John Carmack celebrates Quake’s induction in the Videogame Hall of Fame: ‘We threw everything we had at it, and it was really a little bit more than we could chew at the time… it was rough’
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John Carmack celebrates Quake’s induction in the Videogame Hall of Fame: ‘We threw everything we had at it, and it was really a little bit more than we could chew at the time… it was rough’
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"The real legacy of Quake is in the metagame rather than the game itself."
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If you like video game history you might enjoy this video from Vox. Quake’s custom keyboard mapping settings (unique for the time) was a big development in gaming. One gamer’s personal settings config became popular and ultimately established the WASD control scheme that has been basically the standard since.

https://youtu.be/TPCpXXBHFSA

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I still prefer EDSF, but I remember skating in deathmatch using the arrow keys and ctrl, alt to fire, on my 36k modem

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