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DOOM & The D!ZONE Series – Biggest Video Game Scam Ever?

By Retro Refurbs|2019-04-03T16:03:00+01:00April 3rd, 2019|Retro Consoles|Comments Off

First-person shooters owe a lot to DOOM, but you probably don’t need another lecture on how it revolutionized gaming, entertained millions of players around the world, and is still being modded to oblivion after well over two decades. When its level editor was distributed to fans in 1994, one company decided to cash in on [...]

Q!Zone for Quake – You Didn’t Buy It?

By Retro Refurbs|2018-11-20T12:54:59+00:00November 19th, 2018|Retro Consoles|Comments Off on Q!Zone for Quake – You Didn’t Buy It?

Fans loved to create levels for the likes of ultra-popular games, such as DOOM & Duke Nukem 3D. Meanwhile, companies enjoyed compiling them onto discs and selling them back for easy profits and scathing reviews. Q!Zone For Quake was an authorized add-on for id Software’s revolutionary first-person shooter Quake. Unlike previous entries in the !Zone series, [...]