The full registered game is still available, but the shareware game has plenty of action if you don’t want to shell out cash for the full game.Duke Nukem II is the second game in the Duke Nukem franchise and was developed and published by Apogee Software for DOS in 1993. Any serious DOS game player should play this at some time. So despite the outdated technology (even at the release date) Duke Nukem has rightly become a classic DOS platform game. It has a retro charm that keeps you playing to get to the next level, or a higher score. When I came back to the game after not ever having completing the original, I found it was still very addictive, fun and engaging.
The game is full of classic platforming action and most items in the environment are interactive. Gameplay is where it is at with Duke Nukem. The sound for PC speaker is actually pretty good considering what they had to work with, although there are some situations the sound can be annoying. Sound comes from the PC speaker and there appears to be no options for other sound devices. Perhaps they were trying to make the game more compatible with older machines that would have still been quite common at the time.
By the time Duke Nukem was released VGA was pretty much the standard for most DOS games, which makes it surprising they stuck with EGA. EGA was actually more difficult to program for smooth scrolling effects than VGA which was due to the way the hardware worked. It’s pretty impressive that they managed to do so much on the screen at once. The graphics are good for EGA, are animated smoothly, and full of colour. We never did get a copy of it for our 386sx computer, and so I never really played the game to any depth until relatively recently. We played it for a short time, as I was into playing platform games at the time I found it pretty fun. I remember first seeing the game at a cousin’s house on their Tandy 1000 PC. The game was written for MS-DOS based systems and used EGA graphics and PC speaker sound.
Duke Nukem is an action platform game made by Apogee (now 3d realms) back in 1991.
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