Very soon there won't be a generation that can remember video games not existing.
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Wait a second, your grandma played wolf3d? Grandma?! Am I old Lemmy?
If she was in her 20s when Wolfenstein came out in 1992, then a year later she could have had a kid, and 20 years later her kid could have had a kid, and then 13 years later the grandkid makes this post
I was 21 when Wolfenstein came out. You had to have like a $10,000 (adjusted for inflation) computer to run it. Some older nerds I knew had that. And they and their wives were often metal heads. I was grunge.
No, you are young and hip 😎
My neighbor who is in her 80s used to play NES. So them being a grandmother doesn't really factor in one way or the other.
If I recall, there were also rocket launchers.
You're probably thinking of Quake, which definitely had a rocket launcher.
Wolf 3D, as I recall, had four weapons. Knife, pistol, SMG, and chain gun.
Doom is an even closer equivalent with a rocket launcher.
I only recall a minigun, but no rocket launcher.
Weirdly Wolfenstein and Doom were pretty often puzzle games past the first few levels. Finding the exit was not trivial, and I spent hours on some levels hunting down the one fucking keycard I needed to get through a door, to end up needing another keycard.
Or maybe I was a dumb kid?
Wolfenstein 3d is the first video game I never played. I was maybe 5 years old and my dad showed me how to type what I needed to in DOS to launch the game. I had multiple saves at bosses so I could kill them over and over again.
use gun
As I recall, the correct answer was, "use a Big Fucking Gun (9000)"
Was this Doom or Duke Nukem 3D
I’m terrified that in a not so long future my inevitable grandchild will post some crap like that disrespecting StarCraft 2 and my memory in a crap combo.
What if I were to conflate it with populous though
Mixed feeling ms about that one. From that era it would be Sid Meier’s Colonisation my go-to.
I thought they were talking about Dungeon Master 🤷♂️
I guess same, but I would prefer to be seen as the grandpa that played Quake while listening to NIN. Academy award winning NIN.

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