Those used to the modern incarnation of Duke might end up rather shocked, however. For an action game, however, it works well enough. A screen worth of text and a couple of lines of dialogue per episode is all you’re generally given to set up the plot. At the end of the first episode, Duke chases the scientist to his secret base on the moon, while for Episode 3, Duke has to pursue Proton into Earth’s future. In typical Apogee fashion, the plot, thin as it is, is spread across three ‘episodes’. The CIA sends one-man army Duke Nukem into the ruined city Proton is hiding out in to stop him.
Proton plans to use his army of Techbots to conquer the Earth. It was the original Duke Nukem (alternatively spelled “ Duke Nukum“ ), however, that would begin to set the new standard for shareware gaming – until Doom hit the scene, at least. Apogee’s Dark Ages served as a proof of concept. It’s fair, however, to note that this didn’t happen on their first try. Whatever your thoughts on their games themselves, they should be at least be lauded for the fact that they could exist on hardware that seemed to have no business running console-style action games. It’s been stated many times, even on this very site, how barren the action game market otherwise was for PC users of the early 90s.
It can never truly be stated just how much the PC gaming scene owed to Apogee.
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