"you could never make a duke nukem game today" oh yeah this generation would REALLY hate a sex-positive trans ally himbo who fights cops and loathes fascism. get fucking real.
meet Apogee, the final result of the “let’s make an oc” polls!! bio under the cut:
a high-ranking decepticon intelligence officer, Apogee orbits planets in his cybertronian satellite alt mode, providing vital information to ground forces. despite his remote station, he is surprisingly personable, often leveraging his charm to extract personal details from his peers for blackmailing purposes. he is also a capable combatant, intercepting or destroying anything in his path with the help of his electro-glaive. naturally for a ‘bot of his standing, he keeps his secrets closely guarded, but rumor has it he harbors a soft spot for a certain chief communications officer…
A wonderfully gory and action packed EGA platformer from 1993 created from Frank Maddin, who would later go on to work at Nintendo on the Metroid Prime games
I grew up playing the shareware chapter on Compaq EGA 286 machine which although meets the system requirements, the game is almost unplayable on a later cave level with the FPS dropping to 1 frame every few seconds at some points...
Anyway, I'm going to install this on my newer ICL 386 VGA machine with the added bonus of an Adlib card for music!
I do miss those old ASCII based installers and watching the decompression happen. Plus check out that beautiful ASCII Apogee logic, fantastic work there!
So what's the game actually like to play?
Your character must free all of the trapped animals before you can exit the level by firing your catapult at the cages to break the locks.
By default you've got unlimited ammo, but you can also upgrade to bigger & multi-shot along with homing sticks.
Thankfully it's not a one hit kill like Keen, so you can take a few knocks before you lose a life.
All the sound effects play through the PC Speaker, which I remember from playing it as a kid. Which leaves the Adlib for playing music at certain points, which I always find a bit strange as it means I've got sounds coming out of two separate speakers on my PC.
Each level is also littered with these funny little skulls. If you hit one you'll be treated to an animation of their eyeballs popping out their sockets as they fly off the screen! Wonderful!
I spent a lot of time with this one as a kid and I'm looking forward to enjoying another play through again now. Thanks Frank
So, I downloaded an Incredibles poster for a new wallpaper, and I noticed something...
I noticed in the corner a framed picture of Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl along with other superheroes. The supers here are Everseer, Phylange, Hypershock, Apogee, Blazestone, Universal Man, Gamma Jack, Downburst, Macroburst, and Psycwave, all of which are superheroes killed by Syndrome... THIS MEANS THAT ALL 10 OTHER SUPERS WERE BOB'S FRIENDS! That explains why he was so horrified. He not only lost allies, but he lost literal FRIENDS! Hell, in his NSA audio file, he literally talks about Phylange, which suggested that they were close friends. In the comics, Everseer left instructions to the NSA shortly before his death to send a packet of information to Bob about a decade later, containing nostalgic entries about Stormicide and Gamma Jack. Everseer apparently foresaw his death years before the event, much to the confusion of Bob and Lucius who, whilst respecting his powers of telepathy, always considered his clairvoyance to be mere superstition. This led to Bob having to find the HARD way that Everseer was truly right. And all of this because he rejected his former fan.
Received this lady the other night as part of a trade and figured I’d try drawing her while I brainstormed what to do with her. So far, aside from her being in the same universe as Rue, Salem, and Cruor, all I’ve got is that she’s a fanatical cultist who died young during the 1990′s and landed herself in The Crater.
Design and the art in the top left were made by Tailom on ToyHou.se