The history of Ken Silverman's Build Engine

[kazymjir]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSVzn0F3pyQ

He was 16 old genius, 1992r and he coded this great engine.
WOW!

[shadowslair]

Wow indeed! Never had a bare idea. Duke Nukem, Blood, Shadow Warrior, Redneck Rampage... I remember those days- so many memories arised from this video. (Wiping a nostalgic tear)

[TheMrCerebro]

Those were games... (Wiping a nostalgic tear, As a shadowslair )

With my Windows 98 and my AMD K6 III (400 Mhz), every evening playing to Duke Nukem 3D and Blood without problems... now with a Pentium 4 HT (3,6 Ghz) with a graphic of 512 MB, I have problems to play the games now.

Now only care about graphics technology, not the gameplay or fun.

[RuggJack93]

You can use DosBox if you want to play old games in newer systems.
(I do and still have a lot of fun with those games)

Now only care about graphics technology, not the gameplay or fun.

Totally agree. Maybe only Valve has really done something interesting (like Portal and Portal 2 (also if it hasn't been released yet, the demo videos are amazing)).

[kazymjir]

Now only care about graphics technology, not the gameplay or fun.

Yeah, exactly. Also, old games were more interesting that games today.
Compare books and movies today:
while you read book, you need to imagine in your head whole world, everything what happen in your mind, in way that you like. In movies you have everything made by someone else.
In old, 8bit games everything is same like in books. You need to imagine everything, where in games today everything is made by someone else.