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Wolfenstein Returns!

News Tuesday, March 31 by Captain



Hi there, old people. Yes you. The people not born after 1990! (yes, people are being born after 1990).

We have information for you. About Wolfenstein.

Yup.

Wolfenstein.

The world's first ever 3D shooter.

The coolest Nazi-slaughtering game there ever was!





For the younger reader, here's an intro...

The game first came to public attention in the 1980's (yes, they did have computer games in those days, it seems). It was first known as Castle Wolfenstein, created by Muse software, and then was reborn as Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, but it never got beyond the arcades until a small company called id Software released Wolfenstein 3D in 1992.





Since then, the original game was ported onto a total of nine different platforms, from the original MS-DOS, through Apple IIe's (yes!) and even the Atari system. If you've never heard of these, don't worry, they're waiting in antique stores right now to be reborn and rise up all over the world.





More about that later. Much later.







In the time since the early 90's changed the way people viewed first person shooters, id games has come up with games that have, in their own way changed the way we kill things and each other on the computer. Everyone who has ever called themselves a gamer has at one time or another played Doom, Doom II, Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena,Quake 4 or Doom 3.

Thus another version of the game that started it all is big news.





The orginal Wolfenstein 3D spawned a prequel and a sequel, the prequel called Spear of Destiny, and the second, Return to Castle Wolfenstein.





Now a third Wolfenstein sequel is being developed by Raven Software, using the Doom 3 engine.






And we obviously have the pics to prove it. Awesome.





There's a video available on the site (with more to come) and we'll try to show you more good stuff as it comes to hand...





Click here for the original Wolfenstein 3D!



And of course, Click here for the all NEW Wolfenstein!




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