom and was so fun.

[@waytothewill]

Very indepth analysis, thank you. Always found ROTT very playable and atmospheric. The overall feeling did offer a certain buzz that Doom didn't. I recall especially the paralaxing skies, they looked definitely brilliant on my 386 dx-40. No surprise it was such a great game, when the heavy amount of work the project involved is taken into consideration. Moreover, such a great thing that a couple of essential components were borrowed from Doom's engine. With these lacking, the gaming experience would have not been the same.

[@Gijzzzzzzz]

Did you know you could actually kinda double jump in Rott? Try to attack/bite as the dog and press the use key, you will jump 2 times. You can jump on enemies like mario, or jump over fences. Oh and also yes, Lorelei is teh best! :Lorelei:

[@KristopherJohnsonawesomepossum]

I can still remember the first time I played the shareware version. This game blew my mind and I loved it. Installed it and started playing it again after I watched this :)

[@rotwang2000]

Rise of the Triad was the first game we ever played in network. We were testing the game and trying to make sense of this new dimension of gaming. The game map was a bit too big for two players and we lost sight of each other, getting bored I started to shoot missiles randomly. The other guy was right below them and nearly pissed himself out of fear. He said it was the most terrifying thing he had ever been in and refused to play for the rest of the evening ...

[@freddyfasthands8131]

One of the greatest and most underrated 90s games.

[@Dunamis_010]

Thank you for a great video and a very in-depth analysis of it development, especially at 27:02 where you discussed the "This causes an error" level. As a 9 year old who played, and loved this game and as a 33 year old now, I have FINALLY found out why that level exists! Thanks homie!

[@tib7777]

most underrated game of all time. loved this one.

[@SteveClifforduk]

Freaking loved this game, thanks for bringing it up!!

[@BlakeEM]

Great video! It brought back a lot of memories. The drunk missiles and the eyeballs falling down the screen were my favorite parts as a kid. I'd tell everyone how great it was but no one ever heard of it. It's a shame because I don't know of a better first person shooter made before 1996.

[@jacksin3323]

this was a good bit of my teen years. skipping school so me and my best friend could play this, and DOOM on my tuned out 486 (i was a LAN admin after school for a mortgage company and got "free" parts) ...thanks for taking me back in time when life was just so much less complicated. the mid-nineties was awesome.

[@jeremycline9542]

Thanks for calling attention to this great game.

[@leadvendor]

Thank you so much for this! I loved this game.

[@Ahamshep]

This was one of the first games my friends and I played death match. connecting our computers with serial crossover cables. great memories. thanks

[@DiamondGB]

I also played Doom before ROTT. I visited my friend one day in early 1995 who had a AOL account (I didn't even have a modem yet), and he let me download one thing from the net. I must have checked some 'popular' or 'new' downloads thing, because I found ROTT pretty quickly. Downloaded the shareware, installed it on his PC. Me and my friend were both impressed! I made a copy of the shareware for myself to take home. Technically ROTT was the first thing I ever downloaded from the net, besides images and text.

[@luistoledo8640]

what a great document about this underrated game! present and future thanks for producing it

[@SizzlingOne]

Loved ROTT to bits! This is definitely one of your better videos.

[@paavolampinen23]

So much wow! Informative and entertaining video!

[@paavolampinen23]

Didn`t know 90% of the things you`ve just taught me about this game.

[@ncc74656m]

I LOVED Rise of the Triad. I was never a "hardcore" player or gamer back in those days, but ROTT was truly a masterful shooter for its time and for years afterwards. That game kicked my ass so many times and I just kept coming back for more. I wish I still had my original copy.

[@ncc74656m]

And I agree with Joe, definitely create more videos on ROTT.

[@Retromaniapt]

@Nostalgia Nerd ROTT is one of the best FPS ever in my opinion, ive spent countless hours playing it back in the day on my 486! That "god mode" made me laugh my ass off because of the sound mmmmmm....ahhhhhhh mmmmmm ahhhhhhh LOL!!! Recently ive mounted a 486 machine to remember those msdos days, and since this game is one of my all time favourites, i didnt thought twice, it was one of my first installs ;) BTW im planning a retro lan party (486/pentium) and this game will be there for a bloody deathmatch :D Great documentary has always, thank you so much Nostalgia Nerd! ;)

[@cakebear9534]

Retromania.pt which is better Doom or Rise of the Triad?

[@examname9477]

@@cakebear9534 Rise of the triad in the term of gameplay

[@cakebear9534]

@@examname9477 Please don’t reply to four months or older comments please

[@examname9477]

@@cakebear9534 but you now reply.. ok, rise of the triad have better gameplay, doom have better.. uhh.. graphic.

[@andersnilsson973]

Who are you to decide...?

[@bloodrunsclear]

Just bought this on Gog! Honestly, still really fun :D

[@krosigrim]

I remember playing the shareware for hours at my buddies house. Never played the full game, but I always remembered the name. This was pretty interesting, as we played Wolfenstein and Doom/ II and even created maps for doom. And to know how this came about, good stuff.

[@Spezifischable]

The ludicrous edition is out now on steam and it is absolutely glorious. 🎉

[@edgardeitz5746]

After Ken Silverman released "Ken's Labyrinth", Apogee hired him; "Ken's Lab" then became the basis for Apogee's "Build" engine, which not only _matches_ Idtech 1 (Doom), but also *outdoes* it!

[@adamfrazer5150]

This uniquely entertaining gem has never really gotten the nod for the masterful use of an older engine - underneath the hilarious and / or horrific wrapping is an engine pushed way, way beyond expectations. Maybe it's me (usually) but this one was entertaining in a way that none of the others were, it was fun and made no excuses for how it got there 😎👍

[@magnum333]

Very interesting video! Keep it up!

[@sinnison23]

FNORD Discordian detected at the 27:14 mark. Hail Eris.

[@ishnuallahguy5740]

Growing up in the 90s, I remember the hell of out this, while wolfenstien 3D was my first FPS game, this is the one that brings back the nostalgia. And ofc, another game you mentioned, Commander Keen was pure tits to my 10-11 year old self

[@joonasfi]

Awesome, fascinating video! Do one for Blood or Star Control 2?

[@RandomCommentingGuy]

This brings back memories. It's the first game i remember ever playing, on an old laptop of my dad. Never known the name of the game until now, as i wasn't able to read english back then. possibly couldn't even read my native language, not sure. Always remembered it was like a doom style one, but never seen this since. Almost tricked myself into thinking my childish brain put a filter over doom and i just didn't remember correctly what it looked like or something. Glad to know the game actually exists the way i remember.

[@lowpinglag]

Multiplayer was such fun, the speed and the gibs. Also the level editor was quite fun to play around with. Oh and you could change the Voc files used for the ridicule taunts. For years it was a must have on harddrive, for me and my friends, when we had LAN weekends :-)

[@LycanWitch]

Not sure if you knew, but @26.30, you mention about how even when you defeat the final boss you still lost.. However you didn't mention that Rise of The Triad was one of the first First-Person Shooters that offered multiple endings depending on how well you did throughout the game. Throughout the game are located Larvae of the final boss, if you don't destroy them all, you get that bad ending about how one of the Larvae destroyed the world in the future, but if you manage to find and destroy them all, you get the good ending.

[@Bob_Beaky]

Thank you for making this video. I love everything about ROTT and I wouldn't change a thing about it. It's just sublime fun. There's a photo of Tom Hall standing beside a ROTT poster. I'm lucky enough to have that poster and it's even signed by Stephen Hornback... cost me a bloody fortune in postage!

[@carolkewley7410]

Great vid, good to know the history.

[@SiD3WiNDR]

"Where aare youuu..." "Over heereee..." "BEHIND YOU!" *blam* Ahh, RemoteRidicule...

[@marscaleb]

I had honestly no idea what the real development story was for this game. I had so many of the facts wrong. Thank you for clearing that up!

[@yellowblanka6058]

ROTT was definitely the product of its interesting dev history, not quite like any other FPS. It's rough around the edges, but it has gobs of personality and the variety of explosive weapons are a lot of fun. Never got to play MP back in the day, but it's one of those titles from my childhood that will forever be burned into my brain.

[@ramcool82]

some more commments just cant write enough most favorite unconventional game i ever played. stands out from any game that is available out there in first man shooter type. it literally stuns your senses, and you are enchanted, hypnotized to play this game. you lose count of time and spend hours and hours for it. amazing

[@br0neh]

I really liked the amount of detail you went into for this video. ROTT is one of my favourite games ever, and it was the very first game I played online (albeit over 28k modem!). Subscribed!

[@siddbastard]

i remember the mushrooms and the power up that was giving you the hand of god ... and the ludicrous gibs. Game was pretty trippy but i never owned the full version ...

[@peanutismint]

Brilliant retrospective on one of my favourite all-time first person shooters! I probably played this more than I played Doom growing up, it was just a lot more my speed i.e. silly!

[@seananderson9828]

Best channel on KZbin, love this episode!!

[@Nostalgianerd]

Sean Anderson thanks very much sir!

[@seananderson9828]

Really dude. I've watched all episodes. The one for the Amiga was incredible. Keep up the great work dude!!

[@Bacon420]

I got a second phone line so I could talk shit to my buddy with two lines while fighting in ROTT!!!

[@jezebelmei195]

I introduced my Networking Class back in high school to this game and the remake. I loved this when I first played the shareware version in middle school

[@johnh485]

Growing up in the 90's and ms-dos games 👍.

[@Kippykip]

I played this game pretty late, I think it was 2008 and I didn't know anything about dosbox. Playing it on Windows XP with crackly sound, ah memories.

[@MrSatan-it5ww]

Very good review..like it

[@iwantthemoonback4198]

Just bought the ludicrous edition for the Switch and came back to watch this agai 😂

[@knoxieman]

Played the hell out of this on multi-player mode back in 1995/96, used to lug my PC round to my buddys house on a Friday night and drink beer and play this until the early hours, I never played the game only ever played multi-player so found this video interesting, keep up the great work!! oh BTW you could use your own voice samples as the taunts we had a lot of fun doing that.

[@jasondoe2596]

Never played this game, although I'd heard of it. But, for all its craziness, it evidently was a labor of love - just like this video. Thanks for the nice and informative tribute to an important piece of videogame history!

[@MattHayesVinyl]

Rise of the Triad was pretty cool back in the day. I remember playing it in 1994. I never thought it was a patch on Doom, though, which was perhaps a bit of an unfair comparison given the different engines used. But Doom was released the same year and simply blew away ROTT (and Wolfenstein 3D) not just graphically but also in gameplay.

[@examname9477]

Doom released in 1993, Rise of the triad “shareware” 1.0 released in 1994, rise of the triad dark war released in 1995

[@toiletwineconnoisseur6434]

such an awesome video!

[@Cephalopod51]

It would've been something to see how the original Wolf 3D-2 would've turned out. I'm glad that it became an original game. I think it's inspiring to know how they pushed the Wolf 3D engine to pull off all the nifty effects for Rise of the Triad. When I first played RotT, I thought it was one of the most advanced games I ever played. The others included the demos for Heretic and Hexen (I never got to play Dark Forces or System Shock at that time). Although the level design can be difficult, and the first form of the last boss was counterintuitive to figure out, I loved, and still very much like, a lot about the game. I can see Rise of the Triad being used as a template for an advanced retro game. I can also see a Wolf 3D-2 being made which is as ambitious as RotT was.

[@xxxvertigoxxx]

Fantastic video! Rott is criminally underrated so it's awesome to see more attention given to it.

[@arcticridge]

@Nostalgia Nerd bit random but I've always thought your logo looks way better when it's in the pixellated stage around 0:05, your current logo is way to sharp for what this channel is all about :)

[@CheapCheerful]

One of the most fun games ever made, with such atmosphere. I was very young at the time, and did'nt even realise it was the Wolf3D engine. Drunk rocket FTW! LUDICRUS GIBS!!

[@lucky_796]

Definitely one of the best dos games , and all is thanks to this video. After seeing how well polished this game is , with all of the personality, characters and levels, I would put this in my top 5. My personal rating 10/10. Awesome Game. Definitely gonna play it.

[@dave99887]

Wow. So many memories

[@Phobos_Anomaly]

Doom, Rise of the Triad and Duke Nukem 3D....The holy triad (pun totally intended) of my childhood FPS escapades! I love these games, and too few people even know what ROTT is, which is a shame really, because it is still fun to this day. It hasn't aged as well as the other two, imho. But the number of firsts in FPS that this game brought which are totally unknown to most is great! I've always felt ROTT and the Bungie developed Marathon never receive the credit or recognition that they both deserve. But, by my username and user pic, you can probably guess what game is my favorite!

[@Bauglir100]

Rise of the Triad takes place in the same universe as Heretic and Hexen. John Romero himself told me on Twitter that Heretic and Hexen take place centuries before ROTT. He also implied that my theory about the Triad from ROTT being the same faction as Heretic's Order of the Triad could be true. Here's the link to the tweet: twitter.com/romero/status/1087141337177223168 Not only that, but the Tomes of Power from Heretic appear in Wolfenstein 2009 as upgrades for Veil powers. So this would mean that Rise of the Triad, Heretic, Hexen, and Wolfenstein are all connected. So perhaps the original plan for the Triad pulling Hitler's strings could still be a possibility, even in the newer Wolfenstein games.

[@kins888]

What a fantastic video. This brings back many memories of playing Rise of the Triad on my mates 486.

[@jonnyretro5873]

Awesome video!!

[@dodgecukc]

This game had me at the dual wielding back in the day.

[@yellowblanka6058]

Just a shame that the MP4 makes the dual pistols pointless once you pick it up.

[@MechaFenris]

The flying eyeballs were what sold it for me. In the college computer lab after hours, hooking up a LAN game of ROTT was some seriously fun stuff.... good times. though these days, Wolfenstein 3D, ROTT, Hexen, Heretic, etc. (and Quake 2, but not Quake) make me nauseous. :(

[@Roxor128]

What a coincidence! I was listening to MIDI files out of ROTT just a couple of days ago and today I find this! I used to listen to it all the time with Cubic Player and the GUS patches. The notoriously difficult third boss, the NME, really should have gotten a mention, though. I beat it once without cheating. No idea how, though.

[@RKroese]

I played Wolf3D in VR. Now THERE is something to behold!

[@fossilfern]

perfect bed time viewing !

[@RetroGamePlayers]

I love this game, wow good stuff

[@randywatson8347]

The john woo gun style is legend in this game.

[@jennoscura2381]

Doom 2 is my all time favorite. To me the biggest selling point of RoTT was the gore. I remember when I upgraded to 8 megs of ram and could finally see all the gore. It was awesome! I have been thinking about getting an old laptop to set up as a DOS gaming machine. RoTT will definitely have to be on there. It may not have been my favorite. But I still played the hell out of it as a teenager in the 90s.

[@RagingDrew]

This game trades blows with DOOM in some very unexpected ways. Definitely a classic FPS in my book, and if seen as a successor to Wolf3D it definitely rocks the house. This video showed me plenty of history I didn't even know about! Love learning about game development from this era.

[@hyznth]

Made my day, thanks!

[@Tormentadeplomo]

Great video, as always. And it is even better when you can read Jon Siegler and Scott Miller in the comments!

[@NeilRoy]

Loved this game! One of the features of this game you didn't touch on very much was the remote ridicule (yes, you mentioned it but...). You could change the sounds that it played, providing that your friends had the same sounds set up of course. We watched the movie Major Payne at the time and grabbed several sound samples from it for use with ROTT and it was great! My personal favourite from the movie was "I suppose I had that one a commin'!", which I played after I was killed. And there was " DIE PIG DIE!!!" (the scene when he dealt with the kid's boogyman in the closet). The multiplayer was probably the most fun of any game I have done it in. And their was the level editor for it as well which was fun. I think when you take a fun group of guys and make a game, this is the result. I can almost tell the character of the people who make a game by the game itself. Is it fun, are there some crazy, funny scenes? This had it all. And it showed through again in Duke Nukem 3D. I really miss those days, it's too bad 3DRealms didn't go on to bigger and better things, but technology was changing at an insane pace back then. To me, modern games, while technically "improved", don't have the level of fun in them that games like ROTT and Duke3D had.

[@Kenji314159]

ROTT was the best shooter of the 90's, it's as simple as that. It's unparalleled creativity and fun.

[@EnglishLaw]

Great game. I used to play this whilst I should have been revising for GCSEs

[@Driven2Beers]

Two funny things I remember from this game: 1) There's an option to make the screen smaller, presumably to make the game run faster on your PC. If you go beyond making it the smallest allowed, you get a message saying "buy a 386 :-)". 2) If you manage to get yourself killed almost immediately after starting a level (it might only occur on level one) you hear a voice saying "youu suuuuuuck".

[@rbmk__1000]

Yes, awesome thanks

[@Ajv516]

I forgot about that early rating system.

[@CarltonMadden]

My friends and I death matched this game to no end. The explosive weapons made it one of the best death match experiences you could have. The flame wall is still extremely satisfying.