Duke
They've changed my computer again, just when I was getting to like it!
They've dumped all bookmarks!
I can't load the screen shots from Duke Nukem that I was going to show you!
I'll be back
They've dumped all bookmarks!
I can't load the screen shots from Duke Nukem that I was going to show you!
I'll be back
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posted by Lane Savant at 7:51 PM
26 Comments:
Who are they? Keth, Meredith, the cyber gnomes? Are you at the library? It is a tad hard to fathom the full measure of your dilemma. It will be fun to check out some pics of the Duke though.
I must admit that after several weeks of having my grandsons visiting with us, the joy of poopy diapers, fussy eaters, unprovoked screeching, top of the voice crying, triple naps per day, being barred from the computer room cuz it is now the nursery--I am still happy to have them within my sphere. The old adage that babies are for the young to raise rings very true my friends. My one good nerve is ragged as hell.
Glenn
Hey, you got my curiousity afoot, and so I nosed around and found ten pictures to post on FFTR, all of the super hero hisself, DUKE NUKEM. So these will compliment whatever you get up for the die hard FFTL readers. I must admit, the babes alone are worth the look. I have a buddy who gets heavy into his combat games with his X-box. He even challenges others to join him on the phone so that they can play at the same time, X-box to X-box. Ain't technology grand?
Glenn
Here is a little sommin' summin' for you dudes to ponder and reflect upon.....
Wild Nights
Wild Nights--
Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!
Futile--
the Winds--
To a Heart in port--
Done with the Compass--
Done with the Chart!
Rowing in Eden
Ah, the Sea!
Might I but moor--
Tonight--
In Thee!
ED
Even though Duke is very muscular, he does not have the intellectual appeal of my loverboy, Doug. Duke wouldn't look twice in my direction. I doubt that he reads poetry of any kind, and Doug on the other hand is in love with me and my poetry; smart man that he is.
...........Emily
Oh, I found some more good buzz about the Duke hisself....
Duke Nukem first appeared as the title character of the Apogee platform game Duke Nukem, which was published in 1991. This game was written for the IBM PC compatible, and featured 320×200, 16-color EGA graphics with vertical and horizontal scrolling. The original game consisted of three episodes, the first of which was distributed as shareware. A sequel, entitled Duke Nukem II, was published by Apogee in 1993. This sequel took advantage of 256-color VGA graphics, MIDI music, and digitized sound. Only 16 colors were actually used on-screen at once; however, three different 16-color palettes were used.
The first Duke Nukem game was titled Duke Nukem, but Apogee learned that this name might have already been trademarked, so they changed it to Duke Nukum for the 2.0 revision. The name was later discovered not to be trademarked, so the spelling Duke Nukem was restored for Duke Nukem II and all successive Duke games. The trademark in question was the Duke Nukem character in Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
The character is best known from the first-person shooter game Duke Nukem 3D, developed by Apogee's 3D Realms division and released in 1996. Duke Nukem 3D was one of the most controversial games at the time due to its strong language, sexual content/nudity and gratuitous violence.
Duke Nukem also received a short-lived toy line from now-defunct toy company ReSaurus. Primarily centered around Duke Nukem 3D, the line featured three versions of Duke (with a fourth "internet only" Duke that came with a CD-ROM and freezethrower accessory), the Pigcop, Octabrain, and Battlelord. The toys were relatively popular but were prone to breakage (Duke's legs were held on by a thin plastic rod which was easy to snap and the Octabrain had numerous fragile points). More toys were planned to coincide with the release of Duke Nukem Forever, but the game's delay halted these toys, and ReSaurus eventually went out of business completely.
Plans for a live action Duke Nukem movie produced by Threshold Entertainment were announced back in 2001, but the film never made it to production. "Vin Diesel would make a great Duke" GB
Character
Though initially a disgruntled TV viewer who took offense to Dr. Proton interrupting the soap operas, Duke's personality in all his games since Duke Nukem 3D has been that of a hyper-masculine, egotistical, machismo-filled womanizer, and his missions generally involved killing aliens that had invaded Earth to enslave its women. Duke Nukem's character is a pastiche of a number of Hollywood-action heroes, such as those played by Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Sylvester Stallone, as well as Kurt Russell's character from Big Trouble In Little China, Roddy Piper's character from They Live, and Ash Williams from the Evil Dead series.
Like the characters often played by Schwarzenegger and Stallone, Duke is a confident, aggressive, and frequently politically incorrect muscle-man, who, although not superhuman, nonetheless manages to achieve incredible physical feats of violence and conquest through sheer machismo and expertise with automatic weapons. Like the characters played by Bruce Campbell, Nukem is also a smart-mouth (although Duke's humor is somewhat less sarcastic and more straightforwardly aggressive, a few of Duke Nukem 3D's phrases are taken directly from the Campbell film Army of Darkness - Campbell himself was less than pleased with this, and his sneering visage is often found speaking one-liners while slaughtering his enemies. He is also apparently extremely sexually adept and irresistible to women, and circumstances generally find him surrounded by many buxom women.
Other than a wide array of automatic firearms, explosives, and energy weapons, Duke is best known for his trademark jet pack, which gives him the ability to fly short distances in quick bursts. He is also known for his golden Desert Eagle pistol and sunglasses, which completely conceal his eyes and which he has not been seen without (even at night) since Duke Nukem 3D, and his blond, military-style hair, which is existent since the first game.
Original design
Duke Nukem was originally invented and named by Todd Replogle for the video game he was designing (the original Duke Nukem). After hearing the character's name, Scott Miller suggested the game should have the same name (it had a name along the lines of Metal Future at the time). Miller helped design the character around his thoughts about the name. Duke Nukem was later dramatically redrawn by Jim Norwood and George Broussard. Duke Nukem does not feature any voices, but Duke Nukem II features an intro with one line spoken by Joe Siegler, and a death scream by Todd Replogle. Later games in the series all feature Jon St. John as the voice of Duke Nukem. The voice was based on that of Clint Eastwood.
There is probably more out there, but I haven't bumped into it yet.
Glenn
Duke Nukem is a prissy punk, and you can tell him I said so. He knows where to find me--and his imitation of me is horseshit.
.........Squint Eastwood
Duke Nukem is a sissy boy. He based his look on my body, but he did not have the balls to give himself an Austrian American accent.
......Arnie S., Guv, Mr. Universe, and Conan.
The public wants more Sly Stallione, not this bullshit muscle boy Duke Nukem. Take for example the BO of ROCKY 6 AND RAMBO 4. Even in cyberspace I would tear him a new ass.
......Sly Stallione
Actually I find the character of Duke Nukem completely fascinating. I am sure that his backstory would be tremendous--and who would not like to hang out with all those bodacious babes.
........Dana Carvey
Can't you homophobes realize that the true Duke Nukem is as gay as Liberace. He reminds of those muscle-bound dancers in the all male reviews that women frequent, wasting their panties and twenty dollar bills.
.......David Bowwie
Hell, give me three dudes like Duke Nukem any day for bodyguards. He would eat bikers for breakfast and lunkheads for lunch and dipshits for dinner.
.......Mickalus Jaggger
I think that the character, the image, the bravery, and the integrity of Duke Nukem is a patriotic message dearly needed in this time of communistic peri.
......Jeremiah Eddy Hoover
I play Duke Nukem up here too, dude. It's gas to blast those alien slime, and get down with those buxom bitches.
...........Eddy E.
If I would have been given a squad of Duke Nukems, we never would have had our asses kicked in Korea or Viet Nam. Move over Rambo, Nukem kicks hard as a mule, and will blast your guts out before he asks the time of day.
.......Doug MacArthur
He looks a bit like the Sioux sonofabitch that scalped me. Is that even possible?
.....Georgie A. Custer
Bowwie was right. You are all on the wrong track. Some fags can be muscular and kick alien ass. Duke is the best of them.
.........Tiny Tim
There is entirely too much dialogue about homosexuality and putting boots in posteriors, and murdering helpless ET's. Clean up your act, gentlemen, for God is watching, and you are pissing him off.
........The Church Lady
The problem with Dukems is that he only seems to hang out with white broads. He likes 'em stacked, well, hell, there are no more buxom ladies on this earth than black sisters. So, hey Duke, get your heads, both of them, on straight, and introduce more "color" to your world.
........Whooopy Siverberg
Why isn't anybody talking to me about playing Duke Nukem? I would guarantee box office that would knock your briefs off.
.......Tommy Cruz
Becuz Tommy, you ditz, you are only 5'6" tall, and the Nukem needs to be a tower of a man; much like myself.
........Vinyard Dieesul
Actually I would quit politics if somebody offered me the part of the Duke of Power, the Nukem, Smackum, Crackim man.
........Mitt Romminay
The way things go in Hollywood, when they finally get around to making the damned movie, they probably will have Pee Wee Herman or Johnny Depp playing Duke Nukem, and they will make it into an animated musical, or a twisted fairy tale.
......Steppin Spieelburg
Actually for your information, we Germans already created several super soldiers back in 1942; made him up out of gorilla and Jewish parts. His name was coded as Doookilas Newwkmeister. He was yet another of my secret weapons that never got used against the Allied swinehunds; like my atomic bombs and foo fighters and robots.
.........Adolf
If I had even dreamed of a character like Duke Nukem back in my era, I would have written a poem and story just for him, and it would have been a corker.
........Edward A. Poo
If Duke Nukem was a broad, I would have married him. I love the guy.
.......Mickie Roooney
Me, too, Mick. He is a lot prettier than Ethel Merman was.
........E. Borg9
Nukem, you can be in my posse any day, man. The King likes your style.
...........E
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