 Corporate logo of Apogee Software Apogee Software, Ltd. is a video game publisher and developer, established in 1987. Today it operates under the 3D Realms trademark. The company is best known for popularizing the shareware distribution model and as the creator of franchises on the PC such as Duke Nukem, and also the publisher of other franchises such as Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D. Not GFDL. Corporate logo of Apogee Software, Ltd. ...
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Corporate logo of 3D Realms 3D Realms is a computer game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States. ...
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Shareware is a marketing method for software, whereby a trial version is distributed in advance and without payment, as is common for proprietary software. ...
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Duke Nukem is a platform video game developed and published by Apogee Software, featuring the adventures of Duke Nukem. ...
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Shareware Unlike traditional larger publishers that sold games in retail outlets, Apogee (like many independent developers) sold their products using the shareware method, depending mostly on BBSs, such as Software Creations', for distribution of their software. Typically they would provide the first installment of a game trilogy for free and sell the remaining installments by mail order, a method which became known as the "Apogee Model". A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. ...
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Apogee's commercial success led to the wide spread adoption of the shareware model by other major publishers such as Capstone, Parallax Software, id Software, Activision, and Epic Megagames, and also led to a growth of Software Creations BBS, which would become the largest BBS in North America. Apogee later moved to the traditional retail model through distributors like GT Interactive, however still offers its earlier titles via shareware. The capstone is the highest rock or mount of a structure. ...
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Background Apogee started in 1987 with the release of Scott Miller's Kingdom of Kroz, which used crude extended ASCII characters as graphics. Nevertheless, the game sold quite well and Apogee was born. In 1991 George Broussard joined the company as co-owner, bringing with him several games of his that were previously released under the name Micro F/X. Miller and Broussard run the company to this day. Scott Miller is a game programmer, producer, and level designer who is probably most famous for founding Apogee Software in 1987 and co-founding Gathering of Developers in 1998. ...
Kingdom of Kroz is a video game created by Scott Miller in 1987 as Apogee Softwares first game. ...
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George Broussard is a computer game producer and designer known in the PC game community as one of the two creators of the widely successful Duke Nukem series (Todd Replogle being the other). ...
Apogee published games by other developers in addition to its own in-house titles. One of these developers, id Software, contributed to Apogee's success with games such as Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D, but later severed their ties with Apogee with their release of Doom in 1993 (although in its earliest stages, Doom was still an Apogee title). A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ...
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Commander Keen is the main character in a series of video games developed by id Software in the early 1990s, which were successful at replicating the side-scrolling action of the NES Super Mario Bros. ...
Wolfenstein 3D (commonly abbreviated to Wolf 3D) is the computer game that started the first person shooter genre on the PC. It was created by id Software and published by Apogee Software on May 5, 1992. ...
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With the original intent to create a division for every genre of game Apogee produced, the two brand names 3D Realms (formed in July 1994) and the now disused Pinball Wizards were created. They were really the same company but targeted different markets. Instead of publishing every game under Apogee as it had been in the past, the goal of this strategy was to create a different brand for each type of game genre, making each new game identifiable based on which brand it belonged to. However many of those varied genres such as platform or scrolling shooter (that were much of Apogee's early releases) were slowly dying out in the late 1990s making this strategy unnecessary in the end. In addition, due to the increasingly lengthy development time in producing a game title, video game publishers were no longer releasing titles at the rapid rate at which they once were. 3D Realms was created in 1994 for the 3-D title Terminal Velocity and is responsible for the latest installments of the successful Duke Nukem and Max Payne series (earlier 3D games like Rise of the Triad were released under the Apogee name). The Pinball Wizards name was created for the 1998 pinball title Balls of Steel but has not been used since. The last game to be published under the Apogee name was Stargunner in 1996. Since 1998, all the company's games have been using a 3D engine (even if the gameplay is 2D, like in Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project), and as a result 3D Realms has in effect replaced Apogee as the brand name to publish games under. Also, by the end of the 1990s, Apogee felt their brand name was more associated with old outdated games and so adopted their 3D Realms brand for all future releases. McDonalds, represented by the Golden Arches, is one of the worlds most famous brands In marketing, a brand is the symbolic embodiment of all the information connected with a company, product or service. ...
Corporate logo of 3D Realms 3D Realms is a computer game developer based in Garland, Texas, United States. ...
Corporate logo of 3D Realms 3D Realms is a computer game developer based in Garland, Texas and founded in July 1994 as a division of Apogee Software. ...
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In-game screenshot of Terminal Velocity Terminal Velocity was a renowned video game during the mid-1990s, developed by Terminal Reality and published by 3D Realms in 1995. ...
Max Payne is a third-person shooter computer game developed by Finnish company Remedy Entertainment, produced by 3D Realms and published by Gathering of Developers in July, 2001. ...
Rise of the Triad: Dark War (shortened to RotT) is a first person shooter computer game, first released on December 21, 1994 by Apogee Software (later known as 3D Realms). ...
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Balls of Steel is a pinball computer game developed by Wildfire Studios and published by Pinball Wizards (a division of Apogee Software, better known as 3D Realms), released on December 12, 1997. ...
Stargunner is a side-scrolling shooter computer game developed by Apogee Software. ...
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Developer Monuments of Mars is a third-person adventure/puzzle game created by Apogee Software. ...
Crystal Caves was a game written and published by Apogee. ...
Duke Nukem is a platform video game developed and published by Apogee Software, featuring the adventures of Duke Nukem. ...
Paganitzu is a computer game created by Keith Schuler. ...
Secret Agent is a video game written and published by Apogee Software. ...
Word Rescue is an old Apogee Software game. ...
Cosmos Cosmic Adventure is a video game programmed by Todd Replogle and published by Apogee Software in 1992. ...
Bio Menace is a 2D, side-scrolling, platform game both developed and published by Apogee Software in 1993 for MS-DOS. It was built on a licensed version of id Softwares Commander Keen engine, and was known as Bio Hazard during production. ...
Duke Nukem II is an MS-DOS platform game developed by Apogee Software and released December 3, 1993. ...
Monster Bash is a video game created by Apogee Software and released on the 9th of April, 1993 for the PC. The first episode of the game is available to download as shareware, but the remaining parts of the game must be purchased from 3D Realms. ...
Rise of the Triad: Dark War (shortened to RotT) is a first person shooter computer game, first released on December 21, 1994 by Apogee Software (later known as 3D Realms). ...
Stargunner is a side-scrolling shooter computer game developed by Apogee Software. ...
Publisher/Producer Commander Keen is the main character in a series of video games developed by id Software in the early 1990s, which were successful at replicating the side-scrolling action of the NES Super Mario Bros. ...
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Wolfenstein 3D (commonly abbreviated to Wolf 3D) is the computer game that started the first person shooter genre on the PC. It was created by id Software and published by Apogee Software on May 5, 1992. ...
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Boppin is a puzzle game developed by Accursed Toys, originally published for the Amiga by KarmaSoft. ...
Accursed Toys is a computer game development company, founded by Stephen P. Lepisto and Jennifer Diane Reitz. ...
Screenshot of game play Hocus Pocus is a side-scrolling platform video game developed by Moonlite Software and published by Apogee Software in 1994 for MS-DOS. It is a 256 color VGA game featuring 360 degree scrolling and parallaxing backgrounds. ...
Wacky Wheels is an MS-DOS arcade lawn mower racing videogame released by Apogee Software in 1994. ...
Mystic Towers is a computer game created by Lindsay Whipp and Animation F/X and published by Apogee Software. ...
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Death Rally cover Death Rally is a 1996 top-down racing video game developed by Remedy, published by Apogee and distributed by GT Interactive. ...
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