"The game is based mainly around shooting and is viewed from the first person perspective, and someone should really come up with a name for that."
"Welcome back.
I'm sure you're wondering why you were in stasis, what happened to the Marathon and Tau Ceti, and most of all where your rocket launcher and fusion gun are. There'll be plenty of time for explanations later."
I'm sure you're wondering why you were in stasis, what happened to the Marathon and Tau Ceti, and most of all where your rocket launcher and fusion gun are. There'll be plenty of time for explanations later."
— Durandal, Marathon 2
"You're playing the game because playing it is fun; playing the game entails shooting monsters; shooting monsters is fun; you're playing the game because shooting monsters is fun. You love shooting them, and they love being shot."
— Tim Rogers, The Best Games Of, Sort Of, The Decade
The hero is a hand holding a gun.
— A 1994 review of Doom
What the hell are you doing messing around on a computer when there's a full-scale crisis going on?! A terrorist group of communist pokemon[sic] has invaded the USA embassy in Brazil, killing everyone inside. Your mission is to infiltrate the building and blow those stupid (commie) pricks to smithereens with your handy magnum. It goes without saying that you will be heavily outnumbered and will probably be killed, but if you're not going to slaughter these annoying parasites that have a vocabulary of one word... who will? We will helicopter you in so that you can enter from the roof and work your way down to the pokemon[sic] marxist[sic] leader: Pikachu. Fortunately, Pikachu is a pascifist[sic] homosexual who would rather hug you than shoot you, but watch out for his owner: Ash, and the bulbasaurs[sic] - they carry bombs on they're[sic] backs that explode after three seconds. Good luck!
— Intro text for the very old Adobe Flash parody game Pokémon: The Revolution
