Re: TIL.... Wolfenstein 3D

Better late than never. id Software wanted to be able to hide bodies
according to Masters of Doom book from 2003, take their clothes, etc. 
in their Wolf3D, but couldn't due to limitations. Return to Castle
Wolfenstein didn't have these features too. I wonder if the newer
Wolfenstein games could since I never played them.


Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

It's embarrassing that it took so long for me to notice this.

For the longest time, I assumed "Wolfenstein 3D" took its name because
it was based on the "Castle Wolfenstein" franchise and it happened to
be in '3D' (or, at least as close to '3D' as 1992 PCs could get at
that time).

But, of course, the name also refers to the fact that - after the
original "Castle Wolfenstein" and "Beyond Castle Wolfenstein" - it is
the /third/ game in the series.

<sigh>

No, no great revelation here. Well, not for anybody else, anyway. But
it was like an epiphany for me. I'd been staring at the title for 32
years(!) and only noticed that today.

<double sigh>

I'm still holding out for a modern remake of the original Muse
Software games, by the way. Or just a digital release of the 2009
"Wolfenstein", for that matter. Or maybe re-releases - on GOG, or
elsewhere - of the forgotten, non-canonical, "Mission" disks for
Wolfenstein 3D released by FormGen. My collection is incomplete
without these.

Maybe one day.

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