Longplay: Duke Nukem - Episode 1: 'Shrapnel City' (1991) [MS-DOS]

The game is set in the year 1997 (which was the "near future" at the time of game release). Dr. Proton is a madman, determined to take over the world with his army of Techbots. Duke Nukem, the eponymous hero, takes upon the task of stopping him. The first episode takes place in the devastated city of Los Angeles. In the second episode, Duke chases Dr. Proton to his secret moonbase. In the third episode, Dr. Proton escapes into the future, and Duke pursues him through time, to put a permanent end to his mad schemes.

The main objective of the game is to get to the exit of each level, while destroying enemies and collecting points. Many objects onscreen can be shot including boxes, obstacles and blocks. Besides points, some collectibles include health powerups, gun powerups, and some inventory items with special abilities. The final level of each episode has no exit, and is instead completed by finding and defeating Dr. Proton.

At the end of every level (with the exception of the last level in each episode), the player can receive up to seven 10,000 point bonuses, earned by making certain achievements in the level, such as destroying all cameras.

Duke Nukem (sometimes referred to as Duke Nukum) is a 2D platform game developed and published by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms), featuring the adventures of the fictional character Duke Nukem.

Duke Nukem was followed by Duke Nukem II in 1993, featuring the same hero still without the dark sunglasses, and later Duke Nukem 3D in 1996. A third sequel, Duke Nukem Forever, was announced in 1997. Plagued by various developmental problems and delays, the game would later be picked up by Gearbox Software and released in 2011, fourteen years after the game was announced and twenty years after the first game was released. In a downloadable content (DLC) for that game, titled "The Doctor Who Cloned Me", Dr. Proton made his return.

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MS-DOS Gaming gameplay videos for all of you Dosgamers in Full HD/60 FPS 🎮🕹️!

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00:00 Introduction
00:32 Level 1
07:26 Level 2
11:04 Level 3
21:32 Level 4
24:47 Level 5
42:41 Level 6
49:14 Level 7
58:25 Level 8
1:04:50 Level 9
1:09:34 Level 10
1:18:00 Ending
1:19:28 Highscore

[jumpsteady]

I see I'm part of many people who played this on their parents work computers mid 90s lol. Memories of this game are so surreal. Was some magic to the early games like this. Wolfenstein, dare 2 dream, kid pix, ski free

[cozmicmojo]

I remember playing this on my dad's work machine as a kid. In my opinion the best platformer ever made. So good

[ihcman]

I played the shit out of this as a kid in the mid 90s. The sound effects bring me right back, would love to play this again.

[botengu]

I've been searching for this game for years, last time I saw it played, it was around 2000-2002, I was around 6. I have never felt such a strong nostalgic feeling.

[ihatecalamares]

This was the first video game I played ever. My mom brought me in her old office and one of his co-workers decided to let me play on one of the work PCs while I was there. I was probably not even close to being 5 but somehow, I still remember how this game looked like. That was also the last time I played Duke on DOS to this day.

[zedhuckle]

Oh those sound effects...right in the nostalgia 🤤

[joshgould]

Does anyone else feel old watching this? 😂

[owenwexler]

Ladies and gentlemen, the humble beginnings of Duke Nukem.

[SimonSideburns]

Loved this one, Commander Keen and Crystal Caves. All very good platform games.

[alvakaren]

I loved this game so much. Good memories

[prariegrrl]

My childhood right here. MSDOS on a 486 computer. Played this game (also Wolf3d and Keen) constantly. Held the point record 🙌🏻 miss this

[fergusof]

We were looking at old photos of my 2 boys at 'Christmas Work, ' as they used to call it. All the parents at our IT company brought their kids to work before the Christmas break. In one of the photos, one of my boys pointed out the Duke Nukem image on the monitor behind him. My colleagues and I used to play it at lunch. Brought back memories.

[elinfini]

Man....Duke Nukem sure has gone a long way since his "humble" beginnings.

[FlackoWeasel]

This game was my childhood! Watching this I remember every level!

[nizzy]

Finally. I played this as a kid on my mom's work computer, and for the life of me, I never knew what it was. The nostalgia of this is insane.

[cpthurme]

I love the sound effects, particularly when you get the balloon :D

[Flyout]

I totally forgot about this game I must have played 20 years ago when I was not even 10. Thank you for reminding me ! I loved it even though I never saw level 2 haha

[csmiq]

I love that final message 'If you want to order the game, pay 30, get it all and more, and SPECIFY YOUR DISK SIZE..' ha ha! Awesome!

[MichaelUNC]

Best game of all time for my nostalgias sake. Thank you for this

[crazycrookerr]

Thanks for the upload i remember playing this game when i was 4 years old. Iv been trying to find out what it was called for the last 5 years. Finally. Thanks alot brings back many memories.