Re:Quake 1 potential original font
by another2another on Monday June 17, 2024 @11:49AM
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I believe I probably started playing it when it came out, but abandoned it pretty early on, hence my initial confusion - like something you half remember.
The first 3 games though were great in their different ways, but Quake 1 will always be my favourite.
I used to sneak into my older sister's room to play it on her PC when I was a kid. I remember the stage with the toxic chemical facility or whatever it was, where the dead bodies would rise up behind you after you passed them by. I was too scared to play past it after getting jumpscared several times from behind, lol.
One cool thing the game did was they used the DOOM 3 "interactive panels" tech to make not only English-language human-manufactured "touchscreens", but also Strogg-language alien-manufactured "touchscreens", that you had to interact with to open doors and so forth. After becoming "stroggified", the glyphs on the Strogg touchscreens shift and you can now read them in English.
I went back and replayed it a few years ago and it's really pretty generic as far as shooters of that era go, but I thought Raven did a decent job given what they had to work with.