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Catacomb 3-D, the Glossary

Catacomb 3-D (also known as Catacomb 3-D: A New Dimension, Catacomb 3-D: The Descent, and Catacombs 3) is a first-person shooter video game, the third in the Catacomb series, the first of which to feature 3D computer graphics.^[1]

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Id Software games
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Video games scored by Bobby Prince
Video games set in cemeteries
Wolfenstein 3D engine games

Abrams Books

Abrams, formerly Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (HNA), is an American publisher of art and illustrated books, children's books, and stationery.

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Activision

Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California.

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Adrian Carmack

Adrian Carmack (born May 5, 1969) is an American video game artist and one of four co-founders of id Software, along with Tom Hall, John Romero, and John Carmack (no relation).

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Apple II

The Apple II series of microcomputers was initially designed by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), and launched in 1977 with the Apple II model that gave the series its name.

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Atari, Inc. (1993–present)

Atari, Inc. is an American subsidiary and publishing arm of Atari SA.

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Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold

Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold (also known as Blake Stone 3-D) is a first-person shooter for DOS created by JAM Productions and published by Apogee Software on December 5, 1993. Catacomb 3-D and Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold are games commercially released with DOSBox, Sprite-based first-person shooters, video games scored by Bobby Prince and Wolfenstein 3D engine games.

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Bobby Prince

Robert Caskin Prince III, known professionally as Bobby Prince, is an American video game composer and sound designer.

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Borland

Borland Software Corporation was a computing technology company founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad, and Philippe Kahn.

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Bullet time

Bullet time (also known as frozen moment, dead time, flow motion or time slice) is a visual effect or visual impression of detaching the time and space of a camera (or viewer) from that of its visible subject.

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Catacomb (video game)

Catacomb is a 2-D top-down third-person shooter developed and published by Softdisk. Catacomb 3-D and Catacomb (video game) are Commercial video games with freely available source code and Softdisk.

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Catacombs

Catacombs are human-made underground passages primarily used for religious purposes, particularly for burial.

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Commander Keen

Commander Keen is a series of side-scrolling platform video games developed primarily by id Software. Catacomb 3-D and Commander Keen are games commercially released with DOSBox and id Software games.

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Commander Keen in Keen Dreams

Commander Keen in Keen Dreams is a side-scrolling platform video game developed by id Software and published by Softdisk in 1991 for DOS. Catacomb 3-D and Commander Keen in Keen Dreams are 1991 video games, Commercial video games with freely available source code, id Software games, Softdisk and video games with 2.5D graphics.

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Computer and Video Games

Computer and Video Games (also known as CVG, Computer & Video Games, C&VG, Computer + Video Games, or C+VG) was a UK-based video game magazine, published in its original form between 1981 and 2004.

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Computer Gaming World

Computer Gaming World (CGW) was an American computer game magazine published between 1981 and 2006.

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Consumer Electronics Show

CES (formerly an initialism for Consumer Electronics Show) is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).

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Dangerous Dave

Dangerous Dave is a 1988 computer game by John Romero. Catacomb 3-D and Dangerous Dave are games commercially released with DOSBox, id Software games and Softdisk.

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David Kushner (writer)

David Kushner is a writer who has contributed to many publications, including Wired, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, ''Spin'', IEEE Spectrum and Salon.

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Dennis Publishing

Dennis Publishing Ltd. was a British publisher.

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Disk magazine

A disk magazine, colloquially known as a diskmag or diskzine, is a magazine that is distributed in electronic form to be read using computers.

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Duke Nukem 3D

Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by 3D Realms. Catacomb 3-D and Duke Nukem 3D are Commercial video games with freely available source code, games commercially released with DOSBox, Sprite-based first-person shooters, video games scored by Bobby Prince and video games with 2.5D graphics.

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Enhanced Graphics Adapter

The Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) is an IBM PC graphics adapter and de facto computer display standard from 1984 that superseded the CGA standard introduced with the original IBM PC, and was itself superseded by the VGA standard in 1987.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre.

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First-person (video games)

In video games, first-person (also spelled first person) is any graphical perspective rendered from the viewpoint of the player character, or from the inside of a device or vehicle controlled by the player character.

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First-person shooter

A first-person shooter (FPS) is a video game centered on gun fighting and other weapon-based combat seen from a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action directly through the eyes of the main character.

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Game art design

Game art design is a subset of game development involving the process of creating the artistic aspects of video games.

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Game design

Game design is the process of creating and shaping the mechanics, systems and rules of a game.

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Game Developer (website)

Game Developer (known as Gamasutra until 2021) is a website created in 1997 that focuses on aspects of video game development.

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Game engine

A game engine is a software framework primarily designed for the development of video games and generally includes relevant libraries and support programs such as a level editor.

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Gameplay

Gameplay is the specific way in which players interact with a game, and in particular with video games.

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Gamer Network

Gamer Network Limited (formerly Eurogamer Network Limited) is a British digital media company based in Brighton.

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft, that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software.

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GOG.com

GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) is a digital distribution platform for video games and films.

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Hovertank One

Hovertank One, also known under a variety of other names (Hovertank or Hovertank 3D), is a vehicular combat game developed by id Software and published by Softdisk in April 1991. Catacomb 3-D and Hovertank One are 1991 video games, Commercial video games with freely available source code, id Software games, Sprite-based first-person shooters, video games with 2.5D graphics and Wolfenstein 3D engine games.

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IBM PC–compatible

IBM PC–compatible computers are technically similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT, all from computer giant IBM, that are able to use the same software and expansion cards.

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Id Software

id Software LLC is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas.

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John Carmack

John D. Carmack II (born August 21, 1970) is an American computer programmer and video game developer.

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John Romero

Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967) is an American director, designer, programmer and developer in the video game industry.

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Level (video games)

In video games, a level (also referred to as a map, mission, stage, course, or round in some older games) is any space available to the player during the course of completion of an objective.

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Lich

In fantasy fiction, a lich (from the Old English līċ, meaning "corpse") is a type of undead creature.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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Magician (fantasy)

A magician, also known as an archimage, mage, magus, magic-user, spellcaster, enchanter/enchantress, sorcerer/sorceress, warlock, witch, or wizard, is someone who uses or practices magic derived from supernatural, occult, or arcane sources.

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Masters of Doom

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture is a 2003 book by David Kushner about video game company id Software and its influence on popular culture, focusing on co-founders John Carmack and John Romero.

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Max Payne

Max Payne is a neo-noir third-person shooter video game series developed by Remedy Entertainment (Max Payne and Max Payne 2) and Rockstar Studios (Max Payne 3).

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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MS-DOS

MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.

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OpenGL

OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics.

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Paul Neurath

Paul Neurath is a video game designer and creative director.

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PC Gamer

PC Gamer is a magazine and website founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc.

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PC Zone

PC Zone, founded in 1993, was the first magazine dedicated to games for IBM-compatible personal computers to be published in the United Kingdom.

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Phoronix Test Suite

Phoronix Test Suite (PTS) is a free and open-source benchmark software for Linux and other operating systems.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Requiem: Avenging Angel

Requiem: Avenging Angel, also known as simply Requiem, is a first-person shooter developed by Cyclone Studios and published by 3DO in 1999.

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Romero Games

Romero Games Ltd. is an Irish independent video game development studio that was established on 11 August 2015 by husband-and-wife team John Romero and Brenda Romero and is located in Galway, Ireland.

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Salon.com

Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995.

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Shadow Warrior

Shadow Warrior is a series of first-person shooter video games that focuses on the exploits of Lo Wang, a modern ninja warrior who fights through hordes of demons.

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Shareware is a type of proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost.

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Single-player video game

A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session.

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Softdisk

Softdisk was a software and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana.

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Source port

A source port is a software project based on the source code of a game engine that allows the game to be played on operating systems or computing platforms with which the game was not originally compatible.

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Texture mapping

Texture mapping is a method for mapping a texture on a computer-generated graphic.

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Tom Hall

Tom Hall (born September 2, 1964) is an American game designer best known for his work with id Software on titles such as Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Commander Keen.

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Turbo C++

Turbo C++ is a discontinued C++ compiler and integrated development environment originally from Borland.

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Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss

Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss is a first-person role-playing video game developed by Blue Sky Productions (later Looking Glass Studios) and published by Origin Systems. Catacomb 3-D and Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss are games commercially released with DOSBox.

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University of Michigan Press

The University of Michigan Press is a new university press (NUP) that is a part of Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan Library.

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Video game programmer

A game programmer is a software engineer, programmer, or computer scientist who primarily develops codebases for video games or related software, such as game development tools.

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Wolfenstein 3D

Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software and FormGen. Catacomb 3-D and Wolfenstein 3D are Commercial video games with freely available source code, games commercially released with DOSBox, id Software games, Sprite-based first-person shooters, video games scored by Bobby Prince, video games with 2.5D graphics and Wolfenstein 3D engine games.

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2D computer graphics

2D computer graphics is the computer-based generation of digital images—mostly from two-dimensional models (such as 2D geometric models, text, and digital images) and by techniques specific to them.

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3D computer graphics

3D computer graphics, sometimes called CGI, 3-D-CGI or three-dimensional computer graphics, are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian) that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering digital images, usually 2D images but sometimes 3D images.

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3D Realms

3D Realms Entertainment ApS is a video game publisher based in Aalborg, Denmark.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacomb_3-D

Also known as Catacomb 3D, Catacomb Adventure Series, Catacombs 3, The Catacomb Abyss.

, Phoronix Test Suite, Random House, Requiem: Avenging Angel, Romero Games, Salon.com, Shadow Warrior, Shareware, Single-player video game, Softdisk, Source port, Texture mapping, Tom Hall, Turbo C++, Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss, University of Michigan Press, Video game programmer, Wolfenstein 3D, 2D computer graphics, 3D computer graphics, 3D Realms.

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See also

Id Software games

Softdisk

Video games scored by Bobby Prince

Video games set in cemeteries

Wolfenstein 3D engine games

References