Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of 3D Realms games/archive1


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The list was promoted by Giants2008 via FACBot (talk) 23:31, 19 November 2017 (UTC).

List of 3D Realms games

 * Nominator(s):  Pres N  12:51, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

3D Realms started as Apogee Software, a garage publisher of computer games, in 1987, and was buoyed up by the success of first id Software's Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons (1990) and then Wolfenstein 3D (1992) into the lead shareware publisher of the time. Its own Duke Nukem 3D (1996) catapulted it into a major developer/publisher right as it changed its name, and from there it... pretty much collapsed. All of their development work went into two projects; Prey got spun off to another company 5 years later, and Duke Nukem Forever became the canonical definition of vaporware until the whole department ran out of money in 2009. Their publishing wing, on the other hand, wandered into various fruitless ventures, until the company was nothing but a rights-holder selling licenses to make Duke Nukem spinoff games. Last year it got bought for a pittance to be the publishing counterpart to minor developer Interceptor Entertainment... who then shut down. 3D Realms is still alive, and claims to be working as a developer/publisher on a new game... but it's quite likely that this list charts, in tabular form, the entire 20-year rise and fall of 3D Realms. Thanks for reviewing! -- Pres N  12:51, 4 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Support - (If you could look at mine, I'd be grateful) — Calvin999  08:39, 14 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Support. --Golbez (talk) 18:59, 17 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Support – Absolutely! Hope this support helps bring it closer to featured. Great job! BeatlesLedTV (talk) 22:52, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

Giants2008 ( Talk ) 22:01, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
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