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[[E4M1: Hell Beneath#Walkthrough|E4M1: Hell Beneath]] includes the letters "NIN" (actually NIИ with a cyrillic reversed N (which, however, is the cyrillic letter for I, not N)) in a part of the level, a reference to [[Wikipedia:Nine Inch Nails|Nine Inch Nails]], the American industrial rock band {{fact}}.
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[[E4M1: Hell Beneath#Walkthrough|E4M1: Hell Beneath]] includes the letters "NIN" (actually NIИ with a cyrillic reversed N (which, however, is the cyrillic letter for I, not N) in a part of the level, a reference to [[Wikipedia:Nine Inch Nails|Nine Inch Nails]], the American industrial rock band. <ref>http://www.gamers.org/games/quake/quaketalk.txt</ref>
  
 
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Revision as of 20:09, 19 January 2007

Doom

Swastika

In released versions of Doom prior to V1.4, E1M4: Command Control contained a swastika design on the floor of one room, presumably as an homage to Wolfenstein 3D. Alpha versions of this level, dated April 2 and May 22, 1993, included the same room, but did not have the swastika design. [1] The swastika was removed in V1.4 of Doom. The presence of a swastika would have caused Doom to be banned in Germany, and not just restricted to adults due to the game's graphic violence.

NIN Reference

E4M1: Hell Beneath includes the letters "NIN" (actually NIИ with a cyrillic reversed N (which, however, is the cyrillic letter for I, not N) in a part of the level, a reference to Nine Inch Nails, the American industrial rock band. [1]

Doom II

John Romero's head on a stick

Romero's head

In MAP30: Icon of Sin, after the player teleports into the huge room with the Icon of Sin, a strange, unintelligible noise is played. This is stored in the Doom2 wad file as DSBOSSIT, and if reversed it becomes a voice saying "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero". The voice is shifted down in pitch and is that of John Romero himself.

In the same level, John Romero's severed head on a stick features as the main boss creature, although the head is hidden behind the face of a giant goat, and can only be approached with the noclip cheat. The player must indeed kill it in order to win the game.

Secret levels

The secret maps, MAP31: Wolfenstein and MAP32: Grosse, resemble E1M1 and E1M9 from Wolfenstein 3D. Both levels include Wolfenstein textures and SS Nazis that attack the player. In MAP31, SS Nazis take the place of soldiers and Demons are found in place of the dogs.

A Cyberdemon is in the place of Hans Grosse in MAP32; the name of this map also comes from Hans Grosse's name.

In the last room in MAP32 there are four Commander Keens hanging on ropes. They must be killed in order to exit the level.

At the beginning of MAP32, the message "You'd better blaze through this one!" is displayed; Billy Blaze is Commander Keen's real name.

Final Doom

Two of the wall textures in Team TNT's TNT:Evilution, CR64HBRM and METAL-RM, have large blood stains which spell the name "Romero", a reference to John Romero.

Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders

Attempting to use some of the cheat codes from Doom and Doom II in Heretic has negative effects on the player:

  • IDDQD results in instant death.
  • IDKFA takes away all the player's weapons, except the staff.

Hexen: Beyond Heretic

  • Like the Heretic Easter Egg, in Shareware Hexen version the cheat codes from Heretic in Hexen has negative effects on the player:

Quicken results in instant death.

Rambo takes away all the player's weapons.

Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel

Strife - Quest for the Sigil

Chex Quest

Chex Quest contains many levels leftover from the original 3-episode Doom albeit trimming to 5 levels.

The texture CEMPOIS has a blackboard and in the bottom right-hand corner of said board, is the equation: √2 = chuck. Charles Jacobi was the Art Director/Lead Artist for Chex Quest.

A secret room in E1M2 contains pictures of all the people that worked on Chex Quest.

In Chex Quest 2, E1M1 is titled HHH International Spaceport. This is a reference to the HHH Metrodome where the Vikings play.

See also

References

  1. http://www.gamers.org/games/quake/quaketalk.txt

External links