<![CDATA[Kotaku: wolfenstein 3d]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: wolfenstein 3d]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/wolfenstein 3d http://kotaku.com/tag/wolfenstein 3d <![CDATA[ Happy Birthday, Wolfenstein ]]> Yes, other games came before it, but that's just nitpicking: for 99% of gamers, the first-person shooter genre kicked off with Wolfenstein 3D, which turned 16 yesterday. Happy birthday! Having played through the original only a few months ago, it's funny how, sixteen years on, I still had more fun with Wolfenstein than I do with most modern FPS games. Maybe that says something about the pure, arcade pleasures of the game. Or (more likely) it says something about the appeal of mowing down a mechanised Hitler with a chaingun while stuffing your face with plates of bbq chicken.
[via Wired]

]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 02:00:00 MDT Luke Plunkett http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=387420&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ Wolfenstein in 5k ]]>

Some ingenious developer has programmed a clone of Wolfenstein 3D into a mere 5k of Java, appropriately christened it Wolfenstein 5k and released it upon the internet populace at large. Small enough to fit inside memory on the display of your coffee maker, it's a cute little clone in which Nazis are replaced with Bobbleheaded Smiley Faces. No shrieks of Mein leben! or Die Allied Schweinhund!, unfortunately, but we'll take what we can get. Squint ahoy!

Wolfenstein 5k [Official Site] (via Aeropause)

]]> Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:40:37 MDT brownlee http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=194242&view=rss&microfeed=true