When, three years later, 3D Realms released Duke Nukem 3D, a tongue-in-cheek science fiction shooter based on Ken Silverman's technologically similar Build engine, id Software had nearly finished Quake, its next-generation game, which mirrored Dooms success for the remainder of the 1990s and significantly reduced interest in its predecessor.

Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter computer game developed by 3D Realms and published by GT Interactive Software.

It is a sequel to the platform games Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II published by Apogee.

Along with Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, Duke Nukem 3D is considered responsible for popularizing first-person shooters.

After fifteen years in development hell, a direct sequel was released called Duke Nukem Forever.

As a first-person shooter, the gameplay of Duke Nukem 3D involves moving through levels presented from the protagonist's point of view, shooting enemies on the way.

The environment of Duke Nukem 3D is highly destructible and interactive ; most props can be destroyed by the player.

Duke Nukem 3D features multiplayer.

Duke Nukem 3D did not support the TCP / IP client / server model, instead basing its network play on the IPX LAN, modem or serial cable.

Duke Nukem 3D players often either battled modem-to-modem, using the IPX network utility Kali or the Total Entertainment Network ( TEN ) online pay service.

Duke Nukem 3D has been ported to run on modern Microsoft Windows variants including Windows XP and Windows 7.

Duke Nukem 3D is set on Earth " sometime in the early 21st century ".

The levels of Duke Nukem 3D take the player outdoors and indoors through rendered street scenes, military bases, deserts, a flooded city, space stations, moon bases and a Japanese restaurant.

The introduction establishes that the game picks up right after the events of Duke Nukem II, with Duke returning to Earth in his space cruiser.

Various spin-offs and modifications to the original Duke Nukem 3D were produced in the following years of the game's initial launch.

* Plutonium PAK / Atomic Edition: The Atomic Edition of Duke Nukem 3D was released in November 1996, and contained the original 3 episode game as well as a new eleven-level fourth episode.

The Plutonium PAK was also released as an upgrade package to convert the original release of Duke Nukem 3D ( v1. 3d ) to the new Atomic Edition ( v1. 4, later patched to v1. 5 ).

The Total Entertainment Network featured hundreds of Duke 3D players online at any given time and players had to pay a monthly fee.

The last major game to make use of the Duke Nukem 3D source code was TNT Team's WWII GI in 1999.

Its programmer, Matthew Saettler, obtained permission from 3D Realms to expand the gameplay enhancements done on WWII GI to Duke Nukem 3D.

Wiederhold was later hired by 3D Realms to work on the sequel Duke Nukem Forever.

The add-on was unofficial but was included in an official compilation called Duke Nukem: Kill-A-Ton Collection through business deals with 3D Realms.

The series features rotten boroughs ( or " robber buttons "), Dr. Samuel Johnson ( played by Robbie Coltrane ), William Pitt the Younger ( Simon Osborne ), the French Revolution ( featuring Chris Barrie, Nigel Planer and Tim McInnerny as the Scarlet Pimpernel ), over-the-top theatrical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the Duke of Wellington ( played by Stephen Fry ).

Duke Nukem 64 is a port for Nintendo 64 which features a split screen 4-player mode.

A bundle called Duke Nukem: Kill-A-Ton Collection features Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition, Duke Xtreme, Duke! ZONE II, Duke Nukem I ( Duke Nukum ), Duke Nukem II, and various other utilities.

This view of the Duke as an omnipotent being is also reflected in the interior design of the palace, and indeed its axis to certain features in the park.

This Saturday morning cartoon features the Duke boys and their cousin Daisy in an automobile race around the world against Boss Hogg, Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, and Rosco's dog Flash in a duel for the prize money which the Dukes hope to use to keep the family farm from being foreclosed by Boss Hogg.

The obverse has a left-facing bust of the king ( with an older head from 1746 ), with the legend, while the reverse features a single large crowned shield with the quarters containing the arms of England + Scotland, France, Hanover, and Ireland, and the legend — King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lueneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.

The obverse has a left-facing bust of the king ( with an " intermediate head " in 1739 and 1740, and an older head from 1748 ), with the legend ( in 1739 and 1740 ), while the reverse features a single large crowned shield with the quarters containing the arms of England + Scotland, France, Hanover, and Ireland, and the legend -- King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lueneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.

The obverse has a left-facing bust of the king with the legend ( between 1739 and 1743 ), while the reverse features a single large crowned shield with the quarters containing the arms of England + Scotland, France, Hanover, and Ireland, and the legend (" King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lueneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector ").

The obverse has a left-facing bust of the king with the legend ( between 1740 and 1745 ), while the reverse features a single large crowned shield with the quarters containing the arms of England + Scotland, France, Hanover, and Ireland, and the legend -- King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lueneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.

The plotline has an occult theme that features Prince Edward, Duke of Clarence but does not reference the Whitechapel murders.

( The banner of the Duke of Rothesay also features the same, displayed upon an inner shield ).

The book features interviews with some of the best-known names in jazz, including Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and Paul Whiteman.

Duke William went on to prohibit the building of castles without his consent through the Consuetudines et Justicie, with his legal definition of castles centring on the classic motte-and-bailey features of ditching, banking and palisading.

After 1851, the Kremlin changed little until the Russian Revolution of 1917 ; the only new features added during this period were the Monument to Alexander II and a stone cross marking the spot where Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia was assassinated by Ivan Kalyayev in 1905.

Also the Newest / Youngest break out big band in Alabama which incorporates everything from Duke Ellington to Bob Marley ; the New South Jazz Orchestra which prominently features the Tuscaloosa Horns and the composing / arranging skills of members of the Tuscaloosa Horns.

Its pub sign features a boot of the Duke of Wellington, but the tradition of the Soulbury Boot is said to be much older than that.

A Duke and Duchess, and others, deceive Don Quixote for entertainment, setting forth a string of imagined adventures resulting in a series of practical jokes.

In their leisure time the children created a number of fantasy worlds, which were featured in stories they wrote and enacted about the imaginary adventures of their toy soldiers along with the Duke of Wellington and his sons, Charles and Arthur Wellesley.

The Dukes of Hazzard follows the adventures of " The Duke Boys ", cousins Bo and Luke Duke, who live in a rural part of the fictional Hazzard County, Georgia with their attractive cousin Daisy and their wise old Uncle Jesse, as they race around in their customized 1969 Dodge Charger stock car, christened ( The ) General Lee, evading crooked county commissioner Boss Hogg and his inept county sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, and always managing to get caught in the middle of the various escapades and incidents that often occur in the area.

In the aftermath of the battle, they had fled with many adventures with brigands and outlaws into Cheshire and subsequently to Harlech Castle in North Wales, where they joined Lancastrian nobles ( including Henry's half-brother Jasper Tudor and the Duke of Exeter ) who were recruiting armies in Wales and the West Country.

Most of the adventures are read from a post card by Uncle Jesse Duke to his pet raccoon Smokey.

An endearing story of his wedding day adventures made the newspaper in 1895, indicating the level of local affection for the ' Duke '.

One player may be the SG for a particular noble ( the Duke of Burgundy, for example ) and any adventures ( stories ) played in the Duchy of Burgundy or where the Duke is the antagonist.

After a series of further adventures, Aillas and Tatzel arrive at Xounges, to find the dying King Gax beset by a Ska delegation headed by Tatzel's father, Duke Luhalcx.

Also the siege of Özi was later mentioned in the comedy tales of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, based on the adventures of the page to Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Baron Münchhausen.

Duke Odoardo's Roman creditors saw their chance-the Duke was unable to pay his debts, which he had accumulated in military adventures against the Spanish in Milan and in luxurious living.

Duke Nukem is a 2D platform game developed and published by Apogee Software ( now 3D Realms ), featuring the adventures of the fictional character Duke Nukem.

The plot revolves around the adventures of the Duke of Durham and his sister, Lady Kay, English bootleggers in Prohibition Era America.

Each episode featured Enos, alongside his partner Turk, and usually began and ended with Enos writing a letter to Daisy Duke in which he told her of his adventures in Los Angeles.

It tells the tale of the four sons of Duke Aymon ( Renaud de Montauban, Guichard, Allard and Richardet ), their magical horse Bayard, and their adventures and revolt against the emperor Charlemagne.