Results tagged “Quake”

Back in the days I wrote a short blog post about this artful port created by Michael Rennie. Somehow I just remembered it, and thought it would be a nice idea to add it to the games section. Why? Mostly because it rocks. Yeah, I know about Quake Live. I know about Unity player. I know there are just so many browser based 3D shooters (or, well, at least "some"), but looking better doesn't make them actually greater game experiences.

Quake is a piece of the history of videogames. An important one. Hell, do you like totally 3D FPS games? It was the first one moving from sprites to actual models, back in 1996, and it made us all shit our pants. It was terrifying back then. I remember being kind of unable to play it long enough when I was younger. I actually completed it later than Quake 2.

And now, here it is, in an 8.6MB flash file, embedded in a browser.

Play it directly through this link or select it on the Games! section.

...Flash!


If you had a childhood, then probably there's nothing I need to tell you about Quake. If you didn't, well, 1996 was a great year for videogames, mostly because of Quake. id software made the big jump to full 3D graphics on a first person shooter. And it was so amazing we're still getting Quake games more than 10 years afterward. Some people say Quake 2 was way better. I must say that it didn't have half of the ambiance and feeling the first one had.

This awesome programming time sink in flash was developed by Michael Rennie, and you can check it out right here. It even has the console!