30 years ago, on 1996-06-22 the Quake shareware was released. And here we are, still playing or otherwise enjoying it. Wow!
If you are looking for some special treats, Quaddicted sadly hasn't anything special prepared. Life is much different and free time is sparsely available. But hey, it's just an archive or catalog anyways. The real fun is what mappers, modders, coders and artists create.
But as a personal recommendation on this special day, if you haven't already, go checkout the map pack our friends at Map Center compiled:
I've been playing it over the past few evenings and there are some really nice id1ish and early 2000s experiences inside.
Don't stay up gaming too late though, you fellow old fart, you'll be tired tomorrow, and careful with the sodas or you'll be more gassy than a scrag underwater.
Do you have a special recommendation? What was your first or most impactful experience with custom content for Quake?
I remember clear as water, the day I played Quake I, it was way better than Duke Nukem 3D, It had an impact on how I saw games before and after Quake I, I was playing on a new Pentium I 120MHz overclocked at 133, big deal 13 megahertz, that was the difference between a 60MHz bus and a 66MHz, I had also a Trident PCI video card, since I was buying it in my job (computer shop) at a Compaq service center I also swapped the motherboard from a slow Intel FX chipset to a faster VX.
You could tell the difference in speed with Quake, I also had 4MB of RAM and a Quantum HDD 630MB I think. I was hooked for more than 3 years playing Quake, MP1 and MP2, not to mention the early fan levels. I miss those day of 1996 playing at 360 x 480 pixels if I recall correctly. And of course Windows 95 the first version the one on diskettes. The CD-ROM was an Hitachi 2x.
