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.

Duke Nukem 3D features the adventures of the titular macho Duke Nukem ( voiced by Jon St. John ), who fights against an alien invasion on Earth.

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.

Television roles included the recurring role of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk in five of the six episodes of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1970 ), the villainous Nasca in Thames Television's Aztec-themed drama The Feathered Serpent ( 1976 – 78 ), a guest starring spot in the comedy series The Goodies in the episode " The Baddies ", as well as episodes of Paul Temple, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Doomwatch, The Persuaders !, A Family at War, Coronation Street, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Colditz, Play for Today, Z-Cars, Special Branch, Sutherland's Law, The Sweeney, Jason King, Survivors, Crown Court, Angels, Warship, Van der Valk, Space: 1999, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Only When I Laugh ( Series 2, Total Episode # 9 ), Nanny, Minder, and the first episode of Inspector Morse in January 1987.

* Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown

His notable music compositions are used in titles such as Dungeon Keeper 2, Populous: The Beginning, Warhammer: Dark Omen, Wing Commander amiga version, Duke Nukem 3D Total Meltdown, and he has since had sound design credits in games such as the Develop Magazine Audio Accomplishment nominated Race Driver: GRID, Develop Magazine Best art and sound nominated Sudeki, Shox, Formula One, and Theme Park World-which won a BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards award in 2000 for ' best sound in a video game '.

* Duke Nukem 3D Total Meltdown-GT Interactive

* Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown-Duke Nukem

In " Episode One: L. A. Meltdown ", Duke fights his way through a dystopian Los Angeles.

Pratt, and others at Duke authored a review of all card-guessing experiments conducted internationally since 1882 titled Extra-Sensory Perception After Sixty Years.

The most famous story, first published in a collection called Break of Dark, is titled Blackham's Wimpy, the name of a Vickers Wellington Bomber featured in the story, whose nickname comes from the character J. Wellington Wimpy from the Popeye comics and cartoons ( the Wellington was named for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, victor over Napoleon ).

Under these conventions, HM The Queen's children, the children of HRH The Prince of Wales, HRH The Duke of York and HRH The Earl of Wessex would all be titled Princes or Princesses and styled Royal Highness, as would be the eldest son of HRH The Duke of Cambridge.

His father designated Magnus as his successor in powers of the Jarl, henceforward titled Duke of Sweden.

At his birth, he was titled Duke of Chartres and was formally addressed as Monseigneur le duc de Chartres.

Astin's first acting role was in a 1981 television movie titled Please Don't Hit Me, Mom, in which he played a child with an abusive mother ( portrayed by his real-life mother Patty Duke ).

Skule was the first person ever in Norway to be titled Duke ( hertug ) in 1237, but instead of control over a region gained the rights to the incomes from a third of the syssels scattered across the whole of Norway.

Robert was born into the Hauteville family in Normandy, and went on to become Duke of Apulia and Calabria ( 1057 – 1085, titled count until 1057 ).

He titled the new development ' Sackville Street ' after the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Lionel Cranfield Sackville, Duke of Dorset.

The Canadian indie band Cuff the Duke recorded a song titled " Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump " on their 2002 album Life Stories for Minimum Wage.

During the period leading up to the 1999 wedding of The Prince Edward, the youngest son of Elizabeth II, experts speculated the dukedom of Cambridge or Sussex as the most likely to be granted to him, and The Sunday Telegraph later reported that Prince Edward was at one point set to be titled Duke of Cambridge.

As the only son of Louis d ' Orléans, Duke of Orléans and his wife Johanna of Baden-Baden, he was titled Duke of Chartres at birth.

The tradition of the heir to the throne being titled Duke of Braganza was revived by various pretenders after the foundation of the Portuguese Republic on 5 October 1910 to signify their claims to the throne.

After the foundation of the Portuguese Republic in 1910, the tradition of the heir to the throne being titled Duke of Braganza was revived by various pretenders to signify their claims to the throne.

* Cosimo I 1537 – 1574 – From 1569 he and his successors titled Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville ( titled Marquess of Chandos following the death of his grandfather Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos in 1839 ) was appointed chairman of the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ) on 27 May 1857.

Duke Xiao was also the last ruler of Qin to be addressed as " duke " (), as his successors titled themselves " kings " ().

During the subsequent rule of Queen Christina of Sweden, however, her cousin and heir Carl Gustav of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken was titled Duke of Eyland ( Öland ) by the Swedish sovereign herself, but her government refused to acknowledge that title officially.

The 76th was linked in 1881 with the regiment at that time titled 33rd ( Duke of Wellington's ) Regiment, whose training depot they shared in Halifax, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, due to the Childers Reforms ( a continuation of the Cardwell's Reforms of the armed forces ) to form the 2nd Battalion of the regiment.

Frederick's son and heir, the future Emperor Maximilian I, started to use the title, but apparently only after the death of his wife Mary of Burgundy ( d. 1482 ) as the title never appears in documents of joint Maximilian and Mary rule in the Low Countries ( where Maximilian is still titled Duke of Austria ).

From 1789 until 1830, when he ascended the throne, he was titled His Royal Highness The Duke of Clarence and St Andrews.