Hi everybody, welcome to RetroNots Pocket Episode 12.

My name is Ray Bonholt and joining me is Bob Mackie.

Hello, and from our previous wrestling episode Dave Rudden, and Henry Gilbert.

Hi, and today we're talking about Quake, not the Quake series and not the seismic events that happened all throughout the world due to tectonic plates, but just the first Quake game released in 1996.

And this has been requested by our backer on Kickstarter, Michael Nikolai, and not just him, but actually he wanted this for his wife Kate.

And he writes, I asked her what her favorite game was and she said Quake.

She used to play a lot in high school, in the computer lab, and I'm terrible at mouse and keyboard games, and I know nothing about the series aside from the fact that Trent Resner did the soundtrack, and it was something you could walk into 7-11 and buy.

And those are two things we will talk about, Quake.

Yeah, first of all, anybody have any familiarity with playing the original Quake?

Oh, yeah, I do. I mean, we had just gotten our first computer in summer of 96, which is when Quake came out, right?

It was June of 96 or something, yeah.

Yeah, I had been buying PC Gamer years before that and just collecting the demo discs, and I believe one of the more infamous demos had Quake on it.

It was like a Quake cover of PC Gamer.

I got that, and I installed it in our Pentium 133, and it ran as smooth as you would expect it to.

It ran surprisingly well, but like looking at it now, the animation is a little choppy.

But yeah, I played the living hell out of that first episode.

Yeah, as I imagine we all did if we never even bought the game.

Yeah, I'm sure it happened a lot of people with Doom as well.

Yeah, you guys, anything?

I definitely, I was not much of a PC Gamer.

Well, I still am not, but I had friends, and my cool friends were always talking up all the violent shooters like Quake,

and Duke Nuke and Doom too, and I would see Quake.

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