Duke Nukem in the title screen of Duke Nukem 3D

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Overview

Duke Nukem first appeared as the title character of the Apogee platform game Duke Nukem, which was published in 1991. This game was written for the IBM PC compatible, and featured 320×200, 16-color EGA graphics with vertical and horizontal scrolling. The original game consisted of three episodes, the first of which was distributed as shareware. A sequel, entitled Duke Nukem II, was published by Apogee in 1993. This sequel took advantage of 320×200, 256-color VGA graphics as well as horizontal and vertical scrolling. Although the graphics were stunning for 1993, only 16 colors were actually used on-screen at once; however, three different 16-color palettes were used in the game. Corporate logo of Apogee Software Apogee Software, Ltd. ... A screenshot of the original Donkey Kong. ... Duke Nukem is a platform game developed by Apogee Software, featuring the adventures of Duke Nukem. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... IBM PC (IBM 5150) with keyboard and green screen monochrome monitor (IBM 5151), running MS-DOS 5. ... EGA may stand for Enhanced Graphics Adapter Éléments de géométrie algébrique. ... Shareware is a marketing method for software, whereby a trial version is distributed without payment ahead of time as is common for proprietary software. ... Duke Nukem II is a MS-DOS platform game developed by Apogee Software and released December 3, 1993. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Video Graphics Array (VGA) is a computer display standard first marketed in 1987 by IBM. VGA belongs to a family of earlier IBM video standards and largely remains backward compatible with them. ...

The first Duke Nukem game was titled Duke Nukem, but Apogee learned that this name might have already been trademarked, so they changed it to Duke Nukum for the 2.0 revision. The name was later discovered not to be trademarked, so the spelling Duke Nukem was restored for Duke Nukem II and all successive Duke games, and is preferred even when referring to the original.

The character is now best known from the first-person shooter game Duke Nukem 3D, developed by Apogee's 3D Realms division and released in 1996. Duke Nukem 3D was one of the most controversial games at the time due to its gratuitous violence, sexual content, strong language and racy content. Doom, one of the games that defined the first-person shooter genre. ... Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter developed by 3D Realms and released on January 29, 1996 by Apogee Software, featuring the adventures of Duke Nukem, based on a character that had appeared in earlier platform games by the company: Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II. // Synopsis Murderous aliens... 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. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Though initially a disgruntled TV viewer who took offense to Doctor Proton interrupting the soap operas, Duke's personality in all his games since Duke Nukem 3D was that of a hyper-masculine, egotistical womanizer, and his missions generally involved killing aliens that had invaded Earth to enslave the women. Influences of the Duke Nukem character include Hollywood-action heroes such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Campbell and Bruce Willis. In turn, the main character of Serious Sam is supposed to be a parody of Duke Nukem. The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... Aliens in the plural may refer to more than one of several types of aliens, such as extraterrestrial beings or those foreign to a place The Aliens was the name of Roky Ericksons backing band Aliens is a 1986 film starring Sigourney Weaver and the sequel to Alien Aliens... Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ... Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947 in Thal, Styria, Austria) is an Austrian-American actor, Republican politician, bodybuilder, and businessman, currently serving as the 38th Governor of California. ... Sylvester Stallone Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946 in New York City) is an American film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. ... Bruce Campbell lectures on his life as a B Movie actor. ... Bruce Willis Bruce Girth Willis (born March 19, 1956 as Walter Bruce Willison) is an American actor. ... Serious Sam is the title of a series of first-person shooters created by the Croatian company Croteam. ...

A live action Duke Nukem movie has been announced, and casting rumors have revolved around Bruce Campbell, star of the Evil Dead and Army of Darkness movies that spawned many Duke Nukem lines, but no official casting decisions have been made public as of January 2005. Bruce Campbell lectures on his life as a B Movie actor. ... -1... Film poster for Army of Darkness Army of Darkness (1993) is the third installment of the Evil Dead film trilogy, written and directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell. ... 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Catchphrases

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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about:

Duke Nukem

• "Hail to the king, baby!" (a reference to Army of Darkness)
• "Come get some!" (a reference to Army of Darkness and Full Metal Jacket)
• "Shake it, baby!"
• "You're an inspiration for birth control!"
• "Let's rock!"
• "It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all outta gum" (a reference to They Live)
• "I'm Duke Nukem, and I'm coming to get the rest of you alien bastards!"
• "Makin' Bacon!" (After killing a pig cop enemy)
• "Groovy!" (a reference to Army of Darkness
• "Nobody steals our chicks... And lives!"
• "Mmm... That's one doomed space marine!" (a reference to Doom)
• "Damn... Those alien bastards are gonna pay for shooting up my ride."
• "Wow... I make this look good!"
• "Time flies when you're kickin' ass!"
• "Damn, I'm looking good!" (when looking in a mirror)
• "I'll be done with you and still have time to watch Oprah!" (in Duke Nukem 1)
• "Mmm... Don't have time to play with myself!" (in Duke Nukem 3D this comes after Duke sees an arcade of the earlier Duke Nukem games, or if all other players leave a multiplayer game)
• "I'll rip your head off and shit down your neck!" (this is before he fights the Overlord; after which he literally does the deed while reading a newspaper. A reference to Full Metal Jacket and supposedly a reference to Heartbreak Ridge)
• "It's down to you and me, you one-eyed freak!" (Yells it at the Cycloid Emperor, the final boss in the end of Episode 3)
• "We meet again, Dr. Jones" (in a secret room, reference to Indiana Jones)
• "Yippie-ki-ay motherfucker!" (a reference to Die Hard - bleeped out in-game)
• (crackings his knuckles) "What are you waiting for, Christmas?" (If the player does absolutely nothing for a long time.)
• "That's gotta hurt."
• "I ain't afraid of no quake" (Duke says this after an earthquake, but it is actually a reference to the then soon-to-be-released Quake)
• "Hehehe, what a mess"
• "It's my way or the... hell it's my way!"
• "Your face, your ass, what's the difference?"
• "Let God sort 'em out." (after killing a lot of monsters, historical reference)
• "Blow it up your ass!"
• "Suck it down!"
• "Holy cow/shit!"
• "What are you, some bottom-feeding, scum-sucking algae eater?"
• "He he he... Wasted!"
• "The last thing that will go through your mind before you die is my size 13 boot"
• "Get that crap outta here!" (Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown, a port of DN3D for Playstation)
• "Ahh, the captain's log!" (DN: Total Meltdown)
• "They don't nuke em, better than me!"
• "Like to become an endangered species?" (Duke Nukem: Zero Hour, N64 exclusive)
• "C'mon, bleed for me!" (DN: Zero Hour)
• "Oh boy, it's clobberin' time!" (DN: Zero Hour) (a reference to The Thing)
• "Mess with the best, die like the rest." (DN: Zero Hour, a reference to the Marine Corps.)
• "Kids, remember I'm a professional; don't try this at home." (DN: Zero Hour)
• "I ain't ready for a gravestone yet." (DN: Zero Hour)
• "Great, what am I supposed to use, harsh language?" (DN: Zero Hour) (a reference to Aliens)
• "Warning: this product may make safe unsafe." (DN: Zero Hour)
• "Perfect for home defense." (DN: Zero Hour)
• "Pop quiz, hot shot: what's got six legs and no head? Heh-heh, you in thirty seconds." (DN: Zero Hour)
• "Gonna rip 'em a new one."
• "Half man, half animal, all dead" (Manhattan Project, after killing a pig cop; possible reference to the movie Robocop)
• "This'll be a barrel of laughs" (Manhattan Project, Upon Collecting a shotgun)
• "Say goodnight to the badguy." (DN: Zero Hour) (parody of Tony Montana)
• "You're too good-looking to kill, but I'm going to kill you anyway." (DN: Zero Hour, reference to his time-cloned self)
• "Chestnuts roasting as I open fire" (DN: Zero Hour)
• "Hey Muthawanka"

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Duke Nukem games

As of 2005, there have been three "main" Duke Nukem games, and a number of other games in which the character starred: 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• Duke Nukem (temporarily Duke Nukum) - 1991 - MS-DOS
• Duke Nukem II - 1993 - MS-DOS
• Duke Nukem 3D - 1996 - MS-DOS

A long-promised sequel to Duke Nukem 3D, Duke Nukem Forever, is still in production after seven years of development. (Developer claims it will be released "When it is done"). Duke Nukem is a platform game developed by Apogee Software, featuring the adventures of Duke Nukem. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ... Duke Nukem II is a MS-DOS platform game developed by Apogee Software and released December 3, 1993. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter developed by 3D Realms and released on January 29, 1996 by Apogee Software, featuring the adventures of Duke Nukem, based on a character that had appeared in earlier platform games by the company: Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II. // Synopsis Murderous aliens... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Duke Nukem Forever (DNF) is a yet-to-be-released first-person shooter video game being developed by 3D Realms, and is the next game in the popular Duke Nukem series. ...

Other Duke Nukem games

• Duke Nukem 64 - 1997 - Nintendo 64
• Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown - 1997 - PlayStation
• Duke Nukem: Time to Kill - 1998 - PlayStation
• Duke Nukem 3D - 1998 - Sega Mega Drive (ported by Tec Toy under license)
• Duke Nukem: Zero Hour - 1999 - Nintendo 64
• Duke Nukem - 1999 - Game Boy Color (not the same as the MS-DOS game)
• Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes - 2000 - PlayStation
• Duke Nukem Advance - 2002 - Game Boy Advance
• Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project - 2002 - Microsoft Windows
• Duke Nukem Mobile - 2005 - Tapwave Zodiac

Duke Nukem has made cameo appearances in a few other Apogee games. He appeared in Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure (1992) and Death Rally (1996). Additionally, there was a Duke Nukem table in the 1998 pinball title Balls of Steel from Apogee's Pinball Wizards division—the title Balls of Steel is a reference to a pinball machine seen in Duke Nukem 3D. 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Nintendo 64, commonly called the N64, is Nintendos third home video game console. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The PlayStation, logo design by Manabu Sakamoto (Japanese: プレイステーション) is a video game console of the 32-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the mid 1990s. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Original Sega Mega Drive (PAL version) Sega Mega Drive (Japanese: メガドライブ Mega Doraibu) is a 16-bit video game console released by Sega in 1988. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... The Game Boy Color came in a myriad different colors, as did earlier incarnations of the Game Boy. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Game Boy line is the best-selling handheld to date The Game Boy Advance (GBA) is a handheld videogame console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo. ... 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Microsoft Windows is a range of operating environments for personal computers and servers. ... 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tapwave Zodiac The Tapwave Zodiac is a Palm OS 5-based PDA created by Tapwave, and the first Palm-based device developed with gaming and multimedia as primary considerations. ... Cosmos Cosmic Adventure is a video game programmed by Todd Replogle and published by Apogee Software in 1992. ... 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Death Rally is a 1996 top-down racing video game developed by Remedy, published by Apogee and distributed by GT Interactive. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 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, 1998. ... 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. ...

External links

• 3D Realms Official website
• Duke Central - Informative fansite on Duke Nukem I and II
• PlanetDuke - Home of the official Duke Nukem Forever FAQ
• Duke Nukem The Movie
• Duke Nukem Movie (includes leaked teaser trailer)
• Dukebert's Map Zone