Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to reflect how COOL it was to get thrown back into the past a little bit!

Explosive Nostalgia: Wolfenstein 3D

Do you ever see something, and it throws you back a decade or more into the past? For me, this threw me back over two decades!

A few weeks ago, one of the dudes I follow @vimukthi posted about a Doom gaming site that allows you to play the original Doom, the way we would play it way back then. To follow it up, he also included a website where you can play Wolfenstein! You better believe that I was fucking STOKED LOL. I used to play this shit all the time when I was a kid!

What was wild was seeing the loading screen, I instantly had insane flash backs to playing at my friend Pat's house, in the basement where his dad rebuilt computers and had a few that we could use. Back then, computers were measured in megahertz, not even the gig stuff that we use today! We would play Doom, Wolfenstein and a few other games that I can't recall the name at the moment, playing together for hours and hours. Shit those were memories! Just seeing the initial screen brought back a whole lot of stuff haha.

Getting to walk around and shoot the old Nazi's was pretty wild. I do think that maybe it was a little mature for my age to be playing this when I was LOL but this was back in the days where video games were really starting to come out, so there wasn't a lot of guard rails around this type of stuff. Granted, with most people you'd be able to discern what is real versus what isn't but the game was a pioneer in it's day, certainly one of the first First Person Shooters that are so common these days.

One of the interesting comments by @vimukthi was that the graphics and gameplay were a little disorienting for him haha. I don't know if it's because I was used to it, having played it for hours and hours as a kid but I actually found it a little refreshing! It's absolutely different than what most people these days would consider a game but it was pretty cool to think of how complex it is. I don't remember as a kid if we ever got to complete the WHOLE game - we likely would have.. but when I was messing around with the game the other day, I looked up some maps for it to make sure I didn't miss anything like secrets and holy crap! The game is super long it's nuts hahaha. I don't remember playing that many maps as a kid, but maybe my friend and his dad played a bunch of them before we got to it.

These were certainly some core memories for me as a kid and I love that I was able to get a step back in time with playing this game! I know that I've been staying away from games for a number of reasons but this one was awesome, quick, old-fashioned enjoyment and not a lot of BS to it. I definitely remember back in the day when the games were all like that - you bought the game and you owned it and could do with it what you'd like.

If you were of that age and want to reminisce a little bit, or if you'd like to try it out, definitely give it a shot! The website to use is http://wolf3d.atw.hu/ and you'll get used to the controls after a little bit but you have fun for hours!

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