A correction to 07:15 - Mr. Paddock composed _the MIDI soundtrack_ for Prodeus that can be selected in-game as an alternative to Andrew Hulshult's OST www.jamespaddockmusic.com/2021/04/15/new-album-30in30-5-released-2/ Apologies to Andrew for the mix-up and I give him full permission to give me crap about it next time we hang out 😄

@TheHatMan69

6 ай бұрын

HULSHULT IS A GOD Edit: go listen to his full DOOM OST remake!

@greggv8

6 ай бұрын

Can Duke Nukem II on Evercade have both Soundblaster and Adlib effects selected? The DOS version is the only game I've ever seen that can do that. It makes the sound effects "fatter and richer" than either AdLib or Soundblaster alone.

@lukecarroll9823

6 ай бұрын

This looks and sounds perfect... Sounds like the stuff I would have been glued to as a kid, struggling through with sweaty palms, a bowl of snacks and a soda.

@lethal_guitar

6 ай бұрын

​@@greggv8yes, that's an option

@volkantumay2271

6 ай бұрын

Really good stuff LGR. That large screen experience seem nifty. Glad you enjoyed these epic remasters. Chrismaas..

Thanks again for your invaluable feedback during development Clint, and for reviewing the games on your channel! It was a really fun project, and I hope some of the passion we put into Duke 1&2 shines through. It's still a bit surreal for me sometimes how my little hobby project has lead to working on an actual official Duke Nukem release!

@LGR

6 ай бұрын

Sincerely my pleasure, Niko! The passion was clear from day one, both with Rigel Engine and with all the little nitty gritty details and thought that went into these ports. I'm still happy that you were on the same page as me with how picky I was about PC speaker characteristics, haha. I hope you can continue to do similar work in the future! Perhaps even with some other shareware classics, the back catalog of Apogee and Epic is perfectly ripe, IMO.

@lethal_guitar

6 ай бұрын

Yeah I hope so too, that'd be awesome!

@Flon22

6 ай бұрын

I'd kill for an updated Hocus Pocus!

@scottplank1012

6 ай бұрын

Any chance of getting official support for Rigel Engine on RetroPie?

@lethal_guitar

6 ай бұрын

@@scottplank1012 that's ultimately up to the RetroPie maintainers. People in the community have already created the necessary scripts and opened a PR on GitHub, but it hasn't been merged yet.

It has to be absolutely surreal to see your name in the credits of a re-release of one of your favorite game serieses of all time, has to feel like a "coming full-circle" moment. Congrats to you and the team for the awesome work they did on these ports!

@LGR

6 ай бұрын

Thanks, it really is bizarre in the best way

Showing off your original physical versions of every single game in the collection is exactly kind of flex I'm here for

Cheers for the review, Clint! This was a really fun and exciting musical project to be a part of, especially with Lee Jackson's blessing to reimagine his DN3D music using AdLib synthesis. Here's hoping that Bobby Prince's iconic music gets saved from licensing hell eventually. Keep kickin' ass and chewing bubblegum!

@LGR

6 ай бұрын

Props for the excellent work here, James! I sure miss Prince's OG tracks but yours slot in quite perfectly with the early Duke vibe, I love finally having a DN1 soundtrack. It's funny, when I began talking to Blaze about the project I actually had written in my notes to recommend you as a composer since your Secret Agent HD work was so spot-on. Then when Ryan was like "we have James on-board already!" I knew this project was legit 🤘

@imarobobot8795

6 ай бұрын

Love your music! Is the DN1 soundtrack for sale on your site? I couldn't find it at the link Clint provided or on your bandcamp.

Gosh, those remakes of DN1 and DN2 are _gorgeous!_ I can't get over the super-smooth framerate, the helpful widescreen and the faithfulness to the originals! Those were two of MY faves back in the day as well, and I still replay them from time to time. What an honor it must have been to be a big part of it!

@LGR

6 ай бұрын

Really glad to hear that! It was truly a pleasure to be any part of at all :)

When I was 8, my Uncle gave me a CD with a slee of games on it (Duke 1&2 among many others). My Uncle passed away in 2006 (my mom passed away July 2023). I wish both couldve been here to see this (my mom was the first to witness me gaming as a kid). Thanks for covering these gems.

I will never not love the fact that LGR Christmas has become a full on nostalgic tradition for me.

Holy Sh*t! Clint you are now a part of official Duke history. This is not small. This is actually a very big deal. WOW! I have been watching since the beginning and even have signed floppy and talked with you at the retro expo's. I am sooo happy for you my guy!

@LGR

6 ай бұрын

Thank you, it doesn't actually feel real!

@natelevy1040

6 ай бұрын

Hail to the king, baby!

It's super badass that the Evercade line is still supported. I was afraid it would fold after a year, turns out they're a solid bastion of classic gaming and that is RAD AF.

@NALTOHQ

6 ай бұрын

Oh hell no. I can comfortably assure you it’s alive and well.

@Detective_L

6 ай бұрын

What the barnacle is the Evercade anyway. Is it some shovelware portable thing? I’ve genuinely never heard of it

@VGRobot

6 ай бұрын

@@Detective_LModern retro gaming, only physical cartridges with full colour manual and case. Consoles have great controls, all games are officially licensed, and they have multiple cost/hardware options if you want to try it out. Cheapest is the Super Pocket, costs less than a new Ps5 game, but is Evercade cart compatible

@TheWarmotor

6 ай бұрын

@@Detective_L Do you watch a lot of retro gaming content? They've all been talking about it for a couple of years now. I figured it would die off, since you can get an Odroid Go Ultra for $60 and put literally every game from pong to N64/PS1 on it. People like physical media and legal products, though, I guess!

@Night_A

6 ай бұрын

@@Detective_L Another ARM console based on the RK3328 (Cortex-A53 CPU), e.g an SBC in a fancy shell that can run packaged Linux ports from proprietary cartridges. Depending on how you look at it, it can be considered as either a glorified Rock64 or an under-powered Switch. Although i admit that with ports like these and all the legal effort put into licensing everything, at least the devs have demonstrated a lot of spirit for the thing.

"from a real human artist" hell yeah brother love to see projects like this just brimming with passion and integrity

My first Duke Nukem was 3D. I didn’t even realize that there were earlier titles until years later

@travisdonotsuscribegototjs9323

6 ай бұрын

Duke 3D was my first but knew about 1&2 didn't like Duke 1 was like Commander Keen in gameplay Duke2 was more engaging

@cpt_nordbart

6 ай бұрын

Oh Duke Nukum great times had. Ah Shareware was amazing.

@FlagstaffslowTV

6 ай бұрын

Same. I actually didn't know about the earlier ones until I watched LGR videos on them! I'm in my 30s..

@DarkMustard1337

6 ай бұрын

I still have 3d...tinker with the level making from time to time

@angeleocorrodead

6 ай бұрын

Mine too but i enjoy other much

Clint, thank you for great content for over a decade and for always putting some great Christmas specials.

@LGR

6 ай бұрын

My pleasure, thank you for continuing to watch all this time!

Resident Duke Expert gotta be the best credit title out there

If those Duke I + II remasters came to PC, I'd preorder it in a heartbeat.

@jasonmartinez5116

6 ай бұрын

Same for other consoles like Xbox, Playstation and Switch

@thetechsavvy01

6 ай бұрын

And literally anything!

@Snufflegrunt

6 ай бұрын

@@jasonmartinez5116 Personally I couldn't give a **** about those but yeah absolutely for sure. Whoever owns the IP these days would make a killing.

@black8jaac

6 ай бұрын

Or maybe just buy Evercade :)

@Snufflegrunt

6 ай бұрын

@@black8jaac I'm not buying a console I've never heard of until this video just to play remasters of DM 1/2. Talk about a bad investment. I'll just wait until the inevitable emulator lol.

Your name is the the credit sequence for a Duke Nukem game! That's so cool.

I think that bit about being in the credits is the only actually humble "humble brag" I've seen all year! Way to go Clint, you deserve it!!

Duke is definitely your spirit character. I have always adored your Duke voice. This video brought to light some really cool things I never knew about. Congrats on getting to work with these guys!!

I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it…I NEEDEEEED IT NOW!!! Hail to the King baby! I can’t tell you how much this represents Duke. The passion behind the project, wanting to share it with others. These are not only some of the best Duke games, but the ones most fondly remembered and it shows. 1&2 still live rent free in my heart and are why I love 16-32 bit games to this day.

Very cool to hear you were involved! Fun video

Evercade exclusive or not, it's really awesome that these exist, and even cooler that they reached out to you to help ensure that they were the best they could possibly be. That's a nice level of dedication to see from a project like this. Also I assume you've put "Resident Duke Expert" on your business cards.

Man, that first Duke game takes me back. I used to play that on my grandfather's PC that ran on an OS called GEOS. Typing in DUKE1.EXE, then spending hours just wandering around the levels shooting stuff was always a good time. This game, along with Commander Keen, Cosmos, and Captain Comic were some of my earliest PC gaming memories

@najarati

6 ай бұрын

Whew, Captain Comic. I always get excited when someone mentions that game (and its sequel, Captain Comic II: Fractured Reality), because I loved that game as a kid and so few people seem to know about it.

@markjacobs1086

6 ай бұрын

Heck yeah, but reading this also makes me feel old! 😂

Classic everything with smooth scrolling option... sold. That was my ONE beef with 1 & 2!!

4:24 Manhattan Project Grabbag is best grabbag, no contest.

I have to say, Watching this brings back so many memories playing these games. They did an amazing job with the remaster, and adding on the options to turn filters off like for the SFX makes it that much better. Thanks for vouching for that LGR!

Ah btw, the Duke 1 story summary is also in the DOS original - it's just buried in the help menu there. So we put it before the Duke/Proton dialog

Now let's see a Commander Keen 1 and 2 collection, awww man I love Evercade stuff :)

It's pretty rad seeing older games on physical carts in the modern day. The platform restriction is a bummer, cause I'll never have an Evercade, but I'll hold out hope for other platforms in the future.

I know I'm old because my biggest excitement for this is "THEY FIXED THE SCROLLING ON DUKE 1 AND 2"

@MeanderBot

6 ай бұрын

I also know that I'm old because I had to try very hard not to use "washed" in place of "old"

Love your channel. From you Duke impersonations to your Sim City geekouts. This is my happy place.

Thank you for the free high quality audio and visual treat Clint, better then ever, as ever! Christmaaaaaaaaaaaaas!

I got these in the mail yesterday, opened the manual and immediately saw Clint's name dropped in the opening paragraph and got immediately more excited.

Jimmy Paddock music? I'm sold.

So awesome you got to fulfill the dream of working on a duke game. Your absolute joy in making this video really shines through! Keep kickin ass and chewing bubble gum, Clint!

LGR Christmas videos are a tall glass of hot cocoa for my brain.

Blessed us with Duke content.

Thought I was the only one who was going to post about the Atomic Edition. Glad to know you helped make these great remasters happen!

Loved watching your Stuff for years mate and having them treat you as professor duke is really cool and fitting hell yeah baby

Duke 1 was one of the first games I ever had contact with back in the 90s in my DOS computer, I remember only my dad could make it to the end of the first episode. I´m so nostalgic and glad to see this masterpiece remastered.

i love how you have your name in the credits of duke games now no one more deserving of it then you!

I spent so many hours playing Duke 1 & 2. Good to see them again.

Keep the uploads coming for us!! Weve been good this year LGR!!

i didn't know about these till now, this is perfect i will be buying one of these ASAP. Thanks!

the best part is you did this out of love for the game. Thats amazing, thank you Clint

I was also one of the lucky 2000 to get the duke edition vs. That's awesome LGR had some input and mention in the credits I had no idea he was involved!

Love the LGR/Duke sprite they made for you!

Thanks so much for this, Clint, it really means a lot to see that you've enjoyed both your involvement in the project and the final result of it all. A lot of blood, sweat and tears went into these carts from all angles: development, emulation optimisation, art and design for the inlay and manual and my own part in it all -- the editorial content of both the manual and the on-cart descriptions. We're all thrilled to finally get these into people's hands, and that folks seem to be enjoying them a lot.

@LGR

6 ай бұрын

You have my gratitude as well, this was a delight to see come together! The care and craft involved was immediately apparent as soon as I started talking to folks, it made me stoked to join in on the action in any way I could.

Wow, this is CLEAN!

A PC port of Duke Nukem one and two with a level editor like they did for secret agent HD and Crystal caves HD would be amazing!

@therexbellator

6 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure your profile pic is from some cheesy 80s movie but I love how it can pass for Duke Nukem as well if he were originally an 80s movie icon.

@Spacemutiny

6 ай бұрын

@@therexbellator yes it does! 😂 It’s from a really bad sci fi movie called Space Mutiny that was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Thanks for making entertaining content that makes me nostalgic for a series I never even played. Also enjoyed seeing Noiselund 'watched' in the recommended feed.

Duke Nuken 3d was the first game (along with command and conquer & warcraft) I remember playing multiplayer, back when you had to play over the phone by calling your friend. It is also my first experience with mods/extra content, getting new maps etc.

@manoftherainshorts9075

6 ай бұрын

Funny enough, I played NFS: Most Wanted this way. It lagged, but was still playable.

@cpm1003

6 ай бұрын

I remember lugging my 133MHz Pentium and 17" CRT monitor over to a friend's house for a LAN party in 1996 or so. I didn't even have an ethernet card at that point, so they had to lend me one. I remember we played Duke Nukem 3D and Command & Conquer.

I've never wanted to play a retro game and games system more!!!!!awesome review Clint ❤

Great video. Love my Evercade, has a great range of titles. Have both these carts on order.

You have so many neat things! Thank you for sharing them with us. Merry Christmas!

I was reading the instruction manual and saw your name mentioned. I had no idea! It was such a cool surprise

Cant think of anyone better or more deserving to do this review.

This makes me happy that you were involved in perfecting these, now I know these are good. A little annoyed that I'm going to have to get an Evercade now😆

This is really cool! I can't imagine how awesome it must have been for you to be able to contribute to an official Duke Nukem release!

I don't know about you, but hearing LGR do the Duke voice gives me all the holiday cheer I could want!! I still haven't played Duke 3D but at least now I have it in my library. Going to play it after I finish Blood fresh supply and Slayers X.

So many happy memories playing Duke Nukem over the years. I first played it on shareware from the demo disc included with _Computer Shopper_ magazine in 1996 then got the full game later. Duke Nukem 1 & 2 were included along with several Apogee/3D Realms demos and I played them almost as extensively as the full game. I'm glad to see the original platformers get a proper remake and it's really good that you have a contributor credit.

This is awesome Clint! As a 90s kid you totally hit me in the nostalgia feels with this video.......I never really was a fan of playing DOS games on a TV (I guess my brain is wired to have that keyboard + mouse combo with DOS Games), but seeing you play classic Duke 1 and 2 on your TV seems like a fun idea. Maybe I should look into some old school Gravis Gamepads to use. Here's hoping there is a PC release for these awesome games in the future!

It honestly feels like yesterday that i saw your last xmas video. They really are stuck in my head for a long time somehow and make me realize how fast a year flies by.

@Phideo1

6 ай бұрын

Okay. This is not really an Xmas episode. But it felt like one in the beginning 🎉😅

Good to see Duke coming back, I've never heard of the Evercade though.

2:32 Clint's credit is before and more senior to Jon St. John, the voice of Duke. The padawan has surpassed the master.

I was gonna buy the collections anyway since I’m planning to collect every cart released for Evercade, but seeing a massive fan being so happy about how it turned out - that makes me more hyped to play them once I get them

This made me go on Amazon and look for an evercade on the first couple of minutes of the video. Good one. 👍

I am glad they have an exclusive like this, I have I love my evercades.

Immediate tidal waves of nostalgia upon seeing the Duke Nukem gameplay. Duke Nukem 1 may have been the first game I actually fully completed as a child, and I played that thing into the ground. Countless hours spent with my eyes glued to the screen and my fingers on the keyboard. Definitely a formative game in my childhood, alongside Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Castle of the Winds, Raptor, and Crystal Caves.

Bought an evercade just for this, and it's so worth it. Though we need a third collection with Duke GBC, Zero Hour and Manhattan Project.

@LGR

6 ай бұрын

Manhattan Project would be phenomenal to have but I've a feeling we'll need an Evercade 2.0 for such a port, considering it was a Windows XP PC game and Xbox 360 title. Quite a bit beefier than DOS and PS1 stuff.

Wow and d**n! Merry Xmas!! I'm glad you got to work on one of your passion!

This is the best kind of game preservation.

That soundtrack ❤

Well deserved crediting for Clint. Good for the Evercade. Even better for KZread. Best channel + creator ever. Long live LGR !!!...

@paulnash9851

6 ай бұрын

P:S - Bring in the clones 😉🖤

Amazing project, thanks for your contribution, Clint. Having James Paddok on the soundtrack is reassuring. The results are fantastic.

Nice work. Especially those Duke 1 and 2 ports. Makes me want to play all over again

They really should have adjusted the pallet for Duke Advance, since it was clearly over pumped to compensate for the dim screen of the GameBoy Advance.

@LonelySpaceDetective

6 ай бұрын

This can be a subjective thing IMO; some color correction filters I've seen make GBA games look overly dim and/or lifeless, but yeah I think it really would've been best to include options here.

@davidmcgill1000

6 ай бұрын

Should've just recreated the images instead of using the GBA sprites. Had the assets for Duke 3D right there. Only had to do what they originally did.

"Key art made by a real human artist" Man, having to _genuinely_ make that clarification is really bizarre.

Sat down to relax after a hard days work and found the perfect video

How did I not know about Evercade until now

If the source code was lost, I assume the code and assets from the retail release was reverse engineered back to source code. If that's the case then that's impressive dedication to seeing a remaster happen.

@lethal_guitar

6 ай бұрын

Yep, the source code was reverse engineered from the Assembly code of the original EXEs.

@penismightier9278

6 ай бұрын

@@lethal_guitar Any chance of the upgrades to Duke 1 being released on PC? I still have Duke Edit around here somewhere. I modified the inter-level safe room to actually be difficult. Also printed out the whole list of all the items so I could reference it.

@LGR

6 ай бұрын

​@insparks782 As mentioned in the video at 01:25, yep! An impressive feat of reverse engineering while balancing/updating things with fresh features, I was over the moon with how good Rigel Engine was back when I covered that and things only got better from there :)

@Mistshinobi

6 ай бұрын

​@@LGRwhat is the legality of the project? Were they able to license the property to produce and sell this? I wouldn't think something like this would be possible. It's really cool.

@bbuggediffy

6 ай бұрын

​@@MistshinobiWhy do you care?

Duke Nukem always seems to get the best remasters, and I'm happy he does! Duke Nukem 3D was one of my favorite games as a kid, and I grew up after the DOS era!

Thanks for the great review. Have a nixe xmas-time with your lovedones, Greatings from Berlin.

if most remasters got a resident expert... they would probably be a lot more well received. thanks for what you do!

THIS is the review the internet NEEDED on this. edit: disclosure was a big plus

Yay! We love Christmas and Duke Nukem! 🎅

4:58 damn Clint. You took me back to being a kid again. I was five years old when this released.

Three game reviews in a row, this feels like old school LGR 🙂

@LGR fantastic video as always - love to see these games getting some love. Technical note: if you aren't already aware, the video chapter for Land of the Babes is titled "Duke Nukem: Zero Hour" by mistake. Not that I don't wish Zero Hour was included here!

I quite like the look of the evercade, I may even buy one

Heck yeah! I got the first cartridge last week. The widescreen gameplay is so nice. It really makes Duke 2 a lot more playable in modern times

Clint is the best person to review these because he clearly has a lot of love for them.

I know this wasn't meant as an advertisement, but this has made me want the system on my X-Mas list. The fact that they went through all the trouble of making this cartridge and doing the licensing, makes it worth it. I hope you and your clone are doing well. Looking forward to your present exchange with him.

Who would have thought that Duke Nukem one and two would become a System Seller one Day.

Another excellent video Clint 🔥

Pretty fun to watch a video about DN narrated by the man himself.

Creator Todd Replogle, along with Scott Miller and George Broussard would be quite proud of this work. And yes.. my #1 reaction to this video: please make it available to other platforms! My god would I purchase this in a heartbeat on Steam or Switch!

I think it’s time for me to get an Evercade

Great video Clint, happy holidays for everybody here.

Oh hell yeah. Keep up the amazing content!!!

Played through the first 2 as a kid and loved it!