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I thought Doom was just about the greatest thing I'd ever laid eyes upon the first time I saw it in action on a family member's PC back in '93 (I was ~7 years old, for the record). But for years after that I had no machine of my own to run it - or any of the other first person shooters that followed it - so the whole genre was always this thing that was just so close but so far.
Then the N64 came and I got one for Christmas in 1996 and I finally entered the era of 3D video games. Turok: Dinosaur Hunter was one of those games that I knew was right around the corner. I wound up getting it for my birthday not too long after it released. And I loved it. I'm sure if you go back into the internet/magazine archives you'll find plenty of criticisms about the game - I know the fog was a big issue with people even in the 90s - but for me, at 11 years old, it was just everything I hoped it would be, and that was all that mattered.
I tried to replay it not too long ago but struggled to get it running on my PC. I think I tracked down a digital copy of the old PC release first, then attempted to emulate the N64 version... and wound up giving up, unsatisfied with its playability. So I'm looking forward to this, but I have to wonder how big the market for this release really is...
[Fun fact: Jeff Spangenberg, a founding member of Iguana Entertainment (the developers behind the original Turok series), left the company in 1998 to form Retro Studios, which went on to develop the Metroid Prime series. It's been years since I read/thought about this, but I'm sure there was some other personnel shared between the 2 companies and if you keep that fact in mind when you play Turok the similarities between the two series really begin to stand out.]
[[One other thing: while we're on the subject of third-party, early-era, shooter-centric N64 games: somebody should totally get Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire running on modern machines. Dash Rendar, yo!]]
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Sounds good to me. I know they haven't aged well but they don't always need to. Sometimes an old, familiar game can be the digital version of video game comfort food.
[–] Norfair 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
I thought Doom was just about the greatest thing I'd ever laid eyes upon the first time I saw it in action on a family member's PC back in '93 (I was ~7 years old, for the record). But for years after that I had no machine of my own to run it - or any of the other first person shooters that followed it - so the whole genre was always this thing that was just so close but so far.
Then the N64 came and I got one for Christmas in 1996 and I finally entered the era of 3D video games. Turok: Dinosaur Hunter was one of those games that I knew was right around the corner. I wound up getting it for my birthday not too long after it released. And I loved it. I'm sure if you go back into the internet/magazine archives you'll find plenty of criticisms about the game - I know the fog was a big issue with people even in the 90s - but for me, at 11 years old, it was just everything I hoped it would be, and that was all that mattered.
I tried to replay it not too long ago but struggled to get it running on my PC. I think I tracked down a digital copy of the old PC release first, then attempted to emulate the N64 version... and wound up giving up, unsatisfied with its playability. So I'm looking forward to this, but I have to wonder how big the market for this release really is...
[Fun fact: Jeff Spangenberg, a founding member of Iguana Entertainment (the developers behind the original Turok series), left the company in 1998 to form Retro Studios, which went on to develop the Metroid Prime series. It's been years since I read/thought about this, but I'm sure there was some other personnel shared between the 2 companies and if you keep that fact in mind when you play Turok the similarities between the two series really begin to stand out.]
[[One other thing: while we're on the subject of third-party, early-era, shooter-centric N64 games: somebody should totally get Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire running on modern machines. Dash Rendar, yo!]]